Keeping the Law

   Christians believe that Jesus came to full fill the law.  They say that he kept the law perfectly and full filled every commandment.  I will show that this is erroneous.  The first law of the Torah given to man kind in general is the commandment to reproduce and have progeny.  This is mentioned in Genesis 1:28.  In Jewish law this commandment is called the "great" commandment.  The whole purpose of Judaism is to be passed on from Father to son, and teacher and student.  It is known and admitted by Christians that Jesus did not marry and did not have children.  Unless he sired children, and it was not recorded. He did not have children.  Therefore he did not even full fill the very first positive commandment in the Torah.

    There is another problem with this idea that Jesus full filled the Torah.  Of the 613 laws in the Torah, some apply to males, females, Kings, Priests, children and Levites.. ect.  So we can see from this that it is literally imposible for any one man to keep all the laws in the Torah.  It was not meant for one man to come along and keep all the Laws in the Torah. The Torah was only meant for the nation of Israel.  It takes all of the different people that I mentioned above to keep the Torah completely. Unless Jesus was a man, woman, ect. all at the same time he could not keep the Torah.  You might say, "well we don't mean the entire Torah but the obligation that was relative to him.  He was a perfect human being and he kept his part of the Torah".  So how could he relate to a women who has to be unclean every month because of her cycle?  Christians claim that Jesus' supposed life, death, and resurection is an atonement for our sins.  Part of the acertation of Christians is that God came into a body, or became a body so that he could relate to us.  It was neccasary that he be tempted like we are.  As a matter of fact, there is an acount of Jesus going into the desert to be tempted by Satan.  Never mind the fact that God can not be tempted.  Only some one who has an inclination to sin can be tempted.  God who is all powerful can not be tempted.  In the new Testament it says in Hebrews 4:5  For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weakness, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, like we are, but did not sin.   He could not be the redeemer of the Jewish women because he could not be tempted in the same areas as women.  He was never tempted in the area of the priest hood.  He was never a Father.  He didn't have children to raise.  He simply could not relate.  Again you may say," well the relation was that he was human."  You christian also say he was God in flesh.  You say he changed water into wine, walked on water, and raised the dead.  What kind of relation do we have to someone like that.  Every time he gets into a difficult situation he just pulls out his, I'm God card.  It's fixed you can't win.  What kind of God says to his people, " I want you to do x,y, and z."  knowing full well that you can't do it.  Only, to step up and say here, let me show you how it's done.  I am God of the Universe I can do anything, you are limited man you could never do what I could do.  Yet we see in the New Testament Jesus encouraged people to keep the law.  So witch is it?  This is what you call putting a stumbling block in front of the  blind.  You know he can't avoid it but you do it any way.  That is cruel.  That is how Christians portray their God.  He knows we can't keep the law and we will fall and then when we do he punishes us.  Or can we?  Is it possible for a person to keep the law.  God gave the law to man.  It is a christian idea mentioned in Corinthians that God does not give us any thing we can't handle.  He expects us to succeed and will help us succeed.  So we see there is a contradiction in christian thought.  Witch is it?
    Job did not sin, and God even testified of it.  God said to Satan that Job was, a pure and straight man, feared God and fled evil.  A righteous man, a man with out sin is a real possibility.  Judaism believes that God gave us the Torah to show us how to become righteous.  That if we work on our selves really hard and listen to what God tells us that we will achieve this.  The Torah is our righteousness.  It shall be righteousness to you before the Lord your God Duet. 24:13.  King David also it is said of him that he kept all the commandments of God except in regards to Urijah I Kings 15:5.  Noah also it is recorded that he was righteous and pure in his generation Gen. 6:9.  So we see that it is possible to keep the Law.  Not only that but God expects it.

Christianity is an oral tradition.

