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| | Oral Law - Critique of the Oral Torah - Am ha-Aretz |
 | | The existence of an oral law dating from the Mosaic time implies, of course, the belief that the Pentateuch, in the form in which it now exists, was entirely the work of Moses, to whom it was revealed by God. | | | Objections, on the other hand, which are brought against the assumption of the existence of the oral law by those who believe in revelation and who recognize the divine origin of the written law, or "Torah shebiketab," lack support. | | | The entire oral law in the wider sense, namely, the entire material of the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and the halakic midrashim, was preserved only orally, and was not reduced to writing until the beginning of the third century C.E., because there was a prejudice against recording halakot. |
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http://www.amhaaretz.org/critique-oral-torah/appendix-jewish-encyclopedia.html
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| | The Oral Law |
| | While Conservative and Reform Judaism also believe that some kind of Oral Law was always necessary to make the Torah comprehensible and workable, they reject the belief that most of the Talmud dates back to Moses' time. | | | The differing views of Orthodox and Conservative Judaism on both the antiquity and binding nature of the Oral Law are one of the major, perhaps the major, issues separating them. | | | Orthodox Judaism believes that most of the oral traditions recorded in these books dates back to God's revelation to Moses on Mount Sinai. |
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Oral_Law.html
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| | Torah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Over the next four centuries this small, ingenius record of laws and ethical teachings provided the necessary signals and codes to allow the continuity of the same Mosaic Oral traditions to be taught and passed on in Jewish communities scattered across both of the world's major Jewish communities, (from Israel to Babylon). | | | Torah (תּוֹרָה) is a Hebrew word meaning "teaching," "instruction," or "law." It is the central and most important document of Judaism revered by Jews through the ages. | | | The five books (particularly Genesis, the first part of Exodus, and much of Numbers) are, primarily, a collection of seemingly historical narratives rather than a continuous list of laws; moreover, many of the most important concepts and ideas from the Torah are found in these stories. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah
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| | The Myth of "The Oral Law" |
| | It is this oral law, and not the written Old Testament, which is "the foundation of Judaism." This is something most non-Jews don't really understand--they tend to assume that the foundation of Judaism is the Old Testament. | | | There are people in the Church of God who claim that the Jews preserve "the oral law" in addition to the Old Testament. | | | Having thus justified the existence of the oral law, the Bible itself (i.e. |
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| | Thus Saith the Lord—Is the Oral Law Sacred? - Jews for Jesus |
| | But when the rabbis look to the writings of previous rabbis rather than Scripture to validate their own authority and negate the claims of Jesus, the oral law itself must be called into question. | | | These verses do not suggest that these laws came from Sinai, nor that traditions that would affect later questions in Judaism were being handed down at that time. | | | The rabbis point to passages which suggest that God gave the children of Israel rules which were not mentioned in the written Torah (see Deuteronomy 12:21). |
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http://www.jewsforjesus.org/publications/issues/15_2/orallaw
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| | The Veracity of the Oral Law – Excerpts from a Dialogue |
| | But as I mentioned above, there is no dispute as to the truth of the transmission of the Oral Law, from G-d to Moses, to the Elders, Aaron, his sons, and the entire Jewish nation. | | | I believe your problem is that you commenced your inquiry from the wrong starting point: instead of starting from a position that there was no Oral Law, (which from your words has no basis) you should question what convinced these great minds otherwise. | | | Other religions – by definition – have no knowledge of G-d’s Oral Law. |
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http://www.mesora.org/OralLawVeracity.htm
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| | Proofs For The Oral Law |
| | The existence of an oral law that was given to Moses at Mt. Sinai is a fundamental concept in Judaism. | | | Without an oral tradition, there is no way to know to what this verse is referring [cf. | | | There was also a man prophesying in the name of the L-rd, Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath-Jearim, who prophesied against this city and this land the same things as Jeremiah. |
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http://www.aishdas.org/articles/oral.htm
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| | UNDERSTANDING THE ORAL LAW By Harvey A. Smith Is what is called the Torah Sheba'al Peh (Or |
| | They're statement "That the teaching which came to us from the Mishnah of the Sages is of identical date and origin with that which is derived by interpretation of the Scriptural word, all is given by One G-d and communicated by one and the same Prophet", must be rejected. | | | We also have a halacha, It is in the New Covenant the 16 letters which were written to show us how to fulfill and live in the Joy of the New Covenant. | | | There are some Shepherds who heap laws and legalism unto their sheep, causing them to rebell and do the same thing. |
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| | Oral Law |
| | The 'oral law' is not even spoken of in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible, TN'K). | | | Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, "I have found the Book of the Law in the temple of YHWH." He gave it to Shaphan, who read it. | | | Even those who had stayed behind when most of Israel was taken away captive had forgotten or fallen into pagan religions as well. |
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http://www.karaites-usa.org/oral_law.htm
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| | With an Eye on Eternetiy - Chapter 10 |
