Torah for the Believing Jews is like this train. It is structured so that if you remain inside of this train, you are living sin-free. It left the station at your birth and continues until your death. Will this in mind, we begin.

⭐ FOUNDATIONAL VERSE FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT

“Now the God of peace… make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well‑pleasing in his sight…” (Hebrews 13:20–21)

The New Covenant replaces righteousness‑by‑works with righteousness‑by‑faith, and the Holy Spirit now empowers obedience from within. Jewish believers keep what carries over because God works it in them — not to earn righteousness.

This is our theological anchor.

⭐ DIVISION A — LAWS THAT CARRY OVER 100% (NO TEMPLE, NO PRIESTHOOD, NO LAND REQUIRED)

Format:

1. Longest lawful verse fragment
2. Reference
3. Brief explanation

These are the laws Jewish believers can keep exactly as written, without modification, and without returning to Deut 6:25 righteousness‑by‑works.

⭐ A1. MORAL & ETHICAL LAWS (UNCHANGED)

“Thou shalt not steal…”

Exodus 20:15 Still fully keepable; moral law unchanged by the destruction of the Temple.

“Thou shalt not commit adultery…”

Exodus 20:14 Sexual fidelity remains binding and unchanged.

“Thou shalt not bear false witness…”

Exodus 20:16 Truth‑telling remains a universal moral requirement.

“Thou shalt not kill…”

Exodus 20:13 The prohibition on murder remains fully intact.

“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself…”

Leviticus 19:18 The ethical core of Torah; quoted by Jesus and Paul.

“Thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers…”

Leviticus 19:34 Love for the stranger remains fully keepable.

“Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant…”

Deuteronomy 24:14 Fair labor practices remain binding.

“Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumblingblock before the blind…”

Leviticus 19:14 Compassion and justice remain unchanged.

“Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge…”

Leviticus 19:18 Forgiveness remains fully keepable.

“Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer…”

Leviticus 19:16 Gossip prohibition remains intact.

“Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights…”

Deuteronomy 25:13 Honest business ethics remain fully keepable.

⭐ A2. SABBATH & WEEKLY PRACTICES (UNCHANGED EXCEPT SACRIFICES)

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy…”

Exodus 20:8 Sabbath rest survives without Temple sacrifices.

“In it thou shalt not do any work…”

Exodus 20:10 The rest command remains fully keepable.

⭐ A3. KOSHER LAWS (UNCHANGED)

“Ye shall eat no manner of blood…”

Leviticus 7:26 Still fully keepable; no Temple required.

“These are the beasts which ye shall eat…”

Deuteronomy 14:4 Clean/unclean animals remain fully keepable.

“Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk…”

Exodus 23:19 The core kosher separation remains intact.

⭐ A4. SEXUAL PURITY LAWS (UNCHANGED)

“Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind…”

Leviticus 18:22 Sexual ethics remain unchanged.

“None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin…”

Leviticus 18:6 Incest prohibitions remain fully keepable.

“Neither shalt thou lie with any beast…”

Leviticus 18:23 Bestiality prohibition remains unchanged.

“Thou shalt not approach… as long as she is put apart…”

Leviticus 18:19 Niddah remains fully keepable.

⭐ A5. MARRIAGE & FAMILY LAWS (UNCHANGED)

“Thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children…”

Deuteronomy 6:7 Family discipleship remains fully keepable.

“If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage…”

Exodus 21:10 Marital obligations remain binding.

“Let him write her a bill of divorcement…”

Deuteronomy 24:1 Divorce procedure remains keepable through rabbinic courts.

⭐ A6. CLOTHING & IDENTITY LAWS (UNCHANGED)

“Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts…”

Deuteronomy 22:11 Shatnez remains fully keepable.

“Speak unto the children of Israel… that they make them fringes…”

Numbers 15:38 Tzitzit remains fully keepable.

“Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh…”

Leviticus 19:28 No tattoos remains fully keepable.

⭐ A7. HOLINESS & SEPARATION LAWS (UNCHANGED)

“Be ye holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.”

Leviticus 19:2 Holiness remains fully keepable in the Spirit.