      Most scholars agree that the oldest manuscript of any of the gospels is Mark.  Mark is believed to have been written around 90 A.D.  That is approximately 60 years after the death of Jesus.  So that would mean that for 60 years Mark's gospel was transmitted orally if at all. Also Mark was not even one of Jesus' twelve disciples. There is another oral tradition that Mark was the rich young ruler that came to ask Jesus how to inherit eternal life, then later shows up in the garden of Gesmity.  Mark is said to be a disciple of Peter but everything that I have just mentioned is oral tradition.  As a matter of fact the gospel it self does not name it's author.  It is even oral tradition that Mark wrote it.
       Why are the oral traditions of the church divinely inspired and 100% true and accurate?  Yet the Jewish sages who spent there entire life studying night and day, with holding from them selves sleep and many pleasures of this world completely made up lies.  The twelve disciples were unlearned men, this we know from the gospel accounts.  They were what Jews call an "am ha aretz" literally a man of the land, a simple person.  Fisherman, they most likely did not know how to read and write Hebrew.  Obviously, all the gospels were written in Greek.  When every holy book up to this time was written in Hebrew, the holy tongue.  Further proof of this is that Mark quoted all of his Torah from the septuagent.  A purposefully mis-translated translation of the Hebrew Tanak into Greek.
        In Judaism we have a clear path laid out for us of the channels of wisdom that was passed down from teacher to student who became a teacher to another student of the explanations of the Torah.  This chain has never been broken.  This chain does not contain any chritsian. So where did they learn their explanation from?  Their answer is Jesus.  Since in their view he is God in flesh in the person of Jesus he therefore know what the Torah means and is able to teach it.  Unfortunately, their antinomian view of the Torah, Prophets, and writings creates a god that is untrustworthy, and changes his mind.
         If a person will just read the entire Tanak they will be struck be how much the Torah itself is talked about.  In every book it is mentioned.  All the prophets begged the Jews to keep the Torah.  Encouraged them through example and modeling correct behavior that would merit HaShems blessings.  The writings, David the King, sweet Psalmist of Israel 119 is devoted through the form of an acrostic to his love of the Torah and study of it.  Malichi believed to be the last book written by the prophets in the last chapter two verses from the end says remember the Torah of my servant Moshe.  
          Suddenly  God's plan for man kind is revealed after so many years of concealment.  Hidden in the Hebrew text were illusions to the idea that God would incarnate himself into a man.  Ha Ha Ha jokes on you Jew.  God hid his plan from you so you could beat your head against the wall trying to keep this Torah which was never meant for you to follow in the first place.  God gave you something you couldn't keep and then he punished you severely when you don't.  What kind of just, fair, gracious God is that?

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     The Oral Torah is the key to unlocking all the mysteries and nuances of the written Torah.  With out the key all the treasures of the Torah, it's understanding, applications are out of reach.  With out the Oral Torah one is only left to postulate.  The Torah says a man is commanded to put the Torah on his arm and between his eyes.  In Duet. 6:8.  In 6:6 Moshe said that it should be on our heart.  We see from this that there are two different commandments here.  One that seems to be spiritual, " put it on your heart".   One that is physical, a specific place, on the arm and between the eyes.  No details are given.  How do we bind the Torah on our arms?  The entire Torah, or part of the Torah?  With glue, string, or tattoo?  What arm, right or left?  What if a Man has no arms?  Where between the eyes?  Directly between the eyes?  Unless you have the oral Torah, once again you are only left with conjecture.  Christianity gives no alternative.  Christianity has either no answer or a very poor answer to the above questions.  Instead they only try to destroy the oral Torah by saying that it is the invention of men.  Their remedy for this quandary is to cast aspersion on the authenticity of the oral Torah.  There fore releasing from obligation.
     Christians agree that the written Torah is the Jew's, we own it.  It is our possession.  Given to us as a gift from above through Moses.    This why in the Torah you will find it called the Torah of the creator and the Torah of Moses.  This is telling in and of itself.  Is there two Torahs?  One of the Creator and one from Moshe?  Yes!  It is the same Torah.  The Torah of the Creator and the Torah of Moshe are the exact same Torah.  This is trying to tell us something.  On one hand it is the Torah of the Creator.  The Torah that was heard and witnessed by 600,000 Jewish men not including women and children.  The Torah that we know undeniably came from heaven.  On the other hand it was given to us by the Creator's most trust worthy servant, the most faithful in all his house, the humblest man on the face of the earth Moshe Rabeinu [our teacher].  Which is it Torah of man or Torah of the Creator or both?  It is ironic that most secular people use the same argument even to counter Christian claims.  The scriptures were made by man, not inspired by the Creator.  At some point there has to be an acknowledgement of those that are more capable.  I would not go to a mechanic to get brain surgery.  The same way I would not go to a Minister, Pastor, or Preacher to interpret the Torah.  It is most likely that he won't even speak or be able to read the language, which was my personal experience 100% of the time.
        In the next post I will show how Christianity is counter productive in their argument against the validity of the oral Torah.  Also how Christianity itself is an oral tradition.  I will show how Jesus actually kept certain aspects of the oral Torah and encouraged others to do the same.

