The Torah is Unique
The Torah was given to Moses as God’s Scribe for him to copy down exactly as God dictated in His Presence. These first five books of the Bible are totally unique in the world! There is no other writings that can come any where close to these five Books of Moses including the rest of the Bible! They are the most accurately copied documents in the world as attested to by the Dead Sea findings.
How can I make such a declaration? God wrote the Ten Commandments or in Hebrew Aseret HaDevarim, The Ten Words/Statements on the two stone tablets as stated in Exodus 32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. These Ten Statements, Aseret HaDevarim summarised the whole of Torah. So all 613 commandments in the Torah can be fitted under these Ten Statements as chapter headings. The two stone tablets were kept in the Ark of Testimony in the Holiest Place and are proof of the Covenant made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as ratified by God on Mt Sinai and recorded by Moses, the Scribe of God. Hence the Torah is at the core of Israel and the Jewish people. It defines who they are as bearing witness to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Even right up to today, the Torah is central to Jewish worship and lifestyle especially the more orthodox Jews.
The opening words of the Gospel of John “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and was God.” points directly to these Ten Words that represent the whole of Torah that is now the living Torah, Yeshua the Messiah. Just as Yeshua is unique so is the Torah unique as it points to Him. Yeshua himself declares the uniqueness of the Torah when he states in Matthew 5:18 (KJV) For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. A more Hebraic translation is (TLV) Amen, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter (yod י) or serif shall ever pass away from the Torah until all things come to pass. So every single letter carries significance, and even the spaces in between the letters! If God promises that He will never change a word of the Torah, then every word in the Torah mirrors the truth of God Himself, and therefore the basis of existence[i]. Thus the Torah is not affected by changing situations or environments and is absolute as God. In Maimonides' 13 Principles of Faith it states:
This Torah that Moses transcribed from the Almighty is unique and there will never be another. One must neither add to it nor subtract from it, be it the Written Law or the Oral Law. As it stated: "Neither add to it nor subtract from it" (Deuteronomy 13:1).The Torah was not given by inspiration of the Holy Spirit as was given to the Prophets (Navim) and the author of the Writings (Kehuvim) that make up the rest of the Tanach, the Hebrew Scriptures. This is stated by God Himself in Numbers 12:6-8 “Hear now My words!” He said. “When there is a prophet of Adonai, I reveal Myself in a vision, I speak to him in a dream. 7 Not so with My servant Moses. In all My house, he is faithful. 8 I speak with him face to face, plainly and not in riddles. He even looks at the form of Adonai! Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?”Even the four Gospel and the Book of Acts can be classified as oral Torah as they are the eye witness testimonies of Yeshua, the Messiah. Whereas, the Epistles can be considered as instructions or Halakah (the way to walk) given by the Apostles to the disciples, talmidim. The Book of Revelation is the closest document to the Torah as it was given directly to John while on the island of Patmos by direct revelation of Yeshua of the Last Days, although he wrote it down as inspired by the Holy Spirit but it comes with a warning.
Revelation 22:18-19:
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book. If anyone adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his share in the Tree of Life and the Holy City, which are written in this book.Confirmation of this uniqueness can be found in what has been referred to as the ‘Bible Code’ or the Equidistance Letter Sequential encoded in the Torah. This would breaks down if any letters were added or left out of the Torah. There are 79,847 words in a Torah scroll, and 304,805 letters that are directly from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Hebrew alphabet represent the character of Creator God, as they are the very first thing He created through the alep tav úא the middle word in Genesis 1:1
:בראשׁית ברא אלהים את השׁמים ואת הארץ׃
Have you ever wondered why there is no record of Yeshua ever writing down anything during his time of ministry, except in the sand? Who wrote the Ten Commandments (or more correctly the Ten Words (Davar))?
An excellent book by Asher Intrater “Who had Lunch with Abraham?” makes a convincing case that Yeshua’s finger wrote them (Ex 31:18, Dt 9:10). So if Yeshua wrote anything down during His ministry, He would be breaking His own Torah that He had written at Mt Sinai! Since, it states in Deuteronomy 12:32 (Devarim 13:1)
All this word (Davar) which I command you, that shall ye observe to do; thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it (JPS). So if He had written anything unless it was a quote from Torah, He would have been adding to Torah.These Ten Commandments/Words/Statements are like chapter headings under which all 613 commandments in the Torah fit. Ten is the number representing ‘a complete representation of the whole’. Consider 10 righteous men in Abraham’s plea to God to save Sodom (Ex 18:32) or the 10 plagues of Egypt for example.