| | Through this Oral Law tradition, the meaning of all passages are fully explained and make it possible for us to understand how to fulfill every aspect of the mitzvohs in just the way the Master wishes them to be done. | | | It follows that it may be possible to explain a passage in a manner which fits the text well, or to explain the text in what appears to be a still more fitting way, [than the Oral Law explanation]. | | | Not surprisingly, we find in the Talmud that each of the Sages went to great lengths to identify and define the hints in the text which, in his opinion, produced the most faithful match to the masorah's ruling. |
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http://ohr.edu/misc/eterni10.htm
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| | Adding To Torah: The Problem With The Oral Law (Messianic Judaism) |
| | Joshua makes no mention of the oral laws he supposedly received, nor is any attempt shown on his part to pass it along to others who would follow. | | | Not only does Scripture not mention any oral law being given alongside the written Torah, it goes further to warn NOT to add to written Torah. | | | And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law." |
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http://www.lightofmashiach.org/oraltradition.html
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| | The Oral Law (Torah Shebaal Peh) |
| | The greatest Torah scholars (Hakhamim) were empowered with the ability of applying the principles of Torah both oral and written, and utilizing these principles as new cases presented themselves, or where confusion arose regarding existing law. | | | These shattered tablets are not, as one might think, discarded, but are placed side by side with the Tablets of the Law and serve as its foundation ("the tablets and the shards of the broken tablets are placed in the Holy Ark"). | | | Introduced at the age of five or six to Scripture, the student advanced at the age of 10 to Mishna and finally in mid-adolescence to Talmud or the processes of legal reasoning. |
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| | The Oral Law and Our Own Opinions |
| | Not everyone can learn at the same level as everyone else, which is why there have always been, and there must always be, Rabbis and leaders who know more, and whom we must ask when we have a question or doubt. | | | The Torah repeatedly says, "One Torah shall there be for all of you: for the born-Jew and the convert." All Jews must follow that same Torah. | | | On the other hand, the five daughters of Tzelofchod were very righteous women, and therefore Hashem wanted that particular Law to be taught to Israel through them. |
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http://www.beingjewish.com/mesorah/notchaotic.html
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| | S.C.J. FAQ: Section 3.5. Torah: What is the Oral Law? |
| | There are a number of examples in the rest of Jewish scriptures that show consistancy with conclusions contained in the Oral Torah based on the Pentateuch. | | | In other words, things the prophets assumed about Jewish law that aren't in the text: | | | The non-Jew objected, "But didn't you tell me yesterday that these were alef, bais, gimel, dalet?" Hillel responded, "You see that even the names and sounds of the letters can only be understood by an oral teaching. |
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http://www.shamash.org/lists/scj-faq/HTML/faq/03-05.html
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| | The Indispensable Oral Law |
| | We have the Oral Law, which is the Traditional accompaniment to the Written Tradition many refer to as the Bible. | | | Without the Oral Tradition, how can we determine the true meaning of the words of the Hebrew Scriptures, written as they were without vowels? | | | The Written Bible is completely incomprehensible without the Oral Tradition. |
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http://www.beingjewish.com/mesorah/oral-imperative.html
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| | Jewish FAQs on the Oral Law and Written Law |
| | Not every aspect of one’s daily living is enshrined in Halacha (law). | | | And in fact, many of the things which the Sages have commanded us to do are clearly implicit if not directly hinted at in the verses of the Torah itself. | | | It cannot be that G-d went to all the trouble to create this world for us, then gave us the Torah to tell us how to live here, and we open it up, it is incomprehensible. |
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http://www.simpletoremember.com/faqs/Oral_Law_Written_Law.htm
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| | University of Miami School of Law: Jewish Law Research Guide |
| | These are written, for the most part, by scholars who are able to access the original sources in their original languages and these authors will almost invariably cite to those sources. | | | Jewish tradition holds that the source of these two sets of laws is divine revelation. | | | Some of these are traditional commentaries, explaining the Shulchan Aruch in detail, and others follow the codificatory form even updating the Shulchan Aruch with rulings that postdate its publication. |
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| | The Oral Law |
| | Zechariah 8:19 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth [month], and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace. | | | Without the oral law, these verses would be hopelessly misinterpreted in a thousand different ways. | | | Exodus 22:16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. |
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| | Authenticity of the Bible II: The Oral Law |
| | Note that the Written Law is called "Tablets" and "Torah." The Oral Law is called "the command" and "to teach them." "Command" and "teach them" are the real-life applications of the Tablets, Torah and Scriptures. | | | A faithful reader of this column asks for more information on the Oral Law, and wants to know where the bible mentions it. | | | In America, only the Orthodox follow the rabbinic Talmud teachings, and only the Orthodox are surviving as a Jewish community. |
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| | The Oral Law (Part 2) - Christian Classics - Praize |
| | Not being able to follow their arguments he was ill at ease, but when they came to a certain subject and the disciples said to the master "Whence do you know it?" and the latter replied "It is a law given to Moses at Sinai" he was comforted. | | | You have to learn their language and you must use caution in addressing the sensitive areas that they are dealing with concerning Christians (in a later lesson we will look at some of those). | | | For us as believers in Christ these things may seem almost laughable; but they are a deeply entrenched and rooted system of beliefs that exist in Judaism and we have to deal with that reality. |
