http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/miketz-hope-in-shattered-vessels/ The Marketplace of Ideas Sat, 25 May 2013 07:40:45 +0300 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/miketz-hope-in-shattered-vessels/#comment-109342 Dror Ben Ami Fri, 14 Dec 2012 10:43:25 +0000 http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/?p=86016#comment-109342 Rabbi, week by week your commentaries are descending to the level of ludicrous. Once again you simply ignore entire chapters of material to focus on the mere speculations of rabbis concerning the meaning of a single word. Worse than this, however, is that they don't even discuss the actual word that is written in the Torah, but speak about another word that merely "sounds like" what is written in the Torah.
What is even more incredible is that you imply they had corn in Egypt…Really rabbi, there was corn in Egypt? If you look in any encyclopedia you will see that corn was only cultivated in the Americas. Tell me rabbi, is the Torah the bread of life or: is it the tortilla of life?
Religious people say that it is impossible to understand what is written in the Torah without the rabbis. Much, much closer to the truth however, as your commentary clearly demonstrates, is that it is impossible to understand what is written in the Torah, because the rabbis do not teach what is written in the Torah. The rabbis teach the words of the rabbis, not the words of God…

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