It's important to have the foundation in place because this society is so far removed from the culture back then and the issues being dealt with. As we see, YHWH is pretty darn pleased with Torah, as with His Son Who walked it out perfectly as our example to 'walk as He walked'. NOWHERE do we find, as many modern day Christians would say, it is ever referred to as any type of bondage...that would be like saying they came out of Egyptian bondage right back into bondage imposed by YHWH!
No, the bondage comes from MAN's laws who elevated THEIR words above His Words! Notice what is written even today:
"The Written Torah cannot be understood without the oral tradition. Hence, if anything, the Oral Torah is the more important of the two."
"The Oral Torah is therefore the basis of God's covenant with Israel. It is even more dear to God than the Written Torah."
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Mat 23:15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you go about the land and the sea to win one convert, and when he is won, you make him a son of Gehenna twofold more than yourselves.
I believe this is where modern-day Christians make a grave error in not understanding these matters.
One day, the distinction will become very clear:
Isa 2:2 And it shall be in the latter days that the mountain of the House of יהוה is established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills. And all nations shall flow to it.
Isa 2:3 And many peoples shall come and say, “Come, and let us go up to the mountain of יהוה, to the House of the Elohim of Yaʽaqoḇ, and let Him teach1 us His ways1, and let us walk in His paths1, for out of Tsiyon comes forth the Torah1, and the Word1 of יהוה from Yerushalayim.” Footnote: 1His ways, His paths, the teaching and the Word of יהוה are used synonymously.
Isa 42:4 “He does not become weak or crushed, until He has established right-ruling in the earth. And the coastlands wait for His Torah.”
Jer 31:31 “See, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall make a new covenant with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yehuḏah1, Footnote: 1See Heb. 8:8-12, Heb. 10:16-17.
Jer 31:32 not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares יהוה.
Jer 31:33 “For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕl after those days, declares יהוה: I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.
Jer 31:34 “And no longer shall they teach, each one his neighbour, and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know יהוה,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares יהוה. “For I shall forgive their crookedness, and remember their sin no more.”