{"id":41918,"date":"2018-10-12T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=41918"},"modified":"2022-05-07T23:11:31","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T20:11:31","slug":"milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/milimilim-the-hebrew-corner-exodus-16\/","title":{"rendered":"MiliMiliM – The Hebrew Corner – Exodus 16"},"content":{"rendered":"
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16:4 – And the LORD said to Moses, \u201cI will rain down bread for you from the sky, and the people shall go out and gather each day that day\u2019s portion\u2014that I may thus test them, to see whether they will follow torati,<\/em>\u00a0My instructions or not.<\/span>
\n<\/span>16:28 – And the LORD said to Moses, \u201cHow long will you men refuse to obey My commandments and torotai”My teachings?<\/span><\/p>\n

The root of Torah is the three-letter root <\/span>\u05d9-\u05e8-\u05d4<\/b>, which has a core meaning of “teach,” as in the word <\/span>moreh<\/span><\/em> or <\/span>morah<\/em> <\/span>(masc.\/fem.), meaning “teacher,” or “guide” as in Maimonides’ great work, <\/span>Moreh Nevuchim<\/span><\/em>, the “Guide for the Perplexed.” So Torah, is best understood as “Teaching” or “Instruction,” not “law,” as commonly mistranslated.<\/span><\/p>\n

Torah can be seen as a sort of Russian doll, because its meaning runs the gamut from individual instructions (as in this chapter) through the Book known as the Torah, all the way to\u2026 well, just about everything.<\/span><\/p>\n

How so?<\/span><\/p>\n

As in the song Echad Mi Yodea (\u201cWho Knows One?\u201d) “<\/span>Who knows 5? 5 are the books of the Torah<\/span><\/em>.\u201d Torah is the “T” in the Jewish name of the Bible \u2013 Tanakh, an acronym for <\/span>T<\/b>orah, <\/span>N<\/b>evi’im, <\/span>K<\/b>etuvim<\/span><\/em> \u2013 the Torah, the Prophets and the Writings.<\/span><\/p>\n

All these together are also known as the written Torah: <\/span>Torah she-bichtav<\/span><\/em>. So “the Torah” (Pentateuch) is only the first part of “the Torah” (Bible), which comprises the 24 books \u2013 929 chapters \u2013 of the Tanakh.<\/span><\/p>\n

Alongside the written Torah, there is also the oral Torah, <\/span>Torah she-be’al peh<\/span><\/em>. Whereas the boundaries of written Torah are set, those of the oral Torah are much fuzzier.<\/span><\/p>\n

The oral Torah refers to the commentary that reputedly accompanied the written Torah and guide its interpretation. These are teachings, legal and otherwise, that were transmitted orally from one generation to the next. Whether they go all the way back to Sinai or had their origins in First or Second Temple times is a matter of scholarly and theological dispute, but by early rabbinic times (3<\/span>rd<\/span> to 2<\/span>nd<\/span> centuries B.C.E.) there was certainly a growing body of teaching discussed between teachers and students in houses of study.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a deep irony: Ask what the Oral Torah is, and you will be directed to a bookshelf \u2013 with stacks of books! Over the last two millennia, the “oral” Torah has become embodied in books, orders of magnitude more books than the written Torah. And it keeps growing: any book written today that is a commentary, expansion, codification or in any way bears a serious relationship to this sacred literature, can be considered part of the oral Torah. Oh, the bibliography!<\/span><\/p>\n

And the oral Torah comprises even more than that: “Rabbi Joshua ben Levi expounded: Scripture, Mishnah, Talmud, Aggadah, and <\/span>even what a diligent student will teach in the future before his master<\/span><\/em> was already spoken to Moses at Sinai” (J. Talmud, Peah 2:4, 17a, emphasis added).<\/span><\/p>\n

This teaching extends Torah to include truly oral exposition, and in this case significantly not what a teacher shares with students, which could be considered standard authoritative rulings, but what any serious student teaches before his teacher, implying innovation and creativity.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the words of legal scholar Robert Cover: “<\/span>Torah<\/em> <\/span>refers both to law in the sense of a body of regulation and, by<\/span> extension, to the corpus of all related normative material and to the teaching and learning of those primary and secondary sources. In this fully extended sense, the term embraces life itself\u2026” (“Nomos and Narrative”). 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