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| Dec 4, 2019 at 4:12 | comment | added | Turk Hill | PS Moshe probably did not write the entire Torah. This is acceptable because the Torah is, as Rabbi Goodman says, a "human achievement." Moshe probably wrote most of it. | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 4:04 | comment | added | Turk Hill | Jews are not judged by their beliefs but their behavior, their actions. Rabbi Marc Shapiro shows in his works that Jews can believe in anything so long as they keep the mitzvot as the rabbis explain them. | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 4:03 | comment | added | Turk Hill | Actually Rabbi Micah Goodman agrees with Rabbi Drazin, writing that the, “Torah is a great human achievement but only a human achievement.” Since G-d is inactive in human affairs, it follows that G-d did not write the Torah. Drazin also thinks that the Oral Torah was not revealed at Sinai but is written by divine inspiration. He rejects heaven and hell and reward and punishment as childish. These views are not normative Judaism, but they are more realistic. I agree with Rabbi Drazin. I am a rationalist and I also think this is Maimonides' view. | |
| Aug 23, 2019 at 18:38 | comment | added | Salmononius2 | @simyou I'll do you one better: a Drazin article where he espouses the old 'Bible Criticism' claim that Moshe didn't actually write the Torah: uncensoredjudaism.com/en/archives/1775 | |
| Aug 23, 2019 at 11:53 | comment | added | simyou | Drazin rejects all the principles of normative Judaism. From a quick perusal of his essays it seems he does not believe in Sinaitic Revalation (though I did not see a clear statement on this), he rejects the Oral Law, and he even has an essay titled " The Torah doesn’t expect people to obey its laws." He also denies the immortality of the soul and reward or punishment after death. | |
| Aug 23, 2019 at 2:39 | comment | added | Turk Hill | I added two books. Drazin and Schroeder, Both answer this well. Schroeder is more based on the sciences, such as creation, age of the universe, and science while Drazin is more leaning towards philosophy. The Maimonides book mentions Noah and theoretically, answers the question regarding Noah and the flood. Besides, it is imperative to know Maimonides. | |
| Aug 23, 2019 at 2:37 | comment | added | robev | You added one book. What is it in the book about Maimonides that will answer his questions about conflicts between modern understanding of history and what the Torah says? I'm just trying to improve your answer, which as of now is vague save for the Gerald Schroeder book | |
| Aug 23, 2019 at 2:34 | comment | added | Turk Hill | The book I mentioned in the answer, "Maimonides: Reason above all," though strictly about Maimonides, will answer most of his questions, which is why it remains relevant. I did add new books to my answer, which do answer these as well. | |
| Aug 23, 2019 at 2:28 | comment | added | robev | Which book by Rabbi Drazin addresses the OPs question? As of now your references to him are tangential. | |
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| Aug 23, 2019 at 1:50 | history | answered | Turk Hill | CC BY-SA 4.0 |