Israel Horowitz What's The Difference Between The Torah And The Talmud

[music] Love me tender. What's the difference between the Torah and the Talmud? Well, the Torah has two parts. There's a written Torah and then there's oral Torah. The written Torah is the five books of Moses and the rest of the Tanakh, which is 19 other books. the prophets and the writings, the oral Torah, that is the Mishna, the the which combined are called the Talmud, uh the Zo, the uh you know the um all of the major sages writings until this day. These are all the part of the oral Torah and the two are one in this, you know, they go go together. There's no such thing as just, you know, following the written Torah uh or just following the oral Torah. the two come together and it's even mentioned in the Torah itself many times and that Hashem gave us toot which is plural not just one Torah singular but toot uh where Musher Rabenu tells us that uh we got at Mount Si we got the ten commandments and we got the toot the the uh the mult which is a plural world plural word for Torah. Uh furthermore, Hashem says that he loves because he preserved my which is again plural. So now of course there are um heretics and mental midgets that uh like this uh guy uh named um what's his name? People keep asking me to talk about him. Uh Isawitz. Uh the last thing this guy is uh is Israel. He is a kufair aic that insults the Torah on a regular basis. He's married to a Goya uh but he did his own at home made at home uh you know uh conversion. >> You are Armenian Christian >> for anyone who doesn't know >> and that's how you were raised. Very God-fearing, very traditional. >> Yeah. And what you've done now is convert it to Torah observance. And >> sure, [laughter] >> yeah, I wouldn't call it a conver conversion necessarily. >> He believes that he knows more than the sages uh and that you don't need to eat kosher food, you don't need to observe family purity. In so many words, he thinks that his own understanding, his own understanding of the written Torah is sufficient uh to uh not only observe the laws of God, but literally to uh completely dismiss anything that the oral Torah makes. Now, this guy is somebody that is it's a is a joke. But unfortunately, many people know such little Torah uh they don't understand the difference between a heretic and someone that actually knows what they're talking about. They base their judgment based on whoever they are attracted to more who has charisma and so on. But like I tell you, uh there are many heretics every other day. uh and many of them tried to reinvent the wheel but there's nothing new under the sun. Heretics like him existed in the past. We used to call them Sadducees or Batusim. Uh there is of course Christianity that started from you know heretic Jew. Uh there is all types of heretics throughout all of history. This is nothing new. And the one common denominator that all heretics have is that they hate the oral Torah. They hate the oral Torah. In fact, the original heretics, the Sadducees and the Batusim, which uh were uh were from a couple thousand years ago originally, they planned on dismissing the written Torah as well, but no one wanted to follow them because people wanted to follow God and they, you know, they knew that Hashem gave us the Torah, Mount Sai. So, they changed their strategy from no Torah at all to saying that they're following just the rein Torah. And from them stemmed the karites and all other types of heretics. But anyone that actually studies Torah properly and also swallows their ego to realize that they certainly do not know more than the uh scholars of today. Needless to say, they don't know more than the scholars of the past generations. Anyone that actually studies the Torah understands that it's not possible to have a written Torah without an oral Torah because you would not be able to understand anything without the oral Torah. Not only will you not know how to observe the commandments where, for example, Hashem tells us in the Torah 12 times that a Jew that violates Shabbat gets a death penalty. Meaning it's a very serious crime according to Hashem. It's the equivalent of idolatry. Now, this is intentional desecration of Shabbat, not accidental. Accidental they'll have to bring a sacrifice. In today's world, they'll have to do chv. But nonetheless, at the time of Moshe Rabenu, at the time of the which means for thousands of years, anyone that desecrated the Shabbat, the Torah commanded us to actually kill him. In fact, Moshe Rabenu killed someone that violated Shabbat only two weeks after we got the Torah. It's in the Torah. It's it's his name. Now, if this is such a big deal that the violator, the desecrator gets a death penalty, then certainly we need to know how to observe it and how to not violate it. Uh, the Torah is extremely clear. And for any of these nonsense preachers who want to talk about the fact that the Torah is not understandable, what's not understandable? We know what these things are. Shabbat says, "Don't work. Don't leave your place. Cook your food on the sixth day. Don't burn a fire. Clear instructions. Just don't work. Stay at home. Don't cook. Just be." Oh my god, it's so hard. What What should you do? Can you rip toilet paper? Can you separate almonds and pistachios? Because the guy that