The following insight is from Joseph Klausner. So "Who is Joseph Klausner?" Joseph Klausner was the premier scholar of the Second Temple in his day. He was definately, not a believer in Y'shua and took it upon himself to write an answer to this Messiah, taught about by the Christian Church. His book on "Jesus" was the first book on Y'shua written by a Jewish person. Needless to say, this book set out to prove that this "Jesus" of the Church was not their Jewish Messiah. In doing so, he purposely overlooked certain facts (which he obviously knew), he twisted other facts (so bad, that I cannot recommend this book), and then there was an amazing thing he did, that I am sure he did not intend. In trying to prove that "Jesus" of the "Church" was not the Messiah, he did an amazing job of proving that Y'shua is the "Jewish" Messiah. What an irony, consider the irony below, an insight on Matthew 5:17:
"Think not that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets: I came not to destroy but to fulfill; (almost the same phrase occurs in Aramaic in the Talmud: "I came not to lessen the Law of Moses nor: [but] to add to the Law of Moses" (Shabbat 116b); for verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle (Menahoth 29a, 34a; cf Exodus Rabbah 6; Lev. Rabbah 19) shall in no way pass away from the law till all things be accomplished. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
Then follow the words:" Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven." Jesus displeasure is directed only against those who regard the ceremonial laws as of greater importance than the moral laws: he is far from annulling the former: "Woe unto you Pharisees! For ye tithe mint and rue and every herb and pass over judgment and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." This verse in the strongest possible fashion that never did Jesus think of annulling the Law (or even the ceremonial laws which it contained) and setting up a new law of his own. "Joseph Klausner"
"Think not that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets: I came not to destroy but to fulfill; (almost the same phrase occurs in Aramaic in the Talmud: "I came not to lessen the Law of Moses nor: [but] to add to the Law of Moses" (Shabbat 116b); for verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle (Menahoth 29a, 34a; cf Exodus Rabbah 6; Lev. Rabbah 19) shall in no way pass away from the law till all things be accomplished. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven."
Then follow the words:" Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven." Jesus displeasure is directed only against those who regard the ceremonial laws as of greater importance than the moral laws: he is far from annulling the former: "Woe unto you Pharisees! For ye tithe mint and rue and every herb and pass over judgment and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." This verse in the strongest possible fashion that never did Jesus think of annulling the Law (or even the ceremonial laws which it contained) and setting up a new law of his own. "Joseph Klausner"
