"'Drive Carefully

But which side of the road must I drive upon?'

Therefore your Yeshua could not have intended the Law to be summarised into 'that' short form IF the person did not already know the 10 Commandments."

I'm not sure I follow, and no doubt others are bored or offended by the very exchange, but maybe this will help. Love, agape or brotherly love, is the guiding priniciple.

Let me use a more relevant example: drinking alcohol. There's nothing particularly wrong with drinking per se, so help yourself. Unfortunately it gets complicated fast, because of the effects of drinking. Drink what you will, but if you're with a friend who's an alcoholic, maybe you should have a drink later, when he won't be tempted. Think of your friend and try to understand his needs. Love would argue against drinking and driving because the risk drunk drivers pose to others. If drinking impairs your judgement, you're more likely to commit a crime or cheat on your wife, whatever, you shouldn't. If you abuse your family when you drink, you shouldn't. If you drink to excess and harm even yourself, threatening your job, putting your health and life at risk, you shouldn't. Basic guideline for me? Couple of beers watching the game? No problem. Couple of beers and you start smacking your kid around? Problem. It can get more complicated than that, but you rarely fail if you err on the side of love.

See, here's the thing. There's nothing in the Law, either in the 10 Commandments or the extended scriptural and extra-scriptural rules most first century Jews considered the Law, that addresses drinking at all. The Bible's silent on it; Jesus and the Apostles drank. There's plenty in the "greatest commandment" that does, but it's not a hard and fast rule. The line between sinning, if you'll forgive me using that word, and not sinning is thin is thin here, but if you think about it in a case like this, you know where it is even if no one's written what you should do down for you.

Note my understanding of "sin" maybe different from yours, too, but as I said, people are probably already bored with this...