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Great to see that the thread is up and running! That was weird.

When Jesus said (Matthew 5:18): "For verily I say unto you, Until heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall pass from the law until all is fulfilled.", He was not speaking of the Law as if it were HTML Code. Later on in the Gospel Jesus speaks of those who obey the LETTER of the Law, but not the Spirit. (Matthew 23:25) He compares this to washing the outside of a cup but leaving the inside (the part nobody sees) filthy.

Visually this reminds me of the bookends of the Torah (and all the Tanakh): the first letter is a bet, the last letter is a lamed, which read from end to beginning spells lev, heart.

Therefore, the entire body of the Torah and Hebrew Scripture is encased within this heart. These letters (bet lamed) can be read as "two lameds" (mirrored and facing, they form a heart), so either way, a heart is the external, revealed name and image. The concealed letters are everything inside the heart.

Romans 13:8 Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Galatians 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

That's a literal statement, for all the law is contained within one word: heart.

And within the word itself are concealed letters. The revealed letters are the lamed and bet; the concealed [in red] are the ones that complete the words of the letters:

lamed is spelled lamed mem dalet (למד)
bet is spelled bet yud tav (בית)

The red letters spell tamid (perpetual, continual, always). The gematria is 454, which is the full (milui) spelling of the yud (20) and dalet (434) - yad (יד), hand.
The other letters (tav and mem) spell tam (תם)- perfect (complete, wholesome) - and have a full spelling of 406 + 80 = 486.

Gen 25.27. And the boys grew; and Esau was a skilful hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a quiet [tam] man, living in tents:

Deu 11

16. Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them:
17. And then the Lord's anger be kindled against you, and he closed the skies, that there should be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest you perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord gives you:
18. Therefore shall you lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes:
19. And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up:
20. And you shall write them upon the door posts of your house, and upon your gates:
21. That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth:

tam (complete, perfect, whole) - 486
yad (hand) - 454

The difference is 32, the value of lev, heart. Thus, a 'full' hand (454) + heart (32) = tam (486)

A full hand is a full house: three cards of one rank and two cards of another rank.

And you shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house...

The letter lamed is teaching and learning, the letter bet is a house. Lev, heart

Matthew 19

16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?
21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me.
22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

a full hand + heart = tam, perfect

Good heart or bad heart:

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Because tam can be flipped over to spell met (מת), dead. Full hand (great possessions) + bad heart = dead

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So then, the word of the Lord to them will become:
Do this, do that,
a rule for this, a rule for that;
a little here, a little there—
so that as they go they will fall backward;
they will be injured and snared and captured.