"That Which They Shall Tell You" - the claim for authority.

The Rabbis of the Talmud, and their followers, make a claim that their power, their right to add to the Torah, and to give it what interpretation they so choose, is allegedly supported by the Torah.

It is important to see what the verses they refer to actually say, and then determine if it supports their claims.

 Deut: 17:

8 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, even matters of controversy within thy gates; then shalt thou arise, and get thee up unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose. 9 And thou shall come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days; and thou shalt inquire; and they shall declare unto thee the sentence of judgment. 10 And thou shalt do according to the tenor of the sentence, which they shall declare unto thee from that place which the LORD shall choose; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they shall teach thee. 11 According to the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do; thou shalt not turn aside from the sentence which they shall declare unto thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.



V.8 speaks of a legal dispute that cannot be resolved at a local level, between disputants or local Judges.

V.9 tells the disputants to come to a place that God will choose - which eventually  became Jerusalem, but was previously where Judges sat, eg where Devorah would sit; where Yiftach would sit, etc. It tells the people to go to the Kohanim, Levites and the Judge.  Of the Biblical Judges we have a Book of Judges, including a woman named Devorah - obviously not an Orthodox rabbi.  But who are the Kohanim?   The Priests were the highest legal authority for religious matters. The Priestly clans we know of during the 2nd Temple period were the Maccabeeans and the Sadducees. These 2 groups were hated by the Pharisee rabbis, and were in fact murdered when they disagreed with the Rabbis.
So the entire basis of the rabbinic claim of "Divine Authority" is completely false, and opposed to the explicit statements of the Torah.

What these verses require of the litigants is to accept the verdict of the Kohanim, who were the Sadducees, and not the rabbis.  And that is only when we take a dispute to them to resolve. The Rabbis further manipulate these verses to claim that we must accept all the customs and new testament laws that they dream up, to further embezzle and enslave Israel.

Thus the claims of the Talmud, Maimonides, Shulchan Aruch etc are based on lies and perversions of the Torah of Moses.