Saturday, 19 October 2024

The Yoke of Torah

 In Rabbinical "Judaism", they speak a lot about the Yoke of burden of Torah, which one must accept.

This includes thousands or more of rabbinical acts which are contrary to or unfounded in the Torah itself.


The Torah, however, has its own view, and this disagrees with the rabbanites.


Deut 30

10 if thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul. {S}
 11   For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee,   neither is it far off.


12 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say: 'Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it

13 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say: 'Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?'

14 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. 




Firstly, it refers only to the laws Written in the Book of Torah - so the this is the totality of the so called "burden" of Torah - ie , no talmud, mishnah, midrash, shulchan aruch etc - which compounds the burden a thousand fold or more.

Next, the  Torah is not in heaven  or across the sea - it is not the burden that the rabbinic books and ordinances falsely impose upon their followers.


So the idea of religiosity that rabbinics hold is actually in itself a violation of the Torah.



Sunday, 13 October 2024

The Talmud is the Oral Law's Greatest Disproof

Hosea 8:12 

(אכתוב) [אֶ֨כְתׇּב־]ל֔וֹ (רבו) [רֻבֵּ֖י] תּוֹרָתִ֑י כְּמוֹ־זָ֖ר נֶחְשָֽׁבוּ׃
The many teachings I wrote for him
Have been treated as something alien.


In ch 8, Hosea is castigating the Israelites in Samaria for going astray. The above verse states that many Torah laws were written for Ephraim to see, but they rejected it. 

The Talmud Yerushalmi - which is different from the standard Babylonian Talmud, (and generally more preferable) makes the following comment:


Jerusalem Talmud Peah 2:4:4

Rebbi Zeïra in the name of Rebbi Eleazar: (Hos. 8:12) “I wrote down for him most of My teaching.” But was most of the Torah written down? Rather, more things are derived from what is written than what is (only) oral tradition. Is that so? But so it is: Things derived from what is transmitted orally are preferred over those written.


They are distinguishing here between several  categories.

1) The Written Torah (and Neviim)

2) Laws "derived" rabbinically from the  Written Law

3)  Laws and teachings derived from orally transmitted material.


They go on to say that 3)  (purely oral law derivatives) are superior to Written (whether 1 or 2)



This approach and attitude of even the scholars of the Talmud Yerushalmi, which totally disregards what the Prophets say, and instead inserts its own invented category of "oral transmission" demonstrates the dishonesty and falsity of the entire rabbinic enterprise.