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To Be a Legitimate Follower of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa Requires Following the Example Set by RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa and his Immediate Followers—the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ:
scholarly discoveries from Dead Sea Scroll 4Q MMT documenting the unanimous view of Oral Law among all sects of 1st century Tor•âhꞋ, coupled with
what the most prominent Jewish scholars regard as the most pristine Judaic tradition on the planet — No•sakhꞋ Tei•mân•iꞋ.
As a result, the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ were restored to their 1st-century historical Pᵊrush•iꞋ-heritage within a firm niche of the moderate Orthodox Jewish community in Israel. Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ pray exclusively in Tei•mân•iꞋ or moderate Orthodox Jewish beit ha-kᵊnësꞋët (where viable) and, while openly believing that historical RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa is the Mâ•shiꞋakh, the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Pâ•qidꞋ has been, for more than a decade, a member in good standing of the moderate, Tei•mân•iꞋ, Orthodox beit ha-kᵊnësꞋët, Mo•rëshꞋët Âv•otꞋ – Yad Nâ•âm•iꞋ, in Ra•a•nanꞋâ(h), Israel.
So-called 'Orthodox Messianics' are yet another fraudulently-packaged group of Christian Jews. They are not practicing legitimate Pharisee-Heritage Tor•âhꞋ. Rather, every Christian—by definition—follows not RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa but 2nd-4th century Hellenist Romans and their redacted fabrications of their Hellenist Roman Διαθηκη Καινη (NT). Their Christian pseudo-Judaism isn‘t accepted as legitimate by any Orthodox rabbis nor by the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ. No Christian / "Messianic" enjoys good standing in any Orthodox synagogue. By definition, every Christian / "Messianic" is a misojudaic, illegitimate, apostate, not authentically Judaic and described in Revelation 2.9 & 3.9. The multitudes who reject Christianity as defined by the Hellenist Roman Church for millennia should recognize that they are rejecting Christianity, not changing the definition of Christianity or who is a Christian. Christianity has, from its original founders in the 2nd century CE, always been misojudaic and mutually exclusive from Tor•âhꞋ. "You cannot follow two masters" – especially intractably contradictory masters.
Like our 1st-century forbears, we assist Jews and non-Jews (geir•imꞋ) to (re-)integrate into the legitimate Jewish community and, where a Tei•mân•iꞋ or moderate Orthodox beit ha-kᵊnësꞋët is available, to pray there. As the only followers of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa recognized in the legitimate Jewish community, the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ are the only source preserving his authentic teachings according to RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa‘s own practice — within the legitimate Jewish community and bât•eiꞋ ha-kᵊnësꞋët!!! Groups claiming to be Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ / Nazarenes but not recognized by the only Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ beit din (namely, in Ra•a•nanꞋâ(h)), are neither practicing legitimate Judaism nor legitimately following RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa!
Discussing these concepts requires specialized terminology to distinguish authentic personna and concepts from popular, but distorted and counterfeit, images. To communicate, rather than simply regurgitate the same tired arguments which have failed without exception for millennia, requires definitions that accurately reflect authentic 1st-century Judaic values and teachings by the criteria of the latest scientific scholarship, rather than perpetuating the widespread futile confrontations which arise from contra-historical and logically oxymoronic misconceptions.
The earliest Church historian, Eusebius, recorded that the original followers of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa, the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ, accepted only our own The Nᵊtzârim Reconstruction of Hebrew Matitᵊyâhu (NHM, in English)
as a legitimate account of the teachings of historical RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa, rejecting the post-135 C.E., Hellenist Roman-redacted Διαθηκη Καινη ("New Testament") (Eccl. Hist., III.xxvii.4) — an apostasy selectively syncretizing a Judaic spin into their native Roman Hellenism.
