The Law of Moses, The Oral Law, or God's Law

[Music] what you are about to witness over the next few episodes will change your life Bible prophecy is being fulfilled right now in the Land of Israel what Moses promised would happen has happened and what he says concerning the last days is happening right now the words of the prophets concerning this day and time are actually transpiring and if we go to the Hebrew prophets we see so many things that were promised concerning the last days that are now being fulfilled that if you'll open your eyes and open your heart you are going to be a part of what God Almighty has planned for this day and time it was more than 44 years ago that I set out on the mission of putting the gospel records in order in chronological order so that I could read the story as a movie plays out so that once things are in order then you have cause and effect you have a reason for the things that are happening the way that they are happening and this journey really took more than 38 years before I could then publish the Gospels in chronological order and they could not have been done without years literally decades of being led by the Almighty in paths that I would not have been able to go down and would not even have imagined and one of those paths took me to the Land of Israel for the past 20 years of this this has been my home in the Land of Israel but there was a very significant thing that happened 18 years ago and that was a critical part of the chronological Gospels and that was the restoration of the biblical calendar and the calendar that is now well known throughout the world the Jewish calendar is not the calendar that was in place during his time during the Second Temple period and when the Gospels were written that was not the calendar it was used and so in order to put things in chronological order the Feast of the Lord have to be understood and the biblical calendar has to be understood and we had to admit for for decades that we were simply guessing at the the months and how things transpired because there was no way to know well that was before the restoration project and one person who is very instrumental in this restoration process concerning the establishment of the Aviv the beginning of the year in the Land of Israel and the biblical calendar as a gentleman who was with us it looks like it's now becoming a tradition or yearly sojourn where he would we be able to get together and spend some time together and I want to take you on this journey because ladies and gentlemen you are going to see that the hand of the Almighty is not shortened by any of our preconceptions that he is able to lead his people and you were going to see the result of years of Revelation and leading by the spirit ladies and gentlemen please help me welcome Nehemia Gordon Dan well Shalom well I have it back well this is this is always what one of the greatest treats in my life that to have you back and first of all everyone needs to understand right in front that you are a killer a Jew you're raised over rabbinic Jew and again just a little bit of your background yeah so you know as I've said before in your program my father was an Orthodox rabbi passed away a few years ago and he taught me sitting on his knee when I was three years old that Moses went up to Mount Sinai and received two revelations a written law and an oral law and from a very young age I studied this both the written law the five books of Moses the Torah and I also study the oral law which is what the rabbi say the written law means now you're studying this in Hebrew oh yeah studying English is not yes you're in anything and you know I mean in first grade i sat down in a park with a rabbi my father hired a tutor a rabbi that sat with me and he would read veracious bara Elohim message from I invest our that was the accident he read Hebrew in and I would repeat Rivera's burello he massaged a - RS in the beginning Elohim God created the heaven the earth and we went verse by verse until I was able to translate every verse of the Torah third grade started studying the oral law the Mishnah and and it was kind of a rude awakening because I would read and study in the in the oral law and the mission and the Talmud and it would say rabbi so-and-so says this is what it means in the Torah and the other rabbi comes along and says it means the opposite and I was told both of these are the words of the Living God and that didn't make any sense to me that God would say a and its opposite and they were completely irreconcilable meaning it was directly opposing views mhm and I said surely these are just the opinions of ancient rabbis this isn't the Word of God and this took me you know it was years in the percolating but when I started to express this I was told this is heresy that this is what those heretics the carrots have always said and I said well so if there are Jews that said this then you know let me find out more about those Jews and I found out throughout Jewish history that all we been Jews who had only followed the Bible who didn't follow the teachings of the rabbi's as binding you know you can learn from what the rabbi's say sometimes they say beautiful profound things but ultimately you have to see what is the Bible say and if it doesn't line up with what it says in the Word of God which for me is the Old Testament the Hebrew Scriptures then I've got to follow God's Word not men's words that's what it means that imma care at you and this really caused a rift as far as family relationships and in the the world that you grew up with well I mean I I don't know if anybody in your audience can fully appreciate well I mean but it was almost like I was Martin Luther nailing the 95 theses to the wall of the Cathedral and I mean it was that big of a deal in my circles for someone who came from a long line of rabbis to question the Oral Law and one of the things I always had thrown in my face was well your your great-grandfather was a rabbi and his father was a rabbi and his father before him and going back many many generations do you really think you know more than all that line of rabbis and my answer was no I don't know more than them but I'm reading it show me where I'm wrong well there's some knowledge somewhere that you don't have that doesn't help me show me the knowledge and I ended up leading me on a journey where I eventually studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem moved to Israel 1993 study the Hebrew University of Jerusalem did my bachelor's degree there in archaeology master's and biblical studies working in the Dead Sea Scrolls worked in ancient Hebrew manuscripts and my goal really from the beginning was one simple thing I need to know more than my ancestors did because I was told that from the time I'm a little kid I don't have the right to interpret the Bible