Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>]

Sorry, I don't know which verse you are referring to, my email 
program is not configured to read Hebrew.

"mouth of" is just figurative, G-d doesn't have a mouth or any body 
parts, but our tradition is that Moshe actually heard G-d telling him 
the Torah, Moshe lifting the tablets skyward, as you said - is in the 
movies.

As for the fire in the movies, that is a misunderstanding of our 
tradition that the prototype was written in black fire on white fire.

Shoshanna



Shoshana,
I know that it is a frivolous question, and for a true believer may 
even appear to border on blaspheme. The way God communicates with man 
is off limits to any rational enquiry. Yet you know that as the Torah 
is lifted after the public reading the congregation rises and 
proclaims in unison:
¬Ý×ï×ñ×êׁ ×îׁ×ï×®×î ×êש׮ ש×ù ×ûש×î ×úק×Ý×ô ×ë×Ý×ô ×ôש׮×ê×ú 
×¢×ú ק×ô ×ê×ì×ï×Ý×ô ×ë×ô×ì ×ûש×î¬Ý
where ×¢×ú ק×ô may mean 'according to' or 'from the mouth of.'¬Ý

This appears to negate the notion that Moshe lifted the tables 
skyward (as I have seen with my own eyes in the movies)¬Ýand God put 
on them his writ with a hand of fire.
Isaac Fried

On Nov 30, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Shoshanna Walker wrote:

I don't understand the question.¬Ý G-d "told" Moshe what to write.¬Ý I¬Ý
personally think it was via "automatic writing".¬Ý Other people¬Ý
claimed automatic writing (and Mozart claimed to write music that¬Ý
way), from lesser spiritual beings, so Moshe got his from G-d.

Shoshanna



What do you mean by "given"?
Isaac Fried

On Nov 27, 2006, at 10:08 PM, Shoshanna Walker wrote:

We believe that the Torah was given without any vowels, or even word
separations.

Shoshanna



I know you asked Peter, but I just wanted to point out that¬Ý Orthodox Jews
have always (or, in any case, for over a millenium), believed that¬Ý
the Torah
was given to Moses.


I meant, the Torah with the Shin/Sin distinctions as we have them.

Yitzhak Sapir
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