This title is to a 5 minute and 39 second video that I’ve recently watched on YouTube that I found very interesting (Click here for video or view the YouTube video down below) where a Muslim man calls in to the station to ask a great question.
Rabbi Tovia gives a great response: “Abraham kept all of my commandments…” and goes on explaining that you can find the passage in Genesis 26:5.
This is very true, which leads me to believe if the 𐤀𐤅𐤓𐤉𐤉𐤕𐤀 “Au-ree-ee-ta” meaning Law in Aramaic wasn’t written down yet then it must have been orally taught for all we know. 𐤌𐤔𐤄 “Mih-sheh” (Moses) is attributed to being the first prophet of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (YHUEH) to write down the 𐤀𐤅𐤓𐤉𐤉𐤕𐤀 on tablets of stone to give to the congregation of 𐤉𐤔𐤓𐤀𐤋 YSHRAL “eesh-ral” (Israel) and he wasn’t born yet so it must have been the case.
What’s even more interesting is when you read The Aramaic Targum of Pseudo-Jonathan (which you can find here on the Sefaria.org site by typing: Targum Jonathan in the search bar then type in whatever book you are looking for) you will find that 𐤀𐤅𐤓𐤉𐤉𐤕𐤀 (Law) even stretches back to Kain & Habel!
In the Targum of Pseudo-Jonathan on Genesis 4:3-4 we read:
𐤅𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤌𐤎𐤅𐤐 𐤉𐤅𐤌𐤉𐤀 𐤅𐤁𐤀𐤓𐤁𐤎𐤓 𐤁𐤍𐤉𐤎𐤍 𐤅𐤀𐤉𐤉𐤕𐤉 𐤒𐤉𐤍 𐤌𐤀𐤉𐤁𐤀 𐤃𐤀𐤓𐤏𐤀 𐤌𐤆𐤃𐤓𐤏 𐤊𐤅𐤕𐤍𐤀 𐤒𐤓𐤁𐤍 𐤁𐤊𐤅𐤓𐤉𐤀 𐤒𐤓𐤌 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄
“And it was at the end of days, on the fourteenth of Nisan, that Kain brought of the produce of the earth, the seed of cotton (or line), an oblation of first things before the Lord;“
𐤅𐤄𐤁𐤋 𐤀𐤉𐤉𐤕𐤉 𐤀𐤐 𐤄𐤅𐤀 𐤌𐤁𐤊𐤉𐤓𐤉 𐤏𐤍𐤀 𐤅𐤌𐤐𐤈𐤉𐤌𐤄𐤅𐤍 𐤅𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤓𐤏𐤅𐤀 𐤒𐤓𐤌 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 𐤅𐤏𐤁𐤓 𐤀𐤐𐤉𐤍 𐤁𐤄𐤁𐤋 𐤅𐤁𐤒𐤓𐤁𐤍𐤉𐤄
“and Habel brought of the firstling of the flock, and of their fat; and it was pleasing before the Lord, and He gave (his) countenance to Habel and to his oblation;”
We see here that Adam’s children were taught 𐤀𐤅𐤓𐤉𐤉𐤕𐤀 (Law) before 𐤀𐤁𐤓𐤄𐤌 “Abrihhem” (Abraham) and 𐤌𐤔𐤄 “Mihsheh” (Moses) both stepped into the picture. Later on throughout Genesis in the Aramaic Targum of Pseudo-Jonathan you will see 𐤍𐤇 “Nih-ch” (Noah), 𐤉𐤑𐤇𐤊 “Ytzchihk” “eetz-chick” (Isaac), 𐤉𐤏𐤒𐤁 Yayqb “ee-ay-qihb” (Jacob) and others also show signs that they understood 𐤀𐤅𐤓𐤉𐤉𐤕𐤀 “Au-ree-ee-ta” (Law) before 𐤌𐤔𐤄 “Mihsheh” (Moses) wrote the commandments down.
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