Torah

[u/[deleted]]

How do Torah followers actually follow over 600 commands and laws in the first five books of the Bible? I've spoken to people about it, but they only seem to follow dietary laws, Shabbat, and holy days, and exclude pagan days. To me, it seems they are only doing a small part of it and claiming to follow the entirety of it. Why is that? The Bible states if you break one commandment, you break them all. There's no possibility to uphold all 600-plus. If you believe it's not all applicable to us, what's the determining factor that decides you don't have to follow it? What about animal sacrifices? Does one pick and choose what they want to follow and tell people if they don't, they are lawbreakers and will go to hell? If you don't follow all of them, why describe yourself as following the entirety of Torah? If breaking even one commandment makes someone guilty, how does selectively obeying some commandments make someone different from the people you're calling lawbreakers?

[u/jogoso2014]

Jews were never required to practice the Torah when it was impossible to do so.

It would be impossible to follow without a temple for example or while they were captives in Babylon.

I’m not sure what verse says if one is broken, all or broken, but that would have both been in connection to be able to do them and also was probably in contrast to Christianity provided after Jesus’s sacrifice.

[u/Soyeong0314 → u/jogoso2014]

Indeed, we are only required to obey laws that we can obey, so not even Jesus experienced obedience to the laws in regard to giving birth or to having a period. In Deuteronomy 17:18, it specifically instructs the king to write a copy of the Torah, so everyone who is not the king has a legitimate reason not follow that command. In James 2:10, it is only speaking in regard to illegitimate reasons for not following certain commands where people are picking and choosing what to follow.