Question

Hello Rabbi,
From time to time I fantasize. Suppose I had the chance to speak with our forefather Jacob, and with Moses our teacher, and with King David, and with the prophet Isaiah and King Josiah and Haggai the prophet and Shimon the Righteous—what would I hear from them? What kind of Judaism—both theoretical and practical—would I see? It is clear to me that I would not find there awareness of tiny clauses in the Magen Avraham, such as that a sukkah made for use as a storehouse and dwelling and not for shade is invalid, but what would I find? How much would what I hear shake my worldview?
A fairly mainstream worldview (in my surroundings) is: God gave the Torah to the people of Israel such-and-such many years ago, and there was always a select group within the nation that carried the torch and preserved the traditions and studied and analyzed the Torah and was careful about the commandments, and through a process of feeling things out and development we arrived, basically, at more precise formulations of Torah law and the addition of many decrees and enactments of the Sages.
But had King Saul heard of the idea that one derives heaps upon heaps of ideas from the Torah from slight hints in the wording? Did he see as central to his life, or to the life of anyone around him, the service of God through reflection on the Torah and observance of its less explicitly ritual commandments (to put on tefillin, to send away a mother bird, and not to eat the fruit of an orlah tree—as opposed to the daily offering on the altar and giving the foreleg, cheeks, and stomach to the priests)? I feel a hidden fear at the possibility of speaking with him about this. That fear points, for me, to some lack of faith hidden beneath the surface and apparently repressed. So then, suppose indeed that someone like King Saul did not see in the Torah anything especially different from the other law collections circulating in the region, even though he knew that this law came from Heaven. Rather, he saw it as a collection of stories and laws that are interpreted easily and understood naturally, without layer upon layer and exhausting subtleties. Is that assumption reasonable in your view? What is your own feeling about the possibility of speaking with King Saul? (Excited curiosity? Indifference? Concern?) If we assume that Saul was not aware of the idea that the Torah is densely packed and profound, is there a problem with present-day Orthodoxy (or does the process sanctify things, and I am satisfied with whatever comes out)? I would be happy to receive an answer.