A question about the Torah.?
When Moses finshed writing all of the scriptures ( known as the Torah). What did he do with it? Where are the original writings today.
When Moses finshed writing all of the scriptures ( known as the Torah). What did he do with it? Where are the original writings today.
Nicole
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He gave it to the priests. Deut. 31:9 "Then Moses wrote this Torah, and gave it to the priests, the descendants of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel." (Of course, one might come to wonder how the Torah can state what happened after it was completed. But if we assume that it was dictated by God, that isn't really an issue.)
Since parchment/leather (don't know which it was) withers over time, I'd guess it was copied, and the original buried, as is the custom up to this day.
Chaya
The Universe is the original copy of the Torah. G-d created the heavens and earth with it. Look around. http://www.beingjewish.com/basics/torahstudy.html
The physical Tablets of Moses are with the Arc of the Covenant, which is hidden until the Temple is rebuilt. Copies are made of Torahs, and when the scrolls become damaged, they are buried in Jewish cemeteries with respect so as to not defame the Name of G-d.
Agree with Nicole's answer.
Moses is thought to have put together scrolls from oral tradition going back to Abraham who got them from Shem (Noah's son) also known as Melchizedek, the King of Salem. Shem's knowledge came orally transmitted from Adam's descendants.
Oral transmission going back to Adam, combined with G-d talking to Moses face to face is how Moses received the Torah he wrote down. This is how we know whose child begot who all the way back to Adam/Chava. That is where chanting comes from. The songs make memorizing Scripture easier. Torah was literally in our hearts and minds. For thousands of years, the interpretation of the Torah, e.g. the Gemara which was expanded to Talmud, was only sung and chanted, and it was against the law to write it down. The books were living people.
Shah needs to substantiate those claims. That isn't true. The Arc and tablets were hidden in a village until the Temple was built, but they were not lost. No one re-wrote it but the Muslims, (who used the Christian Bible with their own translations and ideas) who re-wrote their re-writes for the Quran very late, 400 CE.
The Sage
The original writing is with the Ark of the Covenant and is buried under the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
As to the origin of the Torah, please read this article:
http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/proof-torah-true/
geessewereabove
I think they were stored in another area of the Gold case that the Ten Commandments were in another area of. The writings of it by the Jewish were always copied word for word even in the same places, on the paper they wrote so no words were lost or added. If every letter was not exactly like the Original, it was tossed.
Anonymous
You won't be able to see the original scriptures as they would have been damaged by forces of nature, and the scrolls would had turned into dust. The only Holy Scriptures left now is the Holy Quran, and by the promise of the God of the Worlds, it will not and will never be corrupted until the Last Hour.