Why do the Nәtzâr•imꞋ insist that it is critical for Jews to learn about Christianity?
Tor•âhꞋ is the only logically consistent and True Reflection of the Orderly Creator Singularity – 'ä.
Both the Christian Διαθηκη Καινη (NT) and the Muslim Quran are Displacement Theology books, precluded by the intrinsic contradiction of claiming Ta•na"khꞋ as their True Foundation while, at the same time, being wholly dependent upon contradicting it. Both religions are, inescapably, ex falso quodlibet!
When one practices most religions, ignorance and blinders are their friends. Because Tor•âhꞋ is True, however, ignorance is the Jews' greatest enemy! Those who fear learning about Christianity or Islam, or any other religion, are either ignorant of Tor•âhꞋ , ignorant of science and mathematical logic, or both!!!
Understand what Christianity fears most: what every forger and counterfeiter fears…exposure by agents of the authentic.
The only way to finally overcome Christianity and restore Tor•âhꞋ to its rightful exalted place, after 2,000 years of perfectly consistent failure, is by exposing the Roman gentiles' 4th-century anti-Tor•âhꞋ Yësh"u as the anti-Tor•âhꞋ ("antinomian") counterfeit of the pro-Tor•âhꞋ original: historical Pәrush•iꞋ RibꞋ i Yәho•shuꞋ a!
Why do you beg the pope when he cannot possibly overrule their NT, while his alleged boss– historical Pәrush•iꞋ RibꞋ i Yәho•shuꞋ a – taught the Primacy of Tor•âhꞋ ???
Think about it… only the original, historical RibꞋ i Yәho•shuꞋ a, because he advocated Tor•âhꞋ (not Paul's later Hellenist apostasy), can lead Christians out of their post-135 C.E. Roman idolatry to Tor•âhꞋ – and the fulfillment of Zәkharyâh 14.16-21 (which is already beginning) and related prophecies.
Historical Rib′ i Yәhoshua, polar opposite of the post-135 C.E. Christian counterfeit (Yësh"u), is the only extant genealogically documented Bën-Dâ•wid′ , born in now-Arab-occupied Beit-Lëkhëm.
Because he is the most recent authoritative historical figure still shared by all three Abrahamic religions, only he can confirm Tor•âh′ among estranged Jews and adherants of both Displacement Theologies (Christianity and Islam), unifying the world Tor•âh′ and realizing the •lei′ nu—hallmark of the Mâ•shi′ akh!
For nearly 2,000 years, Jews have been fighting, and hating, an enemy straw man, fabricated by Roman gentiles.
Throwing hand grenade propaganda bombs and wielding shotgun hate-mongering instead of deftly wielding a surgeon's knife, Jews have, for 2,000 years now, slandered an innocent Jew, a first-century Rib′ i who, historians have confirmed, died a Tor•âh′ -teaching Rib′ i. In slandering an innocent, Jews have failed, relegated to watching helplessly as 90+% of the Jewish community has assimilated, many to the Church. Judaism cannot stand while slandering an innocent. It is khi•lul′ é--ä, which ensures self-defeat.
Far worse, Jews who slander Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a (as contrasted against the Hellenist counterfeit, Yësh"u) collaborate in promulgating Christian the doctrines, false Hellenist "redactions" that cloak this Tor•âh′ -teaching Rib′ i in a feculent cloak (see Zәkhar•yâh′ 3.1-5).
This ham-fisted, shotgun & hand-grenade approach has also witnessed some modern Jewish anti-missionaries, in their own incompetence, contradict the Sages, even the Talmud,—and even contradict Dân•i•eil′ and the Ta•na"kh′ —all because they don't know how to explain and debunk Christian interpretations of certain verses in the Ta•na"kh′ . Exposing the false Christ makes all of the verses of Ta•na"kh′ , and the commentaries of the Talmudic Sages concerning them, fall into proper place—and all consistently preclude the false Christ.
When—after 135 C.E.—Hellenist Christians displaced the Tor•âh′ -teaching Rib′ i with their own Hellenist syncretism—the false christ straw man—Jews followed Christians in allowing the two to be blurred, smearing the innocent Jewish Rib′ i. Jews blamed the Tor•âh′ -teaching Rib′ i for the sins of the counterfeit—an idol—syncretized by Hellenist Roman gentiles and diametrically antithetical to the Tor•âh′ -teaching Rib′ i.
