This is some background that leads up to Yahusha saying that HE came NOT to abolish the Torah and Prophets.....He was up against man made traditions. He was constantly confronted by the Scribes and Pharisees. There are two powerful legal tools within the halakhic system given to Rabbis: • Gezeirah: preventative legislation of the classical rabbis instituted as Laws, intended to prevent violations of the commandments of Yahuah • Takkanah: positive legislation, practices instituted as Laws by the rabbis not based (directly) on the commandments of Yahuah as such Together both the Gezeirah and Takkanah are called “Takkanots” or commandment of men elevated as Laws in Jewish society. The Torah was no longer the standard of righteousness with The Jews but rather the Talmud was. The Talmud is a massive collection of “rabbinical traditions” that were added as “laws”. The Talmud is a collection of Takkanots. The Talmud consists of 63 tractates, and in standard print is over 6,200 pages long. In comparison, The Law of Yahuah contains 613 commands. The Talmud contains the teachings and opinions of thousands of rabbis on a variety of subjects, including Hadaka (law), Jewish ethics, philosophy, customs, history, lore and many other topics. The Talmud is the basis for all codes of Jewish law. The Talmud is utterly impossible to understand and even more so to “obey”. Yahusha’s message to The Jews was one more of “keep it simple stupid” and stick with The Commandments of Yahauh and not the commandments of men. Yahusha came to RESTORE The Torah and Prophets not abolish them. You might imagine how this put Yahusha at odds with the “establishment”. He was literally overturning the Rabbinical System of Takkanots. The Rabbis had made it very complex in The Talmud as literally thousands of “human laws/Takkanots” were added to Yahuah’s Law. As a result enmity toward The Law of Yahuah grew up among The Jews out of total frustration. The people were being held to account to the Talmud not The Law of Yahuah and it became a burden to heavy to bear. This is the environment Yahusha was sent to confront. Yahusha was the prophet that Moses said would “properly teach The Torah” and restore it. The Jews were badly in need of a correction and needed to get back to The Torah. Yahusha did come to “abolish Rabbinical Law” and that didn’t go over very well with the establishment. With each new generation of rabbis, the Talmud just kept (and is still today) growing and growing and getting all the more complicated and complex. Yahuah expressly forbids such things as Takkanots as we are not to add to or subtract from The Law: Deu 4:2 “Do not add to the Word which I command you, and do not take away from it1, so as to guard the commands of יהוה your Elohim which I am commanding you. Yahusha confronted these human traditions and commands called Takkanots: Mat 15:1 Then there came to יהושע scribes and Pharisees from Yerushalayim, saying, Mat 15:2 “Why do Your taught ones transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” Mat 15:3 But He answering, said to them, “Why do you also transgress the command of Elohim1 because of your tradition? Mat 15:4 “For Elohim has commanded, saying, ‘Respect your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ Mat 15:5 “But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me has been dedicated,” Mat 15:6 is certainly released from respecting his father or mother.’ So you have nullified the command of Elohim by your tradition. Mat 15:7 “Hypocrites! Yeshayahu rightly prophesied about you, saying, Mat 15:8 ‘This people draw near to Me with their mouth, and respect Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me. Isa 29:13 And יהוה says, “Because this people has drawn near with its mouth, and with its lips they have esteemed Me, and it has kept its heart far from Me, and their fear of Me has become a command of men that is taught1 On the topic of The Torah and Prophets, Yahusha is crystal clear: Mat 5:17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Torah or the Prophets.1 I did not come to destroy but to complete. Mat 5:18 “For truly, I say to you, till the heaven and the earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall by no means pass from the Torah till all be done. Mat 5:19 “Whoever, then, breaks one of the least of these commands, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the reign of the heavens; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens. Mat 5:20 “For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees,1 you shall by no means enter into the reign of the heavens. This is why he fell out of favor with the Jewish Elite and found much favor among the Jewish masses. False doctrines have crept into and have become the very foundation of the Christian Church called “The Pauline Doctrine”. Much of the misunderstanding comes in the way our English Bibles were translated. They were translated very poorly to put it mildly. Concerning The Law of Yahuah the translators failed to distinguish when Paul was talking about “the law of the land” which was the (6,200 page) Talmud and when Paul was referring to The (613) Laws of Yahuah. They translated both as ‘the law’ leaving those reading the English Bibles totally in the dark as to what Paul was saying. When speaking of The Law of Yahuah, The Apostle Paul used the Greek phrase “ho nomos” or THE Law. The word “nomos” or just “law” is any law whatsoever or the law of the land. When Paul added the article “ho” before “nomos” he was speaking of The Law of Yahuah. We see below that “nomos” without the article “ho” is not referring specifically to The Law of Yahuah but to “any law whatsoever” or law of the land. Nomoß - Transliterated Word Nomos From The NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon Strongs Number: 3551 Definition 1. anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command a. of any law whatsoever This is not translated in our English Bibles and we are not taught these things in our Christian Churches and learning centers that train our pastors. Therefore many times when Paul is speaking against the Takkanots or Talmud it is just mistranslated as The Law and we are taught he is speaking against The Law of Yahuah. When he is actually, like Yahusha, overturning the Rabbinical System of Takkanots. brother Rav
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