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Not only do we have a mystical formula to arrive at 613 commandments, but equally mystical is the
method used by Rabbinical Judaism in dividing the 613 commandments into two groups, one
containing 365 negative commandments and the other consisting of 248 positive commandments.
Believe it or not, here is the basis for this division:

The first contains 365 “negative” Torah laws-
one for each of the 365 days in a solar year.
The second group of Torah laws contains 248 “positive” laws-
one given for each bone in the human body.

See (http://www.religionfacts.com/judaism/practices/mitzvot.htm)
Also (http://www.milechai.com/judaism/613-laws-of-the-torah-365-negative-laws.html

This kind of Kabala mysticism is the basis upon which becoming Torah-observant is founded.
Everyone knows the solar calendar is pagan in origin. In Genesis God specifically singled out the Lunar
calendar to govern the beginning and end of the length of a day (Gen.1). The Lunar calendar is the
specified basis upon which the Feasts of the Lord are to be calculated (Lev. 23). God gave the Lunar
calendar to determine the beginning of a year for the Jews (Ex.12). In spite of such specific instruction
in the Torah (first five books), Rabbinical Judaism turns to the pattern of the solar calendar to set the
amount of how many negative commandments they must find in God’s Word. Never mind that God
does not tell them to compile any list of commandments other than the Ten He gave them through
Moses. How ironic that these 613 commandments are called by the Rabbis “The Law of Moses.”
Think carefully, Gentile believer in Christ, will you indeed become more spiritual as a follower of Christ
if you also adopt the Torah’s 613 laws? Consider also that much of those 613 Torah-based laws is
interpretation based on the oral tradition of Rabbinic Judaism, the same handed-down tradition that
Jesus condemned as that which makes the Word of God of no effect? (see Mark 7:5-13). Will you indeed
be more spiritual or holy if you wear the Jewish tallit to remind you of these 613 laws of the Torah?
Many Gentile converts to the Torah-observant Messianic movement are doing just that! Do you think
that praying a prayer which states that God has commanded certain things found only in Rabbinic
tradition (the traditional prayer for lighting Sabbath and Hanukkah candles for example) will make you
more holy in God’s sight? Hardly! Dear saint of God, such Rabbinic tradition is merely denying the
God-given authority of the New Testament apostles and the supremacy of the New Covenant over the
self-proclaimed authority of the rabbis and their oral law interpretations!

“WELL DID ISAIAH PROPHESY OF YOU HYPOCRITES,
AS IT IS WRITTEN:

THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM
ME, AND IN VAIN THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE

COMMANDMENTS OF MEN. FOR LAYING ASIDE THE COMMANDMENT OF
GOD, YOU HOLD THE TRADITION OF MEN-THE WASHING OF PITCHERS AND
CUPS, AND MANY OTHER SUCH THINGS YOU DO…ALL TO WELL YOU REJECT

THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, THAT YOU MAY KEEP YOUR
TRADITION…MAKING THE WORD OF GOD OF NO EFFECT THROUGH YOUR
TRADITION WHICH YOU HAVE HANDED DOWN. AND MANY SUCH THINGS

YOU DO….IF ANY MAN HAS EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR!”
Mark 7:6-16 excerpts

Listen, dear well-meaning, want-to-be a Messianic Gentile! If you are not careful, you are going to hear
these same words spoken to you at the Judgment Seat of Christ! What Christ condemned 2,000 years
ago is not acceptable today! Go down the same road and you will end up at the same destination!

On the next page I have placed a mere fraction of those 613 Torah Laws interpreted by rabbinical
Judaism. I wish I could print the whole list for you to see.

(go to http://www.milechai.com/Judaism/613-laws-of-the-torah-365-negative-laws.html)

A visual glance at that list will tell you that 80% of the 613 commandments are archaic, obsolete and
non-applicable to a New Testament believer. In stark comparison, I have printed Paul’s description of
how to live a better Christian life as found in Colossians Chapter 3. You don’t need to be a rocket
scientist to see which is a more simplified and self-illuminated path for Christians to follow.