Scriptures and Talmud – What is Reality and What is Parable?

Yaron Yadan 09/29/2006

The method of allegorical interpretation is not consistent and the reader cannot tell when something is parable and when it is not.

Chazal's faith in talking souls and the Scriptural permission to embalm a body and cremate it.

The Sages of the Talmud thought that G-d has a body and human qualities.

How the traditional rabbis handled the contradictions in Ezekiel.

The definition of a public domain in reference to the laws of Shabbat change from generation to generation.

The Sages' interpretations of the Mishnah are puzzling and odd.