Do the Orthodox Rabbis still believe the Torah to Moses occurred in 1380 BCE at Mount Sinai?
Orthodox Jews (not just rabbis) believe that Moses received the Torah at Mount Sinai. I don’t know whether the year 1380 BCE corresponds with rabbinic math to be the actual year of the event, but I will say that only a very small percentage of Orthodox Jews take the year 5769 as being literally how old the world is. Rather, it is seen as a traditional calculation based on adding up the years ascribed to events in the Torah. Hundreds of years ago the great rabbi and scholar Rambam (Maimonides) was already writing that the first chapters of the Torah could be read allegorically. In other words, the scientific view of the creation of the world could very well be true, and the Biblical account important and meaningful, but not literal. So there are many Orthodox Jews today (including rabbis) who have no problem with believing in the Torah and still accepting evolution, the Big Bang, and other scientific principles. They would say that yes, they believe that to be the year according to the
