Perfect Torah Righteousness Is Only The Starting Place

Luke 17

5  And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.
6  And the Master said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you might say unto this sycamore tree, Be plucked up by the root, and be planted in the sea; and it would obey you.
7  But think!  Which of you, if you had a slave plowing or feeding cattle, would say unto him after this work, when he had come in from the field, Go and sit down to eat?
8  And would not rather say unto him, Prepare now my meal that I may dine.  Dress yourself and serve me, till I have eaten and my thirst is satisfied; afterward you shall eat and drink?
9  Does the master thank that slave because he did the things that were commanded him? I think not.
10 So likewise you, when you shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

What is that which the students of the Master Yehoshua were commanded to do?  The commandments they received were the 613 commandments of the Torah.  What did the Master teach them about this that would increase their faith, as they asked of him?  That if they were to attain the perfect righteousness of Torah observance they would only be living as Adam and cHavah were living on the day they were created - the righteousness in which they would have continued, had they not fallen from the grace of the Torah which was written in their members.  For what purpose, then, was the perfectly Torah righteous Adam created, the man and the woman?  For what purpose were they created with their every limb perfect in the righteousness of the 613 commandments?  They were created to till the soil of the Garden of Eden with their Torah perfect limbs and thereby to prepare a banquet wherein they might serve their Creator.  And until they had done so, although they were Torah perfect they were unprofitable servants.

From this we learn that anyone who has need of their faith being increased should not think that they will be rewarded for a desire of only obeying the commandments of the Torah.  Rather, they should look for the reward of a faith that can command the trees of the Garden of God with a word only when their heart is set on correcting the unprofitability of Adam, not only the unprofitability of Adam as an unrighteous sinner but also the unprofitability of Adam as a tzaddik and tzaddikah who never completed in their righteousness their service to their Creator.