Philo, The Worse Attack the Better 206
“When some musician or scholar has died, then their music or writing dies with them; but their basic contributions persist and, in some way, live as long as the universe does. Those who are scholars and musicians now or who will be in the future will continue to develop thanks to these previous works in an undying procession.
In the same way, whatever is prudent, wise, brave, just, or just simply wise in an individual may perish, but it nevertheless remains as immortal thought and all excellence is safeguarded against decay in the immortal nature of the whole [universe]. Through this advantage people today and those of tomorrow will also become civilized—unless we believe that the death of one individual person in turn visits ruin upon humankind.”
ὥσπερ γὰρ μουσικοῦ τινος ἢ γραμματικοῦ τελευτήσαντος ἡ μὲν ἐν | τοῖς ἀνδράσι μουσικὴ καὶ γραμματικὴ συνέφθαρται, αἱ δὲ τούτων ἰδέαι μένουσι καὶ τρόπον τινὰ βιοῦσιν ἰσοχρόνιοι τῷ κόσμῳ, καθ᾿ ἃς οἵ τε ὄντες καὶ οἱ μέλλοντες διαδοχαῖς ταῖς εἰσαεὶ μουσικοί τε καὶ γραμματικοὶ γενήσονται, οὕτως καὶ τὸ ἔν τινι φρόνιμον ἢ σῶφρον ἢ ἀνδρεῖον ἢ δίκαιον ἢ συνόλως σοφὸν ἂν ἀναιρεθῇ, οὐδὲν ἧττον ἐν τῇ τοῦ παντὸς ἀθανάτῳ φύσει φρόνησις ἀθάνατος καὶ ἀρετὴ σύμπασα ἄφθαρτος ἐστηλίτευται, καθ᾿ ἣν καὶ νῦν εἰσιν ἀστεῖοί τινες καὶ αὖθις γενήσονται· εἰ μὴ καὶ ἀνθρώπου τινὸς τῶν ἐν μέρει θάνατον φθορὰν ἐργάσασθαι φήσομεν ἀνθρωπότητι
Consider other religious traditions on this:
Qu’ran, 5:32
“Saving One Life Is As If Saving Whole Of Humanity…”
“Whoever destroys a soul [of Israel], it is considered as if he destroyed an entire world. And whoever saves a life of Israel, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.”
The opening sugya of each and every mesechta of the Talmud compares to the first ברכה in the Shemone Esrei; only this ברכה employs the שם ומלכות requirement k’vanna אלהי אברהם אלהי יצחק ואלהי יעקב. Impossible to translate שם ומלכות with a טיפש פשט literal translation. ברכת כהנים, קריא שמע, תפילה, וקדיש all av ברכות lack the literal שם ומלכות expressed through rabbinic ברכות which start with the classic opening of swearing a Torah oath: ברוך אתה ה’ אלהינו מלך עולם.
The wisdom of שם ומלכות the fundamental difference between מלאכה from עבודה, based upon the first commandment of Sinai – the greatest commandment in the entire Torah: אנכי ה’ אלהיך אשר הוצאתיך מארץ מצרים מבית עבדים. Israel in g’lut of Egypt (לאו דוקא) all lands outside of the brit oath sworn lands amount to g’lut. Hence the first commandment only applicable to Jews who live and rule our oath brit homelands. Jews in g’lut remain in “Egypt” and therefore the first Sinai commandment does not apply to them.
The revelation of the Torah at Sinai makes a clear הבדלה through the משל\נמשל metaphor of the Mishkan, as expressed through the Book of שמות. G’lut slaves forced to live their lives drudging through the cursed Earth of working/עבודה making a living off the sweat of their brow. The revelation of the Torah at Sinai introduces, specifically through the mitzva of Shabbat, & the construction of the vessels of the Mishkan a “wisdom” form of work known as מלאכה. Therefore all mesechtot of the Sha’s Talmud prioritize the need to differentiate cursed g’lut עבודה from blessed wisdom מלאכה. Both Goyim and Joys struggle to marry and raise children. But only the latter elevate this basic fundamental task unto a blessed מלאכה which causes the first born chosen Cohen people to live from generation to generation dedicated to the מלאכה of elevating קום ועשה ושב ולא תעשה מצוות שלא צריך כוונה לטהר זימן גרמא מצוות שנזקוק כוונה.
