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To: metmom; Jvette
For the discussion, Jewish belief is that the Torah was dictated directly by God to Moses: Who wrote the Torah? and Writing the Torah.

Also, it is believed that the Torah was created before the world was created: The Power of Words.

It seems to me the pre-existence belief is probably at the root of Isaac Newton's and various Rabbis' that the Scriptures are encoded. Equidistant Letter Sequencing (ELS or Bible Codes) was an attempt to decode serially (one dimension.)

3,010 posted on 11/20/2011 12:22:42 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl

Thank you for the links, I found them fascinating.

My point regarding Moses and the oral teachings was that Moses did not learn of God and the history of His people for the first time when He was given the Torah.

When God calls him from the bush, Moses knows who God is, he doesn’t need God to explain to him who I AM is. He already knew. He must have known from what had been passed down to him from his ancestors.

I must say, I found especially interesting the parts about the Oral Law. It seems very parallel to the Catholic Sacred Tradition.


3,039 posted on 11/20/2011 3:16:12 PM PST by Jvette
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