I'm a Christian who study's Hebrew ,everything the rabbi said is correct without vowels you could not read anything people who say thay don't believe in what was pass down must not know anything great video rabbi.
Beautiful explanation Tovia. It really is amazing how little Christians know about our Torah and this of course is a result of their teachers telling them the Torah was finished when Jesus died and resurrected. Therefore no need for Torah understanding or what that Torah means to AHM Israel. When speaking against the Oral Torah the Hebrew Roots movements do this as a result of many of their teachers telling them that the Oral Torah was all birthed from the Rabbi's who wanted to control the masses. They have no idea how important the traditions handed down would allow us to preserve the Hebrew language in order to read a Torah scroll and understand what we were reading. May HaShem increase your knowledge and wisdom to teach the masses that are coming to the Tzadik's of HaShem to learn of Him and Torat Moshe. Kol Ha Ka'vod
Exactly! Christianity foolishly rejects the Talmud, without having the first clue what it even is! They preach that it's some type of evil book, and therefore don't know that the Hebrew scriptures CANNOT be understood WITHOUT the Talmud!
The schwa in the English dictionary that looks like an inverted lower case e is the equivalent of what in Hebrew is called a schva na and makes the sound between the second t and the l in the word bottle. A schva na appears at the beginning of a syllable. At the end of a syllable it is called a schva nach and actually has no sound.
I'm already acceptig the Oral Torah is defiitely a part of the Torah...but blown away today learning something new...about the Oral Torah also providing the vowels. And herein lies the rub...noting all the first-century c.e. groups in Iudea that DIDN'T want to accept the Oral Torah. Or the correct vowels.
The shwa which you find in a dictionary looks like ə, is the exact same thing in the Hebrew shvah. And that is to break up a word into syllables and in the event that it is pronounced, it would be pronounced as an e (as in "end").
The Masoretic text was edited, copied, and distributed with vowel markings between the 7th and 10th century CE based on Mesora (oral tradition). Although it is the main text used by Orthodox Jews and forms the basis of the Tanakh translations used by Jews and Christians, scholars also make use of Greek and Aramaic translations. These translations are considered valuable because they added vowels earlier than the Masorites. The LXX Greek was translated beginning in the 3rd century BCE and completed by the mid 2nd century CE. The Aramaic Peshitta had vowel markings added by the 5th century CE. Both the Greek and Aramaic were translated prior to the additions of the Masoretic vowels in the 7th - 10th centuries CE. Do any Orthodox Jewish rabbis place any value at all on the LXX and the Peshitta?
Thank you for your post (relative to LXX and Jesus' sayings as well as NT use of LXX. What is the source of your information (for reference purposes). Also, when you say "Jesus used this Bible 90% of the time" it is important to consider that this is in accordance with koine Greek New Testament which obviously would quote from the LXX. Are you familiar with the Peshitta? Please see www.aramaicbibleperspectives.com
This is directed to the individual that mentioned the Dead Sea Scrolls and "old texts." You have got to be kidding. I have seen the DSS first hand and BTW - what do the vowel points have to do with DSS? Also, which old texts are you referring to? There are Hebrew, Aramaic targums, Old Syrian, etc. See www.aramaicbibleperspectives.com
Someone at The Narrow Path is putting in replies to my comments and then they disappear from the string. The latest says "The Messiah read from the scrolls which contain the scriptures of God to Isra'el his chosen peoples. There were no bibles then and the gospel of matthew the record of what the Messiah taught was not released till after the anti christ jesus teachings of Paul took hold and polluted everything!" This has absolutely nothing to do with my post. Also, the scrolls that Meschiach (no definite article) read from would be the Isaiah scroll (Lk. 4) without vowel points in Hebrew and not in Greek as in Alexandria. Paul is not giving anti-christ teachings but that has nothing to do with my post either. I encourage the writer of these replies to stay on track.
For Jews there are 613 commandments and not merely 10. Jesus upheld the teachings of the Pharisees but not some of their conduct. For non-Jews, Orthodox Judaism recognizes 7 laws and these seem to fit with Acts 15, Galatians, and Colossians when read from a Semitic perspective. But, if you still believe Paul taught the doctrines of AntiChrist these texts don't fit your schema. There is a collection of books that came to be called "The New Testament." The books can be validated but they do not validate the name NT which was a product of replacement theology. Israel was never lost but it was dispersed. I am glad that, as a Jew, you desire to return. Blessings . . .
How I would love for them to be forced to open that up. So many things they would have that does not belong to them and is specifically insulting to be in their possession
*Chara Choppel:* Moshe didn't write the Torah - God did. That's what Moshe was doing on Mt. Sinai for so long - he was receiving the Torah directly from God.
