text: While we see the Talmud as an important historical resource, there are many reasons we cannot accept the rabbis’ assertion that it was given by Elohim. First, Exodus 24:4 clearly states that Moshe (Moses) “wrote (down) all the words of Yahweh.”
  4 And Moshe wrote all the words of Yahweh. And he rose early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
  In other places Yahweh seems to indicate that Moshe did write down all His words, because Moshe commands Israel to read “all the words” of Yahweh’s Torah to the people. There is no mention made of any alleged “Oral Torah.”
  10 And Moshe commanded them, saying: “At the end of every seven years, at the appointed time in the year of release, at the Feast of Tabernacles,
  11 when all Israel comes to appear before Yahweh your Elohim in the place which He chooses, you shall read this Torah before all Israel in their hearing.
  12 Gather the people together, men and women and little ones, and the stranger who is within your gates, that they may hear and that they may learn to fear Yahweh your Elohim and carefully observe all the words of this Torah,
  13 and that their children, who have not known it, may hear and learn to fear Yahweh your Elohim as long as you live in the land which you cross the Jordan to possess.”
  Further, Yahweh is clear that we are not to add to or subtract from His words in any way. Yet this is precisely what the so-called Oral Torah does.
  The above reasons should be clear enough for most disciples to understand why we do not want anything to do with Talmud. However, when we talk about the Talmud, what we are really talking about is rabbinic authority, which is a spirit. The apostles encountered this spirit in the first century, and this same spirit is still loose today. Just as there were many rabbinic believers in Yeshua in the first century, there are many rabbinic believers in Yeshua today. Because you will probably encounter many of them, and because they are very adamant in their beliefs, we want to cover this topic in some detail, so that you have the tools you need to put this spirit out of your assembly in love.
  3 Therefore, set-apart brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Messiah Yeshua….
  4 “Yahweh has sworn And will not relent, “You are a priest forever According to the order of Melchizedek.”
  But what is His priesthood like? In the last chapter we saw that Yeshua was raised a devout Jew during the Second Temple period. It was His custom to go into the synagogues on the Sabbath. We also know that He was a regular participant in good standing, because He was invited to stand up and read before the assembly (Luke 4:16). Because of this, some mistakenly believe Yeshua was part of the rabbinical system (because the Torah portions were invented during the Second Temple period, and the Rabbinical order was in charge during that time). However, while Yeshua chose to participate in the Torah service, He rejected the Rabbinical order and its customs.