Shalom friends,

Why a new covenant?

Look at what it says in Hebrews 8:7-12

If that first had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second; but finding fault with them, he said, Listen, the days are coming, says Adonai, when I will make a new covenant with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah.  It will not be like the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in my covenant, and I regarded them not, says Adonai.  But this is the covenant that I will make with the House of Israel when those days come, says Adonai; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people.  They will not need to teach their neighbors and their brothers, saying, Know Adonai: for they will all know me, from the least to the greatest. I will be merciful to their unrighteousness. Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

The problem with the first covenant was not with the covenant itself.  Verse 8 tells us that the problem was with "them."  Most of the people did not internalize the Torah.  Most of the people did not Love Adonai their G-d with all their hearts.  Verse 10 further identifies the problem as being with the House of Israel (the ten tribes of the northern kingdom).  It is this rebellious house that must have the Torah written on their hearts.  Notice the conspicuous absence of the House of Judah in verse 10.  Zechariah 8:23 tells us that the ten tribes of the northern kingdom will seek out the Jews (the three tribes of the southern kingdom) to be taught about Adonai.  If Adonai finds no fault with Judaism, how is it that Christians presume to find fault?  Only the ignorant find fault with rabbinical Judaism.  Everything that they have been taught about Judaism is wrong, but most have not taken the effort to study it for themselves.  They assume that the criticisms about the Jews in the New Testament apply to today's Judaism.  The Judaism of Y'shua's time was abandoned with the destruction of the temple in 70 CE.  It was at this time that mainstream Judaism abandoned the teachings of Shammai in favor of the teachings of Hillel (the same teachings that Y'shua himself taught).

The fact remains, Israel is the rebellious house and Judah is the faithful house.  This is what the prophets tell us.

Kol tov,
Shomeir