A podcast with a focus on PaRDeS. Each week I will read from and comment on the well known commentators such as, Rashi, Ramban, Ohr Chaim and others, as well as more recent Torah commentaries like Shney Luchot HaBrit. Episodes will consist of readings from the TaNaKh, BeShorah/Gospels, and the Apostolic Writings. Connecting the words of Yeshua and his talmidim/disciples to the Torah to gain a proper understanding.
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A podcast with a focus on PaRDeS. Each week I will read from and comment on the well known commentators such as, Rashi, Ramban, Ohr Chaim and others, as well as more recent Torah commentaries like Shney Luchot HaBrit. Episodes will consist of readings from the TaNaKh, BeShorah/Gospels, and the Apostolic Writings. Connecting the words of Yeshua and his talmidim/disciples to the Torah to gain a proper understanding.
Rumination 36: Where did the idea that, a “pastor” or a “messianic rabbi” come from? Not the Bible.
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Rumination 36: Where did the idea that, a “pastor” or a “messianic rabbi” come from? Not the Bible.
Rumination #36: Where did the idea that congregations need a "pastor" or a "messianic rabbi" come from? Not the Bible.
The Protestant Reformation failed in many ways, but one particular way it failed may have led to all its other failures. It is this: the Protestant Reformation failed to declare once and for all that the single leader model ultimately negates the leadership of Messiah.
Just as Korach's rebellion was to replace Moses, so too the one-man-show in pulpits and bimahs usurps the very leadership of Messiah. There is one Head of the Congregation of HaShem - it is Yeshua alone.
It is quite ironic that many self-appointed "pastors" and "messianic rabbis" lead the congregation away from the Torah of Moses. After all, they think of themselves as a kind of Moses. But there is only one Moses (See Rumination 13:Why isn’t Moshe the most revered man in Scripture? He should be). By speaking against the "Law of Moses" - they show their personal rebellion against the Almighty. Men that seize the role are just like Korach, they are not leading people to G-d by leading them away from Moses. By rebelling against Moses, they are rebelling against Messiah. By annulling or diminishing the Torah, they make for themselves a new law and it is not G-d's Law, no matter what they say.
They gathered together against Moses and Aaron, and said to them, "You take too much upon yourselves, for all the congregation is holy, every one of them, and HaShem is among them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the Kahal [Assembly] of HaShem?"
Numbers 16:3
And He [Messiah] is the head of the body, the Assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.
Colossians 1:18
Ruminations from PaRDeS
A podcast with a focus on PaRDeS. Each week I will read from and comment on the well known commentators such as, Rashi, Ramban, Ohr Chaim and others, as well as more recent Torah commentaries like Shney Luchot HaBrit. Episodes will consist of readings from the TaNaKh, BeShorah/Gospels, and the Apostolic Writings. Connecting the words of Yeshua and his talmidim/disciples to the Torah to gain a proper understanding.
