Which rules did Jesus empahsize that were also in the Torah?

Answer 1

Answer # 1

I know that Jesus says to love your neighbor and to honor your father and

mother, which are both part of the Ten Commandments.

(Note: "Love your neighbor" is not part of the Ten Commandments.)

Answer # 2

Jesus puts forth two rules that are commonly and collectively referred to as The

Great Commandment:

When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Saducees, they gathered

together, and one of them [a scholar of the law] tested him by asking, "Teacher,

which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He said to him, "You shall love

the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.

This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love

your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two

commandments." Matthew 22:34-40 NAB (see also Mark 12:28-34 and Luke

10:25-28)

[Note: The Torah specifies that the mitzvot are not to be ranked and there is no way to rank the mitzvot. Therefore, there is no mitzvah greater than the other.]

A foundation for the love of God is expressed through the first 3

commandments:

• you shall have no other gods before me.
• you shall not take the name of the Lord in vain
• keep holy the sabbath day

[Note: The first three of the Ten Statements in the original text are:

1. "I am the Lord your G-d"

2. "You shall not recognise the gods of others in My presence"

3. "You shall not take the name of your Lord in vain"]

Jesus also reminds us to love our neighbor, echoing Leviticus - You shall love

your neighbor as yourself. I am the LORD.

A basic foundation for loving our neighbors (other people) is expressed through

maintaining the remaining 7 commandments:

• honor your father and mother
• do not kill
• do not commit adultery
• do not steal
• do not bear false witness against your neighbor
• do not covet your neighbor's property
• do not covet your neighbor's wife

[Note: The remaining 7 Statements in the original text are:

4. version A: "Remember the Day of Shabbat to Keep it Holy, etc. - Sanctify the Day of Shabbat by treating it as a Day of Delight, and by the recitation of Kiddush, etc."

version B: ""Protect the Day of Shabbat to Keep it Holy, etc" - Observe the Day of Shabbat as a Day of Rest by refraining from "Melacha," creative, purposeful interaction with nature, etc."

5. "Honor your Father and your Mother…"

6. "You shall not Murder"

7. "You shall not commit adultery"

8. "You shall not steal"

9. "Do not give false testimony against your neighbor."

10. "Lo Tachmod beit reiecha,…" - "You shall not covet your fellow's house. You shall not covet your fellow's wife, his manservant, his maidservant, his ox, his donkey, nor anything that belongs to your fellow."]

By carefully adhering to both these groups of commandments, one adheres to

two groups of rules that collectively form a single foundation of the Christian

moral life; love of God and love of neighbor.

REFERENCES

Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. The New American Bible, (Iowa Falls: IA,

World Bible Publishers, Inc. 1991).

Answer 2

One element of synagogue worship was the reciting of the Shema, or what amounted to the Jewish confession of faith. It received its name from the first word of the first scripture used, "Listen [Shemaʽ′], O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah." (De 6:4) The most important part of the service was the reading of the Torah or Pentateuch, which took place on Mondays, Thursdays, and each Sabbath. In many synagogues, the Law was scheduled to be read entirely in the course of one year; in others the program took three years. It was because of the emphasis on the reading of the Torah that the disciple James could well observe to the members of the governing body at Jerusalem: "From ancient times Moses has had in city after city those who preach him, because he is read aloud in the synagogues on every sabbath."

Answer 3

There are, I believe 612 or 613 commandments in the first five books of The Bible, known as the Torah to the Jews and the Pentateuch to Christians. As St. Thomas Aquinas explained in his Summa Theologia these commandments can be broken down into three categories: the Moral commandments, the Legal commandments, and the Ceremonial commandments.

The moral commandments: the prime example is the Ten Commandments, but all of these commandments address man's moral behavior, so they are true regardless of the time or place; and must be obeyed. Our Blessed Lord emphasized these numerous times, one prime example is the rich young man who asks Him what he must do to be saved, and Our Blessed Lord begins enumerating the Commandments: you shall not kill, you shall not commit adultery, etc.

The Legal commandments are morally neutral and must be obeyed if the state we live in has statues regarding them, otherwise not. These were the commandments put in place for the Jews to form a nation.

The Ceremonial commandments had one purpose and one purpose only: to foreshadow Christ. Thus circumcision was done to foreshadow the Savior, eating the Passover Supper was to foreshadow the Savior. The dietary laws were to foreshadow the Savior. St. Thomas explains that it is mortally sinful to obey these commandments as we are saying that we do not believe that the Messiah arrived in the person of Christ and we still need to wait for Him.

Thus the short answer to our question is the Moral Commandments.

Answer 4

The two rules that Jesus quoted from the Torah are "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. The second was "Love your neighbor as yourself".

Answer 5

don't be a sinner