Hosea 8:12
(אכתוב) [אֶ֨כְתׇּב־]ל֔וֹ (רבו) [רֻבֵּ֖י] תּוֹרָתִ֑י כְּמוֹ־זָ֖ר נֶחְשָֽׁבוּ׃
The many teachings I wrote for him
Have been treated as something alien.
Have been treated as something alien.
In ch 8, Hosea is castigating the Israelites in Samaria for going astray. The above verse states that many Torah laws were written for Ephraim to see, but they rejected it.
The Talmud Yerushalmi - which is different from the standard Babylonian Talmud, (and generally more preferable) makes the following comment:
Jerusalem Talmud Peah 2:4:4
Rebbi Zeïra in the name of Rebbi Eleazar: (Hos. 8:12) “I wrote down for him most of My teaching.” But was most of the Torah written down? Rather, more things are derived from what is written than what is (only) oral tradition. Is that so? But so it is: Things derived from what is transmitted orally are preferred over those written.
They are distinguishing here between several categories.
1) The Written Torah (and Neviim)
2) Laws "derived" rabbinically from the Written Law
3) Laws and teachings derived from orally transmitted material.
They go on to say that 3) (purely oral law derivatives) are superior to Written (whether 1 or 2)
This approach and attitude of even the scholars of the Talmud Yerushalmi, which totally disregards what the Prophets say, and instead inserts its own invented category of "oral transmission" demonstrates the dishonesty and falsity of the entire rabbinic enterprise.
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