The Netzari Faith2024-03-29T08:46:06ZErik Adoniqamhttp://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/ErikAdoniqamhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/66444842?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://netzarifaith.ning.com/forum/topic/listForContributor?user=1grslajcl6378&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLove YHWHtag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2015-06-22:5544986:Topic:314222015-06-22T23:01:35.604ZErik Adoniqamhttp://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/ErikAdoniqam
<div class="_5pbx userContent"><p>“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." <br></br> (Revelation 3:20)</p>
<p>I believe Yahushua is not only telling us that He is literally going to come into our human spirits at the moment of our salvation with Him, but that He can also enter into our souls through the Holy Spirit. Even though Yahushua is in heaven, He now lives on the inside of us “through”…</p>
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<div class="_5pbx userContent"><p>“Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." <br/> (Revelation 3:20)</p>
<p>I believe Yahushua is not only telling us that He is literally going to come into our human spirits at the moment of our salvation with Him, but that He can also enter into our souls through the Holy Spirit. Even though Yahushua is in heaven, He now lives on the inside of us “through” the Holy Spirit.</p>
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<h1><span class="header">Orthodox Judaism:</span><br></br><b>Hasidim And Mitnagdim</b></h1>
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<p align="justify">Although contemporary Jews often use the word "Hasid" as a synonym for ultra-Orthodox, Hasidism, a religious movement that arose in eighteenth century Eastern Europe, was originally regarded as revolutionary and religiously liberal. Its opponents,…</p>
<h1><span class="header">Orthodox Judaism:</span><br/><b>Hasidim And Mitnagdim</b></h1>
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<p align="justify">Although contemporary Jews often use the word "Hasid" as a synonym for ultra-Orthodox, Hasidism, a religious movement that arose in eighteenth century Eastern Europe, was originally regarded as revolutionary and religiously liberal. Its opponents, known as Mitnagdim, were themselves <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/ortho.html">Orthodox</a> Jews. More than any thing else, the stories that each group told about its rabbinic leaders exemplify the differences among them. The Mitnagdim were proud of the fact that their leader, the <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/vilnagaon.html">Vilna Gaon</a>, had delivered an advanced discourse on the <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/talmud_&_mishna.html">Talmud</a> when he was only seven years old, and that he studied Jewish texts eighteen hours a day.</p>
<p align="justify">The founder of <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource//Judaism/Hasidism.html">Hasidism</a>, <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/baal.html">Israel Ba'al Shem Tov</a>, was the hero of very different sorts of tales. The Hasidim told of how he spent his teenage years working in a job with low status, as assistant in a Jewish elementary school, a <i>cheder</i>. He would round up the students from their homes each morning and lead them to school singing songs. Later, after he married, he and his wife went to live in the faroff Carpathian Mountains. There, the Ba'al Shem Tov worked as a laborer, digging clay and lime, which his wife then sold in town. The couple later kept an inn.</p>
<p align="justify">During these years, the Ba'al Shem Tov spent much time in the nearby forest in meditation and solitude. His Hasidic followers subsequently likened this period to the years of isolation and meditation that Moses spent in Midian, tending the flocks of his fatherinlaw.</p>
<p align="justify">Around 1736, the Ba'al Shem Tov revealed himself as a healer and a leader. His last name, which literally means "Master of the Good Name," was one that was frequently applied in Jewish life to miracle workers and healers. In 1740, he moved to Meziboz, a town near the borders of both Poland and the Ukraine, and not far from <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/lithtoc.html">Lithuania</a>. Disciples started coming to him from the surrounding countries, but the talks delivered by the Ba'al Shem Tov differed dramatically from lectures offered at a yeshiva; they focused far more on an individual's personal relationship with God and with his fellowman than on the intricacies of Jewish law. The stories Hasidim later told about the Ba'al Shem Tov — usually referred to by his acronym, the <i>Besht</i> — invariably depict him with a pipe in hand, telling seemingly secular tales with deep religious meanings. He died in 1760, leaving behind Dov Baer of Mezrich as his successor. Shortly before his death, the <i>Besht</i> told the people standing near his bed: "I grieve not at my death, for I can see a door opening while the other is closing."</p>
