The five books of Mosaic Law are called Torah, but that is not quite accurate, for Abraham kept the commandments the statutes and the judgements of Torah so Torah pre-existed Moses and the 5 books of Law were only necessary because the Elders of the children of Israel rejected Yah on mount Horeb.
The five books of Mosaic law are an inferior substitute for Torah written upon the heart. And it is the heart written Torah that we should be seeking first.
Paul described himself as a follower of the Way, and in the Hebrew the word ‘torah’ is a signpost, and the way is the word debar.
We have forgotten this essential part of our Salvation, if we are not keeping ‘Torah’ we are as the pagans having no relationship with Yah.
Yahushua told us that if one does not keep Torah then “I know you not”
Embedded within Torah are the 10 commandments, most of which have been suborned by mainstream Christianity and rabbinical Judaism.
These are ‘Religions’, creations of men.
The Way of Yah is not a religion it is a state of being in tune with the Creator, and as we walk His pathway so His Torah changes us into His image and likeness. What more can we ask.
We can easily use our own knowledge to do things our own way, and the world will applaud us for so doing, but the world is Adam’s creation not Yah’s and it is ruled by death. Death was not part of Yah’s Creation, It came about because Adam ate the forbidden fruit and gained his own knowledge, he thought he knew better than Yah. But Yah’s Knowledge as given to us in His Torah is a way of Life, Adam’s knowledge leads only to death. We like sheep have gone astray, we’ve turned every one to his own way.
The Prodigal Sone took his inheritance and squandered it, his inheritance was in the form of sentience; the ability to relate to Yah’s Creation, This inheritance he squandered in riotous living in Adam’s world and in following his own way.
He ended up in a pigsty wallowing in the muck of his own making.
But he was not beyond saving, there was a doorway to the light, he could step through it and step upon Yah’s pathway, Torah, he could humble himself to return to his Father as a servant, but to do that he must follow the Way and Yah met him from afar…..