Can We Really Trace Judaism Back to Sinai? Q&A With Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz

 

Did Rabbinic Judaism really begin with Moshe—or did it develop later? In this wide-ranging Torah Q&A, Rabbi Yitzchak Breitowitz addresses one of the most fundamental questions in Jewish history: How do we know that the Judaism practiced today is connected to the Torah received at Sinai? The Rambam describes an unbroken chain of transmission from Moshe to Yehoshua and through more than forty generations until Rav Ashi. According to this traditional model, the Oral Torah remained present even when Tanach said very little about the scholars and institutions preserving it. But other Torah thinkers suggested a more complex picture. Follow us: https://www.hidabroot.com    / @hidabrootcom