What separates or רב חסד\מאי נפקא מינא the verb נזקוק from the verb צריך? Specifically in the matter of קידושין, a Man marries a woman in order to give birth to the next generations of the Chosen Cohen People. נזקוק “We will need”; צריך “Need” or “necessary”. נזקוק Future tense, first-person plural; צריך Infinitive form. נזקוק Used when referring to a specific future need or requirement – known as O’lam Ha’bah. צריך Generally indicates necessity, often used in various contexts. נזקוק Implies a planned or anticipated need; צריך More immediate or general need.
Why do טהר זימן גרמא מצוות נזקוק כוונה? Whereas קום ועשה ושב ולא תעשה מצוות לא צריך כוונה? The former a wisdom מלאכה, whereas the latter, like doing mitzvot because the Shulkan Aruch says so neither a wisdom nor a מלאכה. Hence this type of Torah observance known as עבודת השם. People can do mitzvot by rote, or by the numbers, simply out of habit and mindless tradition. The difference between these two critically different verbs … the difference between ruling the oath sworn lands with righteous judicial justice imposing courts together with prophet police enforcers from religiously observing mitzvot in what ever land a Jew happens to reside therein.
זימן גרמא מצוות נברא מלאכים תולדות מצוות לא נברא מלאכים. Its this fundamental distinction which permits the Jews living in ארץ ישראל to either defeat our enemies in any and all wars or fall before the swords of our hated enemies and go into g’lut. The מלאכה of the study of T’NaCH and Talmudic common law spins continuously around this Central axis…everything else simply commentary. Elevating stam mitzvot unto tohor time oriented Av Torah commandments … herein defines the essence of the revelation of the Torah at Sinai in a single sentence.
The Bullwinkle characters, otherwise known as the Reshonim, they lacked this essential clarity of what defines all T’NaCH and Talmud scholarship. Why? Because cursed g’lut Jews cannot do mitzvot לשמה.
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הא קמשמע לן דאתרוג כירק מה ירק דרכו ליגדל על כל מים ובשעת לקיטתו עישורו, אף אתרוג דרכו ליגדל על כל מים ובשעת לקיטתו עישורו. והא דתנן כוי יש בו דרכים שוה לחיה וש דרכים שוה לבהמה
In terms of kashrut a כוי, qualifies as a tumah animal. The כוי can symbolize certain qualities or behaviors that need to be understood when applying moral or ethical teachings in Jewish law. The Talmud often presents specific cases where the status of the כוי comes into play, including questions of ownership, tithing, and other relational dynamics with humans. The subject of קידושין addresses the subject of “ownership” through the acquisition of the Nefesh O’lam Ha’Bah of the woman’s soul, specifically title to the children born into the future through this marital union.
ויש בו דרכים שאינו שוה לא לחיה ולא לבהמה. ניתני דברים ותו הא דתנן זו אחת מן הדרכים ששוו גיטי נשים לשחרורי עבדים ניתני דברים אלא כל היכא דאיכא פלוגתא תני דרכים וכל היכא דליכא פלוגתא תני דברים דיקא נמי דקתני סיפא ר”א אומר אתרוד שוה לאילן כל דבר ש”מ.
The 8th middah אמת understood under the heading of דרכים as opposed to דברים! Goyim by stark contrast employ truth as if no dispute exists. That truth stands as irrefutable. The culture and customs of the Jewish people reject this definition of “truth” as utter arrogance and hypocrisy and if power determines truth. The schism with splits and divides all the many and diverse divisions of both Xtianity and Islam centers upon who controls the monopoly of religious belief and practice.
As an Israeli living in the Jewish state clearly my opinion takes a rather dim view of the Bullwinkle Reshonim scholarship upon both the T’NaCH, Talmud, Midrashim, and Siddur. The עשרת הדברות serves as a clear example. The Talmud understands that Israel only accepted the First TWO Sinai Commandments before we demanded that Moshe receive the rest of the Torah; the repetition of the “Xtian” ten commandments, in the Book of דברים, serve as “Mishna” precedents to understand the Torah commandment, to remember the deliverance from Egyptian exile – contained within the first Sinai commandment and the קריא שמע acceptance of the yoke of the kingdom of heaven; meaning the obligation to do tohor time-oriented commandments to תמיד מעשה בראשית created the chosen Cohen people יש מאין through the wisdom of מלאכה.
The so called 10 commandments serve as a בנין אב to remember how HaShem judged the Gods of Egypt through the 10 plagues – to forever discern g’lut from ruling the oath sworn lands of Canaan with righteous judicial lateral court common ‘legislative review’ law. The first two Torah commandments contain the whole of the Torah revelation at Sinai and Horev! All the rest of the Torah commandments and Talmudic Halachot function merely as commentaries.
