The sages rightly liken the Torah to a rose in a number of metaphors and it’s extremely apt.

It’s especially exemplary in our treatment of Torah itself.

Like a rose it must be handled with gentle tender loving care. If grasped with haste and held tightly by the petals the flower will be crushed. And if grasped by the stem the thorns will cut us.

The same is so with giving it to others. If thrust upon them it itself will likely be broken and crushed or it will otherwise hurt those we offer it to.

Many try to keep commands without love but love is really the only way.

In our experience, there seems to be a disconnect in the Hebrew Roots movement between Torah and Yeshua as if They are one and another rather than then One and theSame.

One the Master and the other His Actions.

(Of course many interpret love as just being nice to others which is another mistake but that’s another matter 😎)

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