The Torah is the first five books of the Bible which are: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. These books are known as the Five Books of Moses in which the great Hebrew prophet, Moses wrote down the dictated and revealed words of God during his forty days and forty nights at Mount Sinai and then passed this knowledge onto his Hebrew people. From this point on, the children of Israel were indeed a divine people with a specific chosen destiny.
In Exodus 3:2, in regards to Moses and Mount Sinai we read: "And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed." In Matthew 17: 1-3 in regards to Christ andthe mountaintop we read: "And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him." Although we are prone to look upon the physical form of mankind and believe that that is all there is, in reality, as beings made in God's image, we are beings of Light, encased in a physical body, but that body is nothing more than our outer garment. The image of God as a burning bush that is not consumed and speaks law unto Moses, and the transfiguration of Christ in the presence of Moses indicates a brotherhood of he who was the bearer of Light for the Jews, and for he who was born of the tribe of Judah, who would ultimately be the bearer of Light for the Gentiles.
There are many parallels between Moses and Christ, such as: Pharaoh commanded that all male new-born babies were to be killed in Moses' time, whereas King Herod ordered all male new-borne babies to be killed in Christ's time. Each fasted forty days and forty nights on a mountain, each performed miracles, Moses blessed each tribe of Israel, Christ blessed his twelve disciples, and each fed their brethren supernaturally. Moses spoke of a prophet to come in Deuteronomy 18:18: "I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him." Christ fulfilled this prophecy in Matthew 26:56:”But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled…"
Moses was the supreme lawgiver, Exodus 31:18 reads: "And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." Because these words of God were inscribed on tablets of stone they were given special significance and created the Decalogue or Ten Commandments that we are so familiar with today. Later in Christ's time, the Pharisees who were meticulous in their obedience to God's law, asked Christ in Matthew 22: 36-40: "Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets." Does this then mean that Christ' teachings superseded Mosaic Law? Christ made it clear in Matthew 5:17 that he came not to destroy the law of the Prophets but to fulfill it. This paradox then can best be answered by understanding that Christ wished to impart to us the knowledge that our sole purpose in life is to find our way back to God and in so doing one will see that God is in each and every human being.