re: #112 Sergey Romanov

I don’t understand why this is not obvious to you. I just don’t get how you fail to see the obvious logic here.

Suppose you believe that any written text is holy and that G-d wants you to do what it tells you to do.

Just suppose that.

The text reads:

Pt ths tnjrbb n th thr dmrtsh.

Now you really want to obey this Law because you believe G-d is telling you to do it right?

OK step one. You need to go to the oral tradition to find that it even says in the first place:

Put this tanjirbob on the other demyrtosh.

OK great! Seems simple enough if I know what a tanjirbob and a demyrtosh is (and I know what the other demyrtosh refers to!

If I don’t already know these things, it could not possibly make any sense. Since the written law is written assuming you already know, it presumes that you had to learn that somehow before the written law was even written - or at the very least, someone needs to explain it to you.

Now to the real case. Archeologically, we have tefillin from the first Temple period which is hundred of years before the rabbinic period. There is no definition of them in the Torah. Yet people were using them long before the rabbis codified all the rules from the oral Tradition.