The Oral Torah:

Sabbath place: You are inconsistent with your explanation of this verse. In your Google Docs response you say, "Thus it means your town," but in your last response you say, "So you cannot leave your property." Which one is it? Property or town? This only demonstrates the verse's ambiguity. Sabbath labour: "Melakha" is not always used for something you would pay for. When King Solomon built the Temple, it is called "Melakha." (2 Chronicles 5 : 1) "Now all the work (Melakha) that Solomon did for the House of the L-rd was completed, and Solomon brought his father David's hallowed things, and the silver and the gold and all the vessels he deposited in the treasuries of the House of G-d." Building the Holy Temple in Jerusalem is not something that is done for money. Also, a person who was born into slavery and worked his entire life for no pay would not understand, "Something that someone would pay you for." Slaughtering animals: Leviticus 17 is about slaughtering animals for sacrifice. Deuteronomy 12 is about slaughtering animals for food. (Deuteronomy 12 : 20-21) "When the L-rd, your G-d, expands your boundary, as He has spoken to you, and you say, 'I will eat meat,' because your soul desires to eat meat, you may eat meat, according to every desire of your soul. If the place the L-rd, your G-d, chooses to put His Name there, will be distant from you, you may slaughter of your cattle and of your sheep, which the L-rd has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat in your cities, according to every desire of your soul." Leviticus 17 does not explain how to slaughter an animal for food. Haggai: Numbers 19 says, "Whatever the unclean one touches," which is referring to a person. Haggai says, "and with that fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food," which is referring to an object. Haggai"s question is not, "If the priest touches bread, will it become holy?" but rather, "If the priest touches bread WITH THAT FOLD (of his garment), will it become holy?" Perhaps I cannot prove that Isaiah 59 is specifically referring to the Oral Torah, but it certainly eliminates any doubt about whether or not the Oral Torah will never be forgotten. New arguments: (Leviticus 26 : 46) "These are the statutes, the ordinances, and the Torahs (Torot) that the L-rd gave between Himself and the children of Israel on Mount Sinai, by the hand of Moses." The word "Torah" is in its plural form (Torot), which implies that more than one Torah was given. (Nehemiah 13 : 15-17) "In those days, I saw in Judea [people] treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing stacks [of grain] and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, and figs, and all types of loads and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, and I warned them on the day they sold provisions. And the Tyrians [who] sojourned there were bringing fish and all [types of] merchandise and selling on the Sabbath to the people of Judea and in Jerusalem. And I quarreled with the dignitaries of Judea, and I said to them, "What is this bad thing that you are doing-profaning the Sabbath day?" They are profaning the Sabbath day by either selling or carrying things. Neither selling nor carrying is a restriction from the Written Torah, so it could only be from the Oral Torah. When the Jews returned from Babylon, some of them brought non-Jewish wives and children. (Ezra 10 : 3) "And now, let us make a covenant with our G-d to cast out all the wives and their offspring, by the counsel of the L-rd and those who hasten to [perform] the commandment of our G-d, and according to the Law it shall be done." This implies that the children of Jewish fathers and non-Jewish mothers are non-Jews. Ezra says that this is according to the Law (Torah), but it cannot be found in the Written Torah. (Numbers 8 : 4) "This was the form of the menorah: hammered work of gold, from its base to its flower it was hammered work; according to the form that the L-rd had shown Moses, so did he construct the menorah." How are we to know how the menorah was made if the only description is, "according to the form that the L-rd had shown Moses"? (Exodus 12 : 1-2) "The L-rd spoke to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be to you the head of the months; to you it shall be the first of the months of the year." When is this? How are we to know when the first month is? (Exodus 21 : 24) "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, a foot for a foot." Is this to be interpreted literally or metaphorically? (Jeremiah 17 : 21-22) "So said the Lord: Beware for your souls and carry no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring into the gates of Jerusalem. Neither shall you take a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day nor shall you perform any labor, and you shall hallow the Sabbath day as I commanded your forefathers." Should we not literally carry a burden on the Sabbath day, or not figuratively carry a burden? Without the Oral Torah, you can only speculate about the answer to this question.