<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">This type of discussion (at least the parts of it that I have glimpsed) and its tone does not do much to edify Yiddishkeit or dignify it.</span><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">Is our religion and our loyalty to HKBH built upon stories that are not part of our Torah tradition but upon traditions that we have substituted with a look-alike sound-alike system? And which can be conveniently reshaped and interpreted as required? Or perhaps our loyalty is really to something else other than HKBH?</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">I am reminded of a diagram I saw depicting the emergence of the Torah with its consequential development Rishonim Acharonim etc.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;">And then the authors wished to indicate where the Zohar and Kabbalah emerged from - so they have put a little box in which is boldly printed ZOHAR and placed it just under the three big boxes at the top, you know the boxes showing Torah NeViIm and Kesuvim.</span></font></div>