Hello Blue Bird,
This post is intended to reply to your original post rather than the subsequent discussion; no disrespect intended to those who have already replied.
I cannot better the posts I found on another website, as follows:
Source URL:
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questi...dah-spoken
I would also draw the readers' attention to the following:
The Covenant between G-d and the Children of Israel (now the Jewish people), despite the sins of the people noted in Jewish Scripture, is everlasting- Genesis 17.7.
This post is intended to reply to your original post rather than the subsequent discussion; no disrespect intended to those who have already replied.
I cannot better the posts I found on another website, as follows:
- - - - Copy posts start: - - - -
Quote:Alex, Jan 27, 2011 at 21:37.
The answer is two verses later:
"This is the covenant that I will conclude... I will place My Torah inside them, and write it upon their hearts."
So the content of this "new covenant" is exactly the same G-dly Torah and mitzvos as we have had until now. The difference is just that previously, unfortunately, we violated it numerous times, whereas in the future era of Moshiach, when G-d will "banish the spirit of impurity from the earth" (Zech. 13:2), we will no longer have an evil inclination that tempts us to do so; what G-d wants us to do will be a basic part of our psyche ("written upon our hearts"). [...]
Incidentally, for anyone who wants to research this further: this is one of the places where the numbering differs between our Tanachs and, lehavdil, the common non-Jewish translations; the verse cited in the question is 31:30 in a Tanach. Why the difference - I don't know.
Quote:Yaacov Deane, Jan 24, 2016 at 2:39.
The important details to understand from this quote is that this covenant is only with the Jewish people, not with non-Jews. Additionally, it is important to include the 35th through 39th posukim [verses] from the chapter which emphasizes that the Torah of Moshe, 'these ordinances', shall always be. They shall not be 'plucked out' or 'thrown out' even by a false prophet or dreamer of dreams or a miracle worker who arises from amongst the Jewish people and says either, "Let us follow alien gods." or says, "I will add or subtract from these commandments." Like for for example the Jew who did miracles and said that his commandment, the commandment that he added to G-d's commandments, was to "do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
The concept of 'the new covenant' is that there will be a completely new and deeper insight into the covenant that G-d made at Har Sinai. The root of this word 'new', is also associated with the meaning of 'chiddush', which means 'innovation'.
In other words, what Jeremiah is talking about is that with the final redemption there will be an innovation in the understanding of the covenant that was made at Har Sinai through the Torah.
It is a continuation and preservation of the covenant made at Har Sinai with Moshe. Not an overturning of this covenant like is taught in Christianity.
Source URL:
https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questi...dah-spoken
- - - - End of copy posts - - - -
I would also draw the readers' attention to the following:
The Covenant between G-d and the Children of Israel (now the Jewish people), despite the sins of the people noted in Jewish Scripture, is everlasting- Genesis 17.7.