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Yoel and Jeff Gilbert bring some of the questions from listeners. How are we to view and use the Book of Psalms? Is it prophetic? Which sects in the Second Temple period had an Oral Torah and how did it affect the commoner? Can we understand the written text without Oral Torah?
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Yoel and Jeff continue the discussion on the Oral Torah, part 5. Oral Torah, what is it, what WAS it and who can make it?
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Yoel and Jeff Gilbert of TalkinTorah.org discuss the second temple period of Israel and the early stages of what we today call Judaism.
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Join us in this series from TalkingTorah.org, as Yoel and Jeff Gilbert explore the history and usage of the Oral Torah. In Part 4 we move from the canonization of the Tanakh to the explosion of literature in the Second Temple period by examining the validity of the chain of Oral Torah and the divisive effect of multiculturalization on Judeans, creating the Pharissees, Saducees and Essenes.
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Join us in this series from TalkingTorah.org, as Yoel and Jeff Gilbert explore the history and usage of the Oral Torah. In Part 3 we go in depth into the canonization of the Tanakh, and specifically the issues with the Document Hypothesis.
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Join us in this series from TalkingTorah.org, as Yoel and Jeff Gilbert explore the history and usage of the Oral Torah. This week in Part 2, hear about the “beautiful mess” in the second temple period and the levels of disharmony that prevailed during the prophet Jeremiah’s time until the Hasmonian period.
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Join us in this series from TalkingTorah.org, as Yoel and Jeff Gilbert explore the history and usage of the Oral Torah. In this first episode, entitled “The Oral Torah, Truth and Tradition”, we discuss the history of Jerusalem around the time of the Jerusalem Talmud, differences between it and the Babylonian Talmud, the complexity of defining oral law, basic categories of oral law, the differences between the development of Torah law vs. other ANE law codes, what Israel understood that no other nation did, community customs, judging those who keep the oral torah, and what is in “God’s tefillin”?
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