Breaking it Down: The Two Great Commands

“Teacher, which is the great command in the Thurah?”
MathathYahu 22:36

And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (Yahusha) said to him, “ ‘You shall love 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’
“This is the first and great command.
“And the second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
“On these two commands hang all the Thurah and the Prophets.”
MathathYahu 22:37-40

What did 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (Yahusha) mean when he said:

“On these two commands hang all the Thurah and the Prophets.”
MathathYahu 22:40

What are “these two commands“?

‘You shall love 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’
‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

per MathathYahu 22:37-40

Was 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 teaching something new?

Let’s take a look at Dabariym (Deuteronomy 6:5) and U’Yaqara (Leviticus) 19:18

Deut 6:1 “And this is the command, the laws and right-rulings which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym has commanded, to teach you to do in the land which you are passing over to possess,
Deut 6:2 so that you fear 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym, to guard all His laws and His commands which I command you, you and your son and your grandson, all the days of your life, and that your days be prolonged.
Deut 6:3 “And you shall hear, O Yashara’Al, and shall guard to do, that it might be well with you, and that you increase greatly as 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of your fathers has spoken to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deut 6:4 “Hear, O Yashara’Al: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 our Alahiym, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 is one!
Deut 6:5 “And you shall love 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your might.
Dabariym (Deut) 6:1-5

U’Yaqara (Leviticus) 19:9-18

Lev 19:9 ‘And when you reap the harvest of your land, do not completely reap the corners of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
Lev 19:10 ‘And do not glean your vineyard or gather every grape of your vineyard, leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym.
Lev 19:11 ‘Do not steal, do not lie, do not deceive one another.
Lev 19:12 ‘And do not swear falsely by My Name and so profane the Name of your Alahiym. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
Lev 19:13 ‘Do not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of him who is hired is not to remain with you all night until morning.
Lev 19:14 ‘Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling-block before the blind, but fear your Alahiym. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
Lev 19:15 ‘Do no unrighteousness in right-ruling. Do not be partial to the poor or favor the face of the great, but rightly rule your neighbor in righteousness.
Lev 19:16 ‘Do not go slandering among your people. Do not stand against the blood of your neighbor. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
Lev 19:17 ‘Do not hate your brother in your heart. Reprove your neighbor, for certain, and bear no sin because of him.
Lev 19:18 ‘Do not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the children of your people. And you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
U’Yaqara (Lev) 19:9-18

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 was directly quoting Dabariym 6:5 and U’Yaqara 19:18 when he spoke of the two great commands in MathathYahu 22:37-40.

‘You shall love 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’
‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

MathathYahu 22:37-40

How do “these two commands hang all the Thurah and the Prophets.”?

First, let’s define Thurah (Torah):

Strong’s Concordance #8451

torah: direction, instruction, law

Original Word: תּוֹרָה
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Transliteration: torah
Phonetic Spelling: (to-raw’)
Definition: direction, instruction, law

Thurah (Torah) = law

Second, we have to establish what the law/commands say:

The 10 Words (Commands):

How do “these two commands (see below) hang all of the Thruah?

‘You shall love 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 (Yahuah) your Alahiym with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’
‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

per MathathYahu 22:37-40

Using color coding, let’s see how the 10 Commands hang onto the two great commands:

Orange = ‘You shall love 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’
Blue = ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

per MathathYahu 22:37-40

1st Command: “You have no other mighty ones against My face
Shamuth (Exod) 20:3

Q: Is having no other mighty ones against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 face an act of loving 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄? Yes

2nd Command: “You do not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of that which is in the shamiym above, or which is in the earth beneath, or which is in the waters under the earth,
you do not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym am a jealous Al, visiting the crookedness of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
but showing kindness to thousands, to those who love Me and guard My commands.

