03-29-2022, 06:09 PM
If you ask a rabbi why we should care what the Oral Torah says, his response will be that we cannot rely on individual interpretations of the Old Testament, because people will do so based on their own biases, so we are encouraged to rely on the Rabbis and their Talmud entirely. When I abandoned Christianity following a debate with an Orthodox Jew I did so based on tales about how Judaism did not rely on blind faith like Christianity, yet when confronted with Karaite arguments he did exactly what Evangelicals do and pretended to have already won the debate while systematically reading-onto the text whatever interpretation was convenient.