Brother Esaias,
Yes, I understand your concern about some of the things you mentioned. And I have learned your spirit from the Sabbath thread and I do not believe you intend to put all people of a group or movement necessarily all under one banner of this or that. I know you are merely expressing a certain concern that indeed IS a warranted one. But I know a LOT of the people in the HRM, including several of its leaders. I can tell you that very few legitimate HRM people respect Talmudic things. Most are vehemently ANTI-Talmud and part of the emphasis of the HRM is to push an idea of a Hebraic Messiah WITHOUT Talmudic innovation.
Back in the late 1990s when the Noahide Movement, the Hebrew Root Movement, and the Messianic Jewish Movement all three separated and went in different directions, it was the Noahides that mostly sided with the Talmudic rabbis, but it was the HRM leaders that staunchly argued against the Noahides and warned them that if they went the way of Vendyl Jones in the direction of Schneerson they would end up renouncing their faith in Yeshua (i.e., Tim Hegg, Jacob Prasch, Peter Michas, in particular argued this). The Messianic Jewish leaders such as Dan Juster and Russ ResniK also argued this even though the HRM leaders were already indicting the Messianic leaders for doing virtually the same thing by adopting certain Ashkinazic Jewish customs and mixing them with New Covenant worship. For the HRM people who believed in the ONE LAW DOCTRINE, the Messianics did not go far enough to restore a truly "Hebraic" form of New Covenant faith because they wanted to stay too close to European Jewish tradition.
The 1996 convention that solidified the Hebrew Root Movement as a distinct identity from either the Messianic Jews AND the Noahides was clear in that the Hebrew Root leaders were returning to HEBREW roots and NOT "JEWISH" roots. Most HRM leaders I know are opposed to Talmudic Judaism.
I am not saying that all individual HRM people are opposed to Talmudic legalisms (I know that Michael Rood endorses Talmudism to some degree). But I know some of these guys personally. I am personal friends on a first name basis with Rico Cortes. He lives here in Kissimmee where I live, and he goes to a congregation here where I am friends with many of the members, including its "moreh" ('Teacher", they do not like to use the term "rabbi"). None of those folks agree with Talmudic Jewish innovations, but seek to return to an OLDER, more Bible-centered "Hebrew" interpretation. Rico Cortes as well as their congregation are completely non-trinitarian.
I am also personal friends with Moshe Koniuchowsky, who lives in Baker County, Florida. I have been to his household assembly several times. Moshe is fully Apostolic in his theology, and has recently formed an "Apostolic Alliance" with a HR leader from Australia. I knew Moshe back in 1998 when he was a partner with Ed Nydle. Around 2000 the two men parted company. In 2014 I asked Moshe to his face why he and Ned parted ways. He told me, Because Ed Nydle was beginning to lean too far toward Talmud and even toward Kabbalah. (I still think of Moshe Koniuchowsky as a friend, but last year he decided to adopt the Enoch Calendar and I disagreed with him. So he and I don't talk much these days).
And these two guys represent a vast slash, if not the majority of HRM's attitude toward Talmudism. So you see, although HRM points Christians toward Hebraic Roots, it does NOT point them toward Talmud, or even toward "Jewish" roots. HRM constantly warns AGAINST Talmudic innovation, and harbors deep grievances against Rabbinic Judaism, Messianic Judaism, and Noahide Christianity specifically BECAUSE of their Talmudic acceptances. Anti-Talmudism, therefore, could be said to be one of HRM's distinctive characteristics along with other very positive and uniquely HRM distinctives such as ONE LAW DOCTRINE, DIVINE INVITATION, and as in the case of MOST (though not all) the REDEEMED ISRAEL DOCTRINE. All HRM people that I have ever met or known about are anti-Dispensational and anti-Replacement, and even oppose Messianic Judaism's Olive-Tree Theology, but do accept the Remnant-Of-Israel Theory.
In my opinion, HRM has way too much of its own unique identity and distinctive beliefs, and far too strong a belief in the Lordship of Yeshua the Messiah for its people to too easily veer off into Talmudic Judaism of ANY kind.
Peace
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