Monday, March 15, 2010

Where is the Orthodox response to the Documentary Hypothesis???

Raboysai (and Rabbahsai), I mamaash don't understand.

The Torah has been the crown jewel of the yidden for 3,200 years. Moshe Rabbeinu studied with Hakodosh Boruch Hu Himself for 40 days and 40 nights! Then Moshe transmitted all that knowledge to the heilegeh Zkeinim, who transmitted it to the moiradicke Nevviim. For over a thousand years Klal Yisroel memorized the entire Torah shebaal peh off by heart, there was no need to even write it down!

And even after it started to be forgotten, klal yisroel did not stop being ameilim batorah. On the contrary, Chazal, who virtually had a direct line to Hakodosh Boruch Hu, toiled day and night learning Torah. And after the Amoroim, and then the Tanoim, we had the Geonim, all of whom learned Torah with Mesiras Nefesh and tremendous hasmadah for a Thousand years. A thousand years Raboysai!

And then after that we have the Rishonim; the incredible genius of the Rambam, the Ramban, all the Baalei Tosfos, all of whom knew Kol Hatorah Kulah, and virtually define Orthodoxy today. But there's more.

After all the tremendous Rishonim we have myriads of acharonim, all of them toiling day and night on every single word of Torah, plumbing its secrets to the greatest depths ever seen, since Chazal. And of course this gevaldik ameilus beTorah continues ad hayom hazeh, with tens or even hundreds of thousands of yeshivah bochrim and kollel yungerleit learning Torah in numbers never before seen in the history of the veldt.

Thousands and thousands of the greatest tzaddikim and gedolim learning Torah for thousands and thousands of years. Analyzing every parshah, every perek, every posuk, every letter, even every tag!!! Over and over and over for more than three thousand years! Asking every single possible question, noticing every possible (apparent) contradiction, questioning every lacuna, analyzing every concept.

And then along come some low life goyim, menuvalim, anti-semitim, who have never learned the Rishonim or Acharonim, never even studied a Rashi, who know nothing of Torah Shebaal Peh, who never studied behasmodoh, who are full of the biggest shtusim vehavolim, who can't even read Hebrew, and they study the "Bible" for a pitiful 200 years, and they have the incredible chutzpah to claim tht they have a whole new "hypothesis" for the structure of the Torah, based on a whole new set of "questions" and (apparent) "contradictions", and the ganz veldt believes it! It's mamash incredible.

Surely even the lowliest of yeshivah bochrim could dispatch this so called "Hypothesis" in a minute! A tinok shel bays rabbon knows more than these "academics". Even a Bays Yaakov girl knows more Torah than an entire so called "Bible Studies" department.

So where is the Artscroll, the Feldheim, even the Yashar Book, which comprehensively and convincingly dispatches this diabolical anti-Torah narishkeit once and for all? Why are we even losing one holy yiddishe neshamah to this stupdity?

Some people will say that R Dovid Tzi Hoffman wrote such a book, or Umberto Cassutto, or Jacob Benno. But these books are barely in print today! Surely such a book would have been so entirely convincing to the goyish veldt that it should have become an instant best-seller. But these people today have no followers, no talmidim, no nothing. I mamash can't understand it!

I do understand that the Chareidi world prefers to ignore such kefirah, but surely the Modern Orthodox world could engage? After all, the "Intellectuals" of the Modern Orthodox world have convincingly dealt with evolution, the ancient universe, archeology, ancient near eastern history, and all the other so called "academic fields". So why not this apikorsishe "hypothesis"??

Three thousand two hundred years of ameilus betorah and some goyim who can't even read hebrew think they have a better peshat? How can a know-nothing goy ask a question on the Torah which wasn't already asked and answered a thousand times over by every Rishon and acharon? How is this possible????

Can anyone explain this????

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