Rabbi, no joke I think I am one great video away of yours from converting to Judaism....I know about the Noahide laws. I won't explain why but I'm kind of in a situation right now where I either have to go back to Islam or convert to Judaism. I can't be in the middle sort to speak. I'll be making my decision soon.
Again, that's your assumption. Are you telling me you can't write something about yourself and not have it in second or first person? That's literally impossible for you? Lmao! Ok bud. Why does your Quran mix between two different Marys who lived over 1000 years apart? Go on and give the typical response. Why does your Quran plagiarize from what are known as fictional work such as Arabic Infancy Gospel (Jesus speaking as a baby), Greek Romance of Alexander (Dhul Qurnayn) etc. Why does your Quran take a Rabbi commentary in the Jewish Talmud and say Allah ordained or decreed it? "Whoever saves a life as if they have saved all of humanity" so on and so forth." ...I have so much more stuff but I want to see you attempt to answer these. Go on.
Vowels are not letters in hebrew. See this it is an aleph א. If i put dots or a mark underneath it then those would be the vowels. Here is an example. אֳ see the stuff below the letter?
It is a placeholder and depends on the nikkud (diacritics) around it. The nikkud are vowels but aleph is neutral/ a consonant in that it's a letter that's not a vowel.
What about punctuation? Are there periods, comas, semi-colons, question marks? If not, then why not? How then did the ancients know where one sentence ended and another begins. If so, then how did it work? Another GREAT show Rabbi. Thank you.
QUESTION: Why does Exodus 6:3 say that word of "HaShem" (The Name) was told to Moses, but not revealed to Abram? Yet throughout the book of Genesis (The Name) appears all over the place, Gn. 15:7. Surely this is not a error?
He did not mean it was never known what hashem meant was the meaning was not completely clear, until now the name is a combination of three words hayah he was, hoveh he is, yihyeh and always will be its beyond our understanding
Basically, thay knew the word yes, however moses would get to see the name in action, thay knew God almighty which basically means hashem do miracles within nature the name Hashem is when he binds nature to his will etc. Hayah hoveh yihyeh was, is will be , and that's what moses saw knew and saw
Soraya Ahmed i have questions for you too before he answer.. where is the al quran that Mohamed received from heaven now preserved? maybe if it in not taken from haven where would the real writting of Ab Bakr blessed memory be right now since it is for the prove that what Muslim claims it is the only uncorrupted book.. ever. one last consideration. Do yiu ever know the book made out of paper or skin or any other materials that can be preserved for 4000 years? logical questions and fair enough
It is in the Ark of the Covenant, which was hidden at the end of the fist temple period. Every Torah scroll traces itself back to a copy of the Torah written by Moses A"H.
Yosef Wibowo= This channel is the religious channel is not street life Do not jump a question that Nobody asked you, second Why you angry Are you guilty? There is no contradiction in the Qur’an about changes in the words of Allah. we are 1.6 billion we believe only one quran... if the "Torah" was truly written by a single author (Moses pbuh) in a certain time frame (1505 - 1465 BCE), the Torah would not contradict itself in its laws but there are thousands of variations that exist between the different versions. Most are minor variations such as the spelling of words, grammatical constructions and discrepancies in numbers. examples: by comparing the Septuagint Torah (LXX), Masoretic Torah (MT) and Samaritan Torah (ST): Genesis 5:31 LXX: All the days of Lamech were 753 years… MT: All the days of Lamech were 777 years… ST: All the days of Lamech were 653 years… the different versions of the Torah . Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. [Exodus 3:6] God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” [Exodus 3:14] Another example, here the death of prophet Moses ''pbuh'' happens before the book of Deuteronomy ends: Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone. [Deuteronomy 34:7] Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. [Deuteronomy 34:10] Here, there is the statement that Moses is the most humble person on earth: Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth. [Numbers 12:3] Now, this would be a very odd statement indeed if Moses himself were its author, as it would mean he was boasting about his own humility ?? and more, more, contradictions...
Moses would have wrote in Palio Hebrew, not what we see today. Was the current Hebrew a modification after Greek occupation or Babylonian captivity, when did it change and why?
according to our sages it was changed by ezra the scribe after the babylonian exile. why is above my pay grade i dont know why. i would like to know also.
To the narrowpath: first of all I don't know where you are reading from because in the Torah everywhere Gd says my Holy mountain will be a prayer house for all nations, so if this is not a temple what is, and this one example only, I can provide dozens. first you should study the Torah and not a study based on Christianity but a study based on Torah so that you can understand.
