The Talmud is not the only record of Jewish tradition. As a guide to practice, it would be quite confusing. It is a mostly a record of arguments and counter-arguments, using acronyms, allusions, abbreviations, and presupposing thorough familiarity with all of Scripture and other texts, and many times is not obvious about which views are correct or even acceptable.
Private interpretations are akin to homilies or sermons, perhaps interesting and instructive, but not determinate. From someone who is not a master of the sacred texts and traditions, private interpretations are almost always just childish delusions.
Ah, thanks.
And (I know this is a little off topic, not trying to hijack this thread) is it not interesting that, as I understand, the Rebbe Jesus was slaughtered on account of His stupefying those religionists who considered themselves to be masters of their texts and traditions, and shaming them? Were they right?