Expertise, mass acceptance and testing over time

In a discussion I had a decade ago with a Sephardi Rabbi Nissim, I asked him on what evidence I should rely on him or his predecessors as being representatives of the Torah.

His answer was “I think evidence should be based on 3 things; expertise, mass acceptance and testing over time”

Now, I wish to dissect this claim, since it is a myth, and there is strong evidence to refute it.

1)  “Expertise”.    It is claimed that the rabbis, whether the mediaeval code writers like Maimonides, or the Talmudic and Mishnaic rabbis, had expertise and knowledge of the Torah. However, this is not true. And It also does not help since the same claim is made by the Christians and Muslims.

In some previous posts, I have  shown these claims to be false. Here are just a few:

http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/lo-tosiphu-does-oral-contradict-written.html

In the next article, I showed that the real arbiters of torah Law were the Kohanim, and these were hated and attacked by the imposter rabbis:

http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/that-which-they-shall-tell-you-claim.html

Further,  we have seen that the founders of the Talmudic church were in fact gentiles, who falsified the law, and showed their incompetence in its administration. This was exposed by one rabbi, who was then excommunicated by the mob.

http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/talmudic-whistleblower-akavya-ben.html

2) Mass Tradition

Traditions can start at any point in time.  They can then pick up momentum and go viral.  Islam has a huge mass tradition,  it has 1.5 Billion followers, that is 1000 x as much as Judaism, not even considering the number of secular or reform Jews who practice very little of the Torah, from whatever perspective.   So mass tradition is not a proof of anything truthful. 

Rabbinical Judaism has similar beginning to Islam. It had a destructive stage, where they murdered the priests and defiled the temple, http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/unholy-cow-or-how-to-destroy-your-own.html

And http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/another-brick-in-temples-fall.html

 and then a propaganda phase to take on new believers.

http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/the-rabbis-epistle-to-hebrews.html

Thus, the so-called mass tradition is a reform movement, headed by criminals and murderers, and then passed on to unwitting believers.  A lie can be passed on perhaps easier than the truth can.

3) Finally, Testing over Time.

This is a fallacy in any case, since the formulation of the new Talmudic religion is one that does not allow self-criticism.  Maimonides classifies one who denies the oral law as a heretic, and worthy of death (as was done by the Talmudists themselves, see Rabbis’ Epistle to the Hebrews above). 

Furthermore, the alleged “giants” of oral law, provided the flimsiest of arguments to support their cases. These men, such as Saadia and Maimonides were too intelligent to actually believe their own arguments, and hence they could only have been telling lies.  This chops down the third pillar of Rabbi Nissim.

http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/maimonides-fails-his-3-rs-counting-omer.html

http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/saadia-gaons-textual-proof-crumbles.html

http://tanakhemet.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/yehudah-halevi-kuzari-cannot-read-hebrew.html