<p align="justify">Many of the dominant themes in the <i>Besht's</i> teachings became the central emphases in the Hasidic movement that his followers developed. There were statements of the <i>Besht</i>, not entirely innovative, which placed great stress on aspects of Judaism that the Mitnagdim generally ignored: the heart, for example. The <i>Besht</i> was particularly fond of a talmudic statement, "God desires the heart" (<i>Sanhedrin</i> 106b), which he interpreted as meaning that for God, a pure religious spirit mattered more than knowledge of the Talmud. It is told of the <i>Besht</i> that one <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/holiday4.html">Yom Kippur</a> a poor Jewish boy, an illiterate shepherd, entered the synagogue where he was praying. The boy was deeply moved by the service, but frustrated that he could not read the prayers. He started to whistle, the one thing he knew he could do beautifully; he wanted to offer his whistling as a gift to God. The congregation was horrified at the desecration of their service. Some people yelled at the boy, and others wanted to throw him out. The Ba'al Shem Tov immediately stopped them. "Until now," he said, "I could feel our prayers being blocked as they tried to reach the heavenly court. This young shepherd's whistling was so pure, however, that it broke through the blockage and brought all of our prayers straight up to God."</p>
<p align="justify">Another ancient Jewish doctrine that was given particular emphasis by the Ba'al Shem Tov was based on a verse in <i>Isaiah</i>: "The whole world is full of His glory" (6:13). If the whole world is full of God's glory, the <i>Besht</i> reasoned, then the Mitnagdim and the ascetics were wrong in thinking that one had to turn one's back on the pleasures of the world. "Don't deny that a girl is beautiful," the <i>Besht</i> would say. "Just be sure that your recognition of her beauty brings you back to its source-God." If one could do that, then even physical pleasures could bring about spiritual growth.</p>
<p align="justify">Because the world was full of God, the <i>Besht</i> believed that a person always should be joyful. Indeed, the greatest act of creativity comes about in an atmosphere of joy: "No child is born except through pleasure and joy," the <i>Besht</i> declared. "By the same token, if one wishes his prayers to bear fruit, he must offer them with pleasure and joy." This doctrine was a strong challenge to many ideas current among Jews in the <i>Besht's</i> time. Many religious Jews, particularly among the kabbalists, preached asceticism, and advocated that Jews fast every Monday and Thursday. The Ba'al Shem Tov warned people against such practices, fearing that they would lead to melancholy, not joy.</p>
<p align="justify">To outsiders, unaccustomed to the <i>Besht's</i> teachings, Hasidic prayer services sometimes seemed undignified, even chaotic. In fulfillment of the Psalmist's ecstatic declaration, "All my bones shall say, Lord, who is like You?" (<a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Bible/Psalms35.html">Psalms 35:10</a>), worshipers were capable of performing handstands. Characteristically, the <i>Besht</i>defended such practices at Hasidic services with a story. A deaf man passed by a hall where a wedding reception was being celebrated. When he looked through the window, he saw people engaged in exultant and tumultuous dancing. But because he could not hear the music, he assumed they were mad.</p>
<p align="justify">The <i>Besht</i> also taught that the <i>Tzaddik</i> (the religious leader of the Hasidim) should serve as a model of how to lead a religious life. However, he did not emphasize the doctrine of the <i>Tzaddik</i> nearly as much as some of his successors, particularly Dov Baer of Mezrich, who made it central to Hasidism. Dov Baer, the leader of the Hasidim after the Baal Shem Tov's death, taught that God revealed Himself through the <i>Tzaddik's</i> most trivial actions; one of Dov Baer's followers said, "I didn't go to him to learn Torah, but to see him unbuckle his shoes." Dov Baer taught that the ideal <i>Tzaddik</i> had a closer relationship to God than the average Jew, and could bestow blessings on people. In return, it was understood that the Hasidim must bring their <i>Tzaddik</i>gifts.</p>
<p align="justify">The belief in the power and greatness of the <i>Tzaddik</i> became one of Hasidism's strongest-and most controversial-ideas. Hasidism's opponents charged that the <i>Tzaddikim</i> (plural) often enriched themselves at the expense of their followers. In the generation after Dov Baer, numerous new Hasidic groups were formed, each with its own <i>Tzaddik</i>, referred to as a <i>rebbe</i>. These <i>rebbes</i> became a kind of Jewish royalty. When one died, he was succeeded by either his son or soninlaw. Those Hasidic groups that established eminent family dynasties became successful. Many Hasidic groups, however, went into decline when their <i>rebbe</i> died and left behind less capable successors.</p>
<p align="justify">The best known group of Hasidim in the United States are the <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Lubavitch_and_Chabad.html">Lubavitcher</a>, who are headquartered in Brooklyn. Their current rebbe is <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/schneerson.html">Menachem Mendel Schneersohn</a>, the seventh leader since the movement was founded in the late 1700s. But though Lubavitch is the one Hasidic group nonOrthodox Jews are most apt to meet-because of the movement's various outreach programs-there are dozens of other Hasidic dynasties in the United States (many of them located in Brooklyn) and in Israel.</p>
<p align="justify">In their early years, the Hasidim were actively persecuted by the Mitnagdim, who feared they would become another heretical sect, similar to that of <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Zvi.html">Shabbetai Zevi</a>. But in its formative stages, Hasidism wisely put its primary emphasis on personal religious growth rather than on national salvation, and it downplayed the messianic element. This was not enough, however, to appease the Mitnagdim. Other Hasidic traits, such as their laissezfaire attitude toward the appropriate hours for prayer, bitterly provoked their opponents. The Hasidim answered that they couldn't legislate precise hours for reciting each of the three daily <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/praytoc.html">prayer services</a>; they prayed with such intensity (<i>kavannah</i>) that they couldn't do so while looking at a watch.</p>