Rav Ashi and Rav Ravina, they sealed the Sha’s Bavli; Rabbis Yohanan, Abbahu, and Hiyya sealed the Yerushalmi Talmud. G’lut Jewry has since placed the Bullwinkle Reshonim upon a pedestal and made them into cults of personality. But the wisdom of our sages accomplished a מלאכה, by sealing the T’NaCH, Talmud, and Siddur they “sealed” an identical masoret to all generations of the Jewish people. Rashi thereafter learned in his commentary to the Talmud that post sealing of the Sha’s Jews need only employ the קל וחומר the last middah of rabbi Yishmael’s 13 middot. Meaning that this one rule permits employment of all the middot of rabbi Yishmael, to learn precedents from one Gemara compared to other mesechtot of the Sha’s. Sealing the Sha’s gave all down stream generations of Israel an identical masoret. The secondary Reshonim commentaries do not in any way resemble the sealed masoret established by the Framers of the Talmud.
תוס. דף ב: אתרוג שוה לאילן בג’ דרכים. פי’ בקונטרס לערלה ולרבעי ולשביעית דלענין שביעית הולכין בפירותיו אחר חנטה כאילן ולא בתר לקיטה כירק. וא”ת השתא משמע דרבעי נוהג באתרוג א”כ קשה מהכא למ”ד תני כרס רבעי בריש כיצד מברכין (ברכות דף לה.) דמשמע דאין רבעי נוהג בשאר אילנות. וי”ל דה”ק כרם רבעי כל היכא דמצי למתני דהיכא דל”מ למתני לא פליגי עליה דלא פליגי התם לומר שלא יסבור שום תנא נטע רבעי דשמא בר מההיא דאתרוג איכא פלוגתא דתנאי בהדיא בשום מקום ולא נחלקו אלא לסתום המשניות דסוף מס’ מעשר שני ובשאר דוכתין אי כמאן דסבר (ברכות דף לה.) נטע רבעי אי כמאן דסבר (שם) כרס רבעי לידע כמאן הלכתא וי”מ דאפי’ מאן דתני כרס רבעי מודה בשאר אילנות דמדרבנן נוהג והכא מדרבנן קאמר ויש לנו נפקיתא בדבר דאי פלידי דמאן דתני דכרס רבעי דוקא אבל בנטע אין רבעי כלל אפילו מדרבנן ואמרו (שבת דף קלט.) כל המיקל בארץ הלכה כמותו בחוצה לארץ וא”כ עכשיו בחו”ל אין דין רבעי נוהג באילנות ואי מדרבנן כ”ע מודו דנוהג בשאר אילנות ה”ה בחו”ל דרבעי נוהג מדרבנן ומה שפי’ בקונטרס לשביעית אזלינן בתר חנטה כאילן ולא בתר לקיטה כירק משמע מתוך פירושו דבירק אזלינן בתר לקיטה לענין שביעית ולא דק דבמס’ שביעית (פ”ט מ”א) תנן כל הספיחים מותרין חוץ מספיחי כרוב והקשה רבינו נסים דבפרק מקום שנהגו (פסחים דף נא:) תני איפכא ותרץ דבההיא דמס’ שביעית דקתני כל הספיחים מותרין מיירי בספיחים של ערב שביעית שנכנסו בשביעית דכיון שגדלו רובן בששית הם כשל ששית ומותרין אף לסחורה חוץ מזפיחי כרוב שהם אסורין לדחורה כדין שביעית או אחר הביעור לאכילה כדמפרשינן בירודלמי דכל ירק אתה יכול לעמוד עליו בין חדש בין ישן אבל ספיחי כרוב שדרכו לגדל אמהות אמהות ויש עלין שהם גדלים בשביעית ושמא יקח מן העלין שהן אסורין ויאמר מן האמהות לקחתי וההוא דמקום שנהגו (שם) דקתני כל הספיחים אסורים מיירי בספיחים שגדלו בשביעית ואליבא דרבי עקיבא דדריש וכי מאחר שלא נזרע מהיכן אוספין אלא לימד על הספיחים שהן אסורים אפילו לאכילה וכ”ש לסחורה וסבר דספיחים אסורין בשביעית מדאורייתא ואפילו קודם זמן הביעור וכשיצאו למוצאי שביעית אסור מדרבנן בכדי שיעשו כיוצא בהן וקסבר כל שאר ספיחים אסורים במוצאי שביעית אבל ספיחי כרוב שאין כיוצא בהן בירקות השדה לא גזריני בהם משום שאר ספיחים דהא מינכרא מילתא ומה שגידל אמהות הרי היא של שביעכית ואסור ומה שלא הגיע הרי הוא של מוצאי שביעית ושרי ומאן דחוי לגבר אינש דאכל ספיחי כרוב למוצאי שביעת לא אתי למיכל שאר ספיחים דהא שאני משאר ספיחים ולא גזרינן היתירא משום איסורא מ”מ ש”מ דלא אזלינן כלל בירק בתר לקיטה אלא בתר וב גידולים מדשרי ספיחי ששית שנכנסו לשביעית וי”ל דנהי דההיא דלא אזלינן בתר לקיטה מ”מ בתר חנטה נמי לא אזלינן אלא הגדל באיסור אסור בהיתר מותר מה שאין כן באתרוג ושאר אילן דאזלינן לגמרי בתר חנטה דאם חנט באיסור אפי’ מה שגדל בהיתר אח”כ אסור והשתא לשביעית שוה לאילן דאי הוה כירק הוה אזלינן תבר רוב גידול