According to the Zohar the last 8 passages in Deuteronomy were written by him! Moshe wrote them in tears. From the Talmud itself: "Rabbi Shimon said to him: "Can the scroll of the law be short of one word? ... No; what we must say is that up to this point the Holy One, blessed be He, dictated and Moses repeated and wrote, and from this point God dictated and Moses wrote with tears." (Baba Bathra 15a)"
"God said to Moses: Take fragrances such as balsam, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense, all of the same weight, as well as other specified fragrances." The incense that was offered in the Holy Temple was made from 11 different ingredients, only 4 of which are mentioned by name in the verse above. The identity of the other seven spices was been passed down in the Oral Tradition.
Can you provide me with examples where Leviticus doesn't agree with Deuteronomy or the prophets? I've never considered the point of view that Leviticus is not written by Moshe. I will research this diligently.
My response to the illegitimacy of the Mosaic authorship of Leviticus would be to try to take Leviticus out of the rest of scripture. It would be impossible. Zechariah 14: 16-17 "16 Finally, everyone remaining from all the nations that came to attack Yerushalayim will go up every year to worship the king, Adonai-Tzva’ot, and to keep the festival of Sukkot. 17 If any of the families of the earth does not go up to Yerushalayim to worship the king, Adonai-Tzva’ot, no rain will fall on them." Leviticus 23 instituted the festival of booths. Do you believe Leviticus to not be written by the hand of YHWH and should altogether be disregarded? That would bring the entire Tanach to it's knees... I am fully aware of the coarseness of halachic rulings to 21st century sentiments. I would carefully read through the Rambam's Mishneh Torah section on Sotah which addresses the decree of drinking the bitter water for suspected adultery. I ask the hand of God to guide me when reading Halacha because that is where as a ger who cares deeply about Torah and the World To Come I feel like I DO have a "new" distinction to be made. www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/960637/jewish/Sotah.htm
I happen to have a lot of experience in this area, and I see you asked this 2 years ago but hopefully you see this. Yes. Absolutely. The original pronunciation of a "Vav"/"ו" is like the English "W". 100%. If you want proof of that, read the Jewish Mefarshim like the Ibn Ezra and many others who make this clear. I've studied this all my life. I pray with these pronunciations. It means a lot to me. If you really want to understand the details you have to put in a lot of time. Begin with Yemenite Jewish pronunciation and go from there. They are the closest surviving version of proper Hebrew pronunciation. (Rabbi Singer understands this as well and has said as much in other videos. Look into it more and you will find the details. Essentially if you combine Yemenite and Egyptian Jewish pronunciations of Hebrew, that is the most accurate to the pronunciation in the Second Temple period, post Babylonian Exile. Prior to that is more complicated and I won't get into that here, but hopefully that helps point you in the right direction. 🙏👍)
Sort of. Would cause some confusion but israeli newspaper and many books do not include vowel marks. Because when you know hebrew you generally do not need them reading it correctly with the context of what you are reading.
It is not necessary to rely on any oral torah to figure the vowel points that go in the text. All that is necessary is to know Hebrew. The traditional vowels are the opinions of men. Granted they are usually good opinions based on good evidence (usually). But these opinions are still subject to correction if they should be proved wrong. They are not authoritative in the sense that they have been handed down from Mt. Sinai as is the consonant text. For example Rashi disagreed with the Masoretic reading of Gen. 1:1. So also anyone who knows enough can suggest variant vowel pointing in other texts if sufficient evidence exists to show it more likely. The theory that Judaism is right because Judaism has the authority is circular reasoning. No one but God has the authority and Jews have produced plenty of sects that disagree. Insisting on the authority argument only keeps one in one's own sect from looking outside to see if anyone has thought of something useful.
The Talmud is ABSOLUTELY necessary to understand the ETERNAL Hebrew scriptures!! When God told us to "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.", well, HOW exactly do we do that? When does it start? When does it end?! Which activities are permitted on that day, and which are forbidden? Which foods are required for that day? Same for the other holy days. The answers to these questions do NOT appear in Tanach (the Hebrew Bible), but they DO appear in the Talmud! The ENTIRETY of the Hebrew scriptures (INCLUDING the Talmud!) were given to Moses at Mt. Sinai. PLEASE do some ACTUAL HONEST research on this subject, and learn from the Orthodox Rabbis, as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11. In the absence of the Temple, the Rabbis are our spiritual teachers, since they (and ONLY THEY!!) have been studying the original Hebrew scriptures all the way back to Mt. Sinai - something Christianity REFUSED to do, leaving them in profound darkness as to what God ACTUALLY said to us there.
Was wondering why there are Rabbinic prohibitions in addition to Torah prohibitions? Isn't this adding or subtracting from the Torah, which is forbidden to do?
