Question

With God’s help,
Hello to the honored Rabbi, renowned in the holy community of Lod, may he live a good long life,
I wanted to ask the Rabbi a question about faith. I have seen that some claim that the Jewish tradition is not true as historical fact, and is nothing more than a memory-myth with no real substance.
On the face of it, simply speaking, one might say that we see that the conception among the Sages is completely not like that, and therefore from here we can project backward to the chain of transmission before them, which was entirely perceived as historical truth. A matter established in its prior presumption.
However, the great wonder is that many ancient peoples (in the period of the Sages) kept traditions with great precision that had no real basis whatsoever. There were even some with such scrupulousness that if they erred they would repeat their actions even dozens of times; for example, it is accepted that the Romans would sometimes repeat a single sacrifice more than thirty-one times because they always found in it some defect or disqualification. And there are other examples.
If so, the whole presumption falls away, and one can argue that it is no different from, for example, a Roman myth. For even though in their time they did not see it as historically true, they still observed it meticulously, and even killed people who dishonored their gods—like someone disgracing a national symbol, in the spirit of Ahad Ha’am.
 
With blessings of Torah and apologetics , Dov Zilbiger