for myself because I because I don't know enough so I need to know more Hebrew and know more ancient Hebrew sources or at least as much as they did and you know receiving my master's degree in biblical studies and knowing that most rabbis I speak to you know don't have that level of Hebrew knowledge even many Israeli rabbis of Biblical Hebrew knowledge I realized so it's not a matter of they have some knowledge I don't have this is a matter of you know I mean one of the things I really struggled with as a kid is I would we would we would study Rashi that's the great commentator on the Bible and he say things about what the Bible meant and I remember asking my teachers and saying how did Rashi get that and they'd say well he just knows more than you know he was just really really smart and I remember thinking my goal is that one day in life I'll be as smart as Rashi and I'll read that verse and come to the same conclusion and what I realized after my master's degree in biblical studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is most the time Rashi would read the verse and just make up what it meant and there's not that he had some secret knowledge but he would read the verse and there'd be and he wasn't satisfied with the what the verse said so he'd make up a story about what was going on there and you know that there's the famous story and it's a beautiful story you know where Abraham destroyed his father's idols you know yeah yeah he did right one of the one that happened I remember thinking how can I read the verse and come to that conclusion well you can't because it's just a made-up story alright maybe maybe it did happen but it's not in the biblical text right there's no way you'd read the biblical text and come to the conclusion that that story happened it's just not there and the oral law is full of things like that and so I made the decision early on in life I want to base my life on what's written not what people say is written and that that's been my passion from you know from the earliest times and if somebody says well this is what the authority says this is what the Encyclopedia says this is what the great rabbis say this is what the great scholars say I don't care about that show me what their sources right whoever wrote that Encyclopedia article he studied a McKim professor and he based it on sources or he made it up and if he made it up I don't care I want to know what it says in the sources that's what I've been about from from the time I you know was a little troublemaker in school and you know show me where it's written and you're saying this I mean you were in grade school at the time I'm 10 years old 11 years old and I'm saying but where is that written mm-hm right well the great rabbi says this and you're you know great-grandfather said that I don't care show me where that's in the Word of God mmm right well he says it's there in the word Oh show me well they're separated you I mean high school and all this this puts you on the outs Oh in high school I was known as the carrot which you have to understand in my Orthodox background was like know what an analogy is in the Christian world but it really would be like Martin Luther and you know in 15-20 coming along in 1517 you know today if you're a Protestant you know millions of Protestants Martin Luther was like well no you can't do that well who says I can't do it well the Pope says you know right I'm gonna burn you at the stake right and he had a hide for his life Martin Luther you know whatever his other issues that were later you know he stepped out and said well this is what I have to follow cuz it's true and look I don't compare myself to Martin Luther in many ways I don't compare myself right no thankfully but but the point is that it really in my circles in my upbringing this was it was as if I had discovered one day that Santa Claus doesn't exist and everyone around me said he does exist you'll lose your salvation if you deny him like but no I can see he doesn't think it's it's Santa Claus we're talking about right it's you know and really that was that was a you know in my upbringing this was completely it was a big deal let's put it that way no you know III need to make sure that everyone understands out there that where we're gonna be going now hemming is going to be taking us into the Hebrew scripts gonna take us into into brilliant works into in things that have never ever been translated outside of the Hebrew language to make some of the most amazing discoveries especially when we get into the Gospels in the in the book of Matthew which was acknowledged to be written in the Hebrew language and also recent discoveries more in the book of the revelation in the Hebrew language and so I need you to understand where Nehemia is coming from on this because Hebrew University it's not only just going to the school there but but your job was actually as a a proof editor on the aleppo codex was about tell us a little bit about yeah the the importance of that man was reporting the scientific verse where I get to that I want to I want to jump back to the you know what it was like for me starting out and so when my father fully comprehended that this wasn't just some childhood phase that I really only believed in the Word of God and not in the oral law he went to his Rebbe his his spiritual rabbi and he asked his Rebbe a question and it was a binding answer he went to the rabbi knowing that whatever the rabbi said he was required to follow it by as if it were the Word of God hmm because this was his Rebbe meaning his the rabbi who ordained him and he said you know my son has become a carrot which means he denies the words of our rabbis as the Word of God and he said do I have to sit Shiva sit Shiva is where you mourn the death of usually a parent but it could be a parent mourning the death of a child and you sit on the ground on on the earth for seven days and you don't get up you don't work you know you know people bring you food you sit on the ground for he said to it he asked his Rebbe said look and it's like bearing you this is what weight man is you're dead absolutely it's mourning my death yeah and and if his rabbi had said yes your son is denying the oral law he you have to sit Shiva he would have done it well and he was assuming the rabbi was gonna say yes in the end the rabbi said well you know most used today I reform they're the largest denomination he's and this is what his rabbi said the you know the reform deny both the written and the oral law at least he believes in the written law so but that's how big a deal it was he needed to get an answer from his rabbi do I need to sit Shiva for my son by the way if I had become a Messianic Jew or a Christian he wouldn't had asked the question he wants that Shiva for me right as if I were dead no question about it whatsoever so