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“Behold, days are coming, says the L-rd, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Yisra᾽el, and with the house of Yehuda… but this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Yisra᾽el after those days, says the L-rd; I will put my Torah in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their G-d, and they shall be my people…”
-Jeremiah 31:31, 33
“Rabbi Elazar says: Be diligent in learning Torah, and know what to respond to one who denigrates the Torah. Know before Whom you labor–the Master of your work is trustworthy to pay you the wage for your activity.”
-Pirkei Avos 2:14
“While writing this commentary of the New Testament, I had no other goal, as I have said in the first volume, but to reconcile these two enemy sisters: The Church and the Synagogue… to show everyone that the New Testament only comes to show that the root of existence is in the unity of G–d (ahdut ha-Bore) … and also to strengthen the law of Moses (Torat Moshe)… I publish this commentary (to Matthew) in Hebrew for Jews, to introduce them to the New Testament who, until now, have not recognized its beauty (eynam makirim ’et yofya)… Notwithstanding the contrary misconception, the New Testament is in no manner contrary to the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) or to the Talmud.“
-Rabbi Eliyahu Tzvi Soloveitchik, Kol Kore
Waykeeper Principles #6 & #8
6. The Jewish writings called, “the New Testament,” are not equal, but are subordinate to the Torah given by G-d at Sinai (and therefore not intended as a Halachic authority).
8. We do not yet have a kosher translation of the “New Testament,” but its general teachings align especially with Hasidic Judaism (e.g. serving G-d with and beyond ‘the letter’).
Based on the Weekly NT Schedule…
Sunday (1):
1 Corinthians 5:1 → 1 Corinthians 6:6 (19)
Chapter 5
1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you—and such immorality as is not even among the Gentiles—that someone has his father’s wife. 2 And you are puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that the one having done this deed might be removed from your midst? 3 For I indeed, absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged—as though present—the one who has thus committed this: 4 in the name of our Master Yeshua, when you have gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Master Yeshua, 5 to deliver such a one to the satan for destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the Day of the L-rd. 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump? 7 Cleanse out the old leaven, that you may be a new lump, just as you are unleavened. For indeed our Pesach also has been sacrificed—Messiah.
8 Therefore let us keep the Feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. 9 I wrote to you in the letter not to associate with the sexually immoral— 10 not at all meaning the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters, since then you would have to go out of the world. 11 But now I wrote to you not to associate with anyone called a brother who is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—with such a one not even to eat. 12 For what business is it of mine to judge those outside? Do you not judge those inside? 13 But G-d will judge those outside. “Remove the wicked one from among yourselves.”
Chapter 6
1 Does any one of you, having a matter against another, dare to be judged before the unrighteous, and not before the holy ones? 2 Or do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy of the smallest tribunals? 3 Do you not know that we shall judge angels? How much more then, the things pertaining to this life? 4 Therefore, if you have judgments concerning things of this life, you appoint as judges those who are of no account in the assembly? 5 I say this to your shame. Is it so that there is not even one wise man among you who will be able to judge between his brothers, 6 but brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers?
Monday (2):
1 Corinthians 6:7 → 1 Corinthians 7:7 (21)
7 Now therefore it is altogether a defeat for you that you have lawsuits among yourselves. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 But you yourselves do wrong and defraud—and that to brothers. 9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of G-d? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor men who lie with males, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the Kingdom of G-d. 11 And some of you were such; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were declared righteous in the name of the Master Yeshua the Messiah and in the Spirit of our G-d. 12 “All things are permissible for me”—but not all things are beneficial. “All things are permissible for me”—but I will not be brought under the power of any. 13 “Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods”—but G-d will bring to nothing both it and them. Now the body is not for sexual immorality, but for the L-rd, and the L-rd for the body. 14 And G-d both raised up the Master, and will raise us up through His power. 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Messiah? Shall I then take the members of the Messiah and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be! 16 Or do you not know that the one who joins himself to a prostitute is one body with her? For He says, “The two shall be one flesh.” 17 But the one who joins himself to the Master is one spirit with him. 18 Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a man does is outside the body, but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a Temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from G-d? And you are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price; therefore glorify G-d in your body.
Chapter 7
1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to touch a woman.” 2 But because of acts of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband. 3 Let the husband render to the wife what is due, and likewise also the wife to the husband. 4 The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband; and likewise also the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife. 5 Do not deprive one another, except by agreement for a season, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; and come together again, that the satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. 6 But I say this by way of concession, not by way of command. 7 Yet I wish all men to be even as I myself am; but each has his own gracious gift from G-d, one in this manner and another in that.
