oral Torah

  • The Raw Data (2)

    All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; so that the man or woman of God may be fully capable, equipped for every good work.  2 Timothy 3:16-17  NASB All Scripture – Lawrence Schiffman offers some much needed insights into the development of Judaism, insights that can be applied to other…

  • Some Notes on Torah Reading

    Now then, if you will indeed obey My voice and keep My covenant, then you shall be My own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel.”  Exodus 19:5-6  NASB My…

  • God’s Secrets

    And He said, “To you it has been granted to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is in parables, so that seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand. Luke 8:10 NASB Mysteries – Do you know God’s secrets? Have you heard that still, small…

  • Speculative Practices

    Now I praise you because you remember me in everything, and hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you.  1 Corinthians 11:2  NASB Traditions – Now that we have some justification for understanding paradoseis as the oral Torah, we might ask, “What practices could Paul have been speaking about?”  Paul doesn’t…

  • One Plus One

    These are the statutes and the judgments and the laws which YHWH has given between Him and the sons of Israel, in Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses. Leviticus 26:46 Laws – Did you realize Yeshua and all His followers believed in more than one Law?There was the Law of God, written by the…

  • The Logical Implication

      “therefore all that they tell you, do and observe, but do not do according to their deeds; for they say things, and do not do them.”  Matthew 23:3 All – David called YHWH Lord.  King David put himself under the rule of his God, proclaiming that he was the slave of his Master.  Because…