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Understanding the Oral Torah

  • halakha
  • talmudh tora
  • tora sh'b'al pe

How do we know that Moshe received an oral set of commandments in addition to the written Torah? What do the terms “misswah,” “mishnah,” “talmud” and “kabbalah” really mean? They have a fundamental and primary meaning, different from what we associate with those terms today.

For the continuation of this shiur, go to Understanding of Torah as the Evolution of Science.

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