Nobel Prize, and Still Mistaken

In Maariv today, Nobel Prizewinner, Professor Robert Israel Aumann states that our claim to the Land of Israel is not based on the TNK, but on the Talmud, since the Talmud is what Judaism is based on.

http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/605/451.html?hp=1&cat=402&loc=2

                                                                                                                                                     

"ברור. אגב, זה לא התנ"ך, התנ"ך לא קובע ביהדות –

“התלמוד הוא הקובע. אמרתי את זה ליהודי שהשתתף איתי בכנס מדעי בברזיל בשב   

I do not take issue with his knowledge of Economics or Game Theory, or even his overall political views.  However, I do dispute his claim that it is the Talmud and not the TeNaCh upon which Judaism is based.   And this undermines his claim to the Land of Israel, since he is talking about the Babylonian Talmud , written in Iraq.

In one sense, however, his statement is ironically correct.  As long as rabbinic Judaism continues to misrepresent the TNK, then we are in a state of Exile, whether physical or spiritual.   Thus the subconscious argument that he is presenting is actually true, that the Talmud is not the TNK, and that the religion of the Talmud is not the same as the religion of the TNK.  Thus,  accepting one is ipso facto rejection of the other.