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YouTube screenshot The recent debate between Messianic Jew Eitan Bar and Rabbi Chaim Shitrit is viewed as “historic” by some leaders in the Israeli Messianic community. The impression one gets from the Messianic comments on this debate is that Bar won it. The following, however, is not an attempt to grade the debaters. Personally, I found both unconvincing. I also wonder why this is seen as historic when in fact these kinds of religious debates go back to the Middle Ages and are well known to almost every Jew. But the real wonder is why Messianic Jews are still so preoccupied with an issue settled more than two millennia ago. Jews as a whole long ago rejected the Sadducees’ literal interpretation of the Torah, which among other things lead them to deny resurrection from the dead because, to follow Eitan Bar’s argument, it is not once mentioned in the text. ....
Israel’s largest online book and e-book retailer, E-vrit, has refused to remove a book authored by two local Messianic Jews that calls into question the legitimacy of the Oral Law that forms the basis of modern Rabbinic Judaism. The Myth of the Oral Law (מיתוס התורה שבעל-פה) is a Hebrew-language theological book authored by Dr. Eitan Bar and Dr. Golan Brosh and published by Israel College of the Bible, a Messianic institution based in Netanya. It would appear to be an expanded version of an earlier English-language book by Bar and Brosh titled E-vrit is owned and operated by the parent company of Israel’s best-selling newspaper, ....