A minor girl lacks the maturity to give her consent to קידושין acquisition, be it through כסף שטר או ביאה. Because she lacks the required mental maturity to give her consent, therefore none of these three ways – accomplishes the mitzva of קידושין. The Tosafot commentary emphasizes the importance of understanding the dynamics of learning common law precedents, to ensure that interpretations of how this etrog precedent בנין אב applies to the Case of קידושין. Specifically to the Case of a minor girl. The distinct acquisition methods (money, document, cohabitation) reflect appropriate legal qualifications, based upon certain implied basic limitations based upon age and maturity. A contract must follow and obey its pre-conditions wherein the signing parties to the contract stipulate their agreement.
Let’s now contrast Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale and their tits on a boar hog narishkeit puke commentaries which perverted Talmudic common law unto assimilated Roman statute law noise.
הלכות נזירות פ”ב:י.
היו מהלכין בדרך וראו את הכוי מרחוק ואמר אחד מהם הריני נזיר שזה חיה. ואמר אחר הריני נזיר שזה בהמה. ואמר אחר הריני נזיר שאין זה חיה. וטמא טחא הריני נזיר שאין זה בהמה. ואמר אחר הריני נזיר שאין זה לא חיה ולא בהמה. ואמר אחר הריני נזיר שזה בהמה וחיה הרי כולם נזירים. מפני שהכוי יש בו דרכים שוה בהן לחיה ויש בו דרכים שוה בהן לבהמה. ויש בו דרכים שוה לחיה ולבהמה ויש בו דרכים שאינו שוה לא לבהמה ולא לחיה. והוא הדין אם ראו אנדרוגינוס ונחלקו בו אם הוא איש או אשה ונדרו על דרך שנדרו אלו בכוי הרי כוךם נזירים. שהאנדרוגינוס יש בו דרכים שוה בהן לאיש. ודרכים שוה בהן לאשה. ודרכים שאינו שוה בהן לא לאיש ולא לאשה. ודרכים שהן שוין לאיש ולאשה.
כסף משנה — היו מהלכים בדרך וראו את הכוי מרחוק וכו’. משנה שם. מ”ש וה”ה אם ראו אנדרוגינוס וכו’. בתוספתא פ”ג
Neither this nor that provides any understanding of how the precedent of כוי serves to amplify how to correctly understand how a young girl compares or differs from a mature adult young woman! None of the assimilated statute legalist book lickers contribute squat to how the Case of כוי directly applies to the opening words of the Av Mishna of קידושין. The issue at hand has nothing what so ever to do with נזיר. Worthy trees cut down for this utter total noise narishkeit! Centuries of scholars and not one of them asked what נזיר has to do with a minor girl vs a mature young woman on the issue of קידושין.
Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale and all the Snidely Whiplash brown nose bootlickers who worship their Reshon placed upon a pie in the sky ירידות הדורות pedestal – their scholarship all Av tuma tits on a boar hog treif tuma garbage.
The difference between Torah as a Constitution of the 12 tribes of the Republic from Torah as the religion of the Jewish people established through the Middle Ages codes of the Mishna Torah and Shulkan Aruch. Classical lashon Chazal has Torah, dat, halacha, derech eretz, minhag—but not “Judaism” in the Protestant sense of private belief and Sunday rituals.
