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Rabbinic Judaism was Bold and Innovative!
In stark contrast to today’s Orthodoxy, the Judaism invented by the rabbis following the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE was willing to adapt halakhah (Jewish law) to new social conditions. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the dramatic action taken the great sage Yohanan ben Zakkai in nullifying a biblical commandment on
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Non-Literal Biblical Interpretation
In Chapter 1 of my Come Now, Let Us Reason Together I propose a theological framework for interpreting the Torah (also known as the Five Books of Moses or Pentateuch) that rejects the idea that this foundational text is a factually accurate history of the Jewish people from the dawn of creation until their impending
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The Oral Law from Sinai
The doctrine of the Oral Law from Sinai is one of the essential theological principles of Orthodox Judaism. The basic idea is that in addition to the written Torah (Pentateuch) handed down by God to Moses at Mt. Sinai, God also conveyed the oral Torah, that explained in detail how the 613 laws of the