got a death penalty, he didn't light fire on Shabbat. Because the only thing that the written to says about not violating Shabbat is don't light fire on Shabbat. But yet God commanded Musher Rabenu literally told him kill the guy and make sure that everybody sees it. So they will be afraid also. And everybody that saw him violate Shabbat. They're also part of killing him. They have to throw the rocks on him and they have to push him off the building and so on. The whole death penalty was executed by the people that caught him doing the crime. What was the crime? He gathered trees. Where does the Torah tell you that if you gather trees on Shabbat, you'll get a death penalty? Guess what? It's not written anywhere. It's not written anywhere. So, how would the guy know that he's going to get a death penalty for gathering trees? I mean, obviously, God didn't put us in this world because he wants to kill us. He didn't give us the Torah because he wants to kill us. He wants to kill us. He would just kill us without a reason. So we obviously see here that the details of the rules are written elsewhere. In other words, there is an oral Torah. There's an oral tradition of where the details to all the laws are. The same concept was an example of what one of the things I mentioned in the shield today where God tells us that you will have a reminder of this exodus on your arm and between your eyes. What do you have between your eyes? We're not Hindus. Nobody has a red dot between their eyes. We're not Christians that put some dirt on their forehead once or twice a year on some Wednesday. What is the Jewish THING THAT'S BETWEEN THE EYES? NOTHING. Look at ANY JEW'S FOREHEAD. THERE'S NOTHING BETWEEN THEIR EYES. Look at people's arms. Nothing. So what is it? Obviously, this is the tilain. that the fillain which in English is called felacttoaries is something that every Jewish male age 13 and above has to wrap around his arm and put on his head every single morning. Do you put on to fill in? If you can tell me about it, sure. Yes, I put on to fill in. And look, there is a debate whether it's even a literal commandment and I can see it both ways. However, it doesn't need to be exactly a square black box with writings the way the rabbis say it needs to be on special parchment with a special writing and all of these things. That's not true. It's just not true. So, yeah, to the extent that the tradition is reliable and the fact that it takes the four paragraphs discussing the sign on the hand and the ornament between the eyes and you go ahead and you put that on some scrolls and you wrap it upon yourself, sure. But the details and even the word to fill in do not exist in the ren Torah. This is in the oral Torah. So imbeciles and mental midgets like Harowitz is harowit are so stupid that it's a mockery for anyone that knows to even consider them. And the only reason I'm even mentioning him is because literally A rabbi sent me a message at 8:10 this evening, literally less than an hour before the show, sent me a clip with this guy telling me, "Can you mention him?" And I've heard of this guy already for a couple of years. I just never really wanted to mention him. Uh because he's just it's just it's it's a mockery. But when rabbis are asking me for a favor to to mention uh and expose a heretic, I do uh if if I think it's uh it will be uh beneficial for the public to be warned. But nonetheless, people that understand people that understand Torah understand that there must be a written and an oral Tua. There must be people that don't want to understand the Torah, don't want to accept the Torah. They will make themselves endless excuses, endless explanations and rationalizations and mental gymnastics to justify their lie. If you want to make a new rule, call it something else. There's plenty of religions in India. I think someone told me one time there's 80,000 different cults and religions in India. Go there. There are all types of religions all over the world. Why do you have to harp on Judaism if you don't actually like it as is and you want to change it? You want to reform it? So that's one of the things that makes you realize that when the sages explain to us that there is purity and impurity and tuma you realize that this is much more than logic rational IQ as the vna explains which I saw in the byfki when a person makes a sin automatically the uh prosecutor that he creates this angel that he creates that the says every time you make a mitzvah you create an angel that helps you do mitzvot every time you make a sin you create a angel if you will uh or shindalit that uh will uh make you want to do sins and the gi explains that it's not that the angel is now going to uh make you make other sins no if you felt for lust. You made the sin of lust like this guy did where he married a non-Jew and he just decided that she's just going to become Jewish because he thinks she is. Then guess what? You will now have the desire to make more of that same sin. Don't be surprised that he will defend into marriage, which he does. Don't be surprised if he defends eating non-coosher because he eats non-coosher. Israel Horowits, do you see no issue purchasing and eating halal meat? No, not at all. What's wrong with purchasing halal meat? You don't even need to purchase kosher meat, halal