Q&A: Torah from Heaven
Torah from Heaven
Question
Dear Michael Abraham,
I eagerly read your excellent book Playing with Dice
and I wanted to ask whether you know of anyone who has done work of this kind (even if not as good)
on the subject of Torah from Heaven (the revelation at Mount Sinai)
and also on the subject of Jewish law and the continuity of its tradition? In Hebrew, of course.
Answer
I did some work on it, though not nearly as detailed, and obviously not nearly as tight or rigorous (I don't think that's possible). See my notebooks here on the site; it should also be coming out in my trilogy in about half a year.
Discussion on Answer
See the fifth notebook. It's entirely devoted to this issue. There isn't a discussion there about the continuity of Jewish law, because in my view that's not really important (commitment to Jewish law does not depend on its authenticity). As far as I remember, there is a framework for the discussion there.
Could you point me more precisely? I went into the Hebrew section of the site, and I can't find headings on topics like the revelation at Mount Sinai and Torah from Heaven, or on the continuity of the Jewish law tradition.