Stalinism is the Perfection of the
Rabbinical System.
The Oral Tradition is the claim that
after Moses met God on top of Mount Sinai and received the Ten Commandments and
the dictation of the Torah he also received an oral explanation or analysis of
the Torah from God which Moses did not write down but that which was
transmitted to Joshua, then from Joshua to the Elders, then to the Prophets and
then to the members of the Great Assembly.
Nowhere in the Torah are there any references
to this. Neither Moses nor any of the subsequent Old Testament prophets make
any mention of an Oral Tradition. Indeed, the Bible is more than clear and
prescriptive about adopting any kind of supplementary material:
“See that you do everything I command you; do
not add to it or subtract from it.” Deuteronomy 12:32.
My belief regarding the Kabbalah is this and
I will simply try to lay out my major thesis in all this:
How would you go about subverting something,
a religion, system of morality, law and the worship of God: The Torah,
committed to writing some three thousand years ago? You would do this by
claiming some other ‘secret’ revelation which was not included in the original
text.
The Kabbalah is not a mystical form of
Judaism, it is a completely new gnostic religion which uses Judaism and
specifically the Torah and the Hebrew alphabet of 22 letters, as its tenuous
scaffolding upon which it creates a completely new imposter religion. The
Zohar, using a literary device of a Rabbinical discussion plays semantic and
gematria games with the words of the Torah in order to completely transform
meaning in-line with the new gnostic theology of the Kabbalah
The Bible is replete with repeated admonition
of Israel and threats of imminent judgement and punishment from God precisely
for rejecting the written law of Moses. For instance, the passage from 2 Kings
17 is typical and almost a trope or cliché of the angry God:
“They devoted themselves to doing evil in the
sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. So the LORD was very angry with
Israel, and he removed them from His presence. Only the tribe of Judah
remained, and even Judah did not keep the commandments of the LORD their
God, but lived according to the customs Israel had introduced.”
Jesus in confronting the Pharisees is
continuing this great prophetic tradition of accusing the
priesthood of forsaking the law and “making void the word of God by your
tradition that you have handed down.”
Jesus refers to the ‘oral tradition’ as
‘tradition of the elders’ or the ‘tradition of men’.
In Mark 7 he specifically refers to the Oral Tradition:
“And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him,
‘Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the
elders, but eat with defiled hands?’ And he said to
them, ‘Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,
‘This people honours me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
You leave the commandment of God and hold to
the tradition of men.’”
So what is this oral tradition? The Talmud is
fairly well known for some of its excesses but let us examine the Mishnah which is the proto-Talmud, the
originator and a way-marker on the path to the full development of The Talmud
of the 5th Century AD. In fact, to be more accurate, the Talmud is
really two major separate works: The Mishnah, written in the 2nd
Century AD as a commentary on the Torah and the Gemara written in the 5th
Century AD as a commentary on the commentary of the Torah and this is what most
people understand as the Talmud as it contains all of the most dubious and
quotable material.