Messianic Commentary on Torah Portion Shoftim | Love And War, And Everything In Between

IS SCRIPTURE TRULY AUTHORITATIVE?

This week’s Torah portion says that an animal offering with a single blemish is considered an “abomination.” Is the God of the Old Testament so caught up in things being perfect that He can’t accept something simply because it comes from the heart? Why does the Torah seem to be so concerned over these petty matters? If you’d like an honest answer to these questions, then stick around for this week’s 5 Minute Torah.

00:00 - Modern Prophecies & Miracles
00:24 - 3 Things You Need To Know
02:42 - Commentary / Teaching

Messianic Commentary on Parashat Shoftim

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[barbaranavarro]

Torah is the foundation in which we govern our lives. Each new reading cycle I think and learn more about how to live a Holy life before a Holy God. My eyes are open to truths that I didn't see the previous years, because I am not the same person I once was. His words do not change, I change and grow each time I do the reading cycle. B'Shem Yeshua Moshianu.

[chrisbelieves]

Shalom! I finally purchased all three volumes! I look forward to reading them and internalizing your insights. The 5 minute Torah concept is a wonderful way for us to apply God’s word to our lives, not just with the cycle, but in any moment in which a specific portion applies to our lives. Many thanks and blessings!

[chrisbelieves]

Torah is definitely the standard, although I’m still seeking the truth on applicability of all “613” commandments vs “extended Noachide laws” for gentile believers, ie how much does grafting in change/ modify our identity in how we were created. But following the apostles, there are clear lines in the sand: Idolatry, eating strangled animals and blood, and sexual immorality. The Torah is pretty crystal clear on that.

[rinanicole]

I think the Torah is the foundation and it is meant to be relevant in our lives in each aspect of our lives. It is the instruction to teach us how to live.
Each cycle I grow and learn more not that the words change as his words are always the same and faithful but I grow in understanding studying this instruction. (Which means my ideas, outlook and definitions may change as I learn and grow and apply these to my life.)
A question I was asked when I started learning was, “how many of us can say that Torah is the primary source of "instruction" or "teaching" in our lives?”
Baruch HaShem for his holiness and patience in instructing his children.
Shabbat Shalom!!

[mattaikay]

Thanks, for the teaching - Mankind was given a Torah that is complete in every aspect - Baruch AtahAdonai Eloheinu Melech HaOlam - Shabbat Shalom.

[elijahhawkins]

How much authority does the Torah really have in our lives? I see the Torah giving order and structure to our lives, the manual..how we are supposed to live holy and blameless in obedience to God. Jesus pointed to what is written so many times in His ministry and with Him being the ultimate authority commanding us to love God and love others then the Torah is certainly chalked full of the ways ordained by God in which we should love Him and properly love our neighbor.

Can we trust it? 100% we can trust it knowing that it was written by Moses, who talked with God. It is God’s word and how He chose to reveal Himself to humanity and present to us what holiness practically looks like knowing that without that holiness no one shall see Him.

What you mentioned about the reality of progressive influxes into many religious communities that are against the prohibitions presented in the Torah, I see that as wrong for even Jesus came and said to those following Him that the things in the Torah are what you are to do and not to do, yet even more so one’s innermost thoughts and motives for what they do outwardly need to be changed, and that is why we depend on the Lord to give us a new heart with His laws written upon them and we are to be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of our mind meditating on God’s word day and night.
I am unsure how spirituality can evolve being that I view spirituality as choosing God first, loving Him first, doing what He says and has commanded especially when it is contrary to human inclinations or tendencies that me may deem as natural and if we do that it would be a manifestation of how true biblical love is expressed.

[wrdhntr]

Luke 5:31-32 And Yeshua answered and said to them, “It is not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance.” and he also said, 12 He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. 13 But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, 14 and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.” (Lk 14:12–14) This is what torah is about, however, we must be careful that when you invite such to the banquet, that they are there to be changed and to change you.

[deedeemessersmith]

Torah is not just the 5 Books of Moses or even the entire Bible but it includes the oral law. Torah is eternal and not one jot nor tittle will ever change. Torah is not progressive in the sense that it will change with man’s views or desires. It’s outside time and space and this world. What was considered unholy or detestable has not changed. For our sakes we should hold fast to all the Torah.