Great question! The Jewish sages instituted precautionary decrees as a safeguard to protect Jews from transgressing Torah laws. In fact, the sages encourage everyone to build personal fences where they know that they are weak. Maimonides explains that these “fences” refer to the precautionary decrees that our sages instituted as a safeguard to protect us from transgressing the Torah laws. Maimonides quotes from the Talmud (Yevamos 21a) that these rabbinic safeguards are alluded to in the Torah itself. In the portion that deals with immorality and intimate relationships, Scripture states: And you shall guard My guard in order not to perform any of the abominable customs that were done before you and not contaminate yourselves. (Leviticus 18:30) Our sages teach that there must be a clear distinction between God’s command and man’s “protective fence” around it. When the Torah instructs that we may neither add to nor subtract from the commandments, it means that the rabbis may not say that God gave us in the Torah 613 commandments and we add another few commandments. The sages, however, do have the authority to add rabbinic commandments as long as they are clearly defined as such. In other words, I am permitted to say that “I will not visit Las Vegas because the temptations in that city may lead me to sin.” That is a permissible fence. It is forbidden, however, for me to say that visiting Las Vegas is prohibited in the Torah.
It seems to me we'd have to take the word of rabbis who finally decided on an official niqqud a thousand years after the destruction of the second temple (as prophesied by Jesus) and the diaspora. Considering that the oral tradition varied so greatly from sect to sect ( to wit, the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, etc) and the rabbinical version of the oral tradition can't really be verified until the 14th century, it seems to me the Septuagint, whose Greek translations have been found among the Essene Dead Sea Scrolls (written in Paleo-Hebrew script, Koine Greek, Square-Script, Aramaic, and even what is being called "Qumran-Hebrew". Some of the scrolls also use "plene" spelling to indicate vowels, not the Medieval Nikkud system) and were considered to be equal to the Hebrew texts by Philo and Josephus, could be considered far more faithful translations than what Medieval Rabbis have offered us with their post-temple, post-sacrifice, Judaism re-imagined, "oral tradition" and revised "Canon".
Nowhere in the Tanach does it say that the points were given by Moshe. It's all made up by men (rabbis) specifically designed to change the name of יהוה. The different meanings are based on the context of the sentence and not by the points.
Read without distinct: " Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses' feet and said, Surely you are a husband of blood to me!' Then the Lord said to Moses, ' Go in to the Pharoh and tell him, " thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews". (( Beware NKJV. They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. It will surely be a snare to you.)) For then Moses returned to the LORD and said, " Oh, these people have committed a great sin AND have made for themselves a god of gold ".😂😂😂 So Messora translate according to the tenor of these words... and if a person sins in hearing the utterance of an oath, and it is a witness- whether he has seen or known of the matter - he bears guilt : the book of Isaiah !
we thank Rabbis for positive things things they have done may God bless them for that I believe 100% in the Bible both new and old in Jesus apostles and their teachings not catholic or anything
Oh Children of Israel be not the first ones to deny G-d's revelations which includes the holy Quran and bow down along those who bow down. This is better for, only if you knew.
Tovia is both highly intelligent And very wise. I love him.
I'm a Christian who study's Hebrew ,everything the rabbi said is correct without vowels you could not read anything people who say thay don't believe in what was pass down must not know anything great video rabbi.
This is great. I love how you've explained so thoroughly.
So grateful to have the Masoretic Text and the Dead Sea Scrolls…not to mention the many Torah Scrolls in our synagogue arks around the world.
Thank-you! Great gratitude to you both. It is GOOD to learn, eh? Thank-you, Rabbi Singer, and thank-you, Wil'. (eli)
A clear, comprehensive explanation. Thank you Rabbi.
Great teacher, bless you ❤
Beautiful explanation Tovia. It really is amazing how little Christians know about our Torah and this of course is a result of their teachers telling them the Torah was finished when Jesus died and resurrected. Therefore no need for Torah understanding or what that Torah means to AHM Israel.
When speaking against the Oral Torah the Hebrew Roots movements do this as a result of many of their teachers telling them that the Oral Torah was all birthed from the Rabbi's who wanted to control the masses. They have no idea how important the traditions handed down would allow us to preserve the Hebrew language in order to read a Torah scroll and understand what we were reading.
May HaShem increase your knowledge and wisdom to teach the masses that are coming to the Tzadik's of HaShem to learn of Him and Torat Moshe.
Kol Ha Ka'vod
Why do you stay a Christian after listening to the Rabbi explain that Jesus as a human sacrifice is an abomination?
@@fredgillespie5855 Fred why not call up the Rabbi some Sunday morning and challenge him on your point that u just stated in your comment?
If it wasn't for the oral Torah, there would be no bible simple
Exactly! Christianity foolishly rejects the Talmud, without having the first clue what it even is! They preach that it's some type of evil book, and therefore don't know that the Hebrew scriptures CANNOT be understood WITHOUT the Talmud!