<p align="justify">The Israeli historian Jacob Katz has documented how other practices provocatively separated the Hasidim from their neighbors. For example, Hasidim advocated using a sharper knife when slaughtering animals than the one used by the Mitnagdim's slaughterers. Such stringency had a socially divisive effect: The Hasidim no longer could eat at the Mitnagdim's houses. The Hasidim also adopted a different prayerbook, so that their synagogue service differed somewhat from that of other Jews and had to be conducted separately. Their most brilliant act of "public relations" was labeling themselves Hasidim, the Hebrew word for both "pious" and "saintly," while calling their adversaries Mitnagdim, Hebrew for "opponents." These terms made the Hasidim seem like the more dynamic and positive of the two groups.</p>
<p align="justify">With the passage of time, the Hasidim and Mitnagdim recognized that their differences were increasingly inconsequential, particularly after both groups found themselves facing a common enemy: the nineteenth century <i><a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Judaism/Haskalah.html">Haskala</a></i>, or Jewish Enlightenment. Jewish parents who once feared that their Hasidic or Mitnagdish child might go over to the other camp, were now far more afraid that their child might become altogether irreligious.</p>
<p align="justify">An additional factor that lessened the HasidicMitnagdish split was nineteenth and twentieth century Hasidism's increasing emphasis on Talmud study. As the movement expanded, it put less emphasis on meditation and communing with God, and more on traditional Jewish learning. As a result, Hasidim today are no longer regarded as revolutionaries; in fact, they are the conservative stalwarts of Orthodox Judaism, easily recognized by the eighteenth and nineteenth century black coats and hats worn by most of their male adherents.</p>
<p align="justify">Nonetheless, the Hasidic approach to Judaism significantly differs from that of the Mitnagdim. Hasidism generally places a much greater stress on<i> simcha shel mitzvah</i> — the joy of performing a commandment.</p>
<hr/> Rabbis in history that followed Yeshua (Link)tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2014-07-08:5544986:Topic:266072014-07-08T18:47:46.632ZErik Adoniqamhttp://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/ErikAdoniqam
<p><a href="http://www.ha-gefen.org.il/len/aalphabetic%20presentation/c13764.php" target="_blank">Rabbis who followed Yeshua</a></p>
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<tbody><tr><td align="left" bgcolor="#BEBFA6"><p class="c4"><b>Do you believe that there will be any significance to the tetrads</b> coming in coming few years? Especially since the lunar eclipses fall on or before or after YHWH's Holy Days? In times past there have been tetrads that coincided with the Holy Days and something significant happened such as Israel becoming a state in 1948.</p>
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<tbody><tr><td align="left" bgcolor="#F2E3C6"><p class="c4"><b>Yes...by now many - if not most - have heard or read something about the "tetrad"</b> or the "four blood red moons." The upcoming "tetrad" of four, consecutive total lunar eclipses is nothing to be concerned about. Yes, they are rare, but they do not mean "something is going to happen" - yet so many are jumping on the "OMIGOSH!" bandwagon, without doing any real research or seeking out professionals or sources who know something about astronomy.</p>
<p class="c4"><b>It is pure sensationalism for people to announce, the "Coming 4 Blood Moons!"</b> In a total eclipse the moon is in the earth's shadow and always turns some shade of "orange" or "peach". Only if the atmosphere is especially full of aerosols and particulates, is the total eclipse a very dark shade of red - which could be described as "blood red". The problem is, you cannot predict ahead of time how bright or how dark a total eclipse will be, or what shade of orange/red it will be. So hyping this as "Coming 4 Blood Moons!" is just that - HYPE.</p>
<p class="c4"><b>Second, these same people suggest:</b> "Whenever there is a tetrad, something happens". Not true! Many will say, for example, that the 6-Day war in Israel happened in during the 1967-68 tetrad. So? The Total eclipses were 24 April 1967, 18 Oct 1967, 13 April 1968, and 6 Oct 1968 - and NONE of them were visible from Israel! (More on visibility in a minute). The 6-Day war was 5-10 June 1967. No eclipse.</p>
<p class="c4"><b>Many will also say "Israel became a state during a tetrad".</b> Not true. The first total eclipse in that particular tetrad was 13 April 1949 - was not even visible from Israel. Israel became a state on 15 May 1948, a year before the eclipse. And on that date the moon was only nearing 1st quarter. Right after Israel became a state was the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Its dates were 15 May 1948 to 10 Mar 1949 - still before the tetrad.</p>
<p class="c3">Concerning visibility from Israel during "tetrads":</p>
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<p class="c4"><b>15 April 2014:</b> Not visible from Israel</p>
<p class="c4"><b>8 October 2014:</b> Not visible from Israel</p>
