Rav Avigdor Miller uses this as one of the convincing arguments towards accepting Torah in its'
entirety.This is certainly an argument in favor of the Torah over the Gospels or the Koran. Nonetheless , by itself it does not prove itself. The best known and most convincing argument is that the Torah was seen by an entire nation and never did the nation deny this. In fact all of the deviant members of our people accepted the Torah and rejected the interpreters of the Law.
For example the Cuthians were the Samaritans. They have a Torah that is almost verbatim with ours, the only differences are grammatical. They reject all of the Prophets after the Judges.
The reason being that they were taught by Priests of the Northern kingdom, i.e. the Ten Tribes ,who rejected the primacy of the Davidic Monarchy. The Prophets beginning with Samuel
teach that the legitimate Kins are only from King David. Hence the rejection by the students of King Yerovom-Jeroboam.
Similarly the Sadducees and the Boethians accepted the Written Law but rejected the authority of the Oral Law.Now it would have been simpler for these groups to make up their own new Law. The fact that they resorted to accepting the Torah indicated its' universal acceptance amongst Jews. The only difference between the various groups was how much of the Law they would practice and whether the Torah allowed for somewhat of a deference to the Idolatrous Nations for peaceful co-existence.
Even the early Christians accepted the Torah as the "original communication" between G-D and The Chosen People. Truly , the only explanation as to why these groups accepted the Written Torah in its' entirety despite the troubling entries regarding violence and punishment is only because the people accepted it in total. This serves as verification that the story of the Divine communication at Sinai to all the people was something that they attested to.
Even during the 10Th century rise of the Karaites to prominence , the unquestionably accepted the Torah verbatim!
Contrast this with the Koran and you are forced to conclude that the claim of a G-D speaking to an entire nation at Sinai is verified by these groups acceptance even while they deviated from the norm.Nonetheless, in modern terms this argument lacks the spark of verification as is found within the laboratory. Why can't we put Moshe to the same test for truth as you have with any
theory?
In fact there is a presentation that the Torah has within a written code that is accessible to all.
This is popularly known as the Torah codes . The promoters of these codes claim that given the infinitesimal probability of the codes and their ability to anticipate the future that this is empirical evidence of the Torah's truth .
Many of my colleagues from the scientific and mathematical community reject the codes in their present state.Yet in deference to the many who have seen and studied the Codes,there
is one major benefit in today's frank discussion in the pursuit of truth.
That is that the discovery verifies a whole set of claims regarding the Torah that to this date had not been seen.
According to the Midrashim, the Torah is the blueprint of the cosmos. In the words of the Zohar Istakeyl BeOrayso UBorO Almo -G-D peered in the Torah and through the blueprint of the world in the Torah created the world . This would mean that everything in the world should have a root in the words of the Torah. Until now this was scoffed at. Today there is serious discussion of this very item through the discovery of the Codes.
(to be continued )
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