The schwa in the English dictionary that looks like an inverted lower case e is the equivalent of what in Hebrew is called a schva na and makes the sound between the second t and the l in the word bottle. A schva na appears at the beginning of a syllable. At the end of a syllable it is called a schva nach and actually has no sound.
I'm already acceptig the Oral Torah is defiitely a part of the Torah...but blown away today learning something new...about the Oral Torah also providing the vowels.
And herein lies the rub...noting all the first-century c.e. groups in Iudea that DIDN'T want to accept the Oral Torah. Or the correct vowels.
George Hall yea without vowels id be lost.
George Hall amen I'm glad for Talmud otherwise without vowels i would not know HASHEMS NAME
The shwa which you find in a dictionary looks like ə, is the exact same thing in the Hebrew shvah. And that is to break up a word into syllables and in the event that it is pronounced, it would be pronounced as an e (as in "end").
can you please share the Live Schedule so i can make call? i have couple question to ask to Rabbi, i originally from Indonesia.
Shalom! Sunday, 12 pm, NY time
Waalaikum Salaam..thanks! Insya Allah
What his saying is vowels are for people who need help reading like me.
The Masoretic text was edited, copied, and distributed with vowel markings between the 7th and 10th century CE based on Mesora (oral tradition). Although it is the main text used by Orthodox Jews and forms the basis of the Tanakh translations used by Jews and Christians, scholars also make use of Greek and Aramaic translations. These translations are considered valuable because they added vowels earlier than the Masorites. The LXX Greek was translated beginning in the 3rd century BCE and completed by the mid 2nd century CE. The Aramaic Peshitta had vowel markings added by the 5th century CE. Both the Greek and Aramaic were translated prior to the additions of the Masoretic vowels in the 7th - 10th centuries CE. Do any Orthodox Jewish rabbis place any value at all on the LXX and the Peshitta?
Thank you for your post (relative to LXX and Jesus' sayings as well as NT use of LXX. What is the source of your information (for reference purposes). Also, when you say "Jesus used this Bible 90% of the time" it is important to consider that this is in accordance with koine Greek New Testament which obviously would quote from the LXX. Are you familiar with the Peshitta? Please see www.aramaicbibleperspectives.com
This is directed to the individual that mentioned the Dead Sea Scrolls and "old texts." You have got to be kidding. I have seen the DSS first hand and BTW - what do the vowel points have to do with DSS? Also, which old texts are you referring to? There are Hebrew, Aramaic targums, Old Syrian, etc. See www.aramaicbibleperspectives.com
Someone at The Narrow Path is putting in replies to my comments and then they disappear from the string. The latest says "The Messiah read from the scrolls which contain the scriptures of God to Isra'el his chosen peoples. There were no bibles then and the gospel of matthew the record of what the Messiah taught was not released till after the anti christ jesus teachings of Paul took hold and polluted everything!" This has absolutely nothing to do with my post. Also, the scrolls that Meschiach (no definite article) read from would be the Isaiah scroll (Lk. 4) without vowel points in Hebrew and not in Greek as in Alexandria. Paul is not giving anti-christ teachings but that has nothing to do with my post either. I encourage the writer of these replies to stay on track.
For Jews there are 613 commandments and not merely 10. Jesus upheld the teachings of the Pharisees but not some of their conduct. For non-Jews, Orthodox Judaism recognizes 7 laws and these seem to fit with Acts 15, Galatians, and Colossians when read from a Semitic perspective. But, if you still believe Paul taught the doctrines of AntiChrist these texts don't fit your schema. There is a collection of books that came to be called "The New Testament." The books can be validated but they do not validate the name NT which was a product of replacement theology. Israel was never lost but it was dispersed. I am glad that, as a Jew, you desire to return. Blessings . . .
I respect what is in your heart but be careful.
In 70 the Romans carried all the temple treasures, including the scroll, back to Rome where they put it all on display.What became of that scroll?
I'd venture a guess that in the Vatican treasury there are a lot of things the world would be shocked to see.
How I would love for them to be forced to open that up. So many things they would have that does not belong to them and is specifically insulting to be in their possession
Rabbi the two dots under the Yod is that silent or a faint E
How could Moshe have written the Torah books - who are talking about him in 3rd person not 1st person??
*Chara Choppel:* Moshe didn't write the Torah - God did. That's what Moshe was doing on Mt. Sinai for so long - he was receiving the Torah directly from God.
Rabbi, no joke I think I am one great video away of yours from converting to Judaism....I know about the Noahide laws. I won't explain why but I'm kind of in a situation right now where I either have to go back to Islam or convert to Judaism. I can't be in the middle sort to speak. I'll be making my decision soon.