Many scholars have noted that the teachings of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa touch on only a small fragment of the many issues of Oral Law in 1st century Tor•âhꞋ — leaving many lucanae in RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa‘s, and the original Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ‘s, Judaic practice. Christians fill in these lucanae with their native – gentile Hellenist and idolatrous – doctrines, which are alien, and intractably contradictory, to the 1st century Tor•âhꞋ practiced and taught by RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa and the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ. Exactly the opposite of Christianity, the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ, in cooperation with several receptive moderate Orthodox rabbis, fill in these myriad lucanae not with Christian doctrines but with:
Tor•âhꞋ, First Century & Now
Oxford historian James Parkes (The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue, A Study in the Origins of Anti-Semitism) and others have demonstrated that the 4th century Roman version of Jesus' teachings are diametrically opposite to the pre-135 C.E. Judaic teachings (corroborated, inter alia by Dead Sea Scroll 4Q MMT) of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa and his immediate Jewish followers, the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ. The Hellenized, 4th century Roman teachings of Jesus and the church are, accordingly, apostate; and the pope, being successor to the gentile bishop who usurped and thereafter counterfeited the 15th Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Pâ•qidꞋ to found the gentile, Hellenist, Roman Catholic papacy (and then fabricate a legendary line back to their Christianized idea of "St. Peter"), is the fulfillment and embodiment of the antichrist, identified in Who Are The Nᵊtzarim? Live-LinkT (WAN) by the cryptic number 666.
All of the source documents (comprehensive citations are found in our books and materials) clearly show that in the 1st-4th centuries CE, the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ—not the Hellenist gentile Roman Christians—were the only legitimate followers of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa, preserving his teachings authentically in the legitimate, halakhic, Jewish community. It is documented, and even acknowledged by Christian scholars that, until 333 C.E. when the church finally annihilated the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ, the earliest Church documented that we rejected Christianity and the Church "insist[ing] on the complete observation of the Law," describing us as "others the wicked demon when he could not alienate them from God's plan in Christ [which Christians falsely claimed was identical to RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa], made his own, when he found them by a different snare" (Eusebius, EH III.xxvii.1). In other words, the earliest church bishop-popes declared the Jews who rejected Christian doctrines and the Church to be servants of the "wicked demon," Sâ•tânꞋ – Christianity was misojudaic from its original definition.
Nearly 3 centuries later, this libel of Jews manifested itself in the NT as "sons of Sâ•tânꞋ (Jn. 8.44), "under the law of sin and death" (Rom. 8.1-7) and, therefore, enemies of the Church—the root of misojudaism that would eventually express itself in the Crusades, the Inquisition and the Holocaust. Thus, while the earliest Church documented that the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ were enemies of Christianity, the historical documentation also proves that, exactly opposite of any theorized transition from the original Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ to the Christian Church, Josephus, inter alia, documented that the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ lived amicably among our fellow Pᵊrushim—the "Pharisees," who defended the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ against the "Sadducees" in the "Sanhedrin" and against the Romans and "Sadducees" in the case of the murder of Pâ•qidꞋ Ya•a•qovꞋ ha-Tza•diqꞋ.
The critical point, absolutely essential to understanding these things, is this: the continued confusing of these two polar opposites, as if they are one and the same person and teaching, absolutely prevents overcoming "antisemitism."
Blurring the two polar opposites, as if they were the same, glosses over all contradictions by deferring them to an impossible oxymoron of two mutually exclusive and self-contradicting, polar-opposite arch-enemies, assuming a non-existent transition and a co-existing merger of intractable self-contradictions in "Jesus." This logical fallacy of ex falso quodlibet is what allows Christians to falsely claim "Jewishness" (and historicity) of "Jesus" and still identify with Christianity – because, no matter how contradictory that may be, all contradictions are buried in the oxymoronic definitions, allowing them to believe that they're following "Jesus."
Worse, unknowingly, Ultra-Orthodox and Kha•reid•imꞋ Jews are ignorantly preaching this same Christian gospel (that the Hellenist Christian Jesus and, lᵊ-ha•vᵊdilꞋ, the historical Jew RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa are the same)—thereby complicit with the Christians in dressing the authentic, Pᵊrush•iꞋ RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa in the "áÌÀâÈãÄéí öåÉàÄéí" (Zᵊkhar•yâhꞋ 3.3) of, lᵊ-ha•vᵊdilꞋ, the Hellenist-Roman Christian Jesus!