<p class="c4"><b>4 April 2015:</b> Not visible from Israel</p>
<p class="c4"><b>28 September 2015:</b> Visible, but moon sets at sunrise during the eclipse - not likely to be "blood red" as the sky will brightening as the moon goes into totality as the moon sets.</p>
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<p class="c5">1967-1968 tetrad:</p>
<p class="c4"><b>24 April 1976:</b> Not visible from Israel</p>
<p class="c4"><b>18 October 1967:</b> Not visible from Israel</p>
<p class="c4"><b>13 April 1968:</b> Not visible from Israel</p>
<p class="c4"><b>6 October 1968:</b> Not visible from Israel</p>
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<p class="c5">1949-1950 tetrad:</p>
<p class="c4"><b>13 April 1949:</b> Visible at beginning of eclipse which began at sunrise, moon set before totality, sky too bright as sun was rising.</p>
<p class="c4"><b>7 October 1949:</b> Visible from beginning of eclipse to totality, but then moon sets while still in total eclipse with sky too bright to see much of the totality.</p>
<p class="c4"><b>2 April 1950:</b> Was visible - the whole eclipse beginning to end.</p>
<p class="c4"><b>26 September 1950:</b> Not visible from Israel. Eclipse began near sunrise, so the moon was only in partial eclipse as it set, and the sky became too bright.</p>
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<p class="c4"><b>So we would argue that only ONE total lunar eclipse in all these 12 total eclipses since 1949</b> could have had any significance because only one (2 April 1950) was seen from Israel. Please feel free to verify this via your own research!</p>
<p class="c4">Why are we putting importance on the visibility of eclipses from Israel? Because if an astronomical event is to have significance, it<b><i>must</i></b> be sanctified from Israel. Think about it. There have been total lunar eclipses for thousands of years. <b><i>All</i></b> the astronomical events had to be visible from Israel, or they knew nothing about the event! No one could place significance on a total eclipse they did not see, and did not even know happened! Why would YHWH say in Genesis 1:14 that the sun, moon, stars were for "signs" if His people in the Land did not (or could not) SEE the sign?</p>
<p class="c3">Here is just one example of many, of a SIGNIFICANT astronomical event to illustrate:</p>
<p class="c4">Author <a href="http://www.aent.org/">Andrew Gabriel Roth</a> has been researching important Biblical dates all his life. To make a very long story short, his independent research had narrowed the date of Yeshua's birth to between the 11th and 13th September, 5 BCE. Here he was stuck. He had assessed the astronomical sign - the "star of Bethlehem", but was looking for another astronomical sign. How could he determine the date of the nativity? Consulting with Air Force Lt. Col. (Ret.) William J. Welker, a physicist and amateur astonomer, Roth discovered the following:</p>
<p class="c4">"On the night of Sep 13th, 5 BCE, there was a well placed total Lunar Eclipse. By 'well placed', we mean that the moon rose that night, well before Jupiter, and was of course, nearly full. The eclipse began at about 8:30 PM, with the moon 35 degrees high – perfectly placed from Jerusalem to see the entire eclipse."</p>
<p class="c4"><b>A total lunar eclipse marked the birth!</b> Roth is in the process of publishing his findings, and The Refiner's Fire will announce his new book as soon as it is finished!</p>
<p class="c4"><a href="http://www.therefinersfire.org/ea.htm">http://www.therefinersfire.org/ea.htm</a></p>
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<p><font color="#000000" face="Ariel,Helvetica" size="4"><img src="http://www.lightofmashiach.org/graphics/shofar2.gif"></img> <b><font color="#660099" size="4">Yom Teruah: Day Of The Shofar Blast</font></b> <br></br> Ellen Kavanaugh</font></p>
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<blockquote><font color="#000000" face="Ariel,Helvetica" size="4"><font color="#660099">YHVH spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. ‘You…</font></font></blockquote>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Ariel,Helvetica" size="4"><img src="http://www.lightofmashiach.org/graphics/shofar2.gif"/> <b><font color="#660099" size="4">Yom Teruah: Day Of The Shofar Blast</font></b> <br/> Ellen Kavanaugh</font></p>
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<blockquote><font color="#000000" face="Ariel,Helvetica" size="4"><font color="#660099">YHVH spoke to Moses, saying, "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month on the first of the month you shall have a rest, a reminder by blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation. ‘You shall not do any laborious work, but you shall present an offering by fire to YHVH.’" Leviticus 23:23-25</font></font></blockquote>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Ariel,Helvetica" size="4">Yom Teruah basically means a day of noise/blasts. Yom Teruah is known as the Feast of Trumpets in Christianity and is better known as Rosh Hashannah (the new year) in modern Judaism. But Yom Teruah isn't really the 'Jewish New Year,' in fact, it falls on the first day of Etanim, (also known traditionally as Tishri) which is the seventh month in YHVH's calendar. The real 'new year' is in Aviv (also known traditionally as Nisan) when Pesakh/Passover occurs. <br/> <br/> Yom Teruah begins a ten-day period leading up to the holiest day of YHVH's calendar, Yom Kippur -- the "Day Of Atonement." These ten days are called the 'Days of Awe' in modern Judaism. In fact, modern Judaism also includes the preceding month of Elul also as a time