Rabbinic authority

Your heart has to be true to God, okay? Your faith is what matters.

All right, and as we can see, all three of these things are a response to the authority of the Catholic Church, okay? And what I will show you is, Seventh-day Adventism is also a response to the power, the corrupt authority of the rabbis, okay? But first, we also need to appreciate there are fundamental differences between the Catholic Church and rabbinic authority.

Which right now, in this time in history, which is about 1400, 1500, rebelling authority is what controls the Jewish diaspora.

So let's look at the church and the rabbis.

And so therefore, we don't worry about worldly events.

Got it.

Okay, all right, so the Catholic Church and the rabbinic authority, there are three major differences that we need to understand for the purpose of our discussion, okay? The first major difference is the Catholic Church, as I was talking about with Daniel, it is a spiritual authority, okay? The rabbinic is worldly.

So most people don't actually know this, but it's a key, crucial difference between Christianity and Judaism.

With the Enlightenment, a new middle ground emerged where Jew and Christian could meet without having to pay the price of the cops.

While all this was taking place, rabbinic authority was engaged in an act of self-destruction.

In 1666, Shabtai Tzvi, the Jewish mystic, who had been proclaimed as the true Messiah, converted to Islam.

Despite his conversion and his subsequent death in 1676, The movement he initiated continued to thrive throughout much of the 18th century.

Not surprisingly, it met with stiff resistance from

rabbinic opposition.

In debating the battle, the end in Irish is controversy, and the struggle with the recipient of citizen left rabbinic authority largely disarray.

I'll give you one example.

Now, here I want to come to the heart of what's new.

I didn't have this information when I wrote the major article in Rabbinic Authority.

So you think that this Russian operation, Tel Aviv, you think they supported everything being done around the world for Russian Jews.

Let me tell you something.

He spoke to the point.

Very scary book, a lot of times, Da'at Torah.

Yeah? This was the land of all Yeshiva.

He wrote something incredible.

So the Gemara says now, when the Gemara says Hakham, we assume that who is a-- What, what Hakham are we talking about over here? Talmid Hakham.

So the Gemara says, "A Talmid Hakham, why is a Talmid Hakham going to know what type of blood is involved over here?" Right? I, I, I don't understand, like what, what, what is, what, how-- So this is really very interesting because in general, in general, right, there's always like this tension in terms of what are the things we go to Talmidei Hakhamim for and what are the things we don't go to Talmidei Hakhamim for, right? What are the things that, that, that, that Rabbanim know? What are the things that they don't know, right? So there's, there's a concept of Da'as Torah, and the concept of Da'as Torah indicates that certainly when a person possesses a heightened level, a really heightened level of Torah knowledge, that gives them wisdom and insight into many, many, many different areas of life.

But it doesn't necessarily mean that a person knows everything.

The Gemara says, Gemara's saying over here, you're gonna take this what? To, to your local Talmid Hakham, and you're gonna say, "Talmid, local Talmid Hakham, is this, is this, right, my sheep is bleeding.