Depending on rabbis or Jewish 'anti-missionaries' to do your job hasn't worked in 2,000 years. Isn't it about time you woke up??? If not now, when??? The arguments of Jewish 'anti-missionaries' hold up only when argued to the yәshiv•âh′ . The hard truth is that, outside of the Jewish community, in the world where Jews encounter Christians and arguments against Christian doctrines need to hold up, the Christian community realizes that Jewish 'anti-missionaries' are an easily countered, feckless joke. Jewish 'anti-missionaries' are stumbling in the dark, tripping over Bible verses and contradicting Talmud. Despite self-serving claims by Jewish 'anti-missionaries' to prop up support and prestige for themselves in the Jewish community, neither Jewish 'anti-missionaries' nor their rare retrievals have any more serious knowledge or insight into Christian teachings than Christians and Jewish converts to Christianity have about Judaism. The rabbis, too, have been stymied—having alienated 90+% of Jews. Lacking any effective answers they can only tell you to stop your ears, avoid Christian literature and put blinkers on your children because they don't know how to educate—inoculate—you and your family to answer Christian claims. Assimilation is far above 90%, in Israel as well as in the Tәphutz•âh′ . How does ha-Sheim view shepherds who have lost over 90% of their flock with more wandering away every day? (see Zәkhar•yâh′ 11.17; cf. also Yәkhëz•qeil′ 34.2-10, 23; 37.24; Yi•rәmәyâh′ u 10.21; 23.1; 3.15.)
By contrast, I'm a Mensan, former Baptist minister and student of Hampden DuBose Academy (the private Christian boarding school to which Billy Graham sent his daughter for the best Christian training in the world among classmates who were sons and daughters of Christian preachers, evangelists and missionaries from all over the world). In an effort to resolve numerous contradictions in Christian teachings that I'd found, I translated the entire NT from all of the earliest extant source mss. up through the 4th century C.E. to get to the bedrock answers. Shockingly, this research proved instead that the contradictions were correct and it is Christianity that was falsified by Hellenist Romans dating back to a watershed event in 135 C.E. As a result, in 1983 my wife and I converted to Judaism by Orthodox rabbis. I understand Christianity as a former—knowledgeable and experienced—insider and routinely demonstrate a mastery of the subject easily superior to Christian seminarians and the pope.
Unlike true scholars, church-associated "Doctoral factories" produce seminarians who are taught only bits of history selectively, glossing over the contradictions. They almost never research to the core—and when they do they find the same contradictions in Christianity that I found (which is why the Catholic priest in charge of studying the Dead Sea Scrolls left the priesthood and a misojudaic professor overseeing the Dead Sea Scrolls went off his rails). No seminarian can refute it because it's all documented true. The late Oxford historian, James Parkes, demonstrated the brunt of it in his book, The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue, the first required text in our seminar-series and Khav•rut′ â.
The Church's earliest extant historian, Eusebius, documented numerous Christian rewrites (redactions) and contradictions.
It was the original, Nәtzâr•im′ , followers of Rib′ i Yәhoshua that Christianity feared so much that they ousted and exiled the 15th Nәtzâr•im′ Paqid, Yәhud•âh′ ha-Tza•diq′ , from Yәru•shâ•la′ yim in 135 C.E., replacing him with the first gentile "bishop," Markus. (Investigating the documentation also reveals that the purported earlier popes were fabricated after 135 C.E.). The Nәtzâr•im′ and Tor•âh′ are the original and authentic. The Hellenist Christians and Christian doctrines are the counterfeits. The pope is the counterfeit. The Nәtzâr•im′ Pâ•qid′ is the authentic. Hate-mongering and slandering Jews who continue to promulgate the Christian lie about Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a and the Nәtzâr•im′ , or failing to distinguish them from Christian poseurs, assist Christianity… teaching Christian false doctrine!!! What, other than blind hate, is the insane reason for Jews promulgating Christian doctrine???
Even after Christianity had forcibly displaced the Nәtzâr•im′ Pâ•qid′ , the dispersed Nәtzâr•im′ remnant remained such an existential threat to Christianity that the Romans destroyed the Jewish genealogies of the entire Davidic dynasty except for the patrial and matrial genealogies perpetuated by the Nәtzâr•im′ and allowed by Hellenist Christians.
Further, in 333 C.E., Constantine exterminated all the remaining Nәtzâr•im′ he could find!!! At that point they vanished from history until the 1980s. The restoration of the Nәtzâr•im′ has always been Christianity's worst nightmare because only the Nәtzâr•im′ confirm the authentic teachings of Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a—that Tor•âh′ is true, thus exposing Christianity as a counterfeit religion of a false "Christ." The authentic teachings of Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a expose Christianity's existential fallacies.