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http://www.praize.com/classics/article.php?id=1968
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| | Obedience to the Oral Law is a Commandment |
| | We can go one step further and deeper; even in times of the Messiah, non-Jews will not be obligated in the 613 commandments of the Bible, but rather the 7 universal commandments given to Noah at the revelation of the rainbow, 10 generations before the first Hebrew, Abraham. | | | Leviticus 16/31, on the day of the atonement we are told, ‘you shall afflict your soul’. | | | Many times the prophets exhort the people to keep the non-Biblical laws that emerge from the Oral Bible. |
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| | The Oral Law of the Jews or |
| | The above topic was a bible study at the N.W. Church of God, Chester. | | | Exodus 24:3-4 ‘And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do. | | | God commands us to believe His written word and nowhere does the bible mention an oral law. |
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| | Judaism 101: Torah |
| | In addition to the written scriptures we have an "Oral Torah," a tradition explaining what the above scriptures mean and how to interpret them and apply the Laws. | | | But the word "torah" can also be used to refer to the entire Jewish bible (the body of scripture known to non-Jews as the Old Testament and to Jews as the Tanakh or Written Torah), or in its broadest sense, to the whole body of Jewish law and teachings. | | | To Jews, there is no "Old Testament." The books that Christians call the New Testament are not part of Jewish scripture. |
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| | Pirkei Avos - Torah.org |
| | Each succeeding generation would study that same tradition and apply its same eternal truths to an ever-changing world and our ever-changing lives. | | | Although Israel and the Torah endured well over a millennium before the writing of the Talmud, today we possess our entire tradition in writing -- much of it translated into English. | | | Only we can take G-d's eternal messages, assimilate them, and apply them to our lives. |
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| | Oral law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Rabbinic Judaism holds that the books of the Tanakh (The Old Testament) were transmitted in parallel with an oral tradition, as relayed by the scholarly and other religious leaders of each generation. | | | Jewish law and tradition thus is not based on a literal reading of the Tanakh, but on the combined oral and written tradition. | | | An oral law is a code of conduct in use in a given culture, religion or other regroupement, by which a body of rules of human behaviour is transmitted by oral tradition and effectively respected, or the single rule that is orally transmitted. |
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| | Judaism 101 - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts |
| | - Principles of Jewish Law transmitted originally to Moshe (Moses) by G-d at Mt. Sinai, during the forty days and forty nights that Moshe was at the top of the mountain, to be transmitted from parents to children or from teachers to students. | | | Chapter 1, Mishnah 14: "He (Hillel) used to say, 'If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?' " | | | The Festival of Redemption, in which the Jewish People, who had been captives and slaves in Egypt for more than two hundred years, were freed from the "House of Bondage." This Redemption was proof of many of the fundamental beliefs of Judaism. |
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| | Recording Of The Oral Law |
| | Other works are subsequently documented such as the Medrash which is organized around books of the Bible, providing interpretation and moral lessons. | | | Unlike the Mishna, the Talmud is written in an Aramaic dialect. | | | The Oral Torah has the same legitimacy and authority as the Written Torah. |
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| | Oral Law: Stability |
| | And similarly we see that many who are Godfearing and complete dance on shabbat and yom tov. | | | And therefore it would be fit to prohibhit it, but at any rate for practical law the Rema in chapter 339 section 3 cited the opinion of the Tosfot and wrote that on this it the custom is to be lenient. | | | And see Simchat Yom Tov, who remained with a difficult question, and wrote “I have not grasped the extent of the Tosfot on this.” And see Beit Yosef 339 who rote that the Tosfot compare this to exposed beverages that aare permitted, but it is not comparable at all, as I have explained. |
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http://people.brandeis.edu/~rafrazer/philor/09orallaw-stability.htm
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| | Introduction to Oral Law |
| | Oral Law, eventually put in writing, includes the entire wisdom of the Sages as presented in the Halakhah, Aggadah, and Jewish philosophy through the ages. | | | Oral Law (Rabbinics) is the interpretation, expansion and supplementation of Written Law, including oral traditions transmitted from generation to generation. | | | These volumes deal with Rabbinics, its foundations, essence, history and literature – in the Mishnaic and Talmudic period and in the post-Talmudic period; Halakhic sources and principles; Jewish jurisprudence, literature of the Poskim and the literature of questions and answers. |
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| | Why follow Oral Law-#1 |
| | Bottom line: Over and above the fact that the oral law was oral it is also logical and may be derived from the Biblical text. | | | Each of these sources (most are available in English) present beautiful derivations of very obscure laws which follow the principles of grammar. | | | We in fact have a very rich literature of halachic midrash--this starts with the Sifray and is continued by Rashi and Rambam and later by such giants as Rav Hirsch and Malbim. |
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http://www.rashiyomi.com/bm2_20a.htm
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| | JewishVideo:Jewish Life and Tradition--Oral Law |
| | This video takes a "behind the scenes" look at this warm and sensitive man, one of the leading rabbinic scholars of our day. | | | Thanks to Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz' modern translation and analysis of the Talmud, the Oral Law is becoming accessible to a new generation of English readers. |
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http://www.jewishvideo.com/tradition/TRAD_10.HTM
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