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  • Essay / Jesus' relationship between Jesus and the Torah

    Throughout history, the relationship between Jesus and the Torah was closely intertwined. This relationship began at the fall of man, where God had a Savior to redeem all humanity. This is a promise found throughout the Old Testament and fulfilled in the New Testament, particularly with Moses. God promised “a prophet like Moses, who would be specially anointed by God as the Savior of mankind.” Jesus was that accomplishment, but it impacts the relationship between Him and the Torah. The Hebrews of the time had both a positive and negative reaction to Jesus' view of the Torah which later impacted catechesis. “The Messiah was expected to bring a renewed Torah, his Torah…” This was fulfilled with the Christ of whom Paul spoke in Galatians when he spoke of the “law of Christ”. Freedom was at the heart of this message. In Jesus' message, this freedom was a new way of seeing the law already in place, this "new" form of freedom, we can say that Jesus' new interpretation had affected parent-child relationships but also the entire social structure. of the people of Israel. As part of learning Torah, students were required by their teachers to leave the house for extended periods of time. This helped them dedicate themselves to Torah. This practice “replaces genealogy and the master of the Torah acquires a new lineage.” So Jesus founding a new family broke this social order. The prophets before Jesus “edit” the six hundred and thirteen commandments given to Moses. David reduced them all to eleven, Isaiah made six, again Isaiah made two and Habakkuk made one. So what is being discussed is what Jesus adds? It adds. This calls for outrage because it gives “eternal Israel” a new direction. This orientation calls for "perfection, the state of being holy as God is holy, as required by the Torah, now consists of following