Ameen
Judaism is the correct decision.
You may be right brother. I already have one foot in the door
Bernardo Quiroz, if I make my decision to be Jewish hopefully we all can get together with the Rabbi in a synagogue and pray together :')
Also if you have any questions regarding Judaism ask the Rabbi. He'll be the best person for it. I haven't even converted yet lol.
Again, that's your assumption. Are you telling me you can't write something about yourself and not have it in second or first person? That's literally impossible for you? Lmao! Ok bud.
Why does your Quran mix between two different Marys who lived over 1000 years apart? Go on and give the typical response.
Why does your Quran plagiarize from what are known as fictional work such as Arabic Infancy Gospel (Jesus speaking as a baby), Greek Romance of Alexander (Dhul Qurnayn) etc.
Why does your Quran take a Rabbi commentary in the Jewish Talmud and say Allah ordained or decreed it? "Whoever saves a life as if they have saved all of humanity" so on and so forth."
...I have so much more stuff but I want to see you attempt to answer these. Go on.
Is the letter aleph a vowel or consenent
Vowels are not letters in hebrew. See this it is an aleph א. If i put dots or a mark underneath it then those would be the vowels. Here is an example. אֳ see the stuff below the letter?
It is a placeholder and depends on the nikkud (diacritics) around it. The nikkud are vowels but aleph is neutral/ a consonant in that it's a letter that's not a vowel.
What about punctuation? Are there periods, comas, semi-colons, question marks? If not, then why not? How then did the ancients know where one sentence ended and another begins. If so, then how did it work?
Another GREAT show Rabbi.
Thank you.
You sing it to denote punctuation marks. Another oral tradition.
Exactly what Simon said except not 'another' this is the musical notes as part of that masorah. Musical notes/cantillation and nikudot/dots
Yes there are also stress marks That tell you how to pronounce word"s 100% correctly no mistake
QUESTION: Why does Exodus 6:3 say that word of "HaShem" (The Name) was told to Moses, but not revealed to Abram? Yet throughout the book of Genesis (The Name) appears all over the place, Gn. 15:7. Surely this is not a error?
He did not mean it was never known what hashem meant was the meaning was not completely clear, until now the name is a combination of three words hayah he was, hoveh he is, yihyeh and always will be its beyond our understanding
I am insn't even that translation. It is 'I will be' and only denotes a third of his name
@@goldengun9970 actually its shell be
Basically, thay knew the word yes, however moses would get to see the name in action, thay knew God almighty which basically means hashem do miracles within nature the name Hashem is when he binds nature to his will etc. Hayah hoveh yihyeh was, is will be , and that's what moses saw knew and saw
Torah Ameen
Baruch Hashem,
continue, if you have questions please contact me or a Rabbi.
Rabbi Tovia asalaam alaikum, i have question, where is the original Torah given to Prophet Moses peace be upon him, by God Almighty ?
Soraya Ahmed i have questions for you too before he answer.. where is the al quran that Mohamed received from heaven now preserved? maybe if it in not taken from haven where would the real writting of Ab Bakr blessed memory be right now since it is for the prove that what Muslim claims it is the only uncorrupted book.. ever.
one last consideration. Do yiu ever know the book made out of paper or skin or any other materials that can be preserved for 4000 years? logical questions and fair enough
It is in the Ark of the Covenant, which was hidden at the end of the fist temple period. Every Torah scroll traces itself back to a copy of the Torah written by Moses A"H.
Yosef Wibowo= This channel is the religious channel is not street life
Do not jump a question that Nobody asked you, second Why you angry Are you guilty? There is no contradiction in the Qur’an about changes in the words of Allah. we are 1.6 billion we believe only one quran...
if the "Torah" was truly written by a single author (Moses pbuh) in a certain time frame (1505 - 1465 BCE), the Torah would not contradict itself in its laws
but there are thousands of variations that exist between the different versions. Most are minor variations such as the spelling of words, grammatical constructions and discrepancies in numbers. examples: by comparing the Septuagint Torah (LXX), Masoretic Torah (MT) and Samaritan Torah (ST):
Genesis 5:31
LXX: All the days of Lamech were 753 years…
MT: All the days of Lamech were 777 years…
ST: All the days of Lamech were 653 years…
the different versions of the Torah .
Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God. [Exodus 3:6]
God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” [Exodus 3:14]
Another example, here the death of prophet Moses ''pbuh'' happens before the book of Deuteronomy ends:
Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone. [Deuteronomy 34:7]
Since then, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face. [Deuteronomy 34:10]
Here, there is the statement that Moses is the most humble person on earth:
Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth. [Numbers 12:3]
Now, this would be a very odd statement indeed if Moses himself were its author, as it would mean he was boasting about his own humility ?? and more, more, contradictions...