to prepare for the upcoming Fall moedim (appointed times). The sounding of the shofar on Yom Teruah is a wake-up blast -- a reminder that the time is near for the Day of Atonement. It is time to teshuvah (repent, turn back to YHVH). Traditionally, these ten days are ones of heart searching and self examination -- the shofar warns us we need to examine our lives and make amends with all those we have wronged in the previous year, and to ask forgiveness for any vows we may have broken. So a main theme of the Fall Holy Days is repentance. <br/> <br/> Hearing the shofar blow is a mitzvah (command). Most Messianic congregations follow tradition when it comes to 'how' to blow the shofar. Traditionally, the Baal Tekiah (shofar blower) begins with one held blast called Tekiah; followed by three broken blasts called Shevarim; followed by nine even faster broken blasts called Teruah. The Tekiah, Shevarim, and Teruah each last the same length of time. These are repeated three times. Then the Baal Tekiah concludes by blowing and holding a final blast as long as he can (basically, until he runs out of breath). This final blast is called Tekiah Gedolah. I am not convinced that this arrangement of blows is important to fulfill the biblical command of blowing the shofar, but I see nothing wrong if tradition prevails in this instance. Scripturally, no such blast arrangement is mentioned, but as long as the shofar is blown and people hear it, I would consider the mitzvah satisfied. For those who will be unable to attend a congregation: <br/></font></p>
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<blockquote><font color="#660099">And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you. Numbers 29:1</font></blockquote>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Ariel,Helvetica" size="4"><font color="#000000" face="Ariel,Helvetica" size="4"><br/> We've discussed that Yom Teruah represents a warning cry for us to wake up and repent -- to prepare ourselves for YHVH. In non-Messianic traditional Judaism it is believed that YHVH records our names in the Book of Life during the Fall festivals. Hence, a common greeting you might hear before and during Yom Teruah is "May you be inscribed (in the book of life)." Another popular greeting is 'L'shana Tova' which is a wish for a good new year. Traditional foods on Yom Teruah are 'sweet' - apples dipped in honey (and sweet dishes made with apples, honey, raisins, figs, sweetened carrots, and pomegranates, etc. are served). The traditional challah bread is made sweeter and shaped in a circle, symbolizing completeness and never-ending sweetness. The rabbinic idea of this 'sweetness' was to bring a sense of optimism to the festival, since the themes of repentance and atonement might have made this season a somber time of remorse alone. So this is why (if you were wondering) so many sites have apple and honeybee themes during Yom Teruah. Tradition! Tradition! <br/> <br/> There is also an interesting rabbinic tradition of Tashlich, which is the act of casting bread crumbs into a moving body of water to symbolize the removal of our sins. This comes from Micah 7:19: "He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea." Tashlich means 'to cast.' Another tradition is to serve the head of a fish with a new year theme of "be the head, not the tail." <br/> <br/> Other themes during Yom Teruah are those of rebirth and resurrection, especially noted in the Brit Chadasha (new testament). <br/> <br/></font></font></p>
<blockquote><font color="#660099">And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Matthew 24:31 <br/> <br/>"Behold, I tell you a mystery; we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 1 Corinthians 15:51,52</font></blockquote>
<p><font color="#000000" face="Ariel,Helvetica" size="4"><br/>Dispensationalists with interest in the 'Jewish roots of the faith' have begun equating Yom Teruah with their pre-tribulational-style rapture doctrine and many consider Yom Teruah the next festival to be 'fulfilled' by Yeshua in their prophetic calendar. It's beautiful imagery, but I cannot agree with this assumption. I would point out that the Spring festivals fulfilled by Yeshua occurred chronologically in 'real time' and that so far, I have yet to see a "Fall Holy Day Fulfillment" explanation that could place their fulfillments <i>before</i> the tribulation. To have the festivals fulfilled in 'real time' (i.e. rapture; followed ten literal days later by the "Day of Atonement;" then followed five literal days later with Sukkot (booths/tabernacles)) it is impossible to make them fall before the tribulation (or before the millennium, for that matter). In order to have a literal unfolding of Fall festivals in chronological 'real time,' then the only likely scenario would be for the Fall festivals to begin <i>after</i> the tribulation, especially since the millennium would seem to represent a literal Sukkot the best (Zechariah 14:18,19). Just food for thought. <br/><br/> Since there are many trumpets mentioned in Scripture, it is unwise to assume every mention of a trumpet necessarily refers to Yom Teruah, especially when making escatological predictions regarding the HolyDays, as we are also commanded to sound the trumpet on Yom Kippur (Lev 25:9) to signify the Jubilee year. We do know that when a trumpet blows (in Torah, Prophets, and Revelation) it's almost always a summons, a war-cry, an alert warning (to prepare for something), to hail an arrival, or a wake-up call if one has been slumbering (spiritually or physically). I hadn't intended on mentioning any eschatology references to the Fall Festivals, but felt I needed to mention this Dispensationalist theory since I know many people start looking for "Fall Holy Day Fulfillment" articles this time of year.</font></p> The Mark of YHWHtag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-08-21:5544986:Topic:227972013-08-21T13:41:07.956ZErik Adoniqamhttp://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/ErikAdoniqam