“Regard not them that have familiar spirits…”

Leviticus 19:31 Avoiding occult influence remains fully keepable.

“After the doings of the land of Egypt… shall ye not do…”

Leviticus 18:3 Cultural separation remains fully keepable.

⭐ A8. COMMUNITY & CHARITY LAWS (UNCHANGED)

“Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother…”

Deuteronomy 15:11 Charity remains fully keepable.

“Thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field…”

Leviticus 19:9 Gleaning becomes charity; still keepable.

“Thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.”

Deuteronomy 22:4 Helping your neighbor remains fully keepable.

⭐ A9. REMEMBRANCE LAWS (UNCHANGED)

“Remember the day when thou camest forth out of Egypt…”

Deuteronomy 16:3 Passover remembrance remains fully keepable.

“Remember the sabbath day…”

Exodus 20:8 Sabbath remembrance remains unchanged.

“Remember what Amalek did unto thee…”

Deuteronomy 25:17 Historical memory remains fully keepable.

⭐ THE “DO NOT ADD / DO NOT SUBTRACT” VERSES

(Fully keepable as written.)

“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it…”

Deuteronomy 4:2 A universal command: no adding traditions, no subtracting commandments. Still fully keepable.

“What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.”

Deuteronomy 12:32 The covenant seal. Brackets the entire Torah law code. Still fully keepable.

“Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it…”

Deuteronomy 13:1 (Hebrew numbering; some English Bibles place this as 12:32) Reinforces the same principle: Torah is fixed; humans may not modify it.

“Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.”

Proverbs 30:6 Wisdom literature echoing the Torah command. Still fully keepable.

“Every word of God is pure… add thou not unto his words…”

Proverbs 30:5–6 The principle repeated: God’s words are complete; additions corrupt.

⭐ DIVISION B — TORAH WHEN MODIFIED

(Laws that survived only through adaptation, symbolism, prayer, or community practice.)

These are NOT kept “as written,” but they ARE kept in modified form by Jews (and Jewish believers) from 70 A.D. to 1946 A.D.

⭐ B1. FESTIVALS & HOLY DAYS (MODIFIED)

“In the tenth day of this seventh month… ye shall afflict your souls…”

Leviticus 23:27 Yom Kippur survives, but without priest, goat, blood, or Holy of Holies. Replaced with fasting, prayer, confession, synagogue liturgy.

“Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread…”

Exodus 12:15 Passover survives, but without lamb sacrifice. Replaced with Seder, matzah, storytelling, symbolic foods.

“Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD…”

Exodus 23:17 Pilgrimage survives, but as synagogue attendance and festival gatherings, not Temple travel.

“Ye shall take you… boughs of goodly trees…”

Leviticus 23:40 Sukkot survives, but without sacrifices; booths and lulav remain.

“A memorial of blowing of trumpets…”

Leviticus 23:24 Rosh Hashanah survives, but without Temple shofar service.

“On the eighth day shall be an holy convocation…”

Leviticus 23:36 Shemini Atzeret survives, but without offerings.

⭐ B2. PURITY LAWS (MODIFIED)

“If the priest shall pronounce him unclean…”

Leviticus 13:3 Leprosy laws survive symbolically; rabbis replace priests; no quarantines enforced.

“She shall bring… a lamb of the first year for a burnt offering…”

Leviticus 12:6 Post‑childbirth offerings replaced with prayer; purity period remembered but not enforced.

“He shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water…”

Leviticus 15:13 Purity immersions survive as mikveh, but without priestly inspection.

⭐ B3. TITHING & FIRSTFRUITS (MODIFIED)

“Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed…”

Deuteronomy 14:22 Tithing survives as charity, not Levite support.

“Thou shalt bring the first of the firstfruits…”

Exodus 23:19 Firstfruits survives as prayer and symbolic offerings, not Temple presentation.

“At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe…”

Deuteronomy 14:28 The third‑year tithe survives as charity to poor, not storage in Levitical cities.

⭐ B4. SABBATICAL & JUBILEE (MODIFIED)

“In the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land…”

Leviticus 25:4 Sabbatical year survives symbolically through study, charity, and debt‑release customs.

“Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year… and return every man unto his possession.”

Leviticus 25:10 Jubilee survives as memory and liturgy, not land restoration.

⭐ B5. SACRIFICE‑REPLACEMENT PRACTICES (MODIFIED)

“He shall bring his offering…”

Leviticus 4:3 Sacrifices replaced with prayer, confession, fasting, and synagogue liturgy (Hosea 14:2).

“A continual burnt offering throughout your generations…”

Exodus 29:42 Daily sacrifices replaced with daily prayer services (Shacharit, Mincha, Ma’ariv).

“This shall be a statute for ever… to make an atonement…”

Leviticus 16:34 Atonement rituals replaced with Yom Kippur liturgy, not blood.

⭐ B6. PRIESTLY & LEVITICAL LAWS (MODIFIED)

“The priests shall teach the children of Israel…”

Leviticus 10:11 Teaching survives; rabbis replace priests.

“The Levites shall keep the charge of the tabernacle…”

Numbers 1:53 Levite service survives symbolically as synagogue roles (cantors, readers).

“And thou shalt anoint Aaron and his sons…”

Exodus 30:30 Priestly anointing survives symbolically in rabbinic ordination (semikhah).

⭐ B7. JUDICIAL LAWS (MODIFIED)

“Judges and officers shalt thou make thee…”

Deuteronomy 16:18 Courts survive as rabbinic courts (batei din), not national courts.

“At the mouth of two witnesses…”

Deuteronomy 17:6 Witness laws survive in rabbinic legal procedure, not capital cases.

“If a man steal… he shall restore…”

Exodus 22:1 Restitution survives as civil arbitration, not state enforcement.

⭐ B8. AGRICULTURAL LAWS (MODIFIED)

“Thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field…”

Leviticus 19:9 Gleaning survives as charity, not literal field‑edges.

“Three years shall it be as uncircumcised…”

Leviticus 19:23 Fruit‑tree laws survive symbolically in Tu BiShvat customs.

⭐ B9. NATIONAL & LAND LAWS (MODIFIED)

“When ye come into the land…”

Leviticus 19:23 Land‑entry laws survive as memory, not practice.

“Thou shalt inherit the land…”

Deuteronomy 4:1 Inheritance laws survive as diaspora identity, not land distribution.

⭐ B10. TEMPLE MEMORY LAWS (MODIFIED)

“Let them make me a sanctuary…”

Exodus 25:8 Temple memory survives through synagogue architecture and liturgy.

“This is the law of the house…”

Ezekiel 43:12 Temple vision survives as eschatological hope, not practice.

⭐ DIVISION C — PRINCIPLE‑SURVIVING LAWS

(Laws that cannot be kept literally after 70 A.D., but whose principles survive and are fulfilled in the Spirit.)

These laws cannot be kept as written because they require:

• a Temple
• a priesthood
• a sacrificial system
• a national court
• a functioning Israelite state
• land inheritance
• Jubilee cycles
• Levitical cities

But their principles survive — and Jewish believers fulfill them in the Spirit, not in the letter (Romans 8:4).

Format:

Brief explanation of the surviving principle

Longest lawful verse fragment

Reference

⭐ C1. EXECUTION & NATIONAL PENALTY LAWS (PRINCIPLE ONLY)

“He shall surely be put to death…”

Exodus 21:12 Capital punishment cannot be carried out; the principle survives: treat sin with seriousness and avoid the behaviors that required execution.

“Thou shalt put away the evil from among you…”

Deuteronomy 13:5 National purging is impossible; the principle survives as personal holiness and church discipline (1 Cor 5).

“The congregation shall stone him with stones…”

Numbers 15:35 Stoning is impossible; the principle survives: reject rebellion and persistent defiance against God.

⭐ C2. SACRIFICIAL & ATONEMENT LAWS (PRINCIPLE ONLY)

“He shall bring his offering for his sin…”

Leviticus 4:3 Animal sacrifice is impossible; the principle survives as repentance, confession, and prayer (Hosea 14:2).

“Without blemish…”

Leviticus 1:3 Perfect offerings are impossible; the principle survives as offering God our best in life, worship, and obedience.