The medieval “religionization” of Torah—Mishneh Torah, Tur, Shulchan Aruch—does something different. But both Church and Islam have produced the fruits of genocide. Large swaths of their histories – indeed marked by forced conversions, inquisitions, or holy wars justified by pompous claims of universal truth. Xtian Europe under the Nazis, and Islam where the ’48 and ’67 wars — wars of genocide to throw the Jews into the Sea.
Torah defines the 8th Oral Torah midda — TRUTH — (which the church denies to this day) as “path”. Meaning that each person and/or people have their own true path destiny walk before their Gods. Since only Israel accepts the God of Sinai ipso facto Goyim worship other Gods. The local tribal god of Sinai does not compare to the Universal Monotheistic Gods of either Xtianity or Islam. Since only Israel accepted the Sinai, all non-Jewish God-talk is, by definition, “other Gods;” no where does the Xtian Bible or Muslim Koran once bring the שם השם revealed in the first Sinai commandment. Furthermore the false counterfeit religions fail to distinguish the fundamental concept of faith which discerns between the Divine Names יה, האל, אל, אלהים, אל שדי, איש האלהים from the Shekinah שם השם.
The Book of בראשית, the Avot called upon these Divine Names because the Torah in the Heavens; whereas at Sinai the revelation of the Torah upon the earth, expressed through the revelation of the שם השם. Thereafter in the Book of D’varim explicitly taught that Torah does not come from heaven. Goyim rejection of the Torah means that for them their God remain in Heaven and not within the Yatzir Ha’Tov within the bnai brit hearts.
Torah understands truth as path. Xtianity & Islam understand truth as set in stone a monopoly dictate. Truth as “Path” validates that many paths exist that a person him or herself can choose to walk therein. “Path” as a monopoly dictate means that the dominant Xtian or Muslim theology slaughters any and all heretics. The two definitions of “TRUTH” not at all the same. Torah revealed only to the Jewish people. We as a tiny tiny tiny minority of Mankind do not pretend to any psychotic notions of “Universal” anything least of all the local tribal god of Israel.
Its truly an honor to discuss with you the different “textures of languages”; cotton fiber feels different from wool or linen fibers. The Torah directly forbids mixing linen and wool in clothes. Linen a summer fabric whereas wool a winter fabric. The oversimplification of “Universal Monotheism” an utter abomination of faith. Rambam’s Mishneh Torah a comprehensive code of halacha perversion; its יד\14 arranged not around tribes and land allotments, but around abstract legal categories and mitzvah-topics. His halacha code designed to permit Jews in g’lut to learn and lived religiously obey. The subject becomes the yachid (individual) asking, “What is my chiyuv?” more than a polity asking, “What is our constitutional structure?” The national-constitutional elements subsumed and lost under the religion of Yidishkeit.
Certain strands of Jewish thought emphasizing particularism—the idea that the Torah originally revealed specifically to Israel alone; which excludes all universal pretensions. That other nations have their own valid paths because they refused to accept the revelation of the Torah at Sinai. For example the false Rambam opinion known as the 7 mitzvot bnai noach (primarily Sanhedrin 56a-60b) which he interpreted as 7 Universal commandments for all Mankind. The Book of D’varim classifies two types of Goyim residing in the oath sworn lands; the gere toshav and the Canaanite NaCree or Samaritan refugees who have no legal rights because they falsely claim themselves to be the “real Jews”; a claim taken up by both Xtian and Muslim replacement theologies.
Despite Rambam’s bombastic bunk claims, his code does not remotely resemble the revelation of Oral Torah at Horev because his code prioritized alien Aristotle deductive Order & logic over the kabbala of rabbi Akiva’s פרדס inductive Order & logic. The lights of Channuka testify that only פרדס logic explanes the revelation of the Oral Torah at Horev on Yom Kippur 40 days after the sin of the Golden Calf. Meaning the P’rushim catagorically rejected the assimilated Tzedukim/Karaite attempts to convert Jerusalem into a Greek polis and forget Oral Torah inductive logic.
The Aggadic source in mesechta Sanhedrin which address the subject of 7 mitzvot “bnai noach” strictly and only applies to gere toshav Goyim living within the borders of Judea. The Sanhedrin courts Capital Crimes mandate only applicable to within the borders of Judea when Jews rule the land as an Independent nation. The Sanhedrin court failed to correctly judge Herod, and put him to death for his Capital Crimes because Herod was appointed as king by the Roman occupiers!
