Easy answers/Torah
August 29, 2017
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In the first century, rabbis were trying to simplify the rules in the Bible. No wonder There were 613 prohibitions and 248 commandments.
One asked a learned master, “Tell me the Torah as I stand on one foot.” In other words, simplify into a few minutes.
Jesus did better, He condensed it into 2 sentences. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” Luke 10: 27
Loving God is the easier part for me. Loving my neighbors? I’m working on that.