SnyderTalk Editorial: Tradition is a Huge Obstacle—an Excerpt from His Name is Yahweh

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Jeremiah 12: 14-17

Thus says Yahweh concerning all My wicked neighbors who strike at the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel, “Behold I am about to uproot them from their land and will uproot the house of Judah from among them. And it will come about that after I have uprooted them, I will again have compassion on them; and I will bring them back, each one to his inheritance and each one to his land. Then if they will really learn the ways of My people, to swear by My name, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ even as they taught My people to swear by Baal, they will be built up in the midst of My people. But if they will not listen, then I will uproot that nation, uproot and destroy it,” declares Yahweh.

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Thomas Jefferson

“For here we are not afraid to follow the truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.”

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Jeremiah 22: 19-21

“He will be buried with a donkey’s burial, dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem. Go up to Lebanon and cry out, and lift up your voice in Bashan; cry out also from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed. I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, ‘I will not listen!’ This has been your practice from your youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.”

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Tradition is a Huge Obstacle—an Excerpt from His Name is Yahweh

I have talked with many Jewish people about Yahweh. With few exceptions, those who recognize His Name refuse to say it because of tradition, and they are not shy about admitting that tradition is the only reason they refrain from using God’s Name.

For most Jewish people, tradition is bigger, bolder, and more important than Yahweh’s Word—either the Torah or the Tanach. They ignore Yahweh’s commands and hold fast to tradition apparently without giving the consequences any consideration at all. Believers who are not Jewish may be unfamiliar with the words “Torah” and “Tanach,” but they know the content. The Torah is the books of Moses—i.e., Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. The Tanach includes the Torah, and it’s the same book that Christians call the Old Testament.

The notion that tradition plays a more important part in the daily lives of Jewish people than the Tanach is deeply embedded in the Mishnah. It contains the Talmudic laws that govern every aspect of Jewish life, and this is what the Mishnah says about this question:

“Greater stringency applies to the words of the Scribes than to the Torah. If a man said, ‘There is no obligation to wear phylacteries,’ so that he transgresses the word of the Torah, he is not culpable; but if he said, ‘There should be in them five partitions,’ so that he adds to the words of the Scribes, he is culpable.” (Sanhedrin 11: 3)

According to Bible scholar Herbert Danby,

“The Mishnah, in other words, maintains that the authority of those rules, customs, and interpretations which had accumulated around the Jewish system of life and religion was equal to the authority of the Written Law itself, even though they found no place in the Written Law. This, again, is but an assertion…that side by side with the written code there exists a living tradition with power to interpret the written code, to add to it, and even at times to modify it or ignore it as might be needed in changed circumstances, and to do this authoritatively. Inevitably the inference follows that the living tradition…is more important than the Written Law, since the ‘tradition of the elders,’ besides claiming an authority and continuity equal to that of the Written Law, claims also to be its authentic and living interpretation and its essential complement.” (Danby, Herbert, trans. Mishnah. Oxford University Press, 1974, p. xvii.)

Yahweh will not condone our willful disobedience and our attempts to edit His Word to make it comply with our personal preferences and traditions. To believe otherwise is foolish. And make no mistake about this fact. Removing God’s Name from the Scriptures and substituting titles in its place are just as wrong. So be careful before criticizing Jewish people for their disobedience in this regard because Christians are just as guilty as they are, and neither group has a good excuse.

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Hosea 4: 6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.

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Joel 3: 17-21

Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God, dwelling in Zion, My holy mountain. So Jerusalem will be holy, and strangers will pass through it no more. And in that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk, and all the brooks of Judah will flow with water; and a spring will go out from the house of Yahweh to water the valley of Shittim. Egypt will become a waste, and Edom will become a desolate wilderness, because of the violence done to the sons of Judah, in whose land they have shed innocent blood. But Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem for all generations. And I will avenge their blood which I have not avenged, for Yahweh dwells in Zion.

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Thomas Jefferson

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