Is Jesus as God Unhalacha?

[Valke2]

the point being discussed is that The Memra’ is to be worshipped, served, obeyed, spoken to, and prayed to, as God. The link might help you out, or if you have any other understanding of the Memra theology within Judaism, it could help as well.

Certainly that hasn’t been part of jewish beliefs for a few thousand years. Before then, who knows. The written word was believed to have power on its own and that belief would certainly color how some individuals viewed the Torah. But such a belief would be held in spite of the Torah, not because of what is found in it.

 

[inJESUS]

Certainly that hasn’t been part of jewish beliefs for a few thousand years. Before then, who knows. The written word was believed to have power on its own and that belief would certainly color how some individuals viewed the Torah. But such a belief would be held in spite of the Torah, not because of what is found in it.

yes but some quotes or references about Memra would be more than helpful in order to understand or at least check what that site is saying.

 

[Valke2]

yes but some quotes or references about Memra would be more than helpful in order to understand or at least check what that site is saying.

I don’t think I can help. The Hebrew word Dvar meaning word is a term we use when discussing things like a Torah lesson. I never heard of a specific practice of worshipping the Torah or any part of it.

I have heard of the understanding that God’s utterance resulted in creation. The creative power of His word. The concept is applied to God’s use of speech to create.

Here’s some info I found in the Jewish Encyclopedia:

“The Word,” heard and announced by the prophet, often became, in the conception of the seer, an efficacious power apart from God, as was the angel or messenger of God: “The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel” (Isa. ix. 7 [A. V. 8], lv. 11); “He sent his word, and healed them” (Ps. cvii. 20); and comp. “his word runneth very swiftly” (Ps. cxlvii. 15).

In the Targum the Memra figures constantly as the manifestation of the divinepower, or as God’s messenger in place of God Himself, wherever the predicate is not in conformity with the dignity or the spirituality of the Deity.
For the full article:
jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=399&letter=M

 

[inJESUS]

Yep that’s an interesting link where we read about the personnification of the Memra and the role of mediatorship.