The article misinterprets what the Talmud does, and the author does so in order to try to draw a parallel with Freud. Along with the written Torah there was al

The article misinterprets what the Talmud does, and the author does so in order to try to draw a parallel with Freud. Along with the written Torah there was also an oral tradition, that oral tradition would have included the info of 2,000 amaos that the article references. What does the Talmud do? It works under the principle that everything in the oral tradition is also hinted to in the written Torah, and then it goes looking for it. The article incorrectly claims that the Talmud derived this number from the written Torah - this is false and backwards. The people who wrote the Talmud already knew this number, their goal was to find where it was hinted to. They were able to do so for virtually every part of the oral Torah to the extent that they even recorded every time they were unable to do so with the term "Halacha mi Moshe be Sinai". (A law direct from Moshe on Sinai, i.e. as distinct from a law that could be derived from the written Torah.) This is such a fundamental misunderstanding of the Talmud that it kind of fails the entire point of the article.