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Ingenuine: The Oral Torah Is Not AuthoritativeProve that the Oral Law is Authentic! Rabbi Tovia Singer responds to pressing question, Aug 29, 2017, Tovia Singer
The Greek Septuagint has much older translations of the Hebrew Scripture in their time than the Masoretic text. Every eclectic Torah student must recognize the power of parallel languages. Thank the one reverently called Κύριε for that! At about 9 minutes or so, Mr. Singer, you mention Ruth. Ruth was blessed and an exception to the rule of Numbers 36:5-13. Through Boaz, nevertheless, her children obtained patrilineal succession--a necessity to be a Hebrew and have tribal/national inheritance. She was a Moabite but women of other lands were not acceptable: "And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:" (Nehemiah 10:30) "Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you." (Joshua 23:13) In Ezra a covenant was made: The faithful put away their non-Hebrew, illegitimate wives and children. "Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law" (Ezra 10:3). (See) 1 Esdras 9:36 "All these had taken strange wives, and they put them away with their children." (The King James Version Apocrypha). Today, in modern Israel, there cannot anyone be found with Hebrew patrilineal succession, no priests with the required genealogy, and the children of the occupiers of the land are as polluted (yegoahlu): Ezra 2: 61-63. They cannot produce a Hebrew messiah, which we know has already come—the Lord Jesus Christ. No, my theological adversary, the oral Torah is not sufficient. For instance, Yevamot 77b does not have the authority. The Moabite rule did not apply only to men as you propose so as to accept female racial/tribal miscegenation: for at least one reason because that would contradict the commandment of Numbers 36:5-13, Nehemiah 10:30, the warning of Ezra 10:14, and the covenant and law (Ezra 10:3), which gave amicable expulsion to non-Hebrew women. Having said that, the oral torah is useful in some ways, but not all. It is inconsistent. It is contradictory at times. Some of the commentators may be wise and others not. Good doctrine cannot be established in a quantity of words of commentators who cannot agree with one another (50 volumes or so more than the bible); it must be established upon the authoritative, written torah. Links: Hebrew Patrilineal Succession Requirement Singer Isaiah Misinterpretation Warning To The Hebrews: Loss Of Their Posterity Futile Jewish Matrilineal Quest For Hebrew/Jew Identity
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