Translations of the Five books of Moses are inaccurate and misleading. That is why the Pentateuch was studied in Hebrew (see the Hebrew mottos of Harvard and Yale) until secularists empowered themselves with Darwin's flawed theory and threw out Biblical study in Hebrew.
However the Oral transmission, Kabbalah revelations, our insight and even scientific discoveries are fruits of the seeds planted in our reality by Moses interface with YHVH and come out over time. They are all integral to the understanding and interpretation of the Hebrew itself and should not be ignored.
The Rabbis used all of the sources to codify Jewish Law which is not the Torah. It is the Halacha or how to walk the walk of the talk in the Torah.
Let's differentiate between the Torah scroll and the Masoretic written text that contains vowels and annotations.
The original authentic letter for letter text of the Torah scroll is unchanged by the Rabbis from Moses' original. The Rabbis did not add or subtract or re-position any letters. All they did in the scroll was to add white space for easier reading, put in certain symbols which aren't read and altered the text size of certain letters and the layout of passages that have particular hidden significance.
The order of the letters, each dictated directly to Moses when he interfaced with YHVH must be preserved exactly because the Torah contains encoded messages revealed through numerical exposition. For instance the first 42 letters of Genesis reveal the cosmology and age of our Universe. Over a thousand years ago we wrote down that the universe has been in existence for approx 15 billion years which was only recently known to science. We also parsed the most exact calculation for the Lunar calendar (Eventually revealed by Hillel) centuries before science and before NASA satellites confirmed the Torah encoded result as the most accurate.
For non Torah Scroll use, the Masoretic scholars put in writing what was until then the Oral tradition which preserved pronunciation, cantillation and how to read and interpret certain passages (Such as "to him" rather than "not". FYI this appears three times in the Pentateuch) etc.
A lot of information can be gleaned from the Hebrew text only. What words are used, how they are used etc. However the oral and Kabbalistic are also important and in fact are the hidden (In time) portion of the text of the Torah scroll. Revelation there leads to further understanding and revelations of the Scroll text.
As science discovers more it helps us understand the Torah and the Torah then reveals more science.
For instance: the quest for messages encoded in the Hebrew letters of the Pentateuch led Blaise Pascal the French Mathematician to develop the mathematics of probability and statistics. Pursuit of the Torah codes led to understanding Cryptography which led to the development of the computer to break the WWII cryptographic codes.
Now that we have the computer, patterns that were too time consuming to decrypt can be decoded.
Even the authenticity of the Torah can now be confirmed using statistics and probability mathematics. (Full circle, such a coincidence :-). There is a statistically significant profusion of messages chronicling births, deaths and events that had not yet occurred in Moses time which points to an intelligence outside of time.
Quantum mechanics tells us that all possibilities exist but we choose the ones that become reality. All possibilities must exist for us to have free choice. However the Universe doesn't fly apart due to our lousy choices so there is also an intelligence maintaining a certain base pattern and order.
The Torah codes contain all the possibilities for future events just as the universe does. However we only find the one that corresponds with what we know. Once we make a choice that influences which reality manifests it guides which dates or names we search for.
The Torah codes are of limited use for predicting the future. We don't know what to look for and even if we find something that possibility not be the one that is actualized by our free choices.
However in some cases we may be able to predict the most likely possibilities.
Where G-d influences a certain set of events (Such as Exodus from Egypt or the coming of Messiah) we have some choice but the outcome is strongly fixed in time/space. (B'Yad Chazakah) (Yad is positioning in space and time which is why Yad is used as the root of hand, near and causality) With a Quantum Computer that uses the many possible states of sub atomic particles that exist at the same time the entire coded message of the Torah may be revealed.
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