Faith of Israel (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: min wm rtnmpn iavi-iin rvnaN -iMia12: no bsna; mm niVTQ Ds THE SECOND TREATISE On the veracity of the Written and Oral Law, and that they are both of Divine Authority. What constitutes and firmly establishes a true and faithful Israelite ? His believing with a perfect faith in mifi Oin HtOn the Five Books of the Law of God, written by Moses, and called min 3rO3tf the Written Law, and in HD 3tf min the Oral Law, which is the soul and sense of the Writ- .ten Law. That these two laws, which in truth and reality are but one and indivisible, were both, at one and the same time, deposited and delivered by God, through His servant Moses, the faithful of His house, to His peculiar people, the children of Israel, as their unalterable rule of life, and sure and effectual guide to eternal salvation. Our Talmudists infer from the following verse ? oty -1m mnn k rfoy .-hmd s 'n nam": myam mmm pun nr6-ns - runsi mm It rrnn Nn s niva urn mm wri "pi: na fynty mm It niyam aroap " And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me unto the mount, and be there; and I will give to thee the tables of stone, and the law and commandments" (Ex. xxiv. 12), ? observing that the words, mm Law, and mva Commandment, would be a double and useless expression, were these two words not to indicate and represent each a distinct idea: thus, the word mm the Law, is applicable to the aroattf mm Written Law; and the word H1YD Commandment, denotes the practical part of it, which is performed by virtue of JlS fylV mm the Oral Law, as will be elucidated at the close of this treatise. Observe, that all the words contained irmmil ntfV1pn in our Holy Law, from the beginning to the end, from the first word "JTB'inain the beginning,"to the last words, " bvWtP hi T in the sight of all Israel," are a...