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…, one-third (one-third of world Jewry was killed in the Holocaust) and the evil one. How could any human be- ing have written such in- tricate codes that tell of events thousands of years in the future…
…, Rabbi Mechanic asked. Also part of the program, Rabbi Berger attempted to prove that the Torah of to- day is in fact the same Torah God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai. He noted a recent study in Israel of…
… Hillel agreed to take him on as a student. He began by teaching the man the Alephbet. The next day the student returned. Hillel pointed to the Hebrew letter aleph and asked, "What's that?" "Aleph," the man…
… replied. "No, it's a gimmel," Hillel replied. "It's an aleph!" the man argued. "But how do you know. Nothing is written, is it?" "But you told me yester- day," the man said, realizing now Hillel's point…
… handing a child a book, he said. "To live it re- quires not just to hand it but to learn it." That all Jewish scholars have agreed and continue to agree on 99 percent of the Oral Law gives further credence…
… to the idea that it was given at Mount Sinai, Rabbi Berger said. He painted this scenario: imagine a group of Jews gather and decide to make up an oral law based on the Torah. How could they all…
…- tions God, that his brothers tried to sell Joseph, that King David was the grand- son of Ruth, whose people were notorious for incest — and from this same king the Messiah will descend. Does this, he…