Thank you Rabbi Tovia
Moses would have wrote in Palio Hebrew, not what we see today. Was the current Hebrew a modification after Greek occupation or Babylonian captivity, when did it change and why?
according to our sages it was changed by ezra the scribe after the babylonian exile. why is above my pay grade i dont know why. i would like to know also.
To the narrowpath:
first of all I don't know where you are reading from because in the Torah everywhere Gd says my Holy mountain will be a prayer house for all nations, so if this is not a temple what is, and this one example only, I can provide dozens. first you should study the Torah and not a study based on Christianity but a study based on Torah so that you can understand.
Saygıdeğer Rabbi Tovla beyfendi Türkçe altyazılı olarak istiyorum sevgi saygıyla arz ederim
According to the Zohar the last 8 passages in Deuteronomy were written by him! Moshe wrote them in tears.
From the Talmud itself:
"Rabbi Shimon said to him: "Can the scroll of the law be short of one word? ... No; what we must say is that up to this point the Holy One, blessed be He, dictated and Moses repeated and wrote, and from this point God dictated and Moses wrote with tears." (Baba Bathra 15a)"
I'm saying the opposite, that it wasn't added after his death.
Yes. He wrote it in tears as it was dictated to him
"God said to Moses: Take fragrances such as balsam, onycha, galbanum, and pure frankincense, all of the same weight, as well as other specified fragrances."
The incense that was offered in the Holy Temple was made from 11 different ingredients, only 4 of which are mentioned by name in the verse above. The identity of the other seven spices was been passed down in the Oral Tradition.
Can you provide me with examples where Leviticus doesn't agree with Deuteronomy or the prophets? I've never considered the point of view that Leviticus is not written by Moshe. I will research this diligently.
My response to the illegitimacy of the Mosaic authorship of Leviticus would be to try to take Leviticus out of the rest of scripture. It would be impossible.
Zechariah 14: 16-17 "16 Finally, everyone remaining from all the nations that came to attack Yerushalayim will go up every year to worship the king, Adonai-Tzva’ot, and to keep the festival of Sukkot. 17 If any of the families of the earth does not go up to Yerushalayim to worship the king, Adonai-Tzva’ot, no rain will fall on them."
Leviticus 23 instituted the festival of booths. Do you believe Leviticus to not be written by the hand of YHWH and should altogether be disregarded? That would bring the entire Tanach to it's knees...
I am fully aware of the coarseness of halachic rulings to 21st century sentiments. I would carefully read through the Rambam's Mishneh Torah section on Sotah which addresses the decree of drinking the bitter water for suspected adultery. I ask the hand of God to guide me when reading Halacha because that is where as a ger who cares deeply about Torah and the World To Come I feel like I DO have a "new" distinction to be made. www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/960637/jewish/Sotah.htm
Rabbi question was the vav ever a W some say it was
I happen to have a lot of experience in this area, and I see you asked this 2 years ago but hopefully you see this.
Yes. Absolutely. The original pronunciation of a "Vav"/"ו" is like the English "W". 100%.
If you want proof of that, read the Jewish Mefarshim like the Ibn Ezra and many others who make this clear.
I've studied this all my life. I pray with these pronunciations. It means a lot to me. If you really want to understand the details you have to put in a lot of time. Begin with Yemenite Jewish pronunciation and go from there. They are the closest surviving version of proper Hebrew pronunciation.
(Rabbi Singer understands this as well and has said as much in other videos. Look into it more and you will find the details. Essentially if you combine Yemenite and Egyptian Jewish pronunciations of Hebrew, that is the most accurate to the pronunciation in the Second Temple period, post Babylonian Exile. Prior to that is more complicated and I won't get into that here, but hopefully that helps point you in the right direction. 🙏👍)
Thank G-OD for vowels or I'd be lost' you have to have vowels otherwise you could not even read his HOLY NAME
Sort of. Would cause some confusion but israeli newspaper and many books do not include vowel marks. Because when you know hebrew you generally do not need them reading it correctly with the context of what you are reading.
It is not necessary to rely on any oral torah to figure the vowel points that go in the text. All that is necessary is to know Hebrew. The traditional vowels are the opinions of men. Granted they are usually good opinions based on good evidence (usually). But these opinions are still subject to correction if they should be proved wrong. They are not authoritative in the sense that they have been handed down from Mt. Sinai as is the consonant text. For example Rashi disagreed with the Masoretic reading of Gen. 1:1. So also anyone who knows enough can suggest variant vowel pointing in other texts if sufficient evidence exists to show it more likely. The theory that Judaism is right because Judaism has the authority is circular reasoning. No one but God has the authority and Jews have produced plenty of sects that disagree. Insisting on the authority argument only keeps one in one's own sect from looking outside to see if anyone has thought of something useful.