[i] Maimonides #9 – The Uniqueness of Torah www.aish.com/sp/ph/48925407.html?
How can I make such a declaration? God wrote the Ten Commandments or in Hebrew Aseret HaDevarim, The Ten Words/Statements on the two stone tablets as stated in Exodus 32:16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables. These Ten Statements, Aseret HaDevarim summarised the whole of Torah. So all 613 commandments in the Torah can be fitted under these Ten Statements as chapter headings. The two stone tablets were kept in the Ark of Testimony in the Holiest Place and are proof of the Covenant made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob as ratified by God on Mt Sinai and recorded by Moses, the Scribe of God. Hence the Torah is at the core of Israel and the Jewish people. It defines who they are as bearing witness to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Even right up to today, the Torah is central to Jewish worship and lifestyle especially the more orthodox Jews.
The opening words of the Gospel of John “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and was God.” points directly to these Ten Words that represent the whole of Torah that is now the living Torah, Yeshua the Messiah. Just as Yeshua is unique so is the Torah unique as it points to Him. Yeshua himself declares the uniqueness of the Torah when he states in Matthew 5:18 (KJV) For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. A more Hebraic translation is (TLV) Amen, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter (yod י) or serif shall ever pass away from the Torah until all things come to pass. So every single letter carries significance, and even the spaces in between the letters! If God promises that He will never change a word of the Torah, then every word in the Torah mirrors the truth of God Himself, and therefore the basis of existence[i]. Thus the Torah is not affected by changing situations or environments and is absolute as God. In Maimonides' 13 Principles of Faith it states:
This Torah that Moses transcribed from the Almighty is unique and there will never be another. One must neither add to it nor subtract from it, be it the Written Law or the Oral Law. As it stated: "Neither add to it nor subtract from it" (Deuteronomy 13:1).The Torah was not given by inspiration of the Holy Spirit as was given to the Prophets (Navim) and the author of the Writings (Kehuvim) that make up the rest of the Tanach, the Hebrew Scriptures. This is stated by God Himself in Numbers 12:6-8 “Hear now My words!” He said. “When there is a prophet of Adonai, I reveal Myself in a vision, I speak to him in a dream. 7 Not so with My servant Moses. In all My house, he is faithful. 8 I speak with him face to face, plainly and not in riddles. He even looks at the form of Adonai! Why then were you not afraid to speak against My servant Moses?”Even the four Gospel and the Book of Acts can be classified as oral Torah as they are the eye witness testimonies of Yeshua, the Messiah. Whereas, the Epistles can be considered as instructions or Halakah (the way to walk) given by the Apostles to the disciples, talmidim. The Book of Revelation is the closest document to the Torah as it was given directly to John while on the island of Patmos by direct revelation of Yeshua of the Last Days, although he wrote it down as inspired by the Holy Spirit but it comes with a warning.
Revelation 22:18-19:
I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book. If anyone adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book; and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his share in the Tree of Life and the Holy City, which are written in this book.Confirmation of this uniqueness can be found in what has been referred to as the ‘Bible Code’ or the Equidistance Letter Sequential encoded in the Torah. This would breaks down if any letters were added or left out of the Torah. There are 79,847 words in a Torah scroll, and 304,805 letters that are directly from the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Hebrew alphabet represent the character of Creator God, as they are the very first thing He created through the alep tav úא the middle word in Genesis 1:1
:בראשׁית ברא אלהים את השׁמים ואת הארץ׃
Have you ever wondered why there is no record of Yeshua ever writing down anything during his time of ministry, except in the sand? Who wrote the Ten Commandments (or more correctly the Ten Words (Davar))?
An excellent book by Asher Intrater “Who had Lunch with Abraham?” makes a convincing case that Yeshua’s finger wrote them (Ex 31:18, Dt 9:10). So if Yeshua wrote anything down during His ministry, He would be breaking His own Torah that He had written at Mt Sinai! Since, it states in Deuteronomy 12:32 (Devarim 13:1)
All this word (Davar) which I command you, that shall ye observe to do; thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it (JPS). So if He had written anything unless it was a quote from Torah, He would have been adding to Torah.These Ten Commandments/Words/Statements are like chapter headings under which all 613 commandments in the Torah fit. Ten is the number representing ‘a complete representation of the whole’. Consider 10 righteous men in Abraham’s plea to God to save Sodom (Ex 18:32) or the 10 plagues of Egypt for example.
[i] Maimonides #9 – The Uniqueness of Torah www.aish.com/sp/ph/48925407.html?