been reading parts of the Talmud, its amazing how Judaism became a religion that has to attempt to dissect and add instructions to the nth degree so that the instructions themselves become the center of focus.
Not amazing at all. Judaism could not have survived as a Temple-centric religion after the destruction of the Second Temple. Both Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism found a substitute for the Temple. For one it was the Body of Christ, and for the other it was the Body of the Law. Unless your theology is a hyper-supersessionism that posits that there are no further prophecies for the Jews to fulfill as Jews, then there must be some mechanism for Judaism to survive.
