Besides reading the source, you have to think about the
source and what it means.
What it means may be different from the urban legends you
are used to.
There are lots of reasons for that, including that your
urban legends use a fallacy called “quoting out of context” in a number of ways
that turn into the urban legend instead of tracking the actual meaning of the
source.
This thread started with my research that let me answer
questions on an Internet discussion group.
The research turned into a mass of material that will take
three years to post, at the rate of one post a week.
Here’s how you can deal with that.
I keep saying that to avoid urban legends, you have to go
back to the source. But the source is in
Hebrew, and maybe you don’t read Hebrew.
That’s why I give the link to the Hebrew language text
below. In three years, almost anybody
who is willing to do the work can learn a foreign language to some extent.
When you look at that text, you may decide it says too much
about Hebrew and not enough about Torah to let you learn to read Torah.
When I finish the MENDEL BEILIS thread, I will start
posting answers to this thread, FACT-CHECKING. I
will also start posting lessons on reading the Hebrew of Torah. In three years, I should be able to teach you
how to understand the first 100 verses at least, and you will be able to take
it from there.
Why can’t I just teach you the letters and show you the link
to an on-line dictionary? Because it
wouldn’t help.
I’ve been studying languages and using their dictionaries
for 40 years, and that won’t cut it.
There are dictionaries which say they are Bible-oriented dictionaries of
Hebrew and English, but they are really dictionaries of a specific set of urban
legends about the Hebrew parts of the Jewish Bible. I’ll bring this up again when it becomes
important.
For now, trust me when I say that teaching you the Hebrew
alphabet and turning you loose with an on-line dictionary won’t help you.
Again, when you get upset with my contradicting your urban
legends, you’re going to hit back by saying that making you learn Hebrew is me
trying to brainwash or convert you.
And I go back to what I said before. I can’t hold a pistol to your head to make
you read this thread. If you do, you
will be exposed to what I think.
You are free to label that as just another urban legend, but
I want you to do something else.
It’s easy to start a blog.
I want you to start your own blog.
I want you to document what you think.
You can keep referring back to my blog and what you
disagreed with that I posted.
But that’s going to be self-defeating because other people
will say, maybe they shouldn’t be reading your blog; maybe they should be
reading my blog.
So if you’re going to blog your ideas, blog your own ideas.
But if you’re going to blog your own ideas, blog YOUR OWN
IDEAS. Not the urban legends that you’ve
been accepting all these years.
And to do that, you’re going to have to read the material
and decide exactly what are YOUR OWN IDEAS.
Either way I win, because I will be blogging my ideas, and
you will be reading the source.
If you don't have a Bible and don't read Hebrew, you can go
here and get a copy in English.
You can learn about fallacies and how to find them here.
Hebrew language: (two parts)
http://www.archive.org/details/hebrewgrammarwi01kaligoog
http://www.archive.org/details/hebrewgrammarwi00kaligoog
Aramaic language (for Talmud):
http://www.archive.org/details/AramaicLanguagehebrewDialectOfTheBabylonianTalmudByMargolis
Jewish Bible read out loud (mostly in Hebrew):
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/ptmp3prq.htm
Babylonian Talmud audio and text
http://www.dafyomi.org/
Jerusalem Talmud audio
http://www.yerushalmionline.org/
Texts:
Tannakh, Talmuds, Midrash Halakhah http://www.mechon-mamre.org/index.htm
Midrash Aggadah http://www.tsel.org/torah/midrashraba/index.html
Talmud in PDF http://www.hebrewbooks.com/
There are audio lectures at the following sites which use a
medieval commentary, famous among Jews, by Rabbi Shelomo ben Yitschaq, AKA
Rashi.
Beta.chabad.org – find Rabbi Yehoshua Gordon’s Torah video lessons
www.dafyomi.org – find R. David Grossman’s Torah audio
lessons
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