Posted by Drealm on
URL: https://mikraite.arkian.net/Why-do-we-have-these-rules-for-Mikraite-tp1034.html

We have 5 rules:

(1) keep the Sabbath
(2) dress modestly
(3) no tattoos
(4) keep passover
(5) make the declaration

My question is NOT why are these rules good.

My question is why are some rules of the Old Testament explicitly stated as Mikraite rules? But others aren't?

For example (1) is one of the Ten Commandments. Yet we are not including all the Ten Commandments. Is our reason for not including all the other Commandments that they're obvious? Killing, adultery, stealing are ones I assume we follow but aren't enumerated here.

Is our reason for not enumerating all the regulations elsewhere in the Old Testament that either they're obvious or not followed?

I would assume that everything in the Old Testament falls into one of the following categories for us:

(a) Approved
(b) Rejected
(c) Disputed
(d) Unknown

And in addition:

- Stated
- Unstated

Our current mode of operation seems to be creating a miniature Talmud for practical regulation and everything unstated is handled by intuition.