“The priest shall make an atonement for him…”

Leviticus 4:20 Priestly atonement is impossible; the principle survives as Messiah’s once‑for‑all atonement (Hebrews 10:10).

⭐ C3. TEMPLE & ALTAR LAWS (PRINCIPLE ONLY)

“Thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings upon the altar…”

Deuteronomy 12:27 No altar exists; the principle survives as worship, praise, and thanksgiving (Hebrews 13:15).

“Let them make me a sanctuary…”

Exodus 25:8 The Temple cannot be rebuilt; the principle survives as God dwelling in His people (1 Cor 3:16).

“The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar…”

Leviticus 6:13 The altar is gone; the principle survives as continual devotion and spiritual vigilance.

⭐ C4. PRIESTHOOD & LEVITICAL SERVICE (PRINCIPLE ONLY)

“They shall keep his charge…”

Numbers 3:7 Levitical service is impossible; the principle survives as spiritual service and ministry in the Body of Messiah.

“Holy garments… for glory and for beauty.”

Exodus 28:2 Priestly garments are impossible; the principle survives as living in visible holiness and distinction.

“The priest shall bless the people…”

Numbers 6:23 Priestly blessing survives symbolically; the principle survives as speaking blessing, not cursing.

⭐ C5. NATIONAL & CIVIL GOVERNMENT LAWS (PRINCIPLE ONLY)

“Judges and officers shalt thou make thee…”

Deuteronomy 16:18 Israelite courts are impossible; the principle survives as justice, fairness, and righteous judgment.

“Thou shalt not respect persons in judgment…”

Deuteronomy 1:17 National courts are gone; the principle survives as impartiality in all dealings.

“If a man steal… he shall restore…”

Exodus 22:1 Biblical restitution cannot be enforced; the principle survives as making wrongs right whenever possible.

⭐ C6. LAND, INHERITANCE & JUBILEE (PRINCIPLE ONLY)

“The land shall not be sold for ever…”

Leviticus 25:23 Land laws are impossible; the principle survives as stewardship, not ownership.

“Ye shall return every man unto his possession…”

Leviticus 25:10 Jubilee cannot be practiced; the principle survives as forgiveness, release, and restoration.

“Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour’s landmark…”

Deuteronomy 19:14 Land boundaries are irrelevant in exile; the principle survives as respecting others’ rights and property.

⭐ C7. WARFARE & NATIONAL SECURITY LAWS (PRINCIPLE ONLY)

“When thou goest out to battle…”

Deuteronomy 20:1 Holy war is impossible; the principle survives as courage and trust in God during spiritual battles.

“Thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth…”

Deuteronomy 20:16 Herem warfare is impossible; the principle survives as total rejection of idolatry and spiritual compromise.

⭐ C8. CEREMONIAL PURITY & CLEANNESS (PRINCIPLE ONLY)

“He shall be unclean until the even…”

Leviticus 11:24 Ceremonial impurity is irrelevant; the principle survives as spiritual purity and moral cleanliness.

“Put difference between holy and unholy…”

Leviticus 10:10 Temple purity is impossible; the principle survives as discernment and separation from sin.

⭐ C9. VOWS, OATHS & DEDICATIONS (PRINCIPLE ONLY)

“When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD…”

Deuteronomy 23:21 Temple vows are impossible; the principle survives as integrity and keeping one’s word.

“He shall not break his word…”

Numbers 30:2 Vow‑laws survive as truthfulness and reliability.

⭐ C10. IDOLATRY & PAGAN PRACTICES (PRINCIPLE ONLY)

“Thou shalt destroy their altars…”

Deuteronomy 12:3 Destroying pagan shrines is impossible; the principle survives as removing idols from one’s life.

“Thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations…”

Deuteronomy 18:9 National purity is impossible; the principle survives as avoiding occultism, syncretism, and pagan customs.

⭐ DIVISION C IS COMPLETE

This is the Torah that survives as principle, not practice — the Torah fulfilled in the Spirit, not the letter.

Together, Divisions A, B, and C give you:

C = Torah whose principles survive even when the law is retired

A = Torah fully keepable

B = Torah keepable only when modified