Shamuth (Exod) 20:4-6

Q: Is not making carved images and bowing down to mighty ones an act of loving 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄? Yes

3rd Command: “You do not bring the Name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym to naught, for 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 does not leave the one unpunished who brings His Name to naught.
Shamuth (Exod) 20:7

Q: Is not bringing the Name of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 to naught an act of loving 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄? Yes

4th Command: “Remember the Shabath day, to set it apart.
“Six days you labor, and shall do all your work,
but the seventh day is a Shabath of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym. You do not do any work – you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates.
“For in six days 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 made the shamiym and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 blessed the Shabath day and set it apart.
Shamuth (Exod) 20:8-11

Q: Is guarding the set apart Shabath of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 an act of loving 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄? Yes

Guarding commands 1-4 is to ‘love 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’

5th Command: “Respect your father and your mother, so that your days are prolonged upon the soil which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym is giving you.
Shamuth (Exod) 20:4-12

Q: Is respecting your father and mother an act of loving your neighbor? Yes

6th Command: “You do not murder.
Shamuth (Exod) 20:4-13

Q: Is not committing murder an act of loving your neighbor? Yes

7th Command: “You do not commit adultery.
Shamuth (Exod) 20:14

Q: Is not committing adultery an act of loving your neighbor? Yes

8th Command: “You do not steal.
Shamuth (Exod) 20:15

Q: Is not stealing an act of loving your neighbor? Yes

9th Command: “You do not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Shamuth (Exod) 20:16

Q: Is not bearing false witness against your neighbor an act of loving your neighbor? Yes

10th Command: “You do not covet your neighbor’s house, you do not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, or whatever belongs to your neighbor.”
Shamuth (Exod) 20:17

Q: Is not coveting your neighbors spouse of their belongings an act of loving your neighbor? Yes

Guarding commands 5-10 is to love your neighbor as yourself.

How do “these two commands (see below) hang all of the Prophets?

Orange = ‘You shall love 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’
Blue = ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

per MathathYahu 22:37-40

What did the Prophets say?

Shamu’Al (Sam)

“If you fear 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and shall serve Him and obey His voice, and not rebel against the command of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, then both you and the sovereign who reigns over you shall follow 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym.
“But if you do not obey the voice of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and shall rebel against the command of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, then the hand of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall be against you, as it was against your fathers.
1Shamu’Al 12:14-15

And Shamu’Al said to the people, “Do not fear. You have done all this evil. Only, do not turn aside from following 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. And you shall serve 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 with all your heart,
1Shamu’Al 12:20

YashaYahu (Isa)

“Learn to do good! Seek right-ruling, reprove the oppressor, defend the fatherless, plead for the widow.
YashaYahu 1:17

“Woe to those making unrighteous laws, and writers who have prescribed toil,
to keep the needy back from right-ruling, and to take what is right from the poor of My people, that widows become their prey, and orphans their plunder.
YashaYahu 10:1-2

Thus said 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, your Redeemer, the Set-apart One of Yashara’Al, “I am 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym, teaching you what is best, leading you by the way you should go.
“If only you had listened to My commands! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
YashaYahu 48:17

“If you do turn back your foot from the Shabath, from doing your pleasure on My set-apart day, and shall call the Shabath ‘a delight,’ the set-apart day of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 ‘esteemed,’ and shall esteem it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,
then you shall delight yourself in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. And I shall cause you to ride on the heights of the earth, and feed you with the inheritance of Ya’auqab your father. For the mouth of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 has spoken!”
YashaYahu 58:13-14

YaramYahu (Jer)

And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to me, “Backsliding Yashara’Al has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Yahudah.
“Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, O backsliding Yashara’Al,’ declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, ‘I shall not look on you in displeasure, for I am kind,’ declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, ‘and I do not bear a grudge forever.
‘Only, acknowledge your crookedness, because you have transgressed against 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym, and have scattered your ways to strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice,’ declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
“Return, O backsliding children,” declares 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “for I shall rule over you, and shall take you, one from a city and two from a clan, and shall bring you to Tsiyun.
“And I shall give you shepherds according to My heart, and they shall feed you with knowledge and understanding.
YaramYahu 3:11-15

“For if you truly make your ways and your deeds good, if you truly do right-ruling between a man and his neighbor,
if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, or walk after other mighty ones to your own evil,
then I shall let you dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
“See, you are trusting in false words, which do not profit –
stealing, murdering, and committing adultery, and swearing falsely, and burning incense to Ba’aul, and walking after other mighty ones you have not known.
YaramYahu 7:5-9