meat. You don't need any of that. All you need is the animal. The Torah just specifies two things about animals. What kind of animal? And not to eat the blood. When you go to your local grocery shop and buy beef steak or chicken cutlets, they have drained the blood out of those animals. this idea that you need a special certification from a rabbi or an imam, kosher, halal, all this stuff, not in the Torah. That's just simply not the law. So, you can look through the Torah, five books of Moses, nowhere does it specify any specific form of ritual slaughter that you need to perform. Uh, in fact, that's entirely made up, uh, man-made and rabbitic. All of the things, all of the sins that a person makes, he now desires them because each time he created a spiritual figure that now entices him to do more of it. It's like feeding the monster. You created a monster and the monster wants more and more and it's never satiated. That's in essence the common denominator among all heretics. They continue to harp on the war against the oral Torah because that is the one place they know that the truth is very very clear because all the details are there. Whereas if people look at the Torah, you uh you know, you could determine whatever you want based on your own logic, but that's just not the way it works. The third reason why the oral Torah is an absolute must, as I've said this many times, and I will continue saying this a million more times, is that the written Torah is unreadable. Literally unreadable without the oral Torah. Why? Because in the Hebrew language, the holy language, we do not have vowels like you have in other languages such as the uh the uh English language. In English language, you have five letters A, E, I, or U and sometimes Y. They're used as vowels, meaning that these are foundational letters that are in every single word in the English language and in Spanish and German and so on and so forth. you must have one of those letters or more in order for the uh person to uh uh be able to read this word to understand it and so on. In Hebrew, we don't have such a thing. So, what is the vowel system in Hebrew? It's called nikud. Nikud is like those dots you see in the middle of the letter or under the letter when you read Hebrew. But the written in the Torah scroll, the original way it was written and you still have in every shul, even the reformed shoos will have the same written Torah in their spend $200,000 to make sure it's the right. They don't follow it, but they have everybody has the same. And every sephra you will see does not have does not have the vowels. So how do you know how to read it? How do you know that it's mosh and not m that's a big difference? How do you know it's and not? How do you know how to say it? Why is that a difference? Because the difference between one vowel and another could make a different word, could change the meaning of the entire language, can make the difference in the entire sentence. And if it wasn't for the oral Torah, which is where the vowel system comes from, we would not even be able to decipher a single word in the Torah. We would not know what anything means. So to say that the written Torah is a standalone and there is no such thing as oral Torah that you have to follow is obviously only a fool would say such a thing. Now most people don't know this. So they think that you know the the the missionaries from Christianity and the heretics that were born Jewish like this is Hawitz uh they uh they sound good so therefore they must be telling the truth. But like I said, the more you learn about the topic, the more you realize that the truth is far far away from them. The truth is with the people of the book with Israel and Am is the Torah, the written Torah, the oral Torah and uh anyone that wants to follow is welcome. Anyone that wants to go against can join all the heretics that came before them and eventually were destroyed. Who was the biggest heretic 200 years ago, 400 years ago, 800 years ago, a thousand years ago? Who are them? You rarely ever hear hear of those people. Why? Because as the Torah says, the the name of the wicked become is rotted out. It's forgotten. But who are the sadikim? Who are the righteous people that the Torah sages in every single generation in every single town in throughout all of times you are have who were those Torah sages? Why? Because the righteous people grow like a palm tree. Endless fruit and no wind in the world can ever blow them away. even after they leave this world physically their uh uh the spark of their writings their Torah continues to flourish continues to be here. So a person that wants to join the enjoy your whatever it is that you're seeking for because it's shortlived. Eventually, he'll be wiped out like all the wicked people before. People do chuva before it gets too late. The record shows I took the blows and did it my way. >> [laughter] >> We are meant to be a light unto the nations, not to follow their misguided practices. [music] Remember, every Jew has to remember that he's a Jew and she's a Jew. We don't celebrate non-Jewish [music] holidays, even if they seem harmless. It's a zil disrespect to the Torah and could lead to chalu Hashem, desecration [music] of God's name. Stick to our holy Torah and our own holidays. That's the path of a true Jew.