Torah Jews?.
There are a lot of different people fighting over what doesn’t really belong to any of them.
All religious Jews are Torah Jews, just as all Muslims are Qu’ran Muslims and all Christians are Bible Christians. Some follow their holy book more closely than others but all accept the book.
Not true
Which part?
If they are Torah Jews, why do they follow the Talmud?
The Torah and Talmud are not incompatible. The Talmud contains the Oral Torah (the Mishna or something, I’m too lazy to Google it). You are making it sound like some Jews subscribe to one book and the others subscribe to the other book. This is entirely false.
I’ll have to go read the Talmud but there’s something wrong with following this book.
Officially, gentiles aren’t allowed to read the Talmud. Its holy writings are only to be viewed by religious Jews. The internet doesn’t care and has made the Talmud available to all quite easily. Enjoy! Nothing cures people of Zionism better than reading the Talmud.
I would expect nothing less from you.
Cid was proud to call himself a zionist.
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Remember the Sabbath day to make it holy" (Exodus 20:8). From the Sabbath’s inclusion in the Ten Commandments, it is clear that the Torah regards it as an important holiday. Yet when one looks for the specific biblical laws regulating how to observe the day, one finds only injunctions against lighting a fire, going away from one’s dwelling, cutting down a tree, plowing and harvesting. Would merely refraining from these few activities fulfill the biblical command to make the Sabbath holy? Indeed, the Sabbath rituals that are most commonly associated with holiness-lighting of candles, reciting the kiddush , and the reading of the weekly Torah portion are found not in the Torah, but in the Oral Law.
Why do they need the Talmud to instruct a person to “remember” the Sabbath?
Why are they adding holiness lighting rituals where it wasn’t required?
Where is the Talmud instruction on spirituality? I’d like to read it.
Edit to add: not only is it not required, apparently its even forbidden. “Holy lighting rituals”, I mean.
That was only the first paragraph on this site. Brb…
Without an oral tradition, some of the Torah’s laws would be incomprehensible. In the Shema’s first paragraph, the Bibleinstructs: "And these words which I command you this day shall be upon your heart.
This is the first part of the second paragraph and I already disagree. They are implying Gods Word has no power without man’s. I resent that.
Where’s the spiritual instruction?
Sorry. I don’t mean to offend anyone. I better run check on Joe.
Not quite as such. There are still sects like Karaite Judaism. They reject the babylonian oral law aka Talmud
I know nothing of this sect but do they reject the entire Talmud or just the Mishna (Oral Law)?
blush uuhhm. What? Are You considering? Please don’t ask me about details. The only thing we need to know is they’re on our side of the war.
Finally, an Oral Law was needed to mitigate certain categorical Torah laws that would have caused grave problems if carried out literally. The Written Law, for example, demands an “eye for an eye” (Exodus 21:24). Did this imply that if one person accidentally blinded another, he should be blinded in return? That seems to be the Torah’s wish. But the Oral Law explains that the verse must be understood as requiring monetary compensation: the value of an eye is what must be paid.
This is suppose to be carried out, literally, where a man’s life is concerned. It is confirmed in other Scripture (Leviticus 24: 20 and Deuteronomy 19: 21)except where injury to an animal is concerned. In that case, you pay the value of the animal.
Jesus commanded us Matthew 5: 38 and instructed us Deuteronomy 32: 35 and Romans 12:19. This is where we are moving to. A higher spiritual awareness.
Talmud Jews don’t believe in Matthew 5: 38. They believe in compensating people or putting them in prison.
Michele, there are no Talmud Jews who are not also Torah Jews. This division of “Talmud Jews” and “Torah Jews” exists only in your mind.