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To: familyop; Phinneous

Yes, that’s true. Karaite Jews believe oral Torah doesn’t take precedence over written Torah.

The point is if you want to know God’s instructions (sorry, I don’t hyphenate), then you read the Tanakh in the original Hebrew as any translation is subject to fitting some man made religious theology.

I don’t see why any Orthodox Jew would take issue with that.


17 posted on 01/28/2016 4:26:21 PM PST by Read Write Repeat (Not one convinced me they want the job yet)
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To: Read Write Repeat; Phinneous; Zionist Conspirator; Boogieman
"The point is if you want to know God's instructions (sorry, I don’t hyphenate), then you read the Tanakh in the original Hebrew...I don't see why any Orthodox Jew would take issue with that."

Here's the answer.

The Authenticity of the Oral Torah
http://asknoah.org/essay/oral_torah

Those who choose to follow through with more study may also find the experience fascinating and exciting.


26 posted on 01/28/2016 5:02:33 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in "Idiocracy")
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To: Read Write Repeat; familyop
The point is if you want to know God's instructions (sorry, I don't hyphenate), then you read the Tanakh in the original Hebrew as any translation is subject to fitting some man made religious theology.

I don't see why any Orthodox Jew would take issue with that.

I'm afraid you aren't thinking this through very clearly. You are conflating the Rabbanite/Qara'ite dispute with the Catholic/Protestant situation. They are two very different things.

For one thing, the authentic Written Torah has no vowels or punctuation of any kind. The vowels and punctuation found in printed Hebrew Bibles come from the Oral Tradition--not just the marks themselves, but how the words are to be correctly vocalized. Without this information the Written Torah is simply unreadable.

For another, the authentic Written Torah is written down in accordance to numerous rules pertaining not only to the identity of the letters, but their size, shape, crowns, the spaces among them, etc. None of these laws which guarantee that a Torah Scroll is authentic and kosher can be found in the Written Torah. Without these unwritten laws handed down by word of mouth from G-d on Sinai no Torah Scrolls would have ever been copied and the the Written Torah would have come to an end once those actually written by Moses at G-d's dictation decayed.

You've really got to stop reading the Protestant/Catholic argument into situations where it simply has no place.

31 posted on 01/28/2016 5:23:30 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (The "end of history" will be worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
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