in any event so yeah about the aleppo codex so so one of the jobs I had working for my master's degree was as a research assistant and I had a stack of photographs on one side and I was studying and those were photographs of the aleppo codex one to one and the other side was a printed Bible and I had to check every jot and tittle to make sure what was in the Codex that printed the the handwritten Bible from the year 924 ad it's considered the most accurate copy of the Bible in existence and it was copied by the master scribe Aaron been a share and in the 12th century Maimonides mentions this particular manuscript this exact codex and he describes how people would come from the entire Jewish world to check their Bibles if you wrote a Bible in Yemen or if you wrote a Bible in Spain and you wanted to make sure it was accurate you got on a boat and you went to Jerusalem and later to Egypt and you checked your Bible against the aleppo codex later it was in Aleppo originally it was called the Ben assure codex and and so even in ancient times this was known to be the most accurate copy of the Bible in existence and I had the privilege you know and certainly I think at the time the people around me didn't see it as a privilege it was kind of it was a grunt work you know I'm sitting there checking every dot in every - and you know it requires a certain amount of expertise but beyond that it's kind of very technical work you know is then and you weren't the first in line I mean you've allowed other editors what right I always that's how I was there work I was like the third reader so I would sometimes sit there for eight hours checking every dot not just that the dot was there but then it was in the right place relative to the manuscript in the printed edition and sometimes I'd sit there for eight hours and not find a mistake like you know you go bonkers who looking at this sea of dots and dashes and and scribbles you know swig alike you know there's there's four sets of symbols on every page and I mean it's such a complex system that Microsoft tried to create a font in which they put every symbol in its exact place and which they had done for Chinese and for Japanese and they determined in the end that Biblical Hebrew was too complex and that's with 20,000 words in the Chinese language biblical Hebrews do complex well it biblically Ruth twenty-two characters and then it has depending how you count them let's say about thirteen or fourteen vowel symbols and then you have you know you have I don't know a couple dozen accents so the math is you know you do like 24 times 24 times 22 you get some huge number and that they said you know look we're a base I don't know the math is but it goes to like 64,000 or something they're like there's too many characters here so we can't just too many combinations of characters it has to be done by hand it can't be done programmatically so that was my job to make sure everything was had to be done by hand there's no other way to do it make sure it was all in place and this is going to is going to lead to one of the most amazing discoveries in this generation but we're not gonna go there yet okay did Sea Scrolls another monumental project involved yeah I mean there I was at Hebrew University again working on my master's degree and this research position opened up where they said we need someone to do some proofreading and and some other things on the debt it started out as just proofreading and later it was like well we've got this text no one translated you know here we got a guy who's good proofread like let's see if he can translate it like yeah sure I mean you know it's just Biblical Hebrew it's not that difficult you know so I end up working on the Dead Sea Scrolls translating a few scrolls something in that you can find him in the Dead Sea Scrolls reader and you know for me this was I would sometimes pinch myself and say so am I really being paid to come in and do this like this can't be real because this is my dream from when I'm a child and being told you don't know enough what don't I know okay I don't know about the Dead Sea Scrolls I don't know about the the master it attacks the aleppo codex let's I wonder if I can learn about that one I wonder if one day I could see what that is and I get to do it I got to be you know be one of the people who's working on these things it was it was I mean it's unbelievable it was it was such a blessing the UH the scriptures one of those principles I want to lay down for everyone is something at Showell Paul wrote he said that the Oracles of God were committed to the Jews the word Oracle sounds a little bit mystical but it's a literally low Gil it's it's the word it's the communication the communication of God was committed to the Jews and I say that that they have done a far far better job of preserving the Oracles the the communication of the Almighty because number one Israel was chosen at Mount Sinai to be his chosen people if you'll keep my Commandments you'll be my priest a nation of priests you'll be my prophets my representatives to the entire world it was David who said that the almighty divided the nations according to the number of the sons of Israel yet at the Tower of Babel it was going to be hundreds of years before Israel and his sons would be born but the almighty had a plan when he divided Nimrods one-world government up and distributed this pagan Sun worship all over the earth he chose a people that would go out and would change the world and he gave them the choice spot in the middle of the of the planet basically with all the trade routes of the world going through it so that they would affect the entire world in fact the the sodomites of sodom gomorrah admah zeboiim the these Canaanite you who came in and settled the land that was what was being spread out throughout the world and the almighty interrupted that and brought his people in so that they would be the ones who would affect the world and I see so much out there of people that especially Western Gentiles in the Christian world who come up with this concept that if the Jews do it it's got to be wrong but no that is pure idiocy you know you know there are things that are wrong in sahih Mia has been raised in the rabbinic world but came out of it to be one of the foremost experts and has worked on things that that none of these Gentile Christians would ever be paid it doesn't matter what school you went to what you thought you learned Hebrew we're gonna deal with things ladies and gentlemen that are revelation from heaven that have been set up for generations to come to pass and now with that background I just so wanted to say that about this because this is that this is you're dealing with here on a level that American Christians can't even begin to approach well I want to give you an example so you know one of the