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You claimed the rabbi was one man who "kept the Law", just like Jesus, and he did so by asserting, under torture that he had recited the Shema daily and now, under torture, he "knew that he had kept it".

A basic tenet of Judaism is that none are righteous, or "good", that any righteousness that men have, comes from God. Jesus also affirmed this and we know from the prophet, that good deeds avail one nothing. If on his dying, he had given God the glory for keeping the Shema for him, instead of taking the credit himself, he would have shown that basic understanding.

Furthermore now I see that he was a pharisee of the first order, did not recognize Christ as the Messiah but instead followed another man that claimed he was the Messiah. A cursory reading of the NT will tell you that the pharisees did try to keep the whole law, but Jesus told them they could not.

So, who is right, you or Jesus?