No scroll, no credit

Sorry, folks, but this “oral law” has no basis in the written law.

“The chain of transmission of the Oral Torah is recorded in the first mishna in Avoth: Moshe received he Torah from Sinai, and entrusted it to Yëhoshua‘ bin Nun, his successor. Yëhoshua‘, in turn, entrusted it to the zëqénim (literally ‘elders’), who were the first Sanhedrin. They in turn entrusted it to the shofëtim (‘Judges’), who formed successive sessions of the Sanhedrin. And then they to the Prophets, who in turn handed it over to the Anshei Kënesseth haGëdola (the ‘Men of the Great Assembly,’ the last three prophets were actually members of this august group). They, under the leadership of ‘Ezra haKohén, reconstituted Jewish life after the disaster of the Babylonian Exile.”

https://pjmedia.com/faith/2017/06/06/who-were-the-pharisees/

The writer says the majority of the Jewish people, or the “ordinary Jewish people of the country, called the ‘am ha’aretz (‘people of the land), (were) also generally Orthodox in their observances but less learned and therefore less careful due to their ignorance.”

So, the “ordinary people” wanted to do the right thing, but needed more-educated men to tell them what the right thing was. Sounds like Progressive Democrats. “Listen to me. I have numerous degrees, and, therefore, I am smarter than you.”

He also says the Essenes “were not so much a separate sect(,) as a group steeped in the lore of herbal healing.” Source?

The Karaite have the more accurate, common-sense version of Judaism: The law given to Moses is a written law, and the claim to an unwritten, or oral, law is spurious and has no support in the written law. Claims that G-d gave Moses an additional law, a law to be used in later centuries because the Israelites were not yet ready for this additional law, is a scam visited upon Jews after the Babylonian captivity, a con developed by (probable) well-meaning, educated men who, by their studies alone, were more knowledgeable than the ‘am ha’aretz. That scam continues today.