An Orthodox Rabbi on youtube has claimed that the Torah was all Oral Law, and was not written until the end of the 40 years in the Midbar, by Moses. By this he is claiming that Oral Law was there and extends beyond the Written Law.
A very quick proof from the TaNaKh can dispel such a myth:
Joshua 8:
34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the
blessing
and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua
read not before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the
little ones, and the strangers that walked among them.
The Sefer of Joshua states there was no law commanded by Moses, not one
word, which was not read from the Book by Joshua. This means there was
no oral law, nothing outside of the written Torah.
Any claim that a body of unwritten law was given to Moses and was not codified in the Torah is at odds with the words of Joshua, the Prophet, who was like Moses. This implies that the claim for Oral law is in fact heresy, and denial of the TaNaKh.
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