tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594844632583536823.post6903529116533689927..comments2023-10-25T00:58:28.271-07:00Comments on Living Torah: Oral Torah-What it isn'tBenjamin Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10750930640815820995noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594844632583536823.post-8399222052965175072010-11-05T06:39:51.065-07:002010-11-05T06:39:51.065-07:00Derek,
I very much agree that this is a larger is...Derek, <br />I very much agree that this is a larger issue that has a wide range of meaning for the larger Body. Thank you for relating that aspect of it.<br /><br />Aharon,<br />Thank you for visiting my blog! I appreciate your metaphor that views Oral Torah as a mechanism to disempower dry and rigid religiosity. I also value you your insights from your Catholic background. I look forward to continued conversation. <br /><br />The question remains for all communities: How do we also keep those traditions from becoming rigid?<br /><br />My hope in this series is to inspire a "small-scale" renewed vision and approach toward Oral Torah, for myself and anyone else interested.<br /><br />Ben to all:<br /><br />Thank you for your feedback and I hope the series will produce good discussion.Benjamin Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10750930640815820995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594844632583536823.post-1299581057889882632010-11-04T15:52:15.059-07:002010-11-04T15:52:15.059-07:00Very interesting I look forward to your further di...Very interesting I look forward to your further discussion on the Oral Torah. The Oral Torah is associated with Miriam's Well and when the waters of her well dried up after her death Moses sinned by striking the rock. This demonstrates that reading the Written Text of Torah without the teaching of the Mother (oral Torah)leads to legalism, intellectualism and dryness in Torah. The oral Torah causes the Written Torah to flow forth with living waters of spirituality for the soul. In the Catholic church we find that when ever the Marian dimension is lacking then this dryness and stagnation happens to movements and sections of the church and sometimes leads even to heresy.Nezir Katanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00703608475647852605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594844632583536823.post-37085417753190448072010-11-04T05:05:34.020-07:002010-11-04T05:05:34.020-07:00Awesome parable. I will definitely make use of tha...Awesome parable. I will definitely make use of that one in explaining the need for tradition to fill in commandment. This is not only a Jewish issue. In Christian communities which seek to have little or no tradition, this is an everyday problem. No specific path of discipleship has authority. So with an infinite number of choices, people are paralyzed with indecision and take no path at all.<br /><br />Derek Lemanderek4messiah.wordpress.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02116000293798063018noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594844632583536823.post-63345963177809278032010-11-02T18:42:24.218-07:002010-11-02T18:42:24.218-07:00I echo what's been said so far. And I think t...I echo what's been said so far. And I think the mashal you closed with is really great.Yahnatanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02321984415847643594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594844632583536823.post-69421456673740485422010-11-02T10:15:18.038-07:002010-11-02T10:15:18.038-07:00Very good post... looking forward to reading the s...Very good post... looking forward to reading the series! I just learned that Torah was a parable :-)<br /><br />ShalomYahKheenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04469114168680836935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594844632583536823.post-1820536525863384552010-11-02T09:26:25.866-07:002010-11-02T09:26:25.866-07:00Good stuff, Benjamin.Good stuff, Benjamin.Gene Shlomovichhttp://dailyminyan.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594844632583536823.post-36351594492723036942010-11-02T09:21:42.351-07:002010-11-02T09:21:42.351-07:00Thank you, Rabbi Joshua!Thank you, Rabbi Joshua!Bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7594844632583536823.post-14321738510157054212010-11-02T09:07:47.833-07:002010-11-02T09:07:47.833-07:00Benjamin,
Great post and looking forward to your ...Benjamin,<br /><br />Great post and looking forward to your series. I agree whole-heartedly.Rabbi Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11246960741193063472noreply@blogger.com