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     The Oral Torah is the key to unlocking all the mysteries and nuances of the written Torah.  With out the key all the treasures of the Torah, it's understanding, applications are out of reach.  With out the Oral Torah one is only left to postulate.  The Torah says a man is commanded to put the Torah on his arm and between his eyes.  In Duet. 6:8.  In 6:6 Moshe said that it should be on our heart.  We see from this that there are two different commandments here.  One that seems to be spiritual, " put it on your heart".   One that is physical, a specific place, on the arm and between the eyes.  No details are given.  How do we bind the Torah on our arms?  The entire Torah, or part of the Torah?  With glue, string, or tattoo?  What arm, right or left?  What if a Man has no arms?  Where between the eyes?  Directly between the eyes?  Unless you have the oral Torah, once again you are only left with conjecture.  Christianity gives no alternative.  Christianity has either no answer or a very poor answer to the above questions.  Instead they only try to destroy the oral Torah by saying that it is the invention of men.  Their remedy for this quandary is to cast aspersion on the authenticity of the oral Torah.  There fore releasing from obligation.
     Christians agree that the written Torah is the Jew's, we own it.  It is our possession.  Given to us as a gift from above through Moses.    This why in the Torah you will find it called the Torah of the creator and the Torah of Moses.  This is telling in and of itself.  Is there two Torahs?  One of the Creator and one from Moshe?  Yes!  It is the same Torah.  The Torah of the Creator and the Torah of Moshe are the exact same Torah.  This is trying to tell us something.  On one hand it is the Torah of the Creator.  The Torah that was heard and witnessed by 600,000 Jewish men not including women and children.  The Torah that we know undeniably came from heaven.  On the other hand it was given to us by the Creator's most trust worthy servant, the most faithful in all his house, the humblest man on the face of the earth Moshe Rabeinu [our teacher].  Which is it Torah of man or Torah of the Creator or both?  It is ironic that most secular people use the same argument even to counter Christian claims.  The scriptures were made by man, not inspired by the Creator.  At some point there has to be an acknowledgement of those that are more capable.  I would not go to a mechanic to get brain surgery.  The same way I would not go to a Minister, Pastor, or Preacher to interpret the Torah.  It is most likely that he won't even speak or be able to read the language, which was my personal experience 100% of the time.
        In the next post I will show how Christianity is counter productive in their argument against the validity of the oral Torah.  Also how Christianity itself is an oral tradition.  I will show how Jesus actually kept certain aspects of the oral Torah and encouraged others to do the same.