Chronology of the Tanakh, from the "Big ðÈèÈä" Live-LinkT
Artscroll Bereshis (sic), includes pertinent rabbinic commentary of the Sages
Artscroll Vayikra (sic), includes pertinent rabbinic commentary of the Sages
îÄùÀÑðÅä úÌåÉøÈä Mi•shᵊn•eihꞋ Tor•âhꞋ; Ram•ba"mꞋ, 25 volumes (Hebrew only). Editing and commentary by top Tei•mân•iꞋ authority Rav Yo•seiphꞋ QâꞋpâkh (may the memory of this tza•diqꞋ be a bᵊrâkh•âhꞋ) make this the sole authoritative edition. (Optional)
Having read all of Section 1 and familiarized yourself with the kind of information in each item of Section 2, begin to share what Light you've learned! (Don't wait to try to master all of the sources; that would take more than a lifetime – and you would never reach the goal of letting your Light shine).
Anchoring your foundations, shining your Light and honing your defenses
Where is one instance in which RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa responded to a challenge by evading the question? Or approved his followers avoiding a challenge? Rather, any time his followers failed to shine their Light, he rebuked them as "insipid salt that, even when it's thrown out, kills the grass" and "a dry tree, devoid of fruit, that will be burned in the fire".
Listed in Who Are The Nᵊtzarim? Live-LinkT (WAN) are 28 distinct challenges to Christian doctrines (The Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Challenge!, beginning p. 45). Every ta•lᵊmidꞋ needs to become firmly anchored upon solid foundations, adept in courteously raising and politely—yet firmly and unambiguously—polemicizing all challenges; often in the face of very discourteous verbal attacks, without allowing one's judgment to be clouded by anger and without ever giving up.
The object of this exercise is to learn by doing, dealing with counter arguments patiently and courteously yet firmly and effectively and, usually most importantly: without falling into endless diversions they throw in your path. Stay on message, refusing to be baited into leaving your message to pursue sidetracks.
Remember that typically, rather than confront internal cognitive dissonance, your adversary denies reality. No amount of facts will change that. If they were reasonable, one fact would be enough. Your real, in the digital social world, is to help others who are listening in on the discussion, some of whom may have a more objective outlook.
Try to take a positive orientation. Often, there's no alternative. But when viable, it's more effective (and compassionate) to help Christians discover the authentic and historical 1st-century Pᵊrush•iꞋ Jew and RibꞋi whom they already profess they want to follow—described in (4Q) MMT! What could be more helpful than that? While polemicizing Christianity is unavoidable (if there were nothing wrong, then they don't need to change), and you must force them to confront it's falseness, the overarching compassionate attitude of helping them find the authentic historical reality is something any rational person would pursue and appreciate. (Of course, be aware that increasingly few people seem to exhibit such rationality.)
Help–enable–Jews as well as Christians to see, for the first time since the 4th century C.E., that the development of Christianity occurred only after the Bar-KōkhꞋvâ Rebellion in 135 C.E.; after the Hellenist Roman-occupiers expelled all of the Jews (which included all of the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ!) from Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim, enabling the Roman Hellenist gentiles to depose the Tor•âhꞋ-keeping Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Jewish leadership and usurp it with the first gentile Hellenist–Roman-Christian– episkopos.
Jews know, with certainty, that there is some nebulous but unbridgeable chasm between the idolatry of Jesus and, lᵊ‑ha•vᵊdilꞋ, Tor•âhꞋ. However, only when the Christian or Jew is historically and factually educated to the clarity of that polar difference will he or she be enabled to distinguish between
the 1st-century Tor•âhꞋ-teaching Pᵊrush•iꞋ Jew and RibꞋi, Yᵊho•shuꞋa, versus
the 2nd-4th century syncretizing by rabidly misojudaic Hellenist gentile Roman-occupiers (enabled only after the expulsion and deposing of the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ Jews from Yᵊru•shâ•laꞋyim in 135 C.E.) of the Apostate Paul's Hellenized "Jesus" with the Ζεύς idol indigenous to the gentile Roman-occupiers — producing the gentile Christian Jesus idol-on-a-stick, idolatrous Christianity and the idolatrous Church.
Your long-term strategy over your lifetime must be a patient, plodding, never-give-up, continuing effort to learn and master each of these issues through experience – you must challenge contradictions of historical fact, both in personal social settings as well as digital social settings. Right must outweigh PC in your decision-making so that you stand up and be counted – not be insipid salt or a dry tree with no fruit.
Wide exposure of these long-buried historical facts is the goal. Internet forums are generally monitored, by an unfriendly monitor. It isn't a level playing field. Your strategy in such a forum should be to lurk until you see a blatant assumption that contradicts this historical sequence, then pop in and point out why it's an error, giving www.netzarim.co.il as the place to learn more. Just maybe you will have helped someone find the Way. But don't get bogged down with incessant arguing with people having closed minds. Your time and this message is precious, a treasure that you must invest in people showing the most potential. Immediately after posting your message, unsubscribe from that forum and move on to another forum to sow a new field. The objective is to make our message accessible in many forums, for the benefit of any who might be in that forum genuinely seeking truth; not get bogged down arguing interminably with people who deny reality, wallow in ad hominems and refuse to learn. Such is a personal indulgence (dictated by your feelings that you must answer back, off-message, to a mean ad hominem?) waste of your limited time, for which, one day, you will have to account how you invested the time é‑‑ä alloted you to serve Him.
Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World, Louis H. Feldman. Essential for those desiring corroboration and additional scholarly documentation of the 1st-century 'god-fearers,' geir•imꞋ and the bellicose conflict between subjugated Jews and their misojudaic gentile, Hellenist Roman-occupiers. See also, Louis H. Feldman, The Omnipresence of the God-Fearers, Biblical Archeology Review, 86.09-10, pp. 58-69.
Artscroll Yechezkel (sic), includes pertinent rabbinic commentary of the Sages
Artscroll Daniel (sic), includes pertinent rabbinic commentary of the Sages
PishᵊtâhꞋ KheihâhꞋ Live-LinkT – Mâ•shiꞋakh rescues the "Flickering-Out Wick" (Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ) prophesied by Yᵊsha•yâhꞋu (42.3).
The Unveiling (Ἀποκάλυψις – before it became "Revelation") Live-LinkT Technology (possible Judaic origins of Hellenized Greek Christian book of "Revelation").
Pâqid Yaaqov, ha-Tzadiq Live-LinkT – Hellenized Greek letter attributed (?) by 4th century C.E. Hellenist gentile Roman Christians to the brother of RibꞋi Yᵊho•shuꞋa and first Pâ•qidꞋ of the Nᵊtzâr•imꞋ.