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     The Torah, foundation of all three religions was given to the Jews in a language that they spoke and understood.  This language is given the accolade of holy.  The holy tongue is Hebrew.  The sages teach us that this language specifically the Torah is the language of creation.  In the Torah there is a commandment that was given to the Jews on Mount Sinia.  This is the prohibition of profaning the Name of the Creator.  We are not aloud to use the name commonly or glibly.  The sin of chillul HaShem (profaning the name) is so great that we do not ever pronounce the name as it appears in the text.  Every one who reads Hebrew has seen this name countless times and can tell you that it is the name of the Creator.  The name of the Creator, is Yud, Heh, Vav, Hey.  Three different letters of the Hebrew Aleph-Beis (alpha bet).  Our Sages also tell us that really the entire Torah is one name of the Creator.  It is forbidden for a Jew to erase even one letter, or for that matter to make even the slightest defect in any of the writings of the Torah.  The Creator, Torah, and Israel are eternal never to fade, of vanish away.
      Hebrew is a language that is made up of 22 letters.  These letters have names , numerical value , and some have two forms.  Then there are vowels and marks that instruct on cadence and tone.  Through the combination of these we have the Hebrew language.  Hebrew is the garment of the wisdom of the Torah.  The letters are the vessels in which the ideas are contained.  If these vessels are broken the thought is not communicated properly.
        In the Talmud Mas. Shabbat 31a.  there is a story about a potential convert to Judaism and his exchange with the two leading Rabbis of his day.  These two Rabbi happened to be the famed Hillel and Shamia.
" Our Rabbis taught: A certain heathen once came before Shammai and asked him, "How many Torohs do you have?" "Two," he replied" 'the written Torah and the Oral Torah' I believe you with respect to the written, but not with respect to the Oral Torah; make me a proselyte on condition that you teach me the written Torah [only]. [But] he scolded and repulsed him in anger.  When he went before Hillel, he accepted him as a proselyte. On the first day,  he taught him, Alef, Beth, Gimmel, Dalet; the following day he reversed [them] to him. 'But yesterday you did not teach them to me thus, ' he protested. ' Must you then not rely upon me?  Then rely upon me with respect to the oral [Torah] too.
       This illustrates perfectly the nuance of the Oral Torah.  Just to read the Torah properly with all the right meaning takes a vast knowledge of the Oral Torah.  A Torah scroll is not written with vowel or cantilation marks.  In order to understand what the Torah says literally you must know the Oral Torah Perfectly.  The Oral Torah is the explanation of the written Torah.

Intro Judaism vs. Christianity

     There are three major religions in our times, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.  Of these three Judaism is unique and stands alone.  Judaism is unique in that it is older than the other two, and to this fact the others agree. Judaism can be considered the mother of both of the other religions.  Both Christianity and Islam defer to Judaism in that it is the oldest revelation of the Creator's will for man kind.  Both Christians and Muslims believe that Moses is a prophet.  That he spoke to the Creator.  That he was given revelation of truth contained in the books of the Torah and given and entrusted to the Jews to keep.
     So the obvious question is, "Why do they disagree"?  Basically, both Christianity and Islam believe that the Jews own the Torah.  They believe that Moses who was a Jew from the tribe of Levi, the son of Israel, wrote the Torah.  They also believe that it was written in the language of the Jews.  The main ascertainment is that, we the Jews, don't understand it.  Could you imagine, one day you write an unbelievable novel.  You spent countless hours planning.  You come up with all the story line an unbelievable plot.  You think about all the characters, their history and background.  You think of the perfect setting and time frame.  Finally, you publish it.  It opens up on New York Times best seller list as number one.  Then a thousand years later some one comes along and tells the relatives of the author that, "he wrote a good book but".  Let me tell you what he really was trying to say.  Oh and by the way did you see all the illusions in the text.  See you thought it was saying this but in all actuality he was really trying to say this.  Really!?!  In Jewish circles you might hear, "What Chutzpah".  Chutzpah is a Hebrew word that means brazenness.  I think you would probably laugh and be just a little bit offended by such pompous arrogance.
        We must take a serious look at the Torah.  We must answer the questions of who, what, where, when, why, and how.  I think any body who is humble enough to acknowledge truth will have a life changing experience if they are honest with them selves and the facts that all agree upon.  We will explore this in detail in the future.