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First let's get something clear about erroneous notions of Paul and his founding a new religion, which he didn't. True, the halakhah of his Judaism switched from the Pharisaic oral law to the Ruach Hakodesh, but his religion was still one of the Judaisms of the time, not a new non-Judaism Gentile religion.


Choosing the wrong cultural specialist as their mentor, ministers to Jewish people have in the past typically tried to mimic Moshiach's Shliach to the Goyim (Sha'ul or Paul) and have largely ignored his highly successful (cf. Acts 21:20) cultural counterpart, Moshiach's Shliach to the Jews (James or Ya'akov). Are you unaware that there was this cultural specialization in Moshiach's Shlichus? Have you never meditated on Galatians 2:9b? Is it your theological contention that outreach strategy as conceived by Scripture contains no cultural realism and that glatt-kosher, Shtreimel-wearing Chassidim MUST be reached with the same hill-billy music and cowboy hats and Pork-barbeque open-air Gospel fests that you use to do outreach to Ozark moonshiners? Duh? This is your doctrine? What about this kind of preaching? (Note: requires high speed access.)

Ya'akov ben Yosef was concerned that no "irksome restrictions" (Acts 15:19) be imposed on former Goyim coming to faith. In Acts chapter 15 the non-Jewish followers of Moshiach are given directives which remind us of the Seven Laws of Noah, but are found in Leviticus chapter 17 and 18 and relate to the nations, the formerly heathen believers. Every effort is being made to keep from adding any "too burdensome" condition to their salvation, but at the same time every effort is made to facilitate table fellowship with Torah-observant messianic Jewish believers. On this see Leviticus chapters 17 and 18 for Torah commandments the "strangers" or Gentiles in the Land observed along with the Jewish people, commandments from the Torah that were preached in shul every Shabbos and which were relevant to Gentiles coming into the Kehillah of Moshiach. These commandments are referenced in Acts chapter 15 by Ya'akov Bar Yosef Ben Dovid. But if he was concerned that no "irksome restrictions" (Acts 15:19) be imposed on non-Jews, he also would have been concerned to have no "irksome restrictions" placed on him and the Jerusalem Messianic Synagogue of which he was the mashgiach ruchani (spiritual overseer). Can you imagine Ya'akov's reaction if some Goyim had told his congregation they could no longer practice the bris milah or be shomer Shabbos? You don't have to imagine. Just read Acts 21:20-21, where we find that the early Jewish talmidim (disciples) of Moshiach were shomer mitzvot, and where we see Ya'akov was quick to correct the lashon hora some were speaking against the Shliach Sha'ul, falsely accusing Sha'ul of teaching Jewish people they had to become shmad and abandon the bris milah and the minhagim (customs) of the Jewish people in order to follow the Moshiach. Unfortunately, the dismal history of ministry to Jewish people has been the largely futile effort to impose the irksome restrictions of Goyishe culture on Jews. Instead of helping plant and lead Brit Chadasha Kehillot, authentic Messianic Synagogues with integrity and relevance for the Jewish people like the Shliach Ya'akov (James) did in Jerusalem, ministers to Jewish people typically function as unwitting modern "Gentilizers," trying to persuade Jews to assimilate into Goyishe cultural life-style - a betrayal the Jewish community understandably resists as the self-destruction and spiritual genocide of Jews as a people. In a Jewish neighborhood, Messiah's people must become like Jewish people to win Jewish people (I Cor. 9:20-21), remembering that Moshiach came to bring life to Jewish people, not cultural death. Moshiach came to give them new spiritual life, not change them from Jews into Goyim. This is axiomatic and fundamental. When a congregation of Messiah's people finds herself in a Jewish community she must not shrink from wearing once again her full Jewish dress, all her old First Century synagogue attire. For local communities of Messiah's people in Jewish communities to remain inflexibly groomed for Goyim and then demand that Jews convert to Gentile ways of life and worship in order for Jewish people to accept their own Moshiach is the horrific, condemnable, ancient Judaizing heresy in reverse, and must not be tolerated. We do not add conditions to salvation! We do not say to a glatt-kosher Hasid that unless he eats a bacon, lettuce, and tomatoe sandwich, he cannot be saved! The ignorant Goyim are doing the same thing to the Jews that the ignorant Galatian Jews did to the Galatian Goyim, adding conditions to the free grace of G-d's salvation. The Messianic Synagogue is the great mother Kehillah of all kehillot, not a specimen of Judaizing. You don't agree? Well then take off your gentile, latently anti-Semitic spectacles and take another look at the Bible. Or argue with James 2:2 or Ya'akov 2:2. Do you not understand that there had to be a cultural specialization in the work of Moshiach's emissaries, some going to the Jews (Gal 2:7b) to preach and celebrate the Besuras HaGeulah in a Jewish way and some going to the non-Jews, preaching and celebrating the Besuras HaGeulah in a way that was understandable to non-Jews (Gal 2:7a)? See Ya 2:2.

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