Original scientific paper
The Written Tora and the Oral Tora – Can one exist without the other?
Kotel DaDon
orcid.org/0000-0002-3542-3754
Abstract
This article is analyzing the possibility of understanding the text of the Written Tora without the tradition of the Oral Tora. A historical dispute that is dating already during the second Temple period in Jerusalem, between the different Jewish religious and philosophical streams, mainly the Pharisees and the Sadducees. This debate is continuing to bother the Jewish People during the middle ages with the arrival of the Karaitic movement. This work is starting with defining the concepts of the Written and the Oral Tora, then showing through few biblical commandments from which it is clear that without and determinative oral tradition it would be simply impossible to understand the meaning of those texts or commandments. The last part of this work is analyzing this issue through many sources of Rabbinical literature from the Talmud time through the middle ages, literature that for the first time is being translated to the Croatian language by the author from Hebrew and Aramaic.
Keywords
Bible; Written Tora; Oral Tora; Maimonides; Talmud; Halacha
Hrčak ID:
93174
URI
Publication date:
20.11.2012.
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