things I dealt with it and what I really felt honored when I worked on the you know especially on the aleppo codex was was I was following I didn't even fully appreciate at the time I was following a long line of Jewish scribes whose job it was to focus on details and and and you know the to the point where it's like who cares why do we need that level of precision but later on you find out that level of precision brings revelation you know when you're in the middle of it you don't necessarily see it but the outcome of that is then people can go to the biblical text and trust it and know I'm reading exactly what the ancestors received at Mount Sinai and received from the prophets and I want to give you an example so the Hebrew word for scribe Michael is the words so fair and the word seafarers book and the one who writes a book a scribe is a so fair but it comes from the word lease poor which is to count and the idea was that when the scribes would finish a section of copying a text they would count every dot and dash and jot and tiddle and they would compare it with the original and make sure that they didn't miss anything right and if they found out wait the original had 3221 letters and now I've got three thousand two hundred and twenty I added a letter 322 why I must have so I must check now every letter and they would literally do that to the point where you find precision which is mind-boggling I want to give you an example of these Jewish scribes and this this will come in you know later on we look at some of these things you'll understand where I'm why this is so important but so for example Exodus 20:8 17 we have this passage and you read this in English and you don't your burn right past it it says thou shalt set and it's talking about the the the breastplate of judgment and thou shalt set in its setting of stones even for rows of stone the first row she'll be sardius a topaz a carbuncle this shall be the first row whatever I don't even know what I just read right it's it's a bunch of stones and in Hebrew the word for carbuncle and I don't even know what a carbuncle is in English to be honest with you it's some kind of gem right but the Hebrew word is Beckett okay interesting that word appears later and it's a very rare word it appears three times in the Bible twice in Exodus both talking as Beckett about the breastplate same exact word appears in Ezekiel 28 13 and it's describing this figure the cherubim Eden some people say a Satan Ezekiel 28 13 and there it also has you know he says the sardius the Topaz and the diamond the Beryl the onyx the Jasper the sapphire the emerald and the carbuncle and again in Hebrew it's the same four letters bet rich coof Tov but this time the vowels in the Hebrew manuscripts are not bracket but bark hot and the and and this is unbelievable what it shows is that the Jewish scribes who preserve the Oracles of God as you said Logie own the words of God they preserved a difference in the way a single word was pronounced from the time of Exodus in the time of Ezekiel meaning in the time of Moses they called that Barreca in the time of Ezekiel the same stone they called it bark hot now you wouldn't know that just from the consonants from the consonants you'd say all it's the same four letters on how is that pronounced well the name of that stone is Bar cot or Barreca right but not only did they preserve the letters they even pronounce the pronunciation of the words down to this fine distinction of the dialect of Hebrew spoken in Moses this time versus Ezekiel's time and just like to give you an example in English it's not a great example but you know we were talking the other day about those little those little critters that they they're in this you know they eat here in the American South I don't you know who because they're not biblically clean but the you know some people call them crayfish and other people call them crawfish right now imagine if those two words were written the same way but pronounced in different ways and so these scribes were that meticulous that the same word with the same meaning was pronounced different ways in different periods of history and they preserved that distinction in the Bible I mean that's the level of precision we're dealing with and then I sit down and my job is to check every jot and tittle and I realized wow we can't mess around here every letter every dot every - you know preserves sacred information from the prophets the words of God the Logan and and this is what the Jews were entrusted with and and you know we got a we we we have this ancient tradition of every word has to be taken exact and preserved now here's where things that a little complicated when you translate it well then it's a free-for-all and you can even see that in Jewish translations you'll have what we call the targum and you'll have you know two different copies of the targa which is the ancient Aramaic translation of the Torah and they could be completely different because it doesn't matter translations and interpretation doesn't have to be precise but the original text every letter and dot and dash has to be preserved perfectly and so when Yeshua says now one jot one tittle the Torah will pass until all is fulfilled right you know this is very significant because you know we don't have these dots these dashes we don't have the the these dire critical markings in the English we miss all these things but they're still there is that amazing that he was talking about that in the first century and he says jots and tittles the word for tittle is Cariah which is a Greek word for a diacritical mark a little dot that can change the pronunciation or meaning which is exactly what the Hebrew vowels are it's amazing that's it and so and this is where it really becomes important ladies and gentlemen because a lot of people want to give criticism to dehii mia they want to criticize me for having in a former Orthodox you a care right Jew to be able to teach these things and they say oh well Nehemia is not a believer in Yeshua we don't we don't want to listen to him because he's not a believer in Yeshua but yet what the real issue is ladies and gentlemen for the past 20 years he has been reading the not only the ancient Hebrew Mathew not only delving into you know that all of the the ancient Hebrew texts so that we can understand the gospel record and the rest of the the the Tanakh the the Torah and the end the prophets but when he is telling us what Yeshua is saying in Hebrew and then the whole Christian world is not doing it that is what the real issue is ladies and gentlemen with archaeological technology advancing more rapidly than any period in recorded history an ever increasing number of ancient Hebrew manuscripts are coming to light and amazing things are being revealed it doesn't matter what school you went to where you