Tuesday (3):
1 Corinthians 7:8 → 1 Corinthians 7:31 (24)
8 Now I say to the unmarried and to the widows: It is good for them if they remain even as I am. 9 But if they do not have self-control, let them marry; for it is better to marry than to burn. 10 But to the married I command—not I but the Master—a wife is not to be separated from her husband 11 (but if she does separate, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband); and a husband is not to send away his wife. 12 But to the rest I say—not the Master: If any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she consents to live with him, let him not send her away; 13 and if a woman has an unbelieving husband, and he consents to live with her, let her not send away the husband. 14 For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified in the brother; for otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are set-apart. 15 But if the unbelieving one separates, let him separate; the brother or the sister has not been enslaved in such cases. But G-d has called us in peace. 16 For how do you know, O wife, whether you will save your husband? Or how do you know, O husband, whether you will save your wife? 17 Only, as the L-rd has apportioned to each, as G-d has called each, so let him walk. And so I direct in all the assemblies. 18 Was anyone called having been circumcised? Let him not become uncircumcised. Has anyone been called in uncircumcision? Let him not be circumcised. 19 Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but the keeping of G-d’s commandments. 20 Let each one remain in the calling in which he was called. 21 Were you called as a slave? Let it not concern you—but if indeed you are able to become free, rather use it. 22 For he who is called in the Master, being a slave, is the Master’s freedman. Likewise also he who is called being free is the Messiah’s slave. 23 You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men. 24 Brothers, let each one remain with G-d in that condition in which he was called. 25 Now concerning the virgins, I have no command of the Master; but I give judgment, as one having received mercy from the Master to be trustworthy. 26 Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress—that it is good for a man so to be. 27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife. 28 But even if you marry, you have not sinned; and if the virgin marries, she has not sinned. But such will have tribulation in the flesh, and I would spare you. 29 But this I say, brothers, the season is shortened, so that from now on those who have wives should be as though they had none, 30 and those who weep, as though they did not weep; and those who rejoice, as though they did not rejoice; and those who buy, as though they did not possess; 31 and those who use the world, as not making full use of it; for the form of this world is passing away.
Wednesday (4):
1 Corinthians 7:32 → 1 Corinthians 8:13 (22)
32 But I want you to be without care. The unmarried one cares for the things of the L-rd—how he may please the L-rd; 33 but the one who has married cares for the things of the world—how he may please his wife; 34 and he is divided. And the unmarried woman and the virgin cares for the things of the L-rd, that she may be set-apart both in body and spirit; but the one who has married cares for the things of the world—how she may please her husband. 35 This I say for your own benefit, not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for what is decent and that you may attend upon the L-rd without distraction. 36 But if anyone thinks he is acting unbecomingly toward his virgin, if she is past her bloom, and so it ought to be, let him do what he wills—he does not sin. Let them marry. 37 But he who stands firm in his heart, having no necessity, but has authority over his own will, and has determined this in his own heart, to keep his own virgin—he will do well. 38 So then he who gives in marriage his own virgin does well, and he who does not give in marriage will do better. 39 A wife is bound for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband has fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she wishes—only in the L-rd. 40 But she is more blessed if she remains as she is, according to my judgment—and I think that I also have the Spirit of G-d.
Chapter 8
1 Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone reckons that he knows something, he has not yet known as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves G-d, this one is known by Him. 4 Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no G-d except one. 5 For even if there are so-called gods, whether in heaven or on earth—as indeed there are many gods and many lords— 6 yet for us there is one G-d, the Father, out of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Master, Yeshua the Messiah, through whom are all things, and we through him. 7 However, not in all is this knowledge; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat it as a thing sacrificed to the idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled. 8 But food does not commend us to G-d; neither if we do not eat are we worse, nor if we eat are we better. 9 But beware lest somehow this authority of yours become a stumbling block to the weak. 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge dining in an idol’s temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat the things sacrificed to idols? 11 And the weak one is destroyed through your knowledge—the brother for whom Messiah died. 12 And thus, sinning against the brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Messiah. 13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will never eat meat unto the age, that I may not cause my brother to stumble.