Even though I debunk Christianity beyond anything imagined for millennia, not even I can do your job as commissioned in the Shәm•a′ . I educate Christians when I have opportunity and they're willing to learn. When confronted with Christian arguments I always demonstrate their falseness. But if you care about your family and children you must obey the Shәm•a′ and learn how to inoculate yourself, your family and your children, as well as your fellow Jews, against Christian teachings when, in this ever-shrinking global community, Christians—inevitably—confront you or your family. This is happening all over the world, including Israel. No one can do this job for you. Don't think you can solve this problem by sending someone to talk to Christians for you. I've inoculated my family and I can teach you how to inoculate your family. But you must obey the Shәm•a′ , not rely on rabbis to do it for you. No Jewish 'anti-missionary' will be there to help you when Christians come to your front door (and Jewish 'anti-missionaries' don't know what they're doing anyway). Making religious discussion and proselytization illegal is a glaring admission of doctrinal and spiritual bankruptcy that the Christian community would herald as the final victory. No Jewish 'anti-missionary' will be there to argue against Christian claims when your children encounter Christian arguments at university; and they're incompetent to make any significant difference anyway.
What I can do is educate—inoculate—you and teach you how to inoculate your family and your children. When a Christian missionary confronts you, or your children, if you have taken our Khav•rut′ â and evaluated it logically, then you will be prepared to expose their christ and religion as false. Not only will you expose the falseness of the Christian's claims, you will simultaneously learn to become a Light of Tor•âh′ commanded in Tor•âh′ (Yәsha•yâh′ u 49.6), leading many of the Christian missionaries to renounce their false religion and come to Tor•âh′ . My wife and I did. Many others have since followed suit.
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Israel and Jews desperately need a better image in the world and world understanding. The most effective way that moderate people of all persuasions—moderate Tor•âh′ Jews, moderate Christians and moderate Muslims—can exert influence in the world is to join together in the realization that we all relate to Av•râ•hâm′ and strive to serve the same Almighty Singularity and, consequently, should stress civility and respect for each other's dignity.
Serving the Almighty Singularity further dictates that, in areas of disagreement, discourse between us should be civil, respectful and tolerant; with no need to compromise on any point of documented truth; distinguishing belief from documented fact, logic and science. After all, whichever faith is true—i.e. authentic (logical, scientific and historically documented)—will prevail in intelligent discourse. If yours is authentic, what's your worry??? No amount of force or terror inflicted by fallible men can long suppress truth in today's ever-shrinking global information highway, nor long impose a faith that isn't authentic and true. Scientists routinely disagree. So can intelligent and civilized religious people. Disagreement is healthy as long as logic, science, historical documentation, facts and civility rule. Violence and terror as "heroic" tools to further religious aims must be aggressively excised from the religious community.
The Almighty Singularity is real, as in the real world of our universe, not an irrational blind "faith" that contradicts documented fact. Basing faith on the truth of reality creates an unshakable foundation that inevitably leads to convergence in the Almighty Singularity. Putting "faith" before truth and reality, by contrast, leads, first, to untrue and errant religion. Secondly, putting faith before truth and reality creates breeches, greater divergence, radicalism, conflict and, ultimately, bloodshed between the three faiths that, then falsely, claim to derive from Av•râ•hâm′ . If you're confident that your religion is true then ensure that truth and intelligent discourse, not violence or terror, prevail in your religion. Whether it's a Jewish underground, Christian supremacists or Muslim terrorists, having to resort to violence and terror against non-combatants in the name of a religion is proof that their version of religion cannot withstand intelligent discourse, proof that they cannot defend their religion with truth—proof that it is false and that they are intellectually and spiritually bankrupt.
The only path that leads with certainty to the real Almighty of the real world is the path defined by documented history, fact, logic and science (e.g. physics and cosmology). The Almighty set the laws of the universe in motion. Did he do so perfectly? Then where is room for Him to contradict His Perfect Laws by "supernatural" anomalies? This remains true regardless whether one is a Jew beginning in Judaism, a Christian beginning in Christianity or a Muslim beginning in Islam. Documented history, fact, logic and science inexorably constrain every intelligent, rational and logical person to the same facts about historical-documentation and the real world.
When, soul by soul, the three faiths of Abraham converge toward a logical and scientific understanding of historical documentation, logic and science they will necessarily converge toward each other, healing the schisms in the family of Av•râ•hâm′ , soul by soul, and unifying their vision—and the Name—of the Creator.
You're invited to participate—blogback—in our Web Café to ask questions, discuss and support joint cooperation toward shared goals of Biblical interests and values through useful—civil—discourse serving to bring the Abrahamic faiths closer to the One—real and true—Almighty and, therefore, to each other.
The late Oxford historian-scholar, James Parkes, demonstrated conclusively (The Conflict of the Church and the Synagogue) that 4th-century anti-Tor•âh′ Christianity was the opposite of the historical 1st-century Pharisaic Rib′ i, Yәhoshua of Nazareth and his original followers.
Parkes tried to distinguish between 1st-century pro-Tor•âh′ Jew "J*esus" and 4th-century anti-Tor•âh′ and anti-Judaic, gentile-oriented "J*esus," presumably in order to communicate that he wasn't writing about two different people. But any discussion of J*esus being the opposite of J*esus or Christianity being the opposite of Christianity quickly deteriorates into an illogical incomprehensibility. Each side uses whichever constantly self-contradicting arguments happen to be convenient at the time. That's oxymoronic. It's moronic. It's also almost singularly responsible for the current irrational situation, which has reigned for the past 2,000 years, in which opposite and intractably contradictory sides both "know" they are right and neither can fathom how the other can be so blind ignorant. Only when the 1st-century pro-Tor•âh′ Jew is meticulously distinguished from post-135 C.E. J*esus does the resolution of the past 2,000 years of conflict come into focus—to the benefit of both Jews and Christians.
J*esus is clearly a perverted (Hellenized) image of 1st-century pro-Tor•âh′ Jew, Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a. It's illogical—not to mention lәshon ha-ra and motzi sheim ra—to smear the original Jew who was a Pharisaic Rib′ i with the name and associated attributes of the perverted image. Tor•âh′ instructs that ha-Sheim is éùø (yashar; straightforward, honest). Ha-Sheim hates a lying tongue, ... a false witness spouting lies, ... and considers "one who stirs strife among brothers" to be a to·eivah (Mishlei Shlomoh 6.16-19). Those who claim that Tor•âh′ authorizes them to spread deliberate lies have strayed from the Ways of ha-Sheim, deliberately and high-handedly. They are quintessential hypocrites. Having represented that ha-Sheim condones lying they are guilty of khilul ha-Sheim.
Shlomoh ha-Melekh has himself judged these (Mishlei Shlomoh 28.9): "He who causes his ears to deviate from hearkening to Tor•âh′ , even his tәphilot are a to·eivah." Without complete renunciation of these to·eivot and tәshuvah from such violations of Tor•âh′ , no amount of ritual will atone. "The sacrifice of the wicked is a to·eivah" (Mishlei Shlomoh 15.8), which Ha-Sheim hates (Mishlei Shlomoh 6.16-19; Zәkharyah 8.16-17; inter alia).
As a non-Jew begging the question of the Christian claim to legitimate Judaic derivation, Parkes lacked the perspective to realize that linking the perverted false-image and antithetical "J*esus" to a reputable Rib′ i who taught Tor•âh′ is—beyond being a logical fallacy—slander of the original and historical Jew. An article by (Orthodox) Rabbi Shmuley Boteach in The Jerusalem Post suggests that he has also come to realize this aspect.
Now that Parkes has conclusively demonstrated that the two were opposites, arch-antitheses of each other, the first thing that needs to be done is recapitulate that all of the relevant historical documentation proves that the Christian Yesh"u is a post-135 C.E. Roman-redacted arch-antithesis of the historical Pәrush•iꞋ Rib′ i—teacher of Tor•âh′ —Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a of Nazareth. That is, J*esus is the diametric opposite of Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a!
Identically, the same distinction must be drawn between the original 1st-century Jews who followed Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a and the 4th-century gentile Hellenist Roman pagans who followed the arch-antithesis, Yesh"u. Confusingly again, Parkes similarly designated both of these opposite groups (the original Jewish and the later distortion gentile) by the same term, "Christians"—while at the same time pointing out that, in the 1st-century, there were no "Christians" by the 4th-century definition. The Christian Null Testament (NT) distorts (Hellenizes) the name of the original 1st-century Jews who followed Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a (whom Christians call the original "disciples") to "Nazarenes." In their native Hebrew, however, they were known as Nәtzâr•im′ , derived from ðöø (neitzer; offshoot from the root of an olive tree) in Yәshayahu 11.1.
Parkes was working from Judaic texts of the period. His findings have since been confirmed by the description of the three major sects of the religious Jewish community going into the 1st-century, described in Qumran Dead Sea Scroll 4Q MMT—recalling that it is well documented that Yәhoshua of Nazareth was a Pharisaic Rib′ i.
Therefore, neither Jews nor anyone else can learn anything about Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a or the Nәtzâr•im′ until they meticulously distinguish historical Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a from his arch-antithesis, J*esus, and similarly distinguish the historical Nәtzâr•im′ from their arch-antithesis, Christians and Christianity.
While traditional arguments have a 2,000 year failure record when it comes to disproving Yesh"u as the Mashiakh, there is a parallel 4,000 year record of endurance when it comes to sustaining the validity of keeping Tor•âh′ according to Oral Law. (Since the definition of Tor•âh′ properly includes Oral Law, the phrase "according to Oral Law" is redundant and need not be repeated.) This isn't a conundrum. These two facts point out two critical factors: [1] keeping Tor•âh′ is valid while [2] there is something invalid about Jewish arguments mounted against Yesh"u. This isn't the conundrum it appears to be.
Crucially, here is one of the keys to reversing 2,000 years of failed, and rapidly worsening, Jewish "anti-missionary" arguments against Yesh"u. Exaggerated positions cannot withstand logical scrutiny, facts or truth. Consider: while the Christian Yesh"u is purported to have superseded Tor•âh′ , the real, historical, Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a ratified and corroborated Tor•âh′ ! Each is the arch-antithesis of the other. A number of Jewish arguments against Yesh"u are valid. But, for 2,000 years, these valid assets have been negated by the illogical blind insistence of Jewish "anti-missionaries" on simplistically declaring that every Scriptural argument raised by Christians to defend Yesh"u doesn't refer to the Mashiakh at all—even when it's clear that ancient Jews—who never estranged 96% of their flock—understood the passage to refer to the Mashiakh.
This self-contradicting, self-defeating, approach is compounded by Jews who assume they can evade their personal responsibility and accountability deriving from the free will that ha-Sheim granted them, to blindly rely instead on misled Jewish "anti-missionaries." Yes, there is a need for the Batei-Din and rabbis. Tor•âh′ goes beyond prohibiting lying and false witness, prohibiting you from accepting a false report (Shәmot 23.1)! Today, too many Jewish teachers exceed their authority in turning away from following the Word of ha-Sheim that He handed down to Mosheh Rabeinu and the Nәviyim, leading Israel to stray after medieval commentators who were fallible men who sometimes contradicted Mosheh Rabeinu and the Nәviyim. Tana"kh is rife with examples of false leaders in Israel and the consequences. You cannot absolve yourself of your personal free will and its accompanying responsibility.
Rambam was a wise sage who was often right and should sometimes be quoted. But a statement isn't right merely because Rambam uttered it. That goes doubly for other commentators. Too many Jewish teachers quote fallible medieval men as if they were G*o*d. That's Avodah Zarah—mediev-olatry. Mosheh Rabeinu declared that the mitzwah of keeping Tor•âh′ is neither too wondrous for any Jew to understand nor too distant for any Jew to reach (Dәvarim 30.10-15).
Tor•âh′ provides the touchstone that enables you to spot false teachers right away—Dәvarim 13.1-6. Instead of citations from the Word of ha-Sheim that He handed down to Mosheh Rabeinu and the Nәviyim, false teachers base their teaching on quotations from medieval men, to impress their audience with how learned they are. Such teachers are often very learned in medieval teachings yet have a spotty grasp, to be charitable, of the Word of ha-Sheim that He handed down to Mosheh Rabeinu and the Nәviyim. When any man contradicts the Word of ha-Sheim that He handed down to Mosheh Rabeinu and the Nәviyim then, whether medieval sages or rabbis, they fall into the same judgment of Dәvarim 13.1-6 no less than anyone else.
ha-Sheim inalienably endowed every person, Jew and gentile, with free will and intelligence. It violates Tor•âh′ to attempt to evade the responsibiities of, and accountabilty for, your free will. You must certainly consider solemnly, carefully and circumspectly what the rabbis and Batei Din say. They're supposed to be learned in the Word of ha-Sheim that He handed down to Mosheh Rabeinu and the Nәviyim. If their judgment is logically compatible with the Word of ha-Sheim that He handed down to Mosheh Rabeinu and the Nәviyim then written Tor•âh′ declares it mishpat that carries the full weight of Tor•âh′ . But Dәvarim 13.1 makes it explicit that they can no more contradict the Word of ha-Sheim that He handed down to Mosheh Rabeinu and the Nәviyim than anyone else.
To further exceed their authority, some rabbis teach the exact opposite of Tor•âh′ , arguing that you should follow the majority. However, Tor•âh′ declares the exact opposite (Shәmot 23.2): "Don't be a follower of the majority to wrong!!!" In the Final Judgment, you alone will be held accountable for your own decision. You won't be able to blame a rabbi or Beit-Din that you relied on instead of exercising your free will in studying and thinking for yourself. It's your responsibility to keep the mitzwot. You will be held accountable in Yom ha-Din (the Day of Judgment).
The most recent Jewish survey of the U.S. Jewish community reveals that approximately 5.2 million persons in the U.S. identify with the Jewish community. To be inclusive, the survey included anyone who identified with the Jewish community. This definition included a host of Christian Jews in both the Reform and Conservative movements as well as Christian Jews per se (which further includes significant numbers of gentile "converts" of Christian Jews in their congregations who call themselves Jews) plus an overwhelming majority of "secular Jews." The survey shows that only 200,000 are actually Tor•âh′ -keeping Jews.
Simple arithmetic reveals the harsh truth: Tor•âh′ -keeping Jews having now shrunk to less than 4% of the American "Jewish" population. Our religious 'shepherds' have already driven off over 96% of the flock. The numbers in other countries, including Israel, are similar. Arguing something one knows to be wrong, aside from being easily demonstrated and exposed, is—in addition to being false and contrary to Tor•âh′ 's injunction against lying—self-defeating. In contradicting Tor•âh′ , the Jewish "anti-missionaries" ignorantly play into the Christian argument that "the Jews are blinded" to conspicuous truths that anyone can see—including the 96+% of the Jewish community who have become estranged because "Judaism," as it has been presented to them, is illogical and ignorant. Blindly holding to arguments that are clearly ignorant and wrong is one of the greatest factors contributing to assimilation. The use of false arguments urgently needs changing.
Astonishingly, 2,000 years after his death, the spirit (i.e. teachings) of Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a the teacher of Tor•âh′ still holds the only key to winning this 2,000 year battle against his arch-antithesis, the purported superseder of Tor•âh′ , Yesh"u. He has returned in spirit to ratify Tor•âh′ and complete the remaining prophecies about the Mashiakh. 2,000 years have locked in that it's impossible to ever change or substitute this key.
With all of this in mind, let's re-examine the most controversial example, Yәshayahu 53. What I'm about to show you holds for all Scriptural passages that Christians can pose concerning the Mashiakh. Keep constantly in mind that each is the arch-antitheses of the other on the issue of keeping Tor•âh′ . When Talmud documents that the Sages agreed that Yәshayahu 53 refers to the Mashiakh whom, then, might Yәshayahu 53 support? Yesh"u, and, therefore, Christianity? Or Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a and, therefore, Tor•âh′ ? Now it really is simple: Dәvarim 13.2-6!!! Yәshayahu 53 may refer to a Tor•âh′ teaching Rib′ i, but it certainly cannot, under any circumstances, refer to the anti-Tor•âh′ Yesh"u. Mate in two (chess parlance)!
Arguing against Yesh"u is valid and winnable and the Nәtzâr•im′ are leading the way. Arguing the same arguments against Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a is easily demonstrated as false and is unwinnable. Not distinguishing meticulously between the two opposites is the paramount reason Jews have accrued a 2,000 year losing record in the battle against Yesh"u and driven off 96+% of the flock.
The Nәtzâr•im′ emphatically DON'T believe in or in any way advocate J*esus. We are, in fact, completely opposed to J*esus and Christianity as a historically documented post-135 C.E. pagan (Roman Hellenist) perversion of Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a and his teachings. Anyone who represents that Nәtzâr•im′ believe in J*esus are guilty of lәshon ha-ra; and, when they communicate it to another they are guilty of motzi sheim ra. Tor•âh′ doesn't excuse such violations simply because the perpetrator is ignorant. Quite the contrary, Tor•âh′ puts the responsibility squarely upon oneself to ensure that he is properly informed before issuing defamatory remarks. His blood is on his own head.
Further details are published in my first book, Who Are the Netzarim? (WAN).
Thus, the most effective way to counteract Christian missionaries is to confront them with the opposite teachings of the very person the missionaries are bound to follow: the true historical Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a.
In the first century C.E., these teachings were available only from the original Jewish followers of Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a recognized in the Pharisaic Jewish community of Judea, the Nәtzâr•im′ . Through the intervening centuries, the first-century Pharisaic Jewish community of Judea became today's Orthodox Jewish community in Israel. Just as the Holy One of Israel restored Israel, so He has likewise restored the Nәtzâr•im′ Jews in the Orthodox Jewish community of Israel. Unchanged, the pristine teachings of historical Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a continue to be available only from his Nәtzâr•im′ Jewish followers—distinguished by being his only followers recognized in the Orthodox Jewish community of Israel.
Encouraging both Jews and Christians to investigate and adopt the historical facts about Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a also brings both peoples closer to the Almighty Singularity and, therefore, to each other.
Judaism has two distinct advantages that summon Tor•âh′ Jews to cooperate with the Tor•âh′ -centric Nәtzâr•im′ teachings of the historical Tor•âh′ Jew, Rib′ i Yәho•shu′ a:
The problems with Christianity and J*esus are the same for mainstream Jews as for genuine followers of Ribi Yehoshua: the Hellenization of his teachings subsequent to 135 C.E. Christians who have the eyes to see this, or develop such eyes through education, will follow the authentic and historical, Tor•âh′ -teaching, Ribi Yehoshua. The only people capable of bringing Tor•âh′ -teaching to Christians are Tor•âh′ -Jews. Therefore, it behooves Tor•âh′ -Jews to cooperate with the Nәtzâr•im′ in learning how to reach those who would follow the Tor•âh′ -teachings of Ribi Yehoshua if only Tor•âh′ -Jews would enlighten their eyes. Only the Nәtzâr•im′ can show you how to help them come to Tor•âh′ .
When Christians shed their intrinsically misojudaic doctrines to come to Tor•âh′ , the benefits for the Jewish community, and toward mending the world, are obvious.
The 2003.08 update by Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin of their 1983 book, Why the Jews?, updates the reasons for misojudaism (popularly, but inaccurately, anti-Semitism) in the world. These reasons confirm why the Nәtzâr•im′ qiruv is both essential and urgent.
The Jerusalem Post's reviewer of Prager's and Telushkin's book, Saul Singer, hi-lites some of these. "The idea that Jew-hatred is related to Judaism may seem obvious, but in modern times tends not to be considered, even by many Jews... Prager's and Telushkin's thesis is that there are reasons for antisemitism [sic], and that the reasons have differed over time, but always relate to one or more components of Judaism: God, Jewish law, and Jewish nationalism (or as they are called in Judaism: God, Tor•âh′ , and Israel). Roman and Greek pagans hated Jews for believing in one God, and for refusing to bow to their idols and emperors. Christianity, Judaism's daughter religion, has always felt threatened by the fact that Jews have refused to become Christians, most clearly through their adherence to Jewish law...
"This is where most books on this topic would end, but Prager and Telushkin continue with concluding sections that are perhaps the most useful and thought-provoking part of the book. In the chapter 'Eight Lies About Israel,' the authors state Israel's case with such power, confidence and succinctness that even those who defend Israel regularly will find an important resource... The true answers to antisemitism, the authors argue, are fighting back, seeking converts, and succeeding in the Jewish mission (of which many Jews are unaware) of spreading ethical monotheism...
"In a truly original section, the authors explain that seeking converts lessens antisemitism in four ways: by making the Jewish people stronger, by ensuring that more non-Jews have Jewish relatives, by spreading Jewish values, and by helping dispel the notion that Jews are ethnic chauvinists. They further show that the negative attitudes that many Jews think Judaism has toward seeking converts are a forced artifact of antisemitism itself, which crushed the traditional positive approach to conversion" (Jerusalem Post, 2003.09.12, p. B13).
Christians are accustomed to thinking in terms of "in spirit." The feel like they, individually, are Jews "in spirit." They feel like they, collectively, are "spiritual Israel." They feel their G*o*d tells them things "in the Spirit." They feel that they are baptized "in the Spirit," immersed "in the Spirit" and led "by the Spirit." It is a short step, indeed, to consider that the "Return of J*esus" could also be "in spirit"!!! That is, a restoration and great revival of the pristine teachings of the historical—Pharisaic (to their astonished chagrin)—Ribi Yehoshua.
For millennia, Jews have feared the Christian threats implied in the "Return of J*esus." But all of the NT prophecies indicate that the return of Yesh"u should have paralleled the restoration of the State of Israel, within the same generation (40 years). According to the prophecies, the return has occurred but, again like the prophecies (Hebrew Matityahu 24.37 for Jews who would like to be able to cite the passage for Christians), "As it was in the days of Noakh... they did not know until the Mabul came and picked them all up." Christian doctrine holds the seeming contradiction that while "every eye shall see him," the masses will be entirely unaware of his return. All Christians understand that this means "every eye" of those "in the know" (assumed to be Christians) will see him while all others will remain unaware. What a jolt for them to discover that they are the ones who didn't see his return, that it was they who are being "Left Behind" unless they flock to Tor•âh′ .
In light of all of this, and corroborating all of the prophecies in Tana"kh plus those in Hebrew Matityahu, the return of Ribi Yehoshua has to be a return "in spirit." Only the manifestation in the Nәtzâr•im′ , reinvigorating his authentic teachings (his spirit) as an historical Pәrush•iꞋ , makes sense of Ribi Yehoshua returning to satisfy all of the prophecies. It's also the only rational and scientifically-compatible solution not requiring a supernatural magical event (that contradicts an Unchanging Perfect Creator of perfect laws of the universe)... and he's teaching Tor•âh′ , not Christianity!!! Thus, after 2,000 years, the "Return of J*esus" turns out to be a revival of his Spirit in the form of his restored teachings, not a magical character making people disappear from an airplane. (No, I don't imagine myself to be the Mashiakh. To paraphrase comedian Pat Paulsen: "if nominated I won't run; if elected I won't serve.") Conclusion: the NT prophecies (spun off from, and based on, the Jewish prophets) referred to his return "in spirit."
Just as the State of Israel has been restored after two millennia, likewise the authentic—Tor•âh′ —teachings of Ribi Yehoshua in the Nәtzâr•im′ have also been restored after having been buried in Christian deceptions of Displacement Theology for two millennia, and these herald the era of the Mashiakh. In other words, "He's ba-a-a-ck," and it's those who don't keep Tor•âh′ according to Halakhah—not Tor•âh′ Jews—who've been "Left Behind"!!! It's time for Jews and geirim to realize their prophesied potential as a kingdom of Kohanim and a holy goy, respectively (Shәmot 19.5-6), by helping Christians, both gentiles and Jews, find the Way out of Displacement Theology into Tor•âh′ .
Viewed as the founder of the Nәtzâr•im′ , who was an historical Pharisaic Rib′ i and whose teachings have been revived along with the State of Israel, both after two millennia, confirming Tor•âh′ , mainstream Jews should give thanks and celebrate the return "in spirit" of Ribi Yehoshua and encourage both Jewish and gentile Christians to follow his teachings (as taught by his original followers, the Nәtzâr•im′ ) and make tәshuvah to Tor•âh′ !!! The time of the Aleinu is upon us!!!
These shared problems have shared antidotes—goals which mainstream Jews & genuine followers of Ribi Yehoshua share. Rather than endlessly haranguing over flawed (often silly) arguments that have gone nowhere for 2,000 years, the only intelligent solution is to cooperate together (as some have already begun doing) to become vastly more effective in countervailing the pseudo-historical pagan deceptions of gentile Roman Hellenism inherent in Christianity and J*esus.
Within these shared goals, adherence to historical truth insists on exposing the following (all of which are historically documented and detailed in our Khavruta, and none of which Christians can validly refute):
Mainstream Jews & genuine followers of Ribi Yehoshua (recognized by an Orthodox Beit-Din) should both consider the progress implicit in the ramifications of these points as well as the amplified progress achieved by mainstream Jews & genuine followers of Ribi Yehoshua cooperating together, each making the other more effective.
The essential historical documentation and 'how-to's—which are repeatedly demonstrated to be overwhelmingly effective for the first time in 2,000 years—are found in our Khavruta. For details on our Khavruta tailored to your perspectives, follow the "Khavruta" link from the appropriate Ministry (Jews: our Absorption Ministry or non-Jews: our Foreign Ministry).
The reason this page is ranked so popular with the search engine is because so many people click on the link to this page from the the 'Netzarim Quarter' Village web site in Ra'anana, Israel at www.netzarim.co.il That's where you'll find even more exciting information.
Until Paqid Yirmәyahu researched the Nәtzâr•im′ name and sect and began publishing about it in 1972 in The Nәtzâr•im′ Reconstruction of Hebrew Matityahu (NHM) no one in modern times was even aware of the name Nәtzâr•im′ . It stretches credulity that no one in modern times had heard of the Nәtzâr•im′ until Paqid Yirmәyahu published it in 1972... and then, suddenly, everybody figured it out??? Check (and verify) the dates of the earliest works about the Nәtzâr•im′ by the others and you'll see that they are deceiver-plagiarists. Then insist on the person whom ha-Sheim selected to entrust the knowledge, not imposters who falsely call their continuing practice of Displacement Theology "Nazarene Judaism."
Because we teach and practice the authentic Judaic teachings of Ribi Yehoshua—not Displacement Theology—we are the only group who have restored the Nәtzâr•im′ to be accepted in the legitimate Jewish community in Israel—genuinely like Ribi Yehoshua and the original Nәtzâr•im′ . Consequently, the 'Nәtzâr•im′ Quarter' is the only web site of legitimate Nәtzâr•im′ / Nazarene Judaism.
Jews involved in Christianity are often unfamiliar with an Orthodox Beit-ha-Kәnësët; what to do, especially what not to do and how to pray. Our Khavruta (see our Syllabus) shows you the only way to avoid pitfalls and embarrassments – especially how the teachings of Ribi Yәhoshua have been restored compatibly with Halakhah.
Thus, Jews involved in Christianity can learn how to be like the original, historical, Rib′ i Yәhoshua, his authentic teachings restored according to Halâkhâh and as taught by his original—Israeli Jewish—followers before 135 C.E.: the Nәtzâr•im′ . There is only one way to obtain this information: through our Khavruta (Syllabus). Begin by completing our Survey (click "Surveys & Visas" in panel at left). Then scroll to the bottom of our Survey page and follow our tour of the website. You will learn a significant amount of knowledge along the way and the tour will take you to our Khavrutâ to continue beyond the rudiments.
Give all the friends you've ever known the chance to know about this exciting site; send them our web site address (www.netzarim.co.il) that opens modern eyes for the first time to the Judaic world that Ribi Yәhoshua and his original Nәtzârim knew, practiced and taught.
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