In this view, Oral Torah is considered inspired by Torah, but not necessarily of a straightforward divine origin.

According to the historic view of the Jewish faith, allegorically the Oral Law ( Torah she-be ' al-peh ) was also given to Moses at Sinai, and is the exposition of the Written Law as relayed by the scholarly and other religious leaders of each generation.

Many Orthodox Jews view the Written and Oral Torah as the same as Moses taught, for all practical purposes.

Conservative Jews tend to believe that much of the Oral law is divinely inspired, while Reform and Reconstructionist Jews tend to view all of the Oral law as an entirely human creation.

Oral surface: The inset shows a magnified view of the tube feet

Oral view of the left tentacular club

Oral view of Berryteuthis magister, showing the arrangement of suckers

This view proposes that Rabbinic Judaism ( which formed from the Pharisees ) innovated the religion with the Oral Law, while this view also proposes that Karaite Judaism is primarily unchanged from Judaism's original form.

Image: Berryteuthis magister3. jpg | Oral view

The distinctive feature of this view was that Oral Torah was " conveyed by word of mouth and memorized.

According to this view, in Biblical times, when God still revealed himself through prophecy, it was possible to combine logic and intelligence with a knowledge of God through the tradition ( i. e. the Written and Oral Torah ) in order to achieve a certain level of prophecy.