thought you learn Hebrew we're gonna deal with things ladies and gentlemen that are revelation from heaven that have been set up for generations to come to pass my and Hebrew scholar Nehemia Gordon revealed the fulfillment of ancient prophecies in our present age in the Gentiles shall know my name I looked through hundreds of manuscripts searching for this exact text will we listen to and heed this modern-day miracle or will we ignore our masters voice and miss one of the greatest revelations of our time order the Gentile shall know my name right now on DVD or blu-ray you'll get all five episodes as seen on Shabbat Night Live own this exclusive teaching now by phone or online hurry this is a limited time offer we are back with the Hemi Gordon hey Mia Michael you just said something profound that as I was sitting here listening he you talked about how the the Christian world how the purpose that as your understanding Jesus Yeshua came was for people to listen to him as you would listen to a prophet a Hebrew prophet in other words you know when Jeremiah came the purpose of Jeremiah wasn't to believe in Jeremiah the purpose was to listen and obey what he said and you know years ago I I heard this lecture from a professor of New Testament studies and he was talking about the Apostles Creed and he said something profound that never left me he was talking about in the Apostles Creed which I guess they recite in a lot of churches and I'm reading here how I guess like a foundation of the Christian faith the corner yeah Constantine so so okay but that's interesting that you say that so I'm gonna read this not that I'm reading this as my faith but this is what Christians recite they say I believe in God the Father creator of heaven and earth and we got that out of the way that's easy and in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Spirit born of the Virgin suffering under Pilate was crucified died and buried he descended into hell the third day here this is a Catholic version a third day he rose from the dead he's saying okay and as we go through the whole thing but the point is that so the professor of New Testament studies you know recited this for us and you said what's missing and nobody knew what's missing and he said so it's missing is everything between born of the Virgin Mary and suffered under Pontius Pilate the which is our bulk of the four Gospels if you found up the words in the four Gospels you'll find it I don't know what the number is it's something like 80 90 % of the words are not mentioned in this in this guy we'll Creed his whole ministry and actually history is missing it's not there so it's like irrelevant so what they've come to is and look I'm not a Christian far be it for me to point this out this is a professor of New Testament studies pointing out that Christians have a belief in Jesus but they don't believe Jesus because if you believed if you believe Jesus in a Hebrew sense you listen and obey what he said right and so what did he actually say and look again I'm not coming as a Christian I studied ancient Hebrew texts and that eventually led me to study a Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew I you have a book I wrote here about it yeah the Hebrew issuer verses the Greek Jesus and I wrote absolutely peaceful war and lay down some of the foundations in there about this Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew which for me I was studying this as an ancient text and found that that you know coming at it completely objectively without a skin in the game I saw there were certain things that and actually that you had brought up to me that in the in the Greek New Testament in 5000 manuscripts contradicts what you schewe taught from one chapter to another chapter from 15 to 23 and we found the change of one letter and the Hebrew version of the everything fits perfectly into place and I think I didn't even realize don't fit fit even better in the Hebrew so it's beautiful just how that all came together and I completely give you credit for bringing this to my attention because I didn't even I was able to answer the problem once I knew what the question was I didn't even know what the question was right right you know once I knew the question I was able to look at the Hebrew sources and find the answer and then I wrote another book called a prayer to our Father on the Hebrew origins of the Lord's but let's let's stop and talk about this for yeah a moment because ladies and gentlemen this is one of the most important books in this generation it is absolutely profound and I was invited to Hemi over to the house I I said because I had a real dilemma I had a real problem in the real world with people that I saw their lives being completely twisted in and bad things happening because they believed that they were doing what Jesus Yeshua said to do and in Matthew 23 said the scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses seat whatsoever they bydd which is Old English for command you to do it observe that do an observe and in really there's no way to get out of it and in any Greek text you go right back to the Greeks you can't get out of it but this is contrary to what anything that we saw in Yeshua's life and this is what I brought to him over the house and I said no Meah there's no way on God's green earth that you sure could have said this and you said why and so we spent like three hours going through the Gospels to see and you finally said yeah this this is inherently and introductory so one of the places you really see a contradiction what really seems like a contradiction between schewe says in Matthew 23 is it Matthew 15 with the washing of the hands so in Matthew 23 says whatever the Pharisees command you to do you got to do it and in Matthew 15 his disciples sit down to eat bread and they don't wash their hands and the Pharisees come in and they rebuke Jesus they say what's going on your disciples aren't following the tradition of the elders and there's a contrast there when you read it even in the Greek between the tradition of the elders and the commandment of God and I knew immediately what that meant because in my tradition growing up as a modern day Pharisee as an Orthodox Jew I was taught that washing the hands before you eat bread wasn't commanded by God in fact it was commanded by the rabbis and because God commanded us to obey the rabbis according to the rabbi's washing your hands was was in some ways more important than actually obeying God Himself and there's a statement in the Talmud that says if you violate a commandment of the rabbis the punishment is death or is if you violate one of God's commandments the punishment is only lashes 39 lashes so imagine that that that there's a more severe atmosphere around observing rabbinical Commandments Commandments that they say that they invented