Reply To: The Supreme Court

The Rabbenu Bachya in Parashas Ki Siso compares the Oral Law to a father who wrote a letter to his son telling in it to follow certain commands and thge rewards gained by it. He was afraid that it might fall in the wrong hands, so he left out certain conditions that he will pass on orally, Similarly, Hashem gave the interpretations of the letter the written Torah orally.

The Chasam Sofer has a different mashel quoted by his son the Kasav Sofer in Parashas Yisro. A father had multiple children and he has a goldmine that he wanted the youngest child to inherit. He does not want to create jealousy by just giving it to him, so he teaches his youngest child the act of gold mining and then he divides the goldmine equally. Since the others don’t know what to do with it, it automatically falls to the youngest child. The Written Torah is like a goldmine and the Oral Law is the act of gold mining. We get the shown the act of gold mining, so we know how to interpret the Written Law when given to us, which the other nations are missing, so they don’t know how to use it and therefore they are unwilling to accept.