Lei
A lei de Deus é expressão do seu caráter e amor. Do Sinai ao Sermão do Monte, a lei orienta, protege e revela o padrão santo de Deus para a vida humana.
O propósito da lei
A lei de Deus revela o pecado e nos conduz a Cristo. Pela lei é que temos consciência do que é justo e do que é errado.
For by [depending on] ma’asim of gezetz shall KOL CHAI LO YITZDAK (all living not be justified), for through the gezetz (law) comes Da’as HaChet (knowledge of sin).
What then? Should we commit averah, because we are not under Gezetz (Law) but under Chesed (Grace)? Chas v’shalom!
"All things are lawful?" But not all things are beneficial; "All things are lawful?" But not all things edify.
For the entire Torah has been summed up in one word: V’AHAVTA L’RE’ACHA KAMOCHA (Love your neighbor as yourself).
But the p’ri of the Ruach HaKodesh is ahavah (agape), simcha (joy), shalom (peace), savlanut (patience), nedivut (generosity, kindness), chesed (loving-kindness), ne’emanut (faithfulness), Anavah (meekness, shiflut, lowliness), shlitah atzmi (self-control)…would you not agree? — against these things there is no issur (proscription in the Torah).
Bear one anotherʼs burdens and thus you will fulfill the Torah of Moshiach.
Amar e obedecer
O maior mandamento é amar a Deus e ao próximo. Toda a lei se resume nestes dois mandamentos, que são o fundamento de tudo.
And the shneyah is this, VAHAVTA LREACHA KAMOCHA. There is not another mitzvah greater than these.
This is my mitzvah for you, that you have ahavah (agape) one for the other, as I have ahavah (agape) for you.
Therefore, everything that you wish Bnei Adam do for you, thus also you do for them. For this is the Torah and the Neviim.
Owe (be indebted, obligated) nothing to anyone except a choiv (debt) of ahavah (love); for he who has ahavah has fulfilled the Torah.
And this mitzvah we have from Him that the one having ahavah for Hashem should have ahavah also for the Ach b’Moshiach of him.
Chaverim, if our levavot do not bring us under the gezar din (verdict) of ashem (guilty), we have bitachon before Hashem. And whatever we request, we receive from Him, because we are shomer of His mitzvot and the things pleasing before Him we practice.
Bênçãos da obediência à lei
Se andardes nos meus mandamentos, vivereis. A obediência à lei de Deus traz vida, paz e prosperidade espiritual.
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt give heed diligently unto the voice of Hashem Eloheicha, to be shomer and to do all His mitzvot which I command thee today, that Hashem Eloheicha will set thee on high above kol Goyei Ha’Aretz;
In that I command thee today to love Hashem Eloheicha, to walk in His ways, and to be shomer over His mitzvot and His chukkot and His mishpatim, that thou mayest live and multiply; and Hashem Eloheicha shall bless thee in ha’aretz whither thou goest to possess it.
And now, Yisroel, what doth Hashem Eloheicha require of thee, but to fear Hashem Eloheicha, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve Hashem Eloheicha with all thy lev and with all thy nefesh, To be shomer over the mitzvot Hashem, and His chukkot, which I command thee today for thy good.
And these devarim, which I command thee today, shall be in thine lev; And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy banim, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine bais, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
This Sefer HaTorah shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate on it yomam valailah so that thou mayest be shomer to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy derech prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
But be shomer to do the mitzvah and the torah, which Moshe Eved Hashem charged you, to love Hashem Eloheichem, and to walk in all the darkhei Hashem, and to be shomer mitzvot regarding His commandments, and to have deveykus (attachment, cleavimg to G-d) to Him, and to serve Him in avodas [kodesh] with kol levavchem uvkhol nafshechem (all your heart, with all your nefesh).
With my kol lev have I sought Thee;
O let me not wander from Thy mitzvot.
I have chosen the derech emunah;
thy mishpatim have I accounted worthy.
But the chesed Hashem is me’olam v’ad olam (from everlasting to everlasting)
upon them that fear Him,
and His tzedakah unto bnei banim;
To such as are shomer over His Brit,
and to those that remember His precepts to do them.
Lei e graça
A lei veio para nos guiar; a graça veio para nos salvar. Em Cristo, cumprimos a lei pelo amor — o fruto do Espírito não tem lei contra si.
And, Avot, do not provoke your yeladim to ka’as, but nurture them in the musar of Hashem and His tokhechah (reproof).
He hath showed thee, O adam (man), what is tov.
And what doth Hashem require of thee,
but to do mishpat, and ahavat chesed,
and to walk humbly with Eloheicha?
But let mishpat run down as mayim,
and tzedakah as a never failing stream.
Do not become unequally yoked with koferim (unbelievers), for what shuttafut (partnership) has Tzedek with Lawlessness? Or where is the Brit (Covenant) between Ohr (light) and Choshech (darkness)?