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What makes you think that the oral Torah is extra-Biblical? The ones who have an extra (actually totally outside and distortion) of the Torah is Chrstianity.

Since you like Michael Brown so much, let's take this from his attacks on the oral Torah -- saying that modern Judaism (aka Rabbinical Judaism) isn't TRUE Judaism but has been "made up" along the way somehow.

Total nonsense of course.

Brown insists (for example) that if the bible says go left and the rabbis say go right the Jews will go right. Can he show even ONE Rabbinical fence that changes the written Torah? Well, to date he hasn't done so. There is a good reason he hasn't -- there aren't any.

There is NOTHING in the oral tradition that changes the written Torah. The Torah makes it clear that we are not to add to or subtract from it. The oral law merely tells us HOW to follow the written one. Brown is flat out lying here (out of ignorance or deceit I cannot say). Not only does Moses say "listen to the Rabbis" but so does Jsus in the GT! Yet, Brown here is contradicting Jsus (whom he claims to follow) who clearly said "listen to the Rabbis, they sit in Moses' seat."

Two good articles to read on how fraudulent is Brown's claim are found on Being Jewish. Haven't Rabbis Changed the Laws? and The Indispensable Oral Law.

He also says there is no such thing as the oral law in the Torah and yet again the Rabbis "made it up."

Well, hopefully in the past few posts you've seen that Brown is great at making claims but that they are not supported by the bible. Neither is this assertion.

The oral law is mentioned in the written bible.

Ex 12:49 "The same Torah shall apply to the native as to the stranger who sojourns among you."

This can't be the written Torah -- it didn't EXIST yet. Moses hasnt been to Sinai yet! So the Torah is the oral one. The Torah is spoken of again in Exodus 13:9, 16:4:

I will test them to see whether or not they will keep My Torah.

What Torah? They are in the desert eating mana. They haven't yet made it to Sinai - there is NO WRITTEN TORAH. What Torah is G-d speaking of???

Read Exodus 24:12

ויאמר ה' אל משה עלה אליי ההרה והיה שם ואתנה לך את לוחות האבן והתורה והמצווה אשר כתבתי להורותם

And HaShem said to Moshe: Come up unto me on the mountain and remain ('be') there. I shall give to you the stone tablets, the Torah, and the Mitzvah, which I have written [for you] to teach them.

Write these words for YOURSELF.

Hashem tells Moshe first "write for yourself these things," and then says "for according to (al pi) these things I have made a covenant with you and the Children and Israel. This quote tells us both to write it down transmit it orally. The literal meaning of al pi is to teach by word of mouth.

The ORAL LAW that Brown insists isn't Biblical has been mentioned in Exodus 24:12, in Exodus 13:9, in Exodus 16:4 and many, many more.

There is a very good article on the subject at Being Jewish.

The written Torah will often tell us to do things, and the "how" to do it is not explained in the written Torah. It will say "do it as I told you."

This alone shows that the "how" to follow the instructions was always oral.

It is impossible to even READ the Torah without an oral law! There are no vowels in the Torah!! To even read Hebrew one must learn from the oral law.

The Babylonian Talmud tells a story of a man who wanted to convert to Judaism. He went to Rabbi Hillel and said:

"Convert me on condition that I accept the Written but not the Oral Law."

Poor Hillel. First he had to put up with a fool who wanted to learn Torah while standing on one foot, and then this fool shows up. But Hillel had patience and he didn't even argue. He agreed to teach the man.

The first day, Hillel taught him the first four letters of the Hebrew alphabet: aleph, bet, gimel, dalet.

The next day the man came back and this time Hillel taught him the same letters in reverse order: dalet, gimel, bet, aleph.

"But yesterday," protested the man, "you taught me the opposite."

"You see," said Hillel, "you have to rely on me even to learn the alphabet. Rely on me also when it comes to the Oral Law." (Shabbat 31a).

How would your Brown have been able to learn Hebrew (as rudimentary as his knowledge is) Torah without the oral law? He couldn't have.

From the Being Jewish link:

To demonstrate, I will cite some examples of Laws from the Written Torah that are completely incomprehensible without knowledge of the Oral Tradition.

When the Bible tells us (Lev. 20:14) to take together four species on the first day of Succos, which four species are meant, and what are we supposed to do with them?

The prohibition of Chelev (fat) (Lev. 7:24) leaves us uninformed as to which fat is included in the category of Chelev, and which are Shumin (fat) and therefore permitted.

Which blood is forbidden, (Lev. 7:26) and how do we purge the meat of it?

What are Totaphot? (Ex. 13:16) If that means Tefillin, what exactly are Tefillin? How are they made, and how are they "bound as a sign upon your hand?"

Which work is forbidden on the Sabbath, and which is permitted?

"You shall not cook a young animal in its mother's milk" is stated three times in the Bible. Why? The Oral Law explains why. It also explains the seemingly odd wording of the commandment.

Most Hebrew words change their meaning when pronounced differently. Without the Oral Tradition, how can we determine the true meaning of the words of the Hebrew Scriptures, written as they were without vowels?