Torah

"The sphere of Christian brotherhood is wider than the sphere of Jewish brotherhood. It would be a great mistake, however, to suppose that even within its own sphere, the brotherhood of Judaism reaches the intensity of the brotherhood of Christianity. 

St. Paul certainly had a different opinion; when he says, "Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ," he clearly means to imply that we cannot reach this goal by merely fulfilling the law of Moses. 

And indeed it may be said that, as a whole, and making allowance for isolated exceptions, the law of Moses exhorts not so much to bear as to forbear. It is not so much a command to confer benefit, as a prohibition to inflict injury. It does not so much aim at the glorification of humanity, as at the prevention of any act which would maim or mutilate humanity.

Hence its most powerful watchword is not, Thou shalt, but, Thou shalt not!

It seeks to refrain the hand from doing wrong rather than to nerve the heart for doing right. It forbids to kill, to steal, to perjure, to covet; and though in this last instance it reaches something like an inward state, it is at best only a negative inwardness. It tells a man not to desire that his brother's wealth may be transferred to him, but it does not tell him to desire that the good which is possessed by him may be equally possessed by his brother; that command to "covet the best gift" -- the spirit of charity, was reserved for another dispensation.

 Nor is the religious side of the Decalogue more positive than its practical side; the duties of the sanctuary are, like the duties of the community, prohibitions from doing any wrong. To worship no other God, to make no image of God, to take not God's name in vain, to do no work on God's Sabbath -- this is the sum and substance of the religious code of Judaism. The one positive precept of its moral law is assigned neither to its sanctuary nor to its community, but to that relation of the family which is its symbol of all sacredness: "Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land." George Matheson.