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Oral law part 2–continuation
- July 9, 2013
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So as it is said; the word Torah means; God’s moral teachings and instructions”, so it is also said; the Jewish Oral law explains and describes every detail and every hidden event that happened in the Torah scriptures, which is not obvious to reader.
The Hebrew word Shin-Nun-Nu or shanan means to teach, but the deeper implication of this same word means to transmit, ideas, revelations, emotions and feelings via spoken words accompanied by physical actions, to teach by example, to prophetically speak one’s role in a nation, tribe, or community via the art of speech, to illustrate a story using ancient Torah scripture as an inspiration, or to disciple someone.
The close relation between he who teaches the Torah, and the one who learns from the declared and revealed instructions is expressed through the Oral law.
I don’t teach my children how to get up, sit, lie down or walk. I teach them how I sit, how I walk, how I lie down and how I rise up according to God’s Word.
I can’t give them user manuals or encyclopedias. I have to show them how I live.
In other words; the word Oral law means; the interpretation of the Torah, the teaching (or the transmitting) of God’s way of life, which is passed down into someone’s community (family) via spoken words and a lifestyle that reflects God’s Mitzvot.