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Rabbi Jacob is an incredible teacher! I've been listening to his messages for the last few years. I catch the podcast as I'm in Australia.

In some cases there are equivalent names from Hebrew to Greek and Latin. But a lot of Jewish or