When a Christian or Jew speaks of the post-135 C.E. Christian figures and events, it's essential to point out that these can only be figures and events associated with the Roman-Hellenist idol Jesus – regardless if (s)he calls it by a Hebrew name. (You can call excrement a rose, but excrement by any other name smells the same.) At most, accounts attributed to the lifetime of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa are extensively redacted by later Hellenist Roman gentile Christians to reflect their idolatrous perspective. No meaningful communication can occur without consistent definitions, free of intrinsic contradictions that, otherwise, constitute the logical fallacy of ex falso quodlibet and propagate through any discussion.
Conversely, when a Christian or Jew speaks of the pre-135 C.E. Judaic figure, anyone wishing to understand must recognize that, prior to 135 C.E. there was no Christianity or Christian Church as it was defined, and understood ever since, subsequent to 135 C.E. Therefore, except for (perhaps Στεφανος and) Παυλος the Apostate (a Hellenist Turkish-Jew) and his followers, these can only be figures and events associated with the actual historical Jewish Pᵊrush•iꞋ RibꞋi—regardless if (s)he slanders him by calling him Jesus. (You can call a rose excrement, but a rose by any other name smells as sweet.) Nevertheless, accounts attributed to the lifetime of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa are extensively redacted by later Hellenist Roman gentile Christians to reflect their idolatrous perspective. No meaningful communication can occur without consistent definitions, free of intrinsic contradictions that, otherwise, constitute the logical fallacy of ex falso quodlibet and propagate through any discussion. Only NHM makes the maximum effort to restore the strictly Tor•âhꞋ-compatible meaning to Hebrew Ma•tit•yâhꞋu that existed before the thousands of pre-Christian redactions that corrupt the Christian Διαθηκη Καινη (NT) – which the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ rejected.
Neither RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa nor é--ä has changed. The same is true today. Only those (whether Jew or non-Jewish geir) practicing the same religion, and within the same—Pharisee ≡ moderate Orthodox—Jewish community as RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa, are authentic or legitimate. The Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ under the leadership of Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu in Israel are the only followers of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa as Mâ•shiꞋakh in the moderate Orthodox Jewish community on the planet – and, therefore, the only legitimate followers of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa. All others, including every Christian and everyone calling themselves "Netzarim" and similar, everyone that believes in the "New Testament," are phony. (Documentation and details in the book WAN Live-LinkT Technology.)
The Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ of today, like RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa and his immediate Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ followers in their time, are the only followers of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa to reject the Hellenist (Roman pagan) apostasy of the antichrist and restore his authentic—pre-135 C.E. Judaic (as demonstrated from Dead Sea Scroll (4Q) MMT (Mi•qᵊtz•atꞋ Ma•as•ëhꞋ ha-Tor•âhꞋ))—teachings in the religious community with which RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa identified: the Pᵊrushim (today's moderate Orthodox – not Ultra-Orthodox or Kha•reid•iꞋ – i.e., legitimate, Jewish Community) and in legitimate, i.e. moderate Orthodox, Judaism. Therefore, the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ are the only followers or RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa who can possibly be legitimate!!! All others professing to follow the Displacement Theology apostasy of the Roman-Hellenists and their antichrist —regardless of the name they cite (Jesus, Yᵊho•shuꞋa, Yᵊshua, et al.)—have been deceived, and are deceiving others, into the synagogue described in Revelation 2.9 & 3.9!!!
The Honorable 16th Pâ•qidꞋ of the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ,
Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu Bën-Dâ•widꞋ—
an Orthodox Jew having achieved good standing
with the moderate Orthodox Israeli Jewish community
Christianity & Jewish-Christian Pseudo-Judaism =
Displacement Theology, Anti-Semitism & Antinomianism
Those who claim to follow RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa but aren't accepted by an Orthodox beit-din in the same community in which RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa lived and interacted—the moderate Orthodox (not Ultra-Orthodox or Kha•reid•iꞋ) = Pᵊrush•imꞋ Israeli Jewish community—and openly in an Orthodox beit ha-kᵊnësꞋët—are the fakes, charlatans and deceivers described in Rev. 2:9 & 3:9, foisting Displacement Theology and a misojudaic, antinomian, counterfeit messiah, playing an insidious game of 'pretend Judaism'—producing correspondingly pretend salvation!