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: "Come out of her my people; that you may not participate in her sins and may not partake of her plagues. For her sins have reached up to heaven; and Elohim has remembered her iniquities". Revelation 18:4-5 We are told the mark of the beast will be in the hand and/or the forehead. With today's present technology we know that a microscopic computer chip can be placed under the…</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;">And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: "Come out of her my people; that you may not participate in her sins and may not partake of her plagues. For her sins have reached up to heaven; and Elohim has remembered her iniquities". Revelation 18:4-5 We are told the mark of the beast will be in the hand and/or the forehead. With today's present technology we know that a microscopic computer chip can be placed under the skin. But is this just a rouse to keep us off track from understanding what the actual mark of the beast is? Is scripture talking about a tattoo or a microchip? Or is this a spiritual reference. To understand this we must turn to the Tanakh to discover what the "Mark of YAHWEH" is. The mark in the hand and forehead are simply metaphors in the physical world. In the spiritual world, however, they are a literal mark. The hand represents labor, physical activities, and actions. The forehead represents knowledge, understanding, to serve, an oath, and what we believe. Moshe (Moses), upon the instructions of YAHWEH, lays out the Chag haMatzot (Feast of Unleavened Bread). Following this We find the first reference of the "Mark of YAHWEH" in Shemot (Exodus) 13:9-10: "And this (Moedim - Appointment - Shabbat of Unleavened Bread) shall serve you as a sign on your hand and as a reminder on your forehead...you shall keep this institution at its set time from year to year." “Then YAHWEH said to Moshe, ‘Say to the Yisraelites, 'You must observe my Sabbatot (Sabbaths). This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am YAHWEH, who makes you kadosh (set apart). Observe the Sabbath, because it is kadosh (set apart) to you. Anyone who desecrates it must be put to death; whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from his people’.” Shemot (Exodus) 31:12-14 After delivering the Mitzwot (Instructions - Commandments) Moshe admonishes Yisrael, "Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day. Impress them upon your children. Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up. Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead..." D'varim (Deuteronomy) 6:6-8. Again, in D'varim 11:18 we read, "Therefore impress these my Words upon your very heart: bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead, and teach them to your children..." So, we see that there is a clear distinguishing mark of YAHWEH that is in the hand and in the forehead of those who keep his Mitzwot (instructions for righteous living). It is not a tattoo or a microchip but is instead the act of obedience to the Mitzwot of YAHWEH. By keeping His Moedim (set times - appointments) Feasts which are Shabbatot (Sabbaths), in keeping His seventh day Shabbat, and in keeping His Mitzwot (instructions in righteousness) we have in our hand and in our forehead the "Mark of YAHWEH". In contrast let's compare Daniel 7:25 - "He will speak words against the Most High and will harass the Kadosh (set apart) ones of the Most High. He will think of changing times (Moedim) and laws (Mitzwot) and they will be delivered into his power for a time, times, and half a time." So he will change Pesach (Passover) and Chag haMatzot to Easter (Ishtar)...He will change YAHWEH’s Mitzwot (Instructions - Law) from the seventh day Shabbat to the first day of the week and teach that “Jesus nailed Torah (Law) to the cross”. Then we find this reference to a mark in the hand and upon the forehead in Revelation 13:15-16 - "And it was given him to put life into the image of the beast of prey; and to cause that all they who would not worship the image of the beast of prey, should be slain: and to cause that all, great and small, rich and poor, bond and free, should receive a mark on their right hands, or upon their foreheads;" Notice that these verses do not say those who refuse this mark go to heaven. You can refuse the mark of the beast but if you have also refused the Mark Of YAHWEH, you will not enter into the Malchut Elohim (Kingdom of Elohim). Does this mean the beast will not use a tattoo or a microchip? Not at all. He can use all means to counterfeit the “Mark of YAHWEH”, especially with those who are not aware of or do not understand the “Mark of YAHWEH”. If it is not obvious enough let’s clarify that the mark of the beast is the anti-thesis of the “Mark of YAHWEH”. YAHWEH declared the seventh day as a Kadosh (Set Apart) Shabbat - day of rest - a memorial of the creation (yes, we celebrate the creation every Shabbat). But the world religious system (anti-Mashiyach) changed YAHWEH’s Moed Shabbat (appointed Sabbath) to the first day of the week to honor pagan sun worship - “Sun”-day. Christianity has chosen to have “church” on Sun-day which, upon examination, is not a Sabbath at all. Just look at all the Christians running to the restaurants, Wal-Mart, Home Depot, cutting the grass or painting the house