[metmom]

It’s more like throwing yourself on the mercy of the court.

Yes, in that sense it’s doing something, but not the same as trying to work off the debt or pay the penalty for having broken the law (or Law).

It’s an acknowledgment of guilt and asking for forgiveness to cancel the debt or pay the penalty that we can’t do ourselves.

[Torahman]

The Torah is forever. It is the Word of God and will not change. No one was ever saved by the works of the Law. Abraham believed God and was accounted to him as Righteousness. We are to keep the Torah because it is Good. Keeping Torah fulfils our spiritual potential: it pleases God, makes Him happy. We are free from the condemnation of our shortcommings, yet we are commanded to keep the commandments. Why? Because it is our true nature as children of God. That's why Yeshua said to keep it. We don't keep it to 'earn' 'right standing' with God. We keep it to be like the Master. "He who says he abides in him, so ought to walk even as he walked."