Moses was in supernatural contact with God for several periods of 40 days. He spent 40 years teaching others what God taught him BEFORE he left Torah scrolls as reminder notes. What Moses taught for 40 years before there were Torah scrolls is the heart of ‘Oral Law’. It’s called ‘oral’ because that’s how Moses first taught it, and its transmission must be via an acknowledged teacher.
Think about the attitude one would have toward someone who claimed to be a physician because they had read Harvard medical texts without have been trained there.
Other religions and secularists make up their own versions of Jewish history. Jews that remain Jews from generation to generation do not have an alternative to ‘Oral Law’.
“Jews that remain Jews from generation to generation do not have an alternative to ‘Oral Law’.”
You’re so right about that, it’s not even funny.
Think of it this way: if all the Oral Law was written down while Moses was in the desert, they would’ve needed many, many more Arks.
Plus all the zotting in place complicated things.
Can I read about this somewhere?