“For I did not speak to your fathers, or command them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Matsriym, about matters of burnt offerings or slaughterings.
“But this word I did command them, saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I shall be your Alahiym, and you be My people. And walk in all the ways that I have commanded you, so that it be well with you.’
“But they did not obey or incline their ear, but walked in the counsels, in the stubbornness of their evil heart, and went backward and not forward.
“From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Matsriym until this day, I have even sent to you all My servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them.
“But they did not obey Me or incline their ear, but stiffened their neck. They did evil, more than their fathers.
“And you shall speak all these words to them, though they do not listen to you. And you shall also call to them, though they do not answer you.
“But you shall say to them, ‘This is a nation that did not obey the voice of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 their Alahiym, nor did they accept instruction. Truth has perished and has been cut off from their mouth.
YaramYahu 7:22-28

Yachazaq’Al (Ezek)

“But if a man is righteous and shall do right-ruling and righteousness,
if he has not eaten on the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Yashara’Al, nor defiled his neighbor’s wife, nor comes near a woman during her uncleanness,
if he does not oppress anyone, does return to the debtor his pledge, does not commit robbery, does give his bread to the hungry and covers the naked with a garment,
if he does not lend on interest or take increase, turns back his hand from unrighteousness, executes right-ruling in truth between man and man,
if he walks in My laws, and he has guarded My right-rulings in truth – he is righteous, he shall certainly live!” declares the Master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
Yachazaq’Al 18:5-9

“Therefore say to the house of Yashara’Al, ‘Thus said the Master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, “Repent, and turn back from your idols, and turn back your faces from all your abominations.
Yachazaq’Al 14:6

“Therefore I judge you, O house of Yashara’Al, every one according to his ways,” declares the Master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. “Repent, and turn back from all your transgressions, and let not crookedness be a stumbling-block to you.
“Cast away from you all the transgressions, by which you have transgressed, and make for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O house of Yashara’Al?
“For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies,” declares the Master 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. “So turn back and live!”
Yachazaq’Al 18:30-32

Daniy’Al (Dan)

“We have sinned and did crookedness, and did wrong and rebelled, to turn aside from Your commands and from Your right-rulings.
“And we have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your Name to our sovereigns, our heads, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
Daniy’Al 9:5-6

“As it is written in the Thurath of Mashah, all this evil has come upon us, and we have not entreated the face of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 our Alahiym, to turn back from our crookednesses, and to study Your truth.
Daniy’Al 9:13

Husha (Hosea)

‘Come, and let us turn back to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. For He has torn but He does heal us, He has stricken but He binds us up.
Hos 6:2 ‘After two days He shall revive us, on the third day He shall raise us up, so that we live before Him.
Hos 6:3 ‘So let us know, let us pursue to know 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄. His going forth is as certain as the morning. And He comes to us like the rain, like the latter rain watering the earth.’
Husha (Hosea) 6:1-3

How do “these two commands hang all the Thurah and the Prophets.”?

Both the Thurah (Torah) and the Prophets align with the teachings of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (Yahusha):

‘You shall love 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’
‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

per MathathYahu 22:37-40

Recap: What did 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 (Yahusha) mean when he said:

“On these two commands hang all the Thurah and the Prophets.”
MathathYahu 22:40

The two great commands:

‘You shall love 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 your Alahiym with all your heart, and with all your being, and with all your mind.’
‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’

per MathathYahu 22:37-40

Answer: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 was saying, if you guard all of the commands, you will guard the two greatest commands.

Q: Was 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 teaching something new or was He pointing us back to Thurah?

A1: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 taught nothing new. He only spoke what His Father taught Him.

So 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Adam, then you shall know that I am He, and that I do none at all of Myself, but as My Father taught Me, these words I speak.
“And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do what pleases Him.”
YahuChanan 8:28-29

“I speak what I have seen with My Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.”
YahuChanan (Jn) 8:38

A2: When 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 spoke of the Two Great Commands in MathathYahu 22:37-40, He was point us back to Thurah by directly quoting Dabariym (Deut) 6:5 and U’Yaqara (Lev) 19:18.

A3: 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤔𐤏 had this to say about the same commands of Mashah (Moses):

“For if you believed Mashah, you would have believed Me, since he wrote about Me.
“But if you do not believe his writings, how shall you believe My words?
YahuChanan (Jn) 5:46-47