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while back, Ami Hertz wrote a series of Disproofs of the Oral Law
arguments brought together by Rabbi Gil Student. I don't recall how
he answered this claim by Student, but it goes like this:
“16. R. Duran notes that after King Solomon had the Temple
built, he sanctified the interior of the courtyard by personally offering
sacrifices [1 Kings 8:64]. How could Solomon offer these sacrifices in the
Temple when every indication in the Torah is that only priests may offer
sacrifices? From where did Solomon know that a non-priestly king can offer a sacrifice
to sanctify the Temple if not from an oral law? It certainly is nowhere in the
written law [Rashbatz, ibid.].”
Actually,
Rabbi Student is mistaken, as was the Rashbatz - Rabbi Duran. They
are claiming there is nowhere in the Torah where it allows
non-priests to offer sacrifices, which is what King Solomon did in
the story above.
However,
in Numbers 18 it tells quite a different story from what Duran would
have us believe:
19
All the heave-offerings of the holy things, which the children of
Israel offer unto the LORD, have I given thee, and thy sons and thy
daughters with thee, as a due for ever; it is an everlasting covenant
of salt before the LORD unto thee and to thy seed with thee.'
Furthermore in Lev 7:
28 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: He that offereth his sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD shall bring his offering unto the LORD out of his sacrifice of peace-offerings.
30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire: the fat with the breast shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave-offering before the LORD
28 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying:
29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying: He that offereth his sacrifice of peace-offerings unto the LORD shall bring his offering unto the LORD out of his sacrifice of peace-offerings.
30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire: the fat with the breast shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave-offering before the LORD
The
Torah is allowing certain offerings to be made by all Israel, and this
is an everlasting covenant. Thus, yet another misleading rabbinical
claim, such as Duran's “New Religion”.
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