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Originally Posted by Raffi
I would just like to say in fairness to Hebrew Root (HR) people, most of them are genuinely sincere people hungry to know God's Love the same as any other true Believer. Yes, I agree that in some cases there have been extremists among their circles. But that fact is no less true of Apostolic Pentecostals. Isolated extremists don't nullify the whole thing. I think we can all agree on that.
Someone on another related thread made mention that these Hebrew Root people don't even know how to speak Hebrew. To be fair, these people try their best to learn as much Hebrew as they can, with the scant resources available, and in a culture where the first language is overwhelmingly English. Many of these people came into Hebrew Roots late in life AFTER having learned English as their first (and often ONLY) language, and having been told for years that learning Hebrew is irrelevant to Faith. But if you knew Hebrew Root congregations, you would find that in almost ALL, the upcoming generation of young people are being taught Hebrew at breakneck speed. Fact is, not even most actual JEWS in America can speak Hebrew fluently. But I know as a fact that many of the young kids being brought up in Hebrew Root congregations can speak Hebrew better than most American Jews.
HR people are not wrong for wanting to learn about the historic/cultural/scholastic/and mental context from which Apostolic Christianity blossomed. And for most of them, embracing the cultural practice and expression of this is not as a way to copy, mimic, or imitate Jews, or be like Jews, rather most see it as a way to imitate Yeshua and be like Yeshua. These people are so in love with Yeshua that they want to literally be like him, dress like him, talk like him, think like him, eat like him. But that is really just a shallow description. Actually, the truth is, most HR people see the embracing of practices such as learning original Biblical Hebrew, wearing tzitzit, blowing shofars, dancing the hora, etc. all as an expression of worship. An added dimension of worship next to hymn-singing, raising hands, shouting, jumping, and singing in tongues. They don't see it as LARPing, unless one may define "role playing" here as "trying to be like Yeshua".
Just saying.
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I'm certain many are sincere. But the MOVEMENT seems to be a camel's nose slipping some Talmud under the tent.
Its one thing to be knowledgeable of rabbinic explanations and interpretations. It's another thing altogether when the rabbins become an authority on interpretation and application.
The LARPing has to do with folks who were first deceived by dispensationalism into thinking the modern people called Jews are "God's Chosen People" and the apple of His eye, who then decide they like Jewishness so much they want to try to act, talk, and live like Jews who "happen to love Jesus".
Our God is the Word made flesh, not a chabadnik from Crown Heights. One of the side effects can be seen right here on this forum: people get duped into confusing talmudism with Bible religion. They think HRM and Sacred Name types are "leading people back to Moses" when the danger is people being led to Pharisaism (Judaism).
Sacred Namism is an offshoot of rabbinic baal shem occultism (hence the gorillion different "true name" variants offered for our consumption and confusion). How many HRM people tie their tassels according to Pharisaic regulation? And so forth and so on.
It is UNDENIABLE that the HR movement is swamped with rabbinics and Talmudic thinking. Of course, the same is true of most Christendom, though in other more subtle ways.