The True Home of the Oral Torah | Rabbi Daniel Rowe

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Dovid Rosman’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Now, parsha Shoftim is a continuation of the speeches that long speech that Moses has been giving us all the way through. Maybe not all the early ones in Devarim, but certainly from way in Devarim Chanan and and maybe the end of Devarim, but certainly through Devarim Chanan and and and Ekev and Re'eh and he's been setting the scene that we've been working through for the last few weeks. Our first of all, God revealed himself at Sinai and in many ways we point out last week that this is an undoing of the sin of Adam in the Garden of Eden, but he revealed himself at Sinai. He gave us the 10 Commandments and no matter one of the things Moses has been hinting at all the time is even if you fail, there's always another pathway back. God can lower his Torah and it can come. There can be new mitzvahs as you drop in level, new ways, but there's always a pathway back. And then in in Ekev, we saw this concept that our real resources as a Jewish nation is the fact that we're not just individuals serving God, but we're part of this collective consciousness called Yisrael that was formed by the ancestors to be the conduit of blessing for the whole of

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1. 0:00Now, parsha Shoftim is a continuation of the speeches that long speech that Moses has been…
2. 2:30there was always this kind of being above the law. The Torah bans it. Everybody subject…
3. 5:33even in war, you can't even waste fruit trees and so on. And then, if you…
4. 8:40Al pi hatorah asher yorucha, the Torah they teach you. V'al hamishpat asher yomeru there's the…
5. 11:45Torah. Everyone who believes in Moses over Torah and his Torah must lean our religious practice…
6. 14:51is, go there's an authorized body to interpret it. And the way they interpret it becomes…
7. 17:23of that light and red is there's aspects of forbiddenness to the law and aspect of…
8. 20:27relationship. So, all three Now, this is how the oral law the works. What it is…
9. 23:30to be the end of a major section, and short gaps called stumos that don't go…
10. 26:35is and what God's law is. And And what did the rabbis who were sitting at…

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