These principles for authorship mostly based on our own understanding that the world did not come up by “accident”, that the world has it’s Creator, that this Creator is the one Who gave us the Holly Torah and also to understand Torah we must use our common sense. This “common sense”, or our own intellect as a guiding principle, is natural application of the following Torah principles:
a man is created in God’s image (Genesis, 1:28) – so do not reject your own intelligence as it is God’s given.
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This mandate that I am prescribing you today is not mysterious or far away from you. It is not in the heaven as if to say “Who shall go up to heaven and bring it to us so that we can hear it and keep it? It is not across the sea as if to say: “Who will cross the sea and get it for us, so that we will be able to hear it and keep it?” It is something that is very close to you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can keep it. ( Deuteronomy 30:11-14) do not rely on any other human but yourself to reveal Torah to you, rely on your own intellect as it is in your heart and your mouth.
1. The only driving motive for publishing must be a sincere desire to know the Will of God, which is a True Reason behind all the phenomena in this world. We will not be concerned with a question what bothered any well respected commentator or a sage or whoever else. The only exception to this rule will be Moses who was a Prophet, a closest servant of God in all human history according to God’s own words. We might not bother to argue with “who said what” unless this “who” is God of Israel or Moshe – His closest Servant.
2. Authors will base their analysis on a conviction that Torah and other books of Tanach have no confusions in them neither any ambiguity, that all the confusions are created by the human mind which is still imperfect, meaning that it lacks the Torah knowledge.
3. Torah is the “perfect book” as it identifies itself and this clearly implies that Torah is self-content and complete as inevitable ingredient of being perfect ( a book which needs another book to understand itself is not perfect, in other words any claim that Torah is not acceptable to human mind without studying another book, implicitly defiles the “perfection” of Torah). This completeness of written word of God was Divinely sealed by God in Deuteronomy 4:2: “You shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you remove from it” . We must note here though that other sources should not be rejected as they might be helpful for undeveloped human mind to understand Torah but they must not “add” a solution, rather to “point” to a solution, clearly and openly written in the Torah.
4. Torah should be viewed as a whole when considering the perfection or completeness of the Scripture. For example, if some quote created a visible confusion or a seemingly contradiction, the explanation may come not necessarily from the same chapter but from another. It should be noted here however, that, if some details expected by some individuals to be in Torah, yet, they are not found there, this should indicate that such expectation might be a result of the belief based confusion. This is another implied property of a perfect book – only information which is deemed by God to be necessary for people to be able to understand His ways and to establish a personal connection with Him, – included in Torah. God knows better what you need…
5. The intentions of God, the purpose of the commandments, their understanding are eternal and whence have the Divine Light to lit our path today. This is a source of our wisdom to understand the development of the modern world and Israel in particular.
6. Solution to any visible contradiction does not have ever to come from authority of a particular commentator or from a majority of the Beit Din but from applying our own intelligence to the obvious wisdom of the Scripture intended by God for our own consumption.
7. The topic and the purpose of any article published on this web site must be chosen of such importance that it must reveal in bright light our situation today with all it’s deficiencies and the potential solutions provided to us in the Torah.
