Tefillin, prayers.
Peace, Your Honor,
I recently came across a person online who completely contradicts the words of Chazal, saying that we should believe in the Torah according to the literal meaning.
Anything we do differently is idolatry. He gives many examples on the subject, but I won’t go into all his arguments at this point.
This is also his approach to tefillin and morning, evening, and evening prayers.
I won’t say his name because, God forbid, I don’t want to cause any discomfort.
I asked the rabbi what he thought of this man’s approach.
And how can we know that when we pray and put on tefillin, God forbid, we are not wrong in God’s will?
Thank you.
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Thank you very much for your answer, Your Honor,
I will explain his argument,
It is written in the Book of Deuteronomy, Chapter 13
1 All the word that I command you, you shall observe to do: you shall not add to it, nor diminish from it. {P}
2 For if there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams; and he shall give you a sign, or a sign. And the sign and the plague come, which he spake unto thee, saying, Go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and serve them. 4 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with all your soul. 5 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and him shall ye fear; And you shall keep his commandments, and listen to his voice, and serve him, and cleave unto him. And that prophet, or that dreamer of that dream, shall die: for it is a word of evil against the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust you out of the way which the LORD your God commanded you to walk in; And you will burn the evil one, from your relatives.
I do not intend to do as I please, nor to act according to his method, quite the opposite. It is important for me to further strengthen the tradition on which I grew up, and therefore I asked the rabbi.
If the rabbi has a recorded lesson on the subject of tefillin, and morning, evening, and evening prayers, I would be happy to receive it.
Thank you.
You tried to explain something here. I didn't understand a word. What did you come to explain, and what is the explanation? How did we get to prophets or false prophets? What do you want to hear about tefillin or prayer? In short, it's a riddle.
Let me explain, Your Honor,
What I am trying to say is that according to the person I saw online, every mitzvah we do other than what is written in the Torah is not the will of God.
I am sorry that I am unable to ask my question clearly, I understand that it is much more complex.
Therefore, I asked the Rabbi if there is a recorded lesson on the subject that explains,
How we received the commandment of tefillin, and in addition the commandments of the morning, evening, and evening prayers, since in the biblical period they did not pray or put on tefillin.
Thank you.
I don't understand what you are looking for a lesson on. I didn't see a question here. The Torah says, "And they shall be for you." Tradition says that these are tefillin (and their boundaries were given to Moses from Sinai). The Torah says, "And you shall work with all your heart," and tradition says that this is a prayer. The Sages established three prayers a day, and tradition says that they have the authority to establish regulations ("You shall not deviate," and so on). If you accept the tradition, you accept it, and if you don't, then you don't. There is nothing complicated here. So what do you want a lesson on?
By the way, there is almost nothing written explicitly in the Torah. These are "the laws that the Sadducees acknowledge," these are very few laws. Almost everything is the product of interpretation.
In the Bible period, they didn't pray? This is truly a novelty. Because in my opinion, it says that even the patriarchs prayed. And in the Bible there is the Hannah prayer and more. Perhaps you mean the obligatory prayer, which is a regulation of the Sages. Therefore, it is clear that it will not appear in the Bible because it is not from the Torah.
I wanted to delve deeper into the subject, and I think I got the answer I wanted.
I'm pretty new to studying, and I have a lot to learn.
I will definitely continue to watch your classes.
And regarding the prayers, I meant the way we pray today.
Thank you very much for the answer, Your Honor.
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