Thats literally why Jesus was so angry with the Pharisees, they followed the laws to the letter but completely ignored the spirit behind them and only cared about following the law because it got them social validation. The modern Talmudic religion is Phraisaism on steroids mixed with outright Gnostic Satanism, so the result is a false religion that is essentially about circumventing the law in any way possible.
And then there's jews, who in one of their parables has him saying gladly 'my children have prevailed over me.'