From: Shoshanna Walker <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
To: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] comparative historical linguistics was Re: Nun-Tav-Vet root
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 18:17:42 -0500
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.
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.