Continuing in
Matthew 19:18
18 ... Yeshua said, “You shall do no murder; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness.
19 Honor your father and your mother: and, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Yeshua lists
the last half of the Ten Commandments. The young man, assuming he was merely
reciting the Ten, says:
20 ...All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
Yeshua then
stresses where the young man lacked in his
HALACHA
or walk:
21 ...If you will be perfect, go and sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.
The
Least of the Commandments
So we have
seen that Yeshua stressed the importance of not only those Commands known as
the Greater Commandments (love towards God), but also the Lesser
Commandments (love towards our fellow man); but what about those
commandments known as the Least (man’s relationship with his environment)?
Matt 5:17
17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill *.