Update: 2017.12.27
The Bible offers no title for Moses, which is his Egyptian Pharaonic prince surname (meaning "incarnate" in Egyptian) sans the idol-name prefix (Tut). The most appropriate title can only be gleaned from the verb most often used by the Bible to describe the responsibilities that é‑‑ä placed on Mosh•ëhꞋ: ôÌÈ÷Çã (pâ•qâdꞋ; to audit, exact accountability, hold accountable, keep a check on and revisit problems and issues, review, monitor, oversee and serve as COO)—inherently implying that he was merely the earthly, mortal foreman for our only true Boss: é‑‑ä. Far more than a mere imaginary (chronologically pre-existent) rabbi, the cognate title for Mosh•ëhꞋ would have been ôÌÀ÷ÄéãÅðåÌ.
The Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Pâ•qidꞋ derives from this ancient, Tōr•âhꞋ-defined job of é‑‑ä's mere mortal foreman, later displaced by the "rabbis"—who presume super-divine authority to override and even contradict Ta•na"khꞋ (cf. speaking like a peer "beside" in Dân•iy•eilꞋ 7.25; Ho•sheiꞋa 13.4; Yᵊsha•yâhꞋu 45.21-22). It should be noted that RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa, being of the Royal Beit-Dâ•widꞋ, may have registered a subtle displeasure over the rabbis displacing the ancient term of pâ•qidꞋ; he clearly wasn't entirely comfortable being addressed as RibꞋi (The Nᵊtzârim Reconstruction of Hebrew Matitᵊyâhu (NHM, in English) 19.16ff), although he held the term up as a positive goal for others (NHM 5.19). After his death, his brother became the first (second, succeeding Pâ•qidꞋ Yᵊho•shuꞋa?) pâ•qidꞋ of the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ.
The modern military term in Israel's IDF for commander is a cognate: îÀôÇ÷ÌÅã (mᵊpha•qeidꞋ). In modern Hebrew, pâ•qidꞋ, likely due to the displacement of the term to "Rabbeinu" by rabbis, has become degraded to "clerk".
ôÌÈ÷Çã was understood among Hellenist Jews (witness the LXX) as επισκεπτομαι (episkeptomai; uber-skeptic, judge critically, examine).
Compare and contrast this with the verb öÄåÌÈä (from which îÄöåÈä derives).
ôÌÀ÷ËãÌÈä (pᵊqūd•âhꞋ), pl. ôÌÀ÷ËãÌåÉú or ôÌÀ÷ËãÌÉú (pᵊqūd•ōtꞋ) – an overseeing position, a supervisory position, a mustering or auditing position.
Although, in the modern era, Mōsh•ëhꞋ is often erroneously called by rabbis " øÇáÌÅðåÌ", the Bible never uses this term. In fact, the Biblical term most associated with him is not the root of "rabbi," øáá (to become great, much or many)– exactly the opposite, he was famously meek! Nor even îÉùÑÆä îÉøÅéðåÌ. Rather, the verb the Bible uses to describe what Mōsh•ëhꞋ did is this verb – ôÌÈ÷Çã. The term îÀôÇ÷ÌÅã ("of the Army of War") is reserved for é‑‑ä (cf Yᵊsha•yâhꞋu 13.4). A priori, the original Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ recognized that the most accurate Biblical title for Mōsh•ëhꞋ, the ôÌÈ÷Äéã of é‑‑ä, is îÉùÑÆä ôÌÀ÷ÄéãÅéðåÌ
The succession of the first 15 Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ pᵊqid•imꞋ were recorded and documented in real time – in stark contrast to the absence of documented succession of Hellenist Roman (gentile) Christian ëpiskopos (non-existent until retroactively "fabricated" by Hegesippus in mid-2nd century C.E.) – or even the succession of Jewish RabꞋis (cf. The Nᵊtzârim Reconstruction of Hebrew Matitᵊyâhu 23.8) – are listed by the earliest extant Church historian, Eusebius, and "Jerusalem". More documentation and details are found in Who Are the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ? (WAN) Live-LinkT Technology
c 30—c 62 C.E. — Pâ•qidꞋ Ya•a•qōvꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ" Bën-Dâ•widꞋ—brother of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa Bën-Dâ•widꞋ—the Mâ•shiꞋakh. Until the idolatrous Hellenist Roman Christians extirpated the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Jews in 333 C.E., they lived among their fellow Pᵊrush•imꞋ in harmony (even protected by the Pᵊrush•imꞋ against the Hellenists; see Josephus Ant. xx, ix, 1), vilified by the Christian church along with other Jews as "Judaizers" and "sons of Sâ•tânꞋ".
c 63—c 107 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Shim•onꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ" Bën-KhëlꞋëph (Hellenized to "Clopas"), murdered by Trajan for being a royal descendant of Dâ•widꞋ ha-MëlꞋëkh. From this point, Hellenist Romans appear to have consistently hunted them down and assassinated them.
c 107—c 110 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Tzi•dᵊq•i•yâhꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ" (the first)
c 110—c 113 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Zᵊkhar•yahꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ"
c 113—c 115 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Tov•i•yâhꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ"
c 115—c 117 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Bin•yâ•minꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ"
c 117—c 119 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Yo•khâ•nânꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ"
c 119—c 121 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Ma•tit•yâhꞋu "ha-Tza•diqꞋ"
c 121—c 123 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ PërꞋësh "ha-Tza•diqꞋ" (Hellenized by Eusebius to 'Philip')
c 123—c 125 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Sᵊna•âhꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ" (Hellenized by Eusebius to 'Seneca')
c 125—c 127 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Tzi•dᵊq•i•yâhꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ" (the second)
c 127—c 129 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Lei•wiꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ"
c 129—c 131 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Ë•phᵊr•ayꞋim "ha-Tza•diqꞋ"
c 131—c 133 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Yo•seiphꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ"
c 133 –135 C.E.—Pâ•qidꞋ Yᵊhud•âhꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ," who was ousted and exiled from Yᵊru•shâ•layꞋim by the gentile Hellenist Romans in 135 C.E., being usurped by Ἐπίσκοπος Μάρκος, the first gentile "pope-bishop," who is the only documented (not retroactively fabricated) origin of the tradition of "popes," who thereby are documented to have arrogated rightful authority from the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Pâ•qidꞋ and are, therefore, counterfeit displacers of the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Pâ•qidꞋ (see section on "Papal Succession" in our History Museum, click on "Apostasy" in menu at top). Legitimate authority remains unchanged—in the Eyes of the Ël•oh•imꞋ of Israel—with the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Pâ•qidꞋ, restored in the generation of the reemergence of the State of Israel; like Israel itself, after a long hiatus concluding the Age of the Expulsion from Israel (the 'Dark-Age of the Gentiles').
Thus, there have only been 15 Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ pᵊqid•imꞋ in the legitimate (Pharisee ⇒ Orthodox) Jewish community in which RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa and the original Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ lived and taught until our generation—when, for the first time since 135 C.E., a Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Pâ•qidꞋ, the 16th, was again accepted (1984) in good standing, restoring the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ to the same legitimate (Pharisee ⇒ Orthodox) Jewish community in which RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa and the original Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ lived and taught!!!
Messianic prophecies are at the highest, not 3rd grade, intellectual plane. People who ignorantly persist in believing in a self-contradicting supernatural god that needs to contradict earlier "perfect" laws to accomplish its "perfect" plan (therefore a flawed god, having authored either a flawed law or a flawed plan!), will never "get it" that Tōr•âhꞋ dictates that anthropomorphizing é‑‑ä or the Mâ•shiꞋakh constitutes idolatry! Therefore, the true Mâ•shiꞋakh — of Tōr•âhꞋ — could only be a mortal human being, like you and I. Having died, he isn't "coming back" in the superficial and simple-minded interpretation of "resurrected" physical flesh and blood. (For a number of reasons, resurrection cannot be physical.)
This is corroborated and confirmed by the prophecy of Yᵊkhë•zᵊq•eilꞋ that Dâ•widꞋ ha-MëlꞋëkh, who, in the future (despite being long-dead), will reign forever. That cannot be a description of the historical, already long-dead, mortal Dâ•widꞋ ha-MëlꞋëkh. Nor can the explicit naming of Dâ•widꞋ ha-MëlꞋëkh, rather than Beit-Dâ•widꞋ be assumed "de convenance", as Christians proclaim, to be merely "symbolic" of Beit-Dâ•widꞋ and the Mâ•shiꞋakh. Rather, the prophecy straightforwardly refers to the after-life, post-physical life Dâ•widꞋ ha-MëlꞋëkh! A priori, prophecies referring to a "Second Coming" of the Mâ•shiꞋakh similarly refer to a post-physical life restoration, i.e. his spirit, comprising his interpretations and clarifications of Tōr•âhꞋ — Mâ•shiꞋakh 2.0!
The difference between the Tōr•âhꞋ interpretation of the Mâ•shiꞋakh by a Pâ•qidꞋ v the idolatrous Καινής Διαθήκης interpretation of Jesus by an ëpiskopos is stark and intractably unbridgeable! Unlike any of the Christian fakes, Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu has been an Orthodox Israeli Jew in good standing among moderate Orthodox rabbis since his, and his wife Karen's, Orthodox conversion in 1984.01, living in Ra•a•nanꞋâ Israel since 1985.04. He was a member in good standing in an Orthodox synagogue (Beit ha-KᵊnësꞋët Mo•rëshꞋët Âv•otꞋ – Yad Nâ•âm•iꞋ in Ra•a•nanꞋâ, Israel) since 1998 – until 12 years later (on 2010.04.21 (more than a quarter-century after the conversions), extremist Ultra-Orthodox Kha•reid•imꞋ expressed their new-found sectarian uncertainty, falsely claiming authority to contradict thousands of years of Ha•lâkh•âhꞋ by retroactively claiming authority to overturn their own, official Israeli Ministry of Interior, 1985.04.02 recognition of my wife and my 1984.01.15 Orthodox conversions.
The Ultra-Orthodox Israeli cult, realizing they would almost certainly lose in Israel's Supreme Court if they tried to declare us not Jews, or our conversions not valid, deviously opted, instead, to argue in their own kangaroo courts (like the contra-Ha•lâkh•âhꞋ Sadducee court that convicted RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa millennia ago) that, like Reform and Conservative American converts, they don't "recognize" the American English conversion certificate, etc. (However, the converting Orthodox rabbis, being duly recognized by Orthodox authorities and documentation at the time, were the authority, not any after-the-fact wannabes – much less decades after the fact.)
No others claiming to be "Netzarim" are accepted in the legitimate (Pharisee ⇒ Orthodox) Jewish community in which RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa and the original Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ lived and taught. Thus, all others claiming to be "Netzarim" without being recognized by our Beit Din are fakes and deceivers!
(117-138 C.E.) |
The earliest extant Church historian, Eusebius, documents that in 135 C.E. Hellenist proto-Christians, collaborating with the Hellenist Roman occupiers under Hadrian, forcibly ousted and expelled the 15th Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Pâ•qidꞋ from Yᵊru•shâ•layꞋim with the other Jews, displacing him with the first Roman gentile—Christian—bishop-pope: Ἐπίσκοπος Μάρκος—thereby usurping the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Pâ•qidꞋ with the first gentile Christian "pope-bishop." This marks the birth of Christianity, the original Christians and their gentile Roman Church.
Until Hegesippus in the 3rd century, there were only ἐπίσκοπος—no pope of the Church or in Rome!!! Hegesippus himself documents: "I've fabricated the list of [papal] succession…!"
Even this admission, attributed to mid-2nd century, is documented no earlier than the 4th century C.E., by Eusebius. Hegesippus, it is then seen, projected his "I've fabricated a list of papal succession" of the 2nd century back to "Simon Peter."
Thus, the pope is documented to be false, a usurping displacement-counterfeit Pâ•qidꞋ— thereby satisfying, in great detail, the prophecy of the 11th horn of the 4th beast of Dân•iy•eilꞋ 7.25—with no connection to Shi•mᵊōnꞋ "KeiphꞋâ" Bar-YonꞋâh. Everything the papacy has usurped, and all authority the pope falsely claims, depends on displacement mythology. The true heritage of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa rightfully and exclusively belongs not to the Pope and Vatican, but solely to the domain of the Pâ•qidꞋ ha-Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ.
Note, too, that Pâ•qidꞋ Ya•a•qovꞋ "ha-Tza•diqꞋ", Bën-Yo•seiphꞋ and the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ succession of pᵊqid•imꞋ is the chain of authority that was recognized by Shi•mᵊōnꞋ "KeiphꞋâ" Bar-YōnꞋâh – whose ossuary was found by archeologists on Har ha-Zeit•imꞋ in Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim, not Rome – contradicting the Christian claim that he was the first pope! (If Shi•mᵊōnꞋ "KeiphꞋâ" Bar-YonꞋâh had defied the Beit Din in Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim, which he didn't, then he would have been excised as an apostate—no longer legitimate—as the Apostate Paul was several decades later.)
As Ta•lᵊmudꞋ demonstrates from Biblical text, Ha•lâkh•âhꞋ from the first century and before holds that only in the land of Israel may Jews be legitimately referred to as a Qâ•hâlꞋ. There were no more pᵊqid•imꞋ, nor any further legitimately identifiable group of Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ until 1983 when Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu Bën-Dâ•widꞋ was converted by Orthodox rabbis, as a Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ, into the legitimate Jewish community, where he thereby became the first, and only, identifiable and legitimate Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ in the legitimate Jewish community since 135 C.E.
Ha•lâkh•âhꞋ requires that every Jewish community constitute a Beit Din. (While normally comprising three Tōr•âhꞋ Jews recognized by Orthodox rabbis (called 'Pharisees' in the first century), Ha•lâkh•âhꞋ permits small communities to constitute a Beit Din with as few as one Tōr•âhꞋ Jew recognized by Orthodox rabbis.
Accordingly, as the only Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ in the legitimate Jewish community (after a thorough search) since 135 C.E., Ha•lâkh•âhꞋ required the lone Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ, Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu Bën-Dâ•widꞋ, to restore the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Beit Din to operation for the first time since 135 C.E., thereby shouldering the mantle of Pâ•qidꞋ, which had been vacated by the gentile Christian ouster of Pâ•qidꞋ YᵊhūdꞋâh ha-Tza•diqꞋ in 135 C.E. Thus, Pâ•qidꞋ Yi•rᵊmᵊyâhꞋu became the 16th Pâ•qidꞋ of the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ, restoring the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ as an identifiable group within the legitimate (moderate Orthodox) Jewish community – for the first time since 135 C.E., with the doctrines historically reconstructed just as they were in 135 C.E.!
See also Dân•iy•eilꞋ's prophecies.