db124a not an exhortation to abandon the Tora ~~~~


BUT
A CALL
to deepen our
Genuine Commitiment
both to practicing it and to incorporating its meanings,
Yesh's famous saying can be seen as entirely within a Jewish spiritual world: when
YESHUA explains the parable to his yet still uncomprehending disciples, he is showing
how the literal force of the halakha itself should be read
as indicating its spiritual
or moral meaning.

In Mark 2,
there is also a passage that is,
we think, illuminated by such a perspective: in vv. 18-22, some people
wonder why other pietists (the disciples of Yochanan the Baptist
& the Pharisees) did engage in fasting practices,
while Yehoshua's disciples
did not?

Yesh's answer
that they may not fast
in the presence of the bridegroom,
which is clearly a HALAKHIC statement
interpreted spiritually to refer to the holy, divine bridegroom of Israel:
it seems thus quite clear, that this
is another indirect claim
on Yeshu's part
'to be
divine'
...
cool!
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