Torah is about WALKING UPRIGHT in OBEDIENCE. Nothing more, nothing less
Really? What did the Jerusalem Council say about the Torah and new believers? And what did Yeshua say about the Torah?
Matthew 22:36-40 (NKJV) “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?”
37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”
John 5:39-40 (NKJV) You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. 40 But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.
The testimony at the Jerusalem Council regarding binding new believers to circumcision and ritual observance of the Torah....
Acts 15:10 (NKJV) Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
And what did the Council state in their letter?.....
Acts 15:23-29 (NKJV Strong's,) They wrote this, letter by them: The apostles, the elders, and the brethren, To the brethren who are of the Gentiles in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia: Greetings. 24 Since we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, “You must be circumcised and keep the law”—
to whom we gave no such commandment— 25 it seemed good to us, being assembled with one accord, to send chosen men to you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, 26 men who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. 27 We have therefore sent Judas and Silas, who will also report the same things by word of mouth. 28
For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things: 29 that you abstain from things offered to idols, from blood, from things strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.
Torah observance can be a slippery slope. If allowed, it can be a source of pride and eventually sin in a person. If one thinks they are keeping the Torah better than someone else, that can lead to being puffed up (pride) and a sense of "I am better than the other guy". That is sin. So in fact, ritual Torah observance can lead to sin in some. Even deriding someone because they don't follow all the Torah as one does, that is sin. One needs to be careful when it comes to advocating literal observance of the Torah. That is treading on dangerous turf. Better to follow Yeshua's interpretation in Matthew 22.