what are called taça note these man-made rules and regulations I talked about that in the book of the Hebrew verse of the Greek Jesus and as we were sitting and talking about this you know one of the things I I had observed and you would observe people like this as well were they were Jews who came to believe in Yeshua moved to Israel and then they read Matthew 23 and it said all therefore whatsoever the Pharisees command you to do and you had these modern-day rabbis who are the continuation of the ancient Pharisees and they said well so we've got to obey them and the beauty so they go check into his Sheba right start and what they find out in the yeshiva some of the things the Pharisees teach the Pharisees themselves don't even do but Yeshua talks about that he says they lay heavy burdens upon people so do it don't do what they do do it that you know do what they command what they teach not what they what they actually do in practice and it comes to the point where you're following rules and regulations which seem you know beyond like OCD like literally there's a commandment in the oral law that when you wake up in the morning first you put on your right shoe and then you don't but you don't tie it then you put on your left to tie your left shoe and tie your right shoe well most Orthodox Jews don't do that and I don't know if ancient Pharisees did it but people who are coming at this you know they're born Jewish learned about Yeshua and believed in him and they read what you schewe says they so we got to do the shoe thing even if the rabbi's don't do it we have to obey the Pharisees even more than the Pharisees taught actually do in practice because it's what they taught right and then they think that if they do it even better than them they're gonna provoke them to jealousy yes yeah that comes in there too I guess that might be part one of the considerations but then you see them washing their hands and you're like wait a minute but didn't didn't give Shu as disciples not follow this man-made rule and and what you only know once you're dependent me growing up in it I was born in it but when you're deep in it you realize it's not just washing your hands with soap to get the dirt off that's not what washing the hands is washing the hands is you take do it go through a special hand-washing ritual and you make the blessing baruch adonai elohenu melech allama shoka gentlemen so tough it's Eve I know a little Akkad I am blessed out that Lord king of the universe who sanctified us with His commandments commanding us to wash the hands and there is no question in the rabbinical tradition that when you say this blessing that you're acknowledging that God didn't command you to wash the hands he commanded me to obey the rabbis who commanded me to wash the hands so it's a daily proclamation of the god-given authority of the rabbis and it was that very ritual that the disciples of Yeshua said well we're not doing that we've got our rabbi here and he's not telling us to do it yeah and and it's only you know you can eat meat and not wash the hands but you cannot eat bread right it's specifically practically bread and so what does he do he feeds 5000 people yeah with only the love and barley loaves up from the Galilee and then another 4,000 and are they all taking the two-hand old pot and probably not no absolutely not because though that's where another situation where the Pharisees come from Jerusalem why do your disciples break the taça no to the elders because they don't wash their hands right he just got through feeding 5,000 plus women and children and nobody did it so you end up with this is irreconcilable contradiction once you actually take what you shoe it tot seriously right once you get past you know born of a virgin suffered under Pilate you actually look what's in the middle there and would use the thirty approximate years of Yeshua's life and and the year that you know the the teachings of his ministry the bulk of the Gospels then you're stuck with wait a minute what he said in Matthew 23 in the Greek doesn't fit everything else he taught which is obey the commandment of God not the tradition of the elders and then all of a sudden he says what all work for so ever they bid you observe that observe and do I mean so it doesn't make sense in the Greek and that was you know you brought up the problem I said there every extent Greek text on the planet says the same thing and it's there's something wrong here right and so I went and looked at the sources and you know this is what I do this is what I did this is my profession you know you have a textual problem and wait first of all you come from a tradition that if you read the Gospels you had no part in the world the cry well now you're so I mean in the Hebrew University context this is what I was trained for years to do if you have a textual problem the first thing you do is you look at the manuscripts you you know you look at the key manuscripts and you see other other manuscripts you know and of course we're usually dealing with the Old Testament so you look at the key Old Testament manuscripts you look at the you know the targum and the cheetah and the Septuagint what is all the textual evidence say and so in the context of doing that I stumble upon this Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew which solves everything I wasn't looking or I was I looked at a Greek I looked at the the the the pita which is the Aramaic I looked at the old Latin I looked at everything I could find that I thought well I'm done I'm out of well let me do a little search oh there's a Hebrew Matthew let me see what that's about first I had to read the book see is this legitimate I was convinced by it find that there's a single difference of one letter that completely changes the meaning and everything fell into place like you know and the funny thing is I didn't want to write this book if you remember I came to you at your apartment in Jerusalem I said Matthew I said oh man like I said Michael this is important you need to share this with your people and we I don't know how long we spent and I was explaining to you and you and you said to me in a semi I can't go tell people I found something in Hebrew manuscripts I'm like well I can't do it I can't teach about Yeshua I'm Jewish I'll be tarred and feathered I'll lose friends I'll lose family mm-hmm and in the end I felt I you know under the conviction that I had to do it that this was too important for me not to share this with people and and that's the book that came out of it and you saw a lot you know as you delved into it you saw a lot what Yeshua was teaching that really agreed with where you are coming from and started to make the transition from you know questioning the rabbi's and realizing no the word says this God's Word says this the rabbi's say that and you're seeing