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"Traditions of men"

In line with the new Topic for this month, I am often told that I am following the traditions of men by following Torah. Which makes me wonder:

1. What is the true definition for "traditions of men"?
2. Are all traditions of men sinful?
3. Can we support someone with a tradition they follow if it doesn't cause them to sin?

What are your thoughts on this?

#lawsofmen #manmadelaws #traditionsofmen

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Is idolatry allowed in Torah? Not Yahuah’s Torah that’s for sure. Ba’al Gad worship is the traditions of men.

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1. The traditions of men are manmade laws and habits and holidays.
2. Not all traditions of men are sinful. Going for an evening walk with your offspring everyday is not sinful. It is a tradition of man that a sabbath days walk not exceed half a mile. If you walk more than that, the tradition of man says you are sinning. However, sin is transgression of Torah, not rabbinical traditions. Torah says everyone is to stay in their own place. Yeshua did not have a place to lay His head and frequented the synagogues on sabbath. Did He sin by not staying in His place, or is in his own place possibly a larger area, such as a neighborhood or town? In his own place is the commandment we need to be concerned with, not the sabbath days walk.
3. Yes, we can support someone with a tradition of men. There is no sin in having a habit of daily walking, which is not a commandment of Torah, and is therefore your own tradition as a man.

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1. Anything WE created that we "have" to follow. We, as people, create traditions all the time. Those that say they don't have traditions, are following a tradition of not following other known traditions. They are actively making sure they aren't getting caught up in something.
2. Nope, we see Yeshua following one of those traditions (Weekly Portions) in Luke 4:17-21. This Isaiah portion could have once been part of the Nitsavim portion (which starts just after what Yeshua read).
3. I don't know what you mean by support? Like, I feel supporting someone is encouraging, helping, facilitating what they do. If someone wants to where tefflin, I am not going to encourage them, but I am also not going to discourage them. If they try to push it on other believers (especially me and my family), I might then step in with challenges and Scripture.

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Another way of looking at whether keeping a tradition of man is inherently sin: Yeshua and the disciples went for a walk to gethsemane after Passover was eaten. It is stated this is a sabbath days walk. Yeshua was going above and beyond Torah by not walking farther than the rabbis allowed. Was He still following Torah? Yes because He was near His temporary place for that evening. Some may say it wasnt passover because they left the placebut consider this: the Israelites were instructed to leave camp to relieve themselves, even on passover and their houses in israel had commmunity outhouses in the cities, so they had to leave their houses after the meal. Peehaps they had chamber pots in egypt, but there is no evidence of this and they were instructed to leave in the middle of that night. My point being, the instruction to not leave your house after the passover was a temporary mitzvah, and would have been burdonsome if it was enforced after that passover in egypt.

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Traditions of men would be something man said that the Most High did not. I would say that those areas where people argue over the meaning is not a 'tradition'; that is just us humans trying to search it out.

No, praying before and after you eat, making a Bible reading plan, how you raise your children, etc. Unless you are defining a tradition as something that is enforced on a whole group?... then I suppose it could be. I.e. no strong drink, no meat, skirts only for women, no short-sleeves. That might be straddling the line *shrug*

Sure, someone has a tradition of reading Maccabees every winter, or fasting from food once a month, or even fasting from the internet or tv. I see no problem encouraging one in that.

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