The Torah

The relationship of the written law to the oral law, and where it all comes from

The greatest conspiracy theory of all time is materialism. The second greatest conspiracy theory is that the Jews invented the Torah...

To explain that, I would need a long conversation with you about what is G-d and how G-d talks to people and why....

We claim to believe in the Bible, but it seems to me that in reality we're controlled by a small group of old men and their Talmud...

In what way are the laws of the Talmud "the wisdom and will of G-d"? What's so "wise" about the how to divide a garment that two people are fighting over? Why G-d would "will" the procedures for buying a donkey?

Is Torah really absolute, all-encompassing Truth? Do the rabbis never disagree? Could we have invented Teflon™ and Superglue™ just by reading Torah?

How could Jacob have studied the Torah, if it was given to Moses centuries later? Did he learn, in advance, how Laban would trick him on his wedding night or how Joseph would thrown in a pit and sold as a slave by his brothers?

I wonder about how the Orthodox view the fluidity of the Torah and the teachings of the past. Clearly there are aspects of the Torah that have been outdated since it was written, such as stoning etc.

Yes, there's tension here, and as every good dramatist and massage therapist knows, tension is a good point to play with