that Yeshua's teaching the same thing yeah that's that kind of so so that kind of surprised me that you'd have someone 2,000 years ago so when I heard about my whole life Jesus Christ when I heard about Jesus Christ is my people were persecuted in his name they were forced to convert to Catholicism his name they were tortured to death on the rack in his name that's what Jesus represented to me suffering and persecution and the abolishing of everything I hold sacred that he came to do away with the age-old covenant between the God of Israel and his people he abolished all that and made a new covenant with the Gentiles that was the Jesus I knew about from the culture in America that I that was surrounding me and here I'm reading this Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew and ended the Greek you find it as well he said I've come not to do away with one jot or one tittle in Matthew 5:17 and I'm there dealing with the jots and tittles and I'm like oh wow so he wait a minute that I thought the Jesus of Christianity and look I'm not telling Christians what they should believe if they want to proclaim the the Apostles Creed that that's a matter of faith you know for you know between that's our religion right so really whatever I mean religion and it could be a matter of faith but if you say that you believe in this man shouldn't you know what he said shouldn't you focus and then that's where I can provide some perspective okay everything in between born of a virgin and suffering under Pilate so let's that's where I can bring some perspective here was a Jewish prophet who was preaching to a Jewish audience speaking to them in their turns then with jots and tittles were they went to the synagogue every Shabbat and they encountered these things they knew the the precision of the nuance between bark hot and Baraka this was something they heard every week in the synagogue and so when he says that they're like okay this guy isn't coming to do away with the Covenant of Sinai you know heaven forbid he's coming he's talking about fulfillment and bringing it to a back to its original understanding and wait a minute our rabbi in the synagogue is sitting in that chair called the seat of Moses telling us what it means and it's completely different than what's being read from the scroll hmm right because you have them sitting in the seat of Moses I mean that's right you know as the Pharisees sit in Moses seat whatever they command you to do that doing observe and that was actually a chair in the synagogue and and and when I you know read that in the Gospels and knew about it from archaeology so when you read the scroll to this day you stand out of respect for the scroll but back then when the rabbi would explain what was in the scroll meaning interpret the scroll in other words say whatever he wanted to say that the scroll said he'd be sitting in this chair of authority so there was a distinction between what the reader read from standing in the scroll holding the scroll between that and what the man in the seat of Moses was proclaiming it to mean mmm-hmm now I said that you know what I focus on is between born of a virgin and suffered under Pilate but I want to I want to go outside the bounds of that just for a minute if you'll bear with me if you if you'll if you'll give me some grace here at all again amazing passage in the Hebrew version of the Gospel of Matthew which is earth-shattering it's unbelievable so the first two words Jesus speaks after the resurrection now matthew 28:9 and look I'm not I'm not talking here from a perspective of faith I'm a Jew I'm not a Christian but this is recorded in the Gospel of Matthew in both the Greek and the Hebrew and what's recorded in the Greek is the first word it's actually one word in the Greek tyrita which in the english as translated as all hail that's a perfectly good Greek greeting all hail Caeser right it's it's sounds Greek it sounds Roman in the Hebrew the first two words he speaks are Yehovah yoshiya yo ho Bob will save you Yovani name of the Father and the name of the Father and the ancient Hebrew Jehovah some people say Yahweh I hope we'll get a chance to talk about that in a future session about how it's actually yova but his first two words that he speaks in the Hebrew version of Matthew according to you know the one preserved by Jewish scribes remember how meticulous Jewish scribes are the first two words are you Hovey oh xie Yahveh yoshiya which means your hova will save you okay now let's go back to what the angel told Miriam and Yosef to name the child so the angel says from the Hebrew mat right so in the Hebrew Matthew it says to call the child Yeshua and why eschew ax because yoshiya Itami he will save my people same word yoshiya assure yoshiya and his first words at the resurrection is yahuveh yoshiya which is also the meaning of his name the name yeshua means your vaio chia you hope I will save so the first two words literally that he speaks the point of the Hebrew version of Matthew preserved by Jewish scribes is Jehovah yoshiya which is the meaning of the name Yeshua and means your hova will save a gentleman there are so many treasures in this because you are going to be given a treasure you're going to see as a Nehemia takes you through here the the smallest marking in the Hebrew manuscript changes the whole meaning because it doesn't say whatsoever they the scribes and Pharisees say you obey do no that's not what it says in the in the Hebrew Matthew and it is because the Hemi have found this and we're going to also add with this the Hebrew Matthew this is the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew and I want you to talk a little bit about this because I think that you know for for me the one of the most important things is the the apparatus the the critical apparatus and this if you don't read that then you know don't even buy it you know because you have to understand what this is because there's no such thing as a monolith the Hebrew Matthew and here it is right so we have so all right so how Hebrew Matthew was discovered by this professor named George Howard in 1980s as far as I know he passed away and and it's really interesting so I actually recently met the publisher of this book I met him at a at a conference and I said oh you're you're uh you know the guy who publishes this book and I told him who I was and he says you have no idea how much trouble you've caused us they publish dozens and dozens of books and they have one book that people call up and yell at them and they call up and they yell and they talk to the poor people on the phone who don't anything about this department and they say why does it say in there what it says in the English is not what it says in the Hebrew and they're like whoa we don't we we just fulfill orders we know what you're talking about and