The Torah declares that Israel would be tested by false prophets of a new seemingly divinely inspired message that would alter the Torah and do away with it. God warns them to not accept the visionaries new message or his visions.

For Judaism, Deuteronomy 13 serves as a safeguard, preserving the Torah’s eternal nature and warning against any attempts to alter its commandments. Paul’s teachings—emphasizing faith and loyalty to Jesus as Lord, over Torah observance and encouraging the worship of Jesus as a divine figure—are seen as incompatible with the Torah mandate. From a Jewish perspective, Paul’s claims to divine revelation and his encouragement to deviate from the Torah’s commandments place him precisely within the category of a false prophet as defined in Deuteronomy 13.
The command to neither add to nor subtract from the Torah reflects a fundamental belief in the Torah’s completeness and sanctity. Any figure promoting doctrines that undermine this principle cannot be accepted within Judaism. In this light, Paul’s teachings represent a departure from the Torah, a reinterpretation of the nature of God, and a gross apostasy from the Faith of Abraham. Thus Israel and all Jewish people, by virtue of the forever binding word of God cannot receive the teachings of the Apostle Paul. It is forbidden for them to do so by the decree of the Torah and the Hebrew Scriptures.
Keeping all of these points in mind, the Christian Church that adheres to the message of the Apostle Paul should strongly reconsider their zealous approach in trying to convert Jews to Christianity. Doing so causes a Jewish person to apostatize from their true faith and break their covenant with the God of Israel thus failing the test and following a false prophet, according to the Torah’s clear teaching in Deuteronomy 13.

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