after “Church” on Sun-day. The truth is that Christianity has no true Sabbath. Rather than observing and keeping Kadosh YAHWEH’s Moed Pesach (Passover), Christianity has chosen to honor the pagan holy day of Ishtar (Easter). They have even incorporated the very same pagan egg laying rabbits as the fertility symbolism of this pagan holy day. Christianity changed the date of Mashiyach’s birth from the first of Sukkote (Feast of Tabernacles) to the birthday of Tammuz, Sol Invictus and a host of other pagan dieties (see Y’shua vs Jesus on this web site). But, this is not a Moed of YAHWEH. Nowhere in scripture are we instructed to observe the birth of anyone. How are we instructed to remember Mashiyach? Through His death and resurrection, “In the same way, after supper he took the cup, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood; do this, whenever you drink it, in remembrance of me’." 1 Corinthians 11:25 Make special notice that this is the Brit Chadasha (New Covenant) and not a new Torah - the “New Covenant” does not abolish Torah. The vast majority of Christian denominations do not observe, preach, nor understand the seven Kadosh Moedim Feasts of YAHWEH, all of which point to Mashiyach. This religious world system has totally created their own holy days while pushing aside YAHWEH’s Moedim. It is man trying to dictate to Elohim how and when man will worship the creator as opposed to man observing and honoring how YAHWEH has instructed us to approach Him. This has clearly become the religious system of anti-Mashiyach with a distinct mark in the hand and in the forehead. So please, explain, what is there about Christianity that comes even remotely close to having the “Mark of YAHWEH”? This is a call for Christianity to return to the faith once delivered to the Set Apart believers (Jude 1:3) and to reject the mark of the beast - the worldly man-made religious system that defies the living Elohim. On every page of this web site you have seen who the set-apart believers are - the ones who have the Mark of Elohim. Notice that it is two parts - faith without works is dead as works without faith is dead. "And the dragon was enraged against the woman; and he went to make war upon the remnant of her seed who keep the Commandments (Mitzwot - Instructions) of Elohim and have the testimony of Y'shua." Rev. 12-17 The “Mark of YAHWEH” is consistent with, "Hurt you not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our Elohim upon their foreheads." Rev 7:3. Chapter 7 then goes on to describe the 144,000 that are sealed. But this number is a remez (a hint) which Andrew Gabriel Roth notes in footnote 26 on page 690 of the Aramaic English New Testament as: "144,000 refers to a type of people, rather than a numerical sum; 10 = testimony 12 = the Yisrael of Elohim; 10 x 10 x 10 is a three fold testimony representing YAHWEH Eloheinu YAHWEH Echad [YAHWEH our Elohim YAHWEH is one]; 12 x 12 is the Yisrael of Elohim who are spiritually re-born in Mashiyach [Messiah]. These sing the song of Moshe and have the testimony of the Lamb. This can also be understood as "the 144,000's" (plural); a Kedoshim (Set Apart) people. There is a Mishchah (anointing) placed on this faithful remnant, according to Torah (Moshe) and Mashiyach." So, I add my note, literally 10 x 10 x 10 x 12 x 12 (144,000's) is a number like infinity to which only YAHWEH knows the exact answer. Many are probably asking, "But I thought Jesus nailed Torah - the Law - to the cross". Think of how contradictory this false doctrine is compared with the rest of scripture. Consider the scriptures cited above and then compare this with Matthew 5:17-20, "Do not think that I have come to loosen (abolish) Torah or the Prophets, I have not come to loosen but to fulfill. For truly I say to you that until heaven and earth pass away not one yodh or stroke will pass from Torah until everything happens..." Read it in whichever version you choose. Not one yodh, not one stroke will pass from Torah". Can it be any plainer?. I refer you to the "Matthew 5:17-20" page and the "Passover Week" page on this web site for more on this. You will discover that heaven and earth have not yet passed away and that all has not yet been fulfilled. There are three (3) of Yahweh's seven (7) Moedim Feasts that remain to be fulfilled in the future. Taking that into consideration, isn't it time you started relying on the Ruach haKodesh (Set Apart Ancient Spirit - Spirit of Mashiyach) to teach you what you are reading in the scriptures. Yeshua said He gives us the Ruach to lead us into truth and understanding. Why then, do so many of you rely on men to tell you (their ideas and doctrines) what the scriptures say? It is time for you to start questioning what are the traditions of men (just like the religious leaders of Y'shua's day) and what the scriptures actually teach. What we see throughout the scriptures are two distinct patterns. One pattern is the “Mark of YAHWEH”, following YAHWEH’s instructions and transforming into His image. The other is the mark of the beast (man creating its own image of Elohim after man). So the question arises, which mark have you chosen to take in your hand and in your forehead?</span></p>
<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: arial black,avant garde;"><a href="http://http://www.netzaritimes.com/markofyah.html" target="_blank">http://http://www.netzaritimes.com/markofyah.html</a></span></p> SHOULD CHRISTIANS STILL BE CALLED GENTILES?tag:netzarifaith.ning.com,2013-08-14:5544986:Topic:228142013-08-14T05:18:08.461ZErik Adoniqamhttp://netzarifaith.ning.com/profile/ErikAdoniqam