Thursday (5):
1 Corinthians 9:1 → 1 Corinthians 9:18 (18)
Chapter 9
1 Am I not free? Am I not a Shaliach? Have I not seen Yeshua our Master? Are you not my work in the Master? 2 If to others I am not a Shaliach, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal of my Shelichut in the Master. 3 My defense to those who examine me is this: 4 Have we no authority to eat and to drink? 5 Have we no authority to take along a sister, a wife, as also the rest of the Shluchim and the brothers of the Master and Kefa? 6 Or do I alone and Bar-Nabba have no authority to refrain from working? 7 Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not partake of the milk of the flock? 8 Do I speak these things merely according to man? Or does not the Torah also say the same? 9 For in the Torah of Moshe it is written: “You shall not muzzle the ox while it treads out the grain.” Is it for the oxen that G-d is concerned? 10 Or does He surely say it on our account? Yes, it was written on our account, because the one who plows ought to plow in hope, and the one who threshes in hope of sharing in the produce. 11 If we sowed spiritual things to you, is it a great matter if we reap your fleshly things? 12 If others partake of this authority over you, should not we rather? But we have not used this authority; rather, we endure all things, lest we should hinder the Good News of the Messiah. 13 Do you not know that those who minister the sacred things eat of the things of the Temple, and those who attend at the altar partake of the altar? 14 Even so the Master directed that those who proclaim the Good News are to live from the Good News. 15 But I have not used any of these things; nor have I written these things that it should be so done for me, for it is better for me to die than that anyone should make my boasting void. 16 For if I proclaim the Good News, I have nothing to boast of, for necessity is laid upon me; yes, woe is me if I do not proclaim the Good News! 17 For if I do this willingly, I have a wage; but if unwillingly, I have been entrusted with a stewardship. 18 What then is my wage? That, in proclaiming the Good News, I may make the Good News without charge, that I may not make full use of my authority in the Good News.
Friday (6):
1 Corinthians 9:19 → 1 Corinthians 10:13 (22)
19 For being free from all, I enslaved myself to all, that I might gain the more. 20 And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to those under Torah, as under Torah—not being myself under Torah—that I might gain those under Torah; 21 to those without Torah, as without Torah—not being without Torah of G-d, but in the Torah of Messiah—that I might gain those without Torah. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might gain the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some. 23 And I do all things for the sake of the Good News, that I may become a fellow partaker of it. 24 Do you not know that those who run in a stadium all run, but one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain. 25 And everyone who competes exercises self-control in all things. They indeed do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we, an imperishable one. 26 Therefore I so run, not as without aim; I so box, not as one who beats the air; 27 but I buffet my body and bring it into subjection, lest, having proclaimed to others, I myself should be disqualified.
Chapter 10
1 For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, that all our Fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the Sea, 2 and all were immersed into Moshe in the cloud and in the Sea, 3 and all ate the same spiritual food, 4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from a spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was the Messiah. 5 Yet with most of them G-d was not well-pleased, for they were laid low in the wilderness. 6 Now these things became types for us, that we should not be desirers of evil things, even as they also desired. 7 Neither become idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written: “The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.” 8 Neither let us commit sexual immorality, as some of them committed it, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. 9 Neither let us put the Messiah to the test, as some of them tested, and were destroyed by the serpents. 10 Neither murmur, as some of them murmured, and were destroyed by the destroyer. 11 Now these things happened to them as types, and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages have come. 12 Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. 13 No temptation has taken you except such as is common to man. And G-d is faithful, who will not allow you to be tested beyond what you are able, but with the testing will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Shabbat (7):
1 Corinthians 10:14 → 1 Corinthians 10:33 (20)
14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. 15 I speak as to thoughtful ones; you judge what I say. 16 The Cup of Blessing which we bless, is it not a sharing in the blood of the Messiah? The bread which we break, is it not a sharing in the body of the Messiah? 17 For we, the many, are one bread, one body, for we all partake of the one bread. 18 Behold Yisra’el according to the flesh: are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar? 19 What then do I say? That a thing offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything? 20 Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons and not to G-d; and I do not want you to become partners with demons. 21 You cannot drink the Cup of the L-rd and the cup of demons; you cannot partake of the Table of the L-rd and the table of demons. 22 Or do we provoke the L-rd to jealousy? Are we stronger than He? 23 “All things are permissible”—but not all things are beneficial. “All things are permissible”—but not all things build up. 24 Let no one seek his own, but each one the other’s. 25 Eat anything sold in the meat market, asking no questions for conscience’ sake; 26 for “the earth is the L-rd’s, and its fullness.” 27 If one of the unbelievers invites you, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for conscience’ sake. 28 But if anyone says to you, “This was offered to idols,” do not eat, for the sake of the one who told you, and for conscience’ sake. 29 Conscience, I say, not your own, but that of the other. For why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience? 30 If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I evil spoken of for what I give thanks? 31 Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of G-d. 32 Give no offense, either to Jews or to Greeks, or to the assembly of G-d, 33 just as I also please all in all things, not seeking my own profit, but that of the many, that they may be saved.
Eye To Zion 