Hebrew Roots research by Lew White
HOW TRADITIONS INFLUENCE OUR BEHAVIOR
"Because he cleaves to Me in love, Therefore I deliver him; I set him on high, Because he has purchased and worn a kipa and prayer shawl."
- Book of Imagination 6:66
(non-existent text) People behave according to excuses they are taught, and
their leaders / teachers are leading them into confusion.
The Hindu
influences reached the Levant
(Eastern
Mediterranean region) around 200 BCE
along a trade route out of India known as the Silk Road. The Hindu scarf called
a
KHATA became the rabbinic
KATAN, and the
Catholic
(and protestant)
STOLE.
When Yahusha's
pupils asked Him how to pray, He didn't hand them any Shiva beads (rosary) or a
prayer shawl, or show them how to "daven." In these last days we are choked by men's
traditions, yet a few are learning to abide by the Word, not traditions of men.
As the 7 days of Unleavened Bread approaches each year
(Exodus / Shemoth 12:14), we should understand that leavening
is physical and represents something abstract.
Leaven
isn't only SIN, but it's the added
(puffed-up)
teachings of men
(traditions).
Purge the
leaven from your home, and your heart.
YAHUSHA'S YOKE
Yahusha's yoke is not a statement listing our beliefs.
We have misunderstandings, and every one of us would be shocked if shown all our errors
by Yahusha. There are plenty of teachers that will do this, and no two teachers
agree!
As
Natsarim, we are all at different levels of comprehension, yet stand equally
before our Head, Yahusha. We can
make a list of our beliefs, but must keep it from becoming a tool to divide us.
All have strongholds (mental fortresses) holding them captive to false ideas.
Sometimes these false ideas appear in doctrinal statements that divide us more
than unite us.
The “two Yahuah’s” is not a teaching found in Scripture, but became
popular through teachers over the last few decades.
Our yoke is receiving the teachings of Yahusha with a submissive heart
that He may teach and guide us into all Truth. He does this with the goal of
love in sight, since His yoke is His Torah of kindness, His Covenant that
teaches us how to love. His yoke
produces the fruits of His Spirit (Ruach).
If someone asks what we believe, we should show them the foundation we
stand on: His Name and His Word.
First, we believe Yahuah is One, and
we are to love Him with all our being.
Second, we are to love our neighbor. Both of these are goals addressed in
the 10 Commandments, and Yahusha added clarity for us by ordering us to love one
another. Everything that may follow after these things are details that either
bring greater unity, or destroy unity.
Yahusha is working through all of us to bring the house of Yahudah and
the house of Yisharal together. The process is made turbulent when every teacher
has a privately-hatched idea about when the new moon arrives, or the first
month, when a day begins, and so on.
The older brother has been doing things properly for thousands of years. The
tequfah (equinox) is thought to be certain day, or even a moment; but it is
really a period that may span an entire week.
If the 1st moon (Ex/Shemoth 12:2) occurs a few days before the exact
center-point of the equinox, it’s still the 1st moon.
Many observe separately because their teachers say so.
What the older brother misses in their calculations only involves the
“sign of Yunah”, since Abib 16 is not always First-fruits, as Yahusha did not
resurrect until the end of the weekly Shabath.
He became the First-fruits and presented Himself on the morrow after the
weekly Shabath during Matsah week. So, counting seven complete weeks from that
point causes Shabuoth to be on the morrow after the 7 Shabath; the Yahudim miss
this, due to not seeing the meaning of the shadows cast by the annual festivals:
redemption.
The crescent seen at sunset shows the fully-built 1st day of each moon,
signaling the 2nd day is beginning. Late each month, one can watch the waning
crescent at sunrise, not sunset, and know the next day the moon will be new
because it cannot be seen, and light is building. One must measure time from
zero, we must not begin measuring at “one”.
We must remember the goal of Yahusha is to bring the two sticks together
(Ez 37). We must walk together in
agreement, and not vex one another, but serve one another.
At NekemYah 13:19, we see that the
governor ordered the gates to be shut when it began to “grow dark” before the
Shabath each week.
There is no historical record that
this pattern was altered, and was recognized during Yahusha’s time among us.
Lev / Uyiqra 23:32 shows clearly the tenth day of the 7th month is
observed “from evening to evening”. Some try to make this an exception, but
straining out a gnat causes us to swallow a camel. As for genealogies, we should
follow brother Paul’s advice:
Titus 3:9:
“But keep away from foolish questions, and
genealogies, and strife and quarrels
about the Torah,
for they are unprofitable and
useless.” See also 1Tim 1:4
Divisions are caused when people who teach us do not see the goal:
1Ti 1:5-7:
“Now the goal of this command is love from
a clean heart, from a good conscience
and a sincere
belief, which some, having missed the
goal, turned
aside to senseless talk, wishing to be
teachers of
Torah, understanding neither what they
say nor
concerning what they strongly affirm.”
Statements
of beliefs often fail to include love as the goal.
Stay on the firm foundation of love, Yahusha’s yoke, which are His teachings that guide us to the destination of love.
The Goal of the Torah, Not the End of the Torah
"For I bear them witness that they have an
ardour for Yahuah, but not according to knowledge. For not knowing the
uprightness of Yahuah, and seeking to establish their own uprightness, they did
not subject themselves to the uprightness of Yahuah.
For Mashiak is the goal of the Torah to uprightness to everyone who believes."
- Romans 10:2-4
(BYNV)
The highest pursuit of all is to learn how to love, and be loved. The witness of Yahusha (or great commission) is to teach the instructions of
love to all, but these instructions have been interpreted to be a law that ended
with Yahusha's death.
If one reads the instructions as being our best hope in learning how to love, it
will dispel the false idea of being about religion. The universe obviously
didn't create itself.
The One that did create the universe expressed the highest possible thoughts of
love, and how to live that love in His Ten Commandments.
"And He answering, said to them,
“Well did Yashayahu prophesy concerning you
hypocrites, as it has been written, ‘This people respect Me with their lips, but
their heart is far from Me.
And in vain do they worship Me, teaching as teachings the commands of men.’
Forsaking the Command of Alahim, you hold fast the tradition of men.”
And He said to them, “Well do you set
aside the command of Alahim, in order to guard your tradition."
- Mark 7:6-9
With Yahusha's words in mind, what
traditions have come to replace the Commands of Yahuah?
Christmas; Easter; Sunday; Halloween (feast of dead saints); sacraments;
steeples; bells; crosses; eating unclean animals; apostolic succession;
celibacy; veneration of human remains, images; holy water; indulgences;
trinitarian ideas; prayer beads; prohibition of true Name, Yahuah, Yahusha;
prayers to the dead (necromancy); infant baptism; and much more.
Men have set aside the Commands of Yahuah for their traditions. Men's traditions
are leaven, and we are to clean out the leaven from our hearts (minds).
The leavening of Nimrod has to go.
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What Is Wormwood?
Do you feel a bitterness toward obedience, or a bitterness toward sin?
One of these is the mindset of the flesh, and the other the mindset on the Spirit.
When men teach us to disregard the instructions of Yahuah, we have eaten wormwood (altered patterns of behavior by altering His Word).
Those who teach us do not regard YashaYahu 8:20.
We have endured centuries of false teachings under false shepherds, eating their wormwood.
Wormwood is bitterness toward the idea of obeying Yahuah's Torah, His instructions in how to bring what we believe out into the open world around us, and exhibit their purpose: LOVE!
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