199- Oral Torah

“Moses His servant” is called “faith in the sages.” Everything that the sages say is called “And they believed in the Lord and in His servant, Moses,” meaning that they believed that Moses received the Torah from the Creator and that the expansion of Moses is in every generation. Hence, faith in the sages extends over the continuation of “His servant Moses.” This is called “oral Torah,” and every teacher gives to the public what he had received from his teacher.

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