Some want to argue that Nazi ideology was not “purely” Xtian because it blended pagan Germanic elements, racial pseudoscience that favored culling inferior races, anti-clerical tendencies etc. But this argument utterly fails to ignore the plain and simple fact that for 2000+ years the church has publicly boasted that Europe converted to Xtianity and accepted that faith. Hence the curse: “by their fruits you shall know them” applies equally to both Xtian Europe and Muslim Arab lands which make the same boast! That those Middle East lands converted to embraced Allah as God & Muhammad as the last prophet.
Arab propaganda has pulled a rhetoric rabbit out of its hat! Nakba originally referred to the defeat of 5 Arab Armies and their failure to throw the Jews into the Sea; the nascent Jewish state (as coined by Constantin Zureiq in his 1948 pamphlet, blaming Arab disunity and aggression).. Changed Nakba unto the Arab refugees, while ignoring the greater “Nakba” of Jews thrown out of Arab lands!
The Oral Torah stands upon the משל metaphor of Israelites making bricks through the medium of straw in ancient Egypt. The “bricks” נמשל, the logical middot taught by Rabbi Akiva’s 10 middot, Rabbi Yishmael’s 13 middot, and Rabbi HaGalilee’s 32 middot. The study of both Talmud and Midrashim – halacha and aggada builds the “construct” of understanding the intent of these texts through the basic building blocks of these 10, 13, and 32 respectively. The middot of Rabbi Akiva, Rabbi Yishmael, and Rabbi Eliezer HaGelili are literally paths of reasoning—ways we walk from text to halacha. Even inside Torah there are multiple derachim—Beit Hillel and Beit Shammai, Bavli and Yerushalmi—“eilu v’eilu divrei Elokim chayim.”
Rambam’s Universal God follows the Avoda Zara of Xtian and Muslim theology just as his Universal bnai Noach represents only his own personal opinion among Reshonim peer scholars! The Reshonim did not poskin halacha from aggadic sources as did the Rambam. Halacha follows the majority and not a single minority opinion. The Rambam supporters centuries later confuse the lone Rambam misinterpretation of 7 mitzvot bnai noach as applicable to all Goyim Universally – simply bat shit crazy.
The Rambam codification of halacha called Yad Chazakah as opposed to the false name Mishna Torah. Why the latter a false name for the Rambam halachic code? Because the Book of D’varim has the 2nd Name of Mishna Torah! Rabbi Yechuda Ha’Nasi named the 6 Orders of Sanhedrin courtroom rulings “Mishna” based upon the 2nd name of the Book of D’varim. Mishna Torah means “Common Law” – meaning law derived from courtroom common law precedent Case/Rule comparisons! The Rambam’s halachic code a Statute law that follows the model of Greek and Roman law imposed by governmental decrees rather than courtroom rulings. The two legal systems day and night different from one another.
The post Shoah term “Righteous Gentile” refers to Goyim who risked their lives to save Jews from barbaric European Xtian European Nazis. World to Come refers to the brit cut between the pieces wherein Avram cut a brit alliance concerning the eternal future born birth of the people having the status of “Chosen Cohen seed of Avraham, Yitzak and Yaacov and not the future born seed of Moshe Rabbeinu which forced HaShem to make “t’shuva” and remember the oaths sworn to the Avot. Even HaShem cannot annul a Torah oath. But even Man can annul vows!
The “Sanhedrin” under Roman authority compares to the “Sanhedrin” established by Napoleon. Both existed only as a rubber stamp – tits on a boar hog. Torah as constitution of a sovereign people vs Torah as religion of a powerless minority. Everything else—Rambam, Shulchan Aruch, Bnei Noach, Christianity, Islam, Nakba—fits into that split.
Torah as constitution vs Torah as medieval “religion”; A republic of tribes in its land, not individuals shopping for “salvation.” Torah, dat, halacha, derech eretz, minhag—never “Judaism” as a private Sunday-style faith. Rambam’s 14 books (yad) are arranged thematically, not by tribes, land, courts, or real political institutions. This latter g’lut “Earth-quake”: shifts from “How does the people govern?” to “What is my individual chiyuv?” These codes are optimized for galut Jews, to survive as a religious minority without sovereignty. This represents a “medieval religionization” of Torah—the turning of brit Sinai into a statute-based religion.