so I want to give credit and honor to George Howard what he did was brilliant groundbreaking work but he was working first of all with nine manuscripts and he was starting I mean nine Hebrew manuscripts today we know of 28 manuscripts welllet's you know why there are 28 is because Nehemia has travelled the world he's gotten into archives he has found these things over what is the last 14 years no even though most of those I discovered probably by around 2005 there were a couple more I discovered after that but you have no idea what painstaking work it was Michael I looked through hundreds of manuscripts searching for this exact text and most of them had nothing to do it with shame code zebra Matthew most of them were you know completely unrelated tax but the only way - no that was to check them and study them and just to give you an idea I was looking through archives we're in the catalog it would say something like you know Jewish polemical work which means it's some kind of dialogue between Jews and Christians it could be this it could be something else most of time was something else but I had no idea and you know it's a collection of Jewish works well I could be anything right I looked through hundreds and hundreds of manuscripts in order to identify 28 there could be more actually I would be shocked if there are not more than 28 right but right now you know now 28 right and so for example so he knew about 9 of them and then the part of the problem is when he went to translate the text he had he was really coming from the perspective of a New Testament professor deep in the Greek text and you'll see he'll put words in parentheses and nowhere in the book does he explain what those parentheses are but the print what the parentheses represent is I decided not to translate what's in the Hebrew text I decided to translate what it says in the Greek well well then why did you bother and if you look at this I don't know how they can open up and see it so he's got the Hebrew on one side and he has the Greek on sorry the English on the other and you'll and I read the Hebrew you know I could read the Hebrew without any problem as I lost admission a massage mou de escala yep though it's about Judas Iscariot ladonia konima I mean so you could if you can read the Hebrew it's no problem if you look at the English and you all of a sudden see these words in bracket in parentheses and you're like okay well why is that different and and so the problem is the ink the words in parentheses are what the Greek says and and really if we're honest the words in parentheses are what Howard wanted the text to say not what it said and I'm actually currently working on the 28 manuscripts and it's a problem because sometimes you come to a passage and you read what it says in the manuscript and you say why does it make any sense I should just translate what the Greek says because it makes so much more sense and then you know sometimes I'll discuss it with with especially somebody coming from a New Testament perspective with a Christian a messianic and he'll say what don't you see this means no tell me oh wow and you see what the Hebrews is is amazing and you completely missed it because you're you're so like coming from here's what we expect the text to say and it doesn't say that so you kind of you want to gloss over it's really difficult and so I'm working on this project currently I'm working on it for years and I have this person who's you know I bounce ideas off and he says uh ahem you you're being George Howard and I'm like what do you mean he says you're translating what you want it to say not what it says I'm like you're right and it's really hard oh yeah it's not easy I give him a lot of credit but there's amazing things in there when you look at the Hebrew text and I think everybody should own this book support the ministry support what we're doing help to get this out okay step in and do something that it's gonna be great for you now okay how many we just got a just a minute if you if you can give us a little bit of background why we have these different manuscripts why do they read differently and why isn't there just one monolith this is the Hebrew man well so you had Jewish rabbis who were copying this book in secret I mean it was it was you know when you have to understand it was illegal for a Jew to own a copy of the New Testament Jews were accused of doing the worst things they were accused of breaking into the Catholic churches and kidnapping the wafer the Eucharist and sticking pins in it to torture the body of Christ and so if the Jew was found to own a copy of the New Testament the entire Jewish community could be persecuted so when you're doing these things in secret it creates all kinds of limitations where you can't openly send it to another rabbi and say hey check out and make sure I copy this right you can't do that like what they did with the Old Testament is they travel across the world to check their Bibles they were really limited and they had to do it really in secret and then sometimes they'd say uh-oh that's different than what I was told the Greek text says and if the Christians find out that my Hebrew text is different than the Greek we might be killed for this if they find out so we better correct it to the Greek so you have these processes going on as corrupted according to Greek yeah that's actually one of the things George Howard one of the brilliant discoverers as he finds over time as the scripts developed they become more and more like the Greek so the earliest ones and the the most authentic ones are you read them and you're like there's no way this was translated from Greek you know this is not what a Greek translation sounds like for in Hebrew and then you read some of the other ones you're like okay they fix this and made it more Greek and I understand now that I'm working on it how tempting that is because you're like well that's not what it's supposed to say well who says the Greek says that and it's it's humble it's such an exciting process of what's going on there he began the process this man George Howard and and and we're living in such exciting times where the processes continue well we're gonna pick up with this with this process and find out what revelations are coming about so we can understand the message of the Prophet what he actually taught and we are going to now I'll have you close with the Aaronic blessing Eva yaja vaviiova bless you and keep you yeah a liova panov a la única you have a shine his face towards you and be gracious towards you yes I Yavapai novella you have I lift this face towards you the assemblage Shalom and may give you peace man oh man well shabbat shalom torah fan-xiu it's all see you next week here on Shabbat and I live with more with Naomi Gordon [Music]

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