The Oral Torah Can Be “Distilled” Out of the Written Torah,Yet It Is Superior To It—What It Really Means To Be Jewish

The Oral Torah and the Written Torah are two  separate body of instructions, and violation of one or the other attracts different penalties. Let us elaborate on this.

The Oral Torah And Its Ritual

The Oral Torah, a set of instructions communicated by extraterrestrials to ancient Sumerians, was passed down to the Hebrew people from Abraham. Abraham instructed that the instructions must be communicated by “word of mouth” from one generation to another [Genesis chapter 18 verse 19].

The “ritual” of the Oral Torah is the circumcision of the male child on the eighth day after birth. A ritual is a psychological instrument employed to serve as a reminder of something. Every ritual has a meaning, and a ritual performed without emphasis on the meaning is a meaningless act. The ritual of the circumcision indeed came with certain clear instructions, and these instructions are communicated from one generation to another by word of mouth.

Abraham has two sons: Ishmael and Isaac. Only Isaac communicated the Oral Torah to his descendants, even though both Isaac and Ishmael were circumcised in the flesh [Genesis 17 verses 20 to 23]. Isaac had two sons: Esau and Jacob. Only Jacob communicated the Oral Torah to his descendants, even though both Jacob and Esau were circumcised in the flesh. In other words, even though Ishmael was circumcised in the flesh, he was not circumcised in the heart. Although, Esau was circumcised in the flesh, he was not circumcised “in the heart”.

The circumcision of the heart implies dedication to the  “instructions” ; and the circumcision of the flesh is a ritual which is meaningless without the instructions that came with it.

The Oral Torah And Its Covenant

During the days of Jacob, the Oral Torah was transformed into a legal contract, a covenant. A covenant is a legal contract or agreement between two or more parties. For the Oral Torah, the covenant was sealed between HaShem, on one hand, and Jacob and his descendants on the other hand. The covenant was mediated by extraterrestrials who themselves are worshippers of HaShem.  And by this contract, observers of the Oral Torah  are ordained both as the “earthly branch” of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization and as the people of HaShem [Genesis chapter 35 verse 12].

For example, HaShem already considered the Hebrews as His people before the Written Torah  was given. Exodus chapter 3 verses 7 to 10 reads: “HaShem said, ‘I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them.So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.’”

The Oral Torah existed long before the Written Torah, which is the Law of Moses. The Oral Torah was not new to the Hebrews during the days of Moses.

The Written Torah and Its Rituals

The Written Torah consists of instructions that cut across observances, offerings and ritual sacrifices. But from what we have stated above about the Oral Torah, we now know that Moses emphasized on the Oral Torah because it is the very foundation of the Written Torah.

For example, Ezekiel chapter 44 verse 9  reads: “Thus says HaShem: No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the people of Israel, shall enter my [Temple] [English Standard Version].” As we have stated before, it is important to remember that the circumcision of the flesh is a ritual that reminds us of certain instructions. It is these instructions that HaShem refers to as “the circumcision of the heart”. But how can we reconcile the above verse with Isaiah chapter 56 verses 6 to 7 ? : “And foreigners who bind themselves to HaShem to minister to him, to love the name of  HaShem, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and who hold fast to my covenant—these I will bring to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all nations.”

The answer is obvious: the circumcision of the heart is the very foundation of Orthodox Judaism.

 

The Parties That Covenanted the Oral and Written Torah

In the following quotations, HaShem denied being involved as “a party”  for the covenant that came with the Written Torah— This is because HaShem was only the Mediator, a role HaShem played through His Representative, Ehyeh.

Jeremiah chapter 7 verses 22 [KJV] reads: “For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices…”

Also, Isaiah chapter 1 verses 12 reads: “When you come to appear before Me,Who has required this from your hand,To trample My courts?”

But speaking of the Oral Torah and its covenant, HaShem said the following, as Isaiah chapter 59 verse 21 reads: “As for me, this is my covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever,” says HaShem.

Jeremiah 7 verses 22 and 23 : “For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices: But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.”

In other words,  the Oral Torah was covenanted between HaShem on one hand and  Jacob and his descendants on the other hand. The Written Torah was  covenanted between the Hebrews on one hand and an alien civilization that consists of Elohim (angels) and ghosts who, like the Hebrews, worship HaShem. These beings constitute what is called the Ark of the Covenant. It was only mediated by HaShem through His Representative, Ehyeh.  And from the Deuteronomy chapter 5 verse 3 and Deuteronomy chapter 29 verses 14 and 15, we can see that it is separate  from the Covenant HaShem made with Jacob and his descendants:  “HaShem  did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, all of us who are alive here today. (HaShem made the covenant with them as a mediator through His Representative, whose original name is Ehyeh).” [Deuteronomy 5 verse 3]

Deuteronomy 29:14-15 [New Living Translation (NLT)]: “But you are not the only ones [on behalf of]  whom I (Moses) am making this covenant with its curses. I am making this covenant  both [for] you who stand here today in the presence of HaShem our God (standing as a mediator through His Representative, Ehyeh), and also [for] the future generations who are not standing here today.”

Yes, HaShem was involved in the Covenant of the Written Torah, but only as a mediator.

The Oral Torah was covenanted separately from the Written Torah, even though it can be can be distilled out of the Written Torah. This is because the Oral Torah is the very foundation of the Written Torah.

