Thanks, I know that is what you are doing and I know who your target audience is. That is what bothered me! If you are going to provide your Christian audience a Torah perspective....great! I would only hope that your presentation would be an open and honest one. Provide your audience with an accurate portrayal of how a Torah Scroll is constructed. Why paint it as Christological when it is dishonest to do that? Many other aspects of your book are comepletely wrong but that would be a polemic discussion. The blatently dishonest stuff, is not fit for your audience.
Shalom and L'shannah tovah to you as well!
Fair enough. I was attempting to be brief rather than comprehensive, so I don't doubt that I lost some clarity in the process.
For the record, what I am attempting to do is to take away the whole "Old Law (Torah) vs. New Law of Christ" paradigm that has dominated Christianity since the 2nd or 3rd Century. It is that paradigm which has forcibly removed Jews from their people, their traditions, and even their special relationship to the Covenant and the Torah for the last two millennia. It almost happened to my family.
So my goal in posting this sort of stuff and writing commentary on the book of Revelation is not to convert Jews to Christianity--heck, how would that even work?--but to grow a greater respect for Judaism and the Torah among Christians. Thus, I draw the connections between the Torah and Yeshua on not only a practical level, showing how His teachings were fully consistant with the Torah--and mostly consistant with the consensus of the rabbis, for that matter--but also on a midrashic level, showing Him to be the embodiment of Torah rather than anti-Torah.
L'shannah Tova and Shalom.