God gave us the oral Torah with the written. It is just you not believing it. We Jews are right and you are wrong
The Talmud is ABSOLUTELY necessary to understand the ETERNAL Hebrew scriptures!!
When God told us to "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.", well, HOW exactly do we do that? When does it start? When does it end?! Which activities are permitted on that day, and which are forbidden? Which foods are required for that day? Same for the other holy days. The answers to these questions do NOT appear in Tanach (the Hebrew Bible), but they DO appear in the Talmud! The ENTIRETY of the Hebrew scriptures (INCLUDING the Talmud!) were given to Moses at Mt. Sinai.
PLEASE do some ACTUAL HONEST research on this subject, and learn from the Orthodox Rabbis, as commanded by God in Deut. 17:8-11. In the absence of the Temple, the Rabbis are our spiritual teachers, since they (and ONLY THEY!!) have been studying the original Hebrew scriptures all the way back to Mt. Sinai - something Christianity REFUSED to do, leaving them in profound darkness as to what God ACTUALLY said to us there.
Was wondering why there are Rabbinic prohibitions in addition to Torah prohibitions? Isn't this adding or subtracting from the Torah, which is forbidden to do?
Great question! The Jewish sages instituted precautionary decrees as a safeguard to protect Jews from transgressing Torah laws. In fact, the sages encourage everyone to build personal fences where they know that they are weak.
Maimonides explains that these “fences” refer to the precautionary decrees that our sages instituted as a safeguard to protect us from transgressing the Torah laws. Maimonides quotes from the Talmud (Yevamos 21a) that these rabbinic safeguards are alluded to in the Torah itself. In the portion that deals with immorality and intimate relationships, Scripture states:
And you shall guard My guard in order not to perform any of the abominable customs that were done before you and not contaminate yourselves. (Leviticus 18:30)
Our sages teach that there must be a clear distinction between God’s command and man’s “protective fence” around it. When the Torah instructs that we may neither add to nor subtract from the commandments, it means that the rabbis may not say that God gave us in the Torah 613 commandments and we add another few commandments. The sages, however, do have the authority to add rabbinic commandments as long as they are clearly defined as such.
In other words, I am permitted to say that “I will not visit Las Vegas because the temptations in that city may lead me to sin.” That is a permissible fence. It is forbidden, however, for me to say that visiting Las Vegas is prohibited in the Torah.
You're my Rav! Thank you!
It seems to me we'd have to take the word of rabbis who finally decided on an official niqqud a thousand years after the destruction of the second temple (as prophesied by Jesus) and the diaspora. Considering that the oral tradition varied so greatly from sect to sect ( to wit, the Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, etc) and the rabbinical version of the oral tradition can't really be verified until the 14th century, it seems to me the Septuagint, whose Greek translations have been found among the Essene Dead Sea Scrolls (written in Paleo-Hebrew script, Koine Greek, Square-Script, Aramaic, and even what is being called "Qumran-Hebrew". Some of the scrolls also use "plene" spelling to indicate vowels, not the Medieval Nikkud system) and were considered to be equal to the Hebrew texts by Philo and Josephus, could be considered far more faithful translations than what Medieval Rabbis have offered us with their post-temple, post-sacrifice, Judaism re-imagined, "oral tradition" and revised "Canon".
To Ameen
yes, reject jesus, is a trick do not believe it.
Nowhere in the Tanach does it say that the points were given by Moshe. It's all made up by men (rabbis) specifically designed to change the name of יהוה. The different meanings are based on the context of the sentence and not by the points.
The vowels were handed down in the Oral Torah.
Read without distinct:
" Then Zipporah took a sharp stone and cut off the foreskin of her son and cast it at Moses' feet and said, Surely you are a husband of blood to me!' Then the Lord said to Moses, ' Go in to the Pharoh and tell him, " thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews".
(( Beware NKJV. They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against Me. It will surely be a snare to you.)) For then Moses returned to the LORD and said, " Oh, these people have committed a great sin AND have made for themselves a god of gold ".😂😂😂
So Messora translate according to the tenor of these words... and if a person sins in hearing the utterance of an oath, and it is a witness- whether he has seen or known of the matter - he bears guilt : the book of Isaiah !
we thank Rabbis for positive things things they have done may God bless them for that I believe 100% in the Bible both new and old in Jesus apostles and their teachings not catholic or anything
Oh Children of Israel be not the first ones to deny G-d's revelations which includes the holy Quran and bow down along those who bow down. This is better for, only if you knew.
Yvonne Gordon
Jesus came for the jews.