<p>Many Pastors say that they are not Jewish, but are Gentile. I found this quote recently and I love it:</p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">"If a person is a believer in Yeshua they are Israel. The Torah was given to all the sons and Jacob and the aliens with them in the desert. Gentile means non-believer so anyone who wants to be a gentile, consider yourself a pagan. The community of Israel is all who believe in Yeshua Messiah."…</span></p>
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<p>Many Pastors say that they are not Jewish, but are Gentile. I found this quote recently and I love it:</p>
<p><span class="font-size-4">"If a person is a believer in Yeshua they are Israel. The Torah was given to all the sons and Jacob and the aliens with them in the desert. Gentile means non-believer so anyone who wants to be a gentile, consider yourself a pagan. The community of Israel is all who believe in Yeshua Messiah."</span></p>
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<p>Here's some evidence for gentile obligation to follow Torah that I'm gonna be putting into a book on Acts 15. Sorry that this is just an outline and that I haven't gone through and fully explained each point. But it'll give you a taste of the magnitude of the rebuttal that exists for FFOZ's Divine Invitation position:</p>
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<p>Here's some evidence for gentile obligation to follow Torah that I'm gonna be putting into a book on Acts 15. Sorry that this is just an outline and that I haven't gone through and fully explained each point. But it'll give you a taste of the magnitude of the rebuttal that exists for FFOZ's Divine Invitation position:</p>
<div>Evidences for Full Gentile Torah Obligation:<br/> <br/> <br/> COVENANTAL:<br/> <br/> The Abrahamic Covenant promised that Abraham's seed would become a great nation. This was fulfilled by the Sinaitic Covenant. Exodus 19:5-6 shows us that the Sinaitic Covenant established the People of Israel as a nation. Jeremiah 31 shows us that the New Covenant is a reaffirmation of the national covenant (Sinaitic) because it makes explicit references to the nation and to the constituent Houses of the nation. Yeshua tells us that His blood is the blood of the New Covenant. Therefore, partners in the New Covenant are members of the nation of Israel.</div>
<div>LEXICOLOGICAL: </div>
<div>Epistrepho: Peter uses this term interchangeably with "immersion" (Acts 2:38 and 3:19) which shows that Peter saw Cornelius' immersion as a rite of initiation into the Israelite religion (Acts 10,11) and also that Luke and James saw the "conversion" of the gentiles (Acts 15:3, 19) in the same way.</div>
<div>Kahal, Ekklesia, and the Expression "Day of the Kahal" as Shavuot: The latter expression refers to Israel (Dt 9:10; 10:4; 18:16; 5:22). The Day of the Kahal refers to Shavuot when Torah was given. Gentiles are included in the New Covenant Shavuot (Acts 11). Stephen applies ekklesia to Israel in Acts 7:38. Ekklesia is the word for Church and it comes from the Hebrew word for the political gathering of Israel (Kahal). </div>
<div>Covenanted (proselyte) and Non-Covenanted (paroikos) Dichotomy of Gerim (LXX). Ephesians 2 tells gentiles that they are no longer paroikos (non-covenanted germ).</div>
<div>Politeia (Eph 2) as the perfect descriptor for the political connotations of the Hebrew word ezrach (citizen). </div>
<div>LUKAN: </div>
<div>Acts 15: Shows that the uncircumcised gentiles were "epistrepho" [converts] and were expected to attend synagogue to learn Torat Moshe (Acts 15:21) on the basis that they had become part of the covenanted people for His name (Am Yisrael) via the conversion of the Holy Spirit (which Peter, in re Cornelius, had symbolized with immersion in a mikveh).</div>
<div>POLITICAL SCIENCE:</div>
<div>Passover: Familial Symbolism; Federal Institution; Federal Citizenship; Passover Feast as Citizenship Par Excellence</div>
<div>Positive Law Rights: Intimacy Only Found in Positive Commands of Divine Revelation (i.e. Torah); The Correlative Nature of Rights/Duties; The Right to Intimacy; Ruach Immersion as Change of Legal Status</div>
<div>PAULINE:</div>
<div>Instruction to Abandon Gentile Identity (1 Cor 12:2; Eph 2; Eph 4, etc)</div>
<div>Spiritual Circumcision as Ritualized Circumcision Par Excellence (Col 2:11-13; Eph 2:11-22; Gal 6:15-16; 1 Cor 7:19; Rom 2:26; Rom 3:29-31</div>
<div>Rights Teachings (Eph 2)</div>
<div>Instruction for Gentiles to Imitate Models of Torah Observance (Phil. 4:9)</div>
<div>Instruction for Gentiles to Follow Mosaic Torah (1 Cor 7:19)</div>
<div>PETRINE:</div>
<div>Gentiles as the People Called by His Name (Acts 15)</div>
<div>Gentiles will Receive Persecution for Rejecting Idolatry</div>
<div>Gentiles (along with Jews) are Israel (1 Peter 9-10)</div>
<div>HISTORICAL:</div>
<div>The Gentile Corinthians Celebrated Passover: 1 Cor. 5:7-8</div>
<div>The Colossians Observed Moedim: In Col 2, Paul is attacking the ascetic and gnostic "traditions of men" (2.8) and the "commandments and doctrines of men" (2.22). This is what Paul was attacking: non-Scriptural, man-made traditions. Now observe that kashrut law, Shabbat, New Moon celebrations, these are not "traditions of men" but rather they ARE Scriptural. Thus, Paul was not attacking Scriptural practices. Also, for the acetics to be judging the Torah-observant Colossians for their feasting, the Torah-observant Colossians must've been keeping those feasts.</div>
<div>Gentile Assimilation into Jewish Communities in First Century: Fredriksen, Zetterholm, Nanos, Irshai, </div>
<div>PROPHETICAL:</div>
<div>Isaiah 2:2-3; 56:6</div>
<div>Jeremiah 31:33</div>
<div>Micah 4:2</div>
<div>Zech 2; 8:22-23</div>