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The Tradition which is called Oral Law is not a true tradition, nor did it originate with the Law.
1. The Tradition called Oral Law is contrary to the Written Law, as will…
If one examines the biblical account of the origins of Israelite monotheism and the story of its battle with and eventual triumph over paganism, he will discover a…
Printing, which Jews adopted immediately after its invention, helped to unify far-flung communities. Where previously Jewish learning had been transmitted through the individual copying of manuscripts…
This is the statute of the Torah . . . זאת חקת התורה—It should say זאת חקת הפרה (“this is the statute of the heifer”), as it says elsewhere “this is the statute of the Passover” (Exodus 12:43)! And if…
When a human being builds a palace, he does not build it according to his own wisdom, but according to the wisdom of a craftsman. And the craftsman does not build according to his own wisdom, rather…
Earlier on we have clearly shown that the animal soul does not consist of blood and how much less so the human soul, since the latter is an incorporeal substance, invisible and incorruptible, whereas…
Kol sakhal (Voice of a Fool), a polemical work attacking rabbinic Judaism, has been the subject of many scholarly debates. To this day, its composition and aims remain shrouded in mystery. The author…
Solomon of yore said in his wisdom, “More than these, my son, beware of making many books without limit” (Ecclesiastes 12:12). Our rabbis interpreted this in Tractate Eruvin that it teaches the…