Reply To: "Not to be taken literally"

Benigumam–you like others are missing my point. Not everyone who learns is at the level of looking at commentaries or asking a rabbi. Torah is not off limits to the partly learned or unlearned so your observations may work for those on a higher level. So given that for centuries there have been Jews who are not particularly learned, what would prevent those people from “taking it literally” and then questioning it.