Accusation: Rabbi’s [sic] instruct their congregations not to look into this Jesus, and at every synagogue service, they read from their Talmud very hurtful words about Jesus, and how He is swimming in a pit of feces in hell. Response:…
V. If we reject the first argument for a divine Oral Law that was given to Moses from God we are left with the definition of an Oral Law that came from the rabbis of old. The rabbis who contributed…
When I began my journey into Judaism many years ago I was skeptical of the so-called “Oral Law” or “Oral Torah.” However, as I plunged head first into my life as a soon-to-be Jew I began to take on the…
Shabbat 27. Instructor using lamplight in Shabbat; 28. A woman must bring a sin offering if she transports something in her apron on Shabbat; For six days, you are to serve, and are to make all your work [מְלָאכָה], but…
Cohabitation 22. Girls below the age of three years and one day retains her virginity despite cohabitation; Where in the Tanakh is there even any indication that “cohabitation” between an adult man and a child is even permitted? This is…
Tefillin and Mezuzot 10. Skin used for the parchment of tefillin; 11. Skin used for the parchment of the mezeuzah; 12. Skin used for the parchment of the Sefer Torha; 13. Formation of the shin on the head tefillin; 14.…
The argument for the “Oral Law” is that one of the components of the “Oral Law” is the laws given to Moshe at Sinai. Rambam argues that the Yisraelites heard these instructions from Moshe and they in turn passed these…
Sukkah …you are to celebrate it as pilgrimage, a pilgrimage-festival to the Eternal One , for seven days a year – a law for the ages, throughout your generations: in the seventh New-Moon you are to celebrate it as pilgrimage…
Circumcision This is my covenant which you are to keep, between me and you and your seed after you: every male among you shall be circumcised. You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, so that it may serve as…
Legal System When any legal matter is too extraordinary [פָּלָא] for you, in justice, between blood and blood, between judgment and judgment, between stroke and stroke, in matters of quarreling within your gates, you are to arise and go up…