The Superiority of the Oral Torah To the Written Torah

One who keeps the Law of Moses without the Oral Torah is still regarded as  “a stranger”  [Numbers 15 verses 15,16,29;Exodus 12: 49], and  he must not be allowed into the Temple of HaShem [Ezekiel chapter 44 verse 9]. In fact, it is forbidden to allow such into the Temple of HaShem in Jerusalem, despite the fact that they keep the Written Torah.

Yet HaShem said he would receive  “foreigners”  into His house,  “….for my house shall be called A house of prayer for all nations.” [Isaiah 56 verses 6 to 7 ].

Why?

Because these foreigners would have been  circumcised in  “ heart and flesh” [Ezekiel 44 verse 9]. It follows that such  “foreigners” are no longer  “Gentiles”  but “Jews who live outside Israel”, for Jews—either locals or foreigners — constitute one people. It is written in verse 8 of the same chapter, “HaShem  declares—he who gathers the exiles of Israel: “I will gather still others to them besides those already gathered.”

This implies  that it is  Oral Torah Observance that transforms an hitherto Gentile population to a Jewish population—the people of HaShem—not the Written Torah.

Furthermore, the Written Torah cannot be kept perfectly without a Temple of HaShem built in the place where HaShem has chosen—Jerusalem [Zechariah 2 verse 12]. Therefore, throughout the days of  Jewish exile even to this every day, Jews across the world pray facing the direction of Jerusalem,  and their observance of the feasts as commanded by the Law of Moses remained  incomplete because they understand that they must not make the ritual sacrifices anywhere else but in the Temple in Jerusalem. Nevertheless, they remained accepted to HaShem as “my people” [Isaiah 40 verse 1].

It is important to remember that the Hebrews were already “the people of HaShem” before they received the Law (the Written Torah), and it was the Oral Torah that made them so— not the Written Torah.

And as regard the return of the house of Israel, Jeremiah 31 verses 31 to 33 read:

“Behold, the days are coming” declares the LORD,

“when I will make a new covenant

with the house of Israel [As I made] with

the house of Judah. It will NOT be like the covenant

I made with their fathers when I took them by the hand

to lead them out of the land of Egypt

[this refers to the Covenant established upon the Written Torah]

a covenant they broke,

though I was a husband to them,”

declares the LORD.

“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel

after those days, declares the LORD.

I will put My law in their minds

and inscribe it on their hearts [this refers to the Oral Torah].”

Again, the reading above reiterates the fact that it is the Oral Torah that makes a people “the people of HaShem”, not the Written Torah—even though it is mandatory that everyone on Eretz Yisrael, even strangers and tourists, must keep the Written Torah.

Therefore,  the sin of Israel was weightier than the sin of Judah. For example, Ezekiel, the prophet, was instructed to mourn for 40 days for Judah and 390 days for Israel. [Ezekiel chapter 4].

In line with this fact, HaShem punished Israel differently from Judah. He destroyed the Northern kingdom completely with the hands of the Assyrians— and the Northern kingdom would never be reinstated. But HaShem decided to punish Judah, the Southern Kingdom, twice, after which Judah would be reinstated.

Jeremiah 16 verse 28 (ESV) reads: “But first I will doubly repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable idols, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations. “Hosea 6 verse 2 reads: “After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.”

This double punishment happened when Judah was sacked by the Babylonians in the 7th century B.C.E, and was reinstated during the era of Nehemiah and Ezra, only to be sacked again in the first century C.E. by the Romans.

If we call the first Judah that was sacked in the 7th century B.C.E. ‘Mother Judah’, then the second Judah that was sacked in 70 C.E. Would then be ‘Daughter Judah’ or the phrase, ‘Daughter of Judah’. The sins of Daughter Judah against the Written Torah was even more weightier than the sins of Israel against the Written Torah [Ezekiel chapter 16 ], but they continued to associate themselves to the name of their God [HaShem] and several lineages amongst them continued to hold the whole or part of the Oral Torah sacred. Because of these, they were not utterly forsaken. Hosea  chapter 11 verse 12 NKJV reads: “Ephraim has encircled Me with lies, And the house of Israel with deceit; But Judah still walks with God, Even with the Holy One who is faithful.”

The reinstatement of Judah on May 16, 1948 spelt the end of her double-fold punishment. Isaiah chapter 40 verses 1 and 2 reads: “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,  and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.” Also Isaiah 48:1 even foretells the new name modern Judah now bears, which indeed is an act of subversion against her sister, Israel: “Listen to this, you descendants of Jacob, you who are called by the name “Israel” and come from the line of Judah….”

 

The Southern Kingdom was punished and pardoned and reinstated. But the Northern Kingdom was completely destroyed, never to be reinstated as an independent Kingdom; even though the Southern Kingdom, after her first reinstatement, trespassed the Written Torah even more than the Northern Kingdom [Ezekiel chapter 16]. This is because the Southern Kingdom continued to call upon HaShem despite their sins. Isaiah chapter 48 verse 1 reads: “Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.”

Moreover, there are certain lineages within the Southern Kingdom that continued to observe the Oral Torah even to this day. Isaiah chapter 65 verse 8 KJV reads: “Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, ‘Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it,’ so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.”

This proved the superiority of the Oral Torah to the Written Torah.

What then is the significance of the Written Torah? Learn more [here].

Learn more about the Oral Torah and the Science behind each of its instructions [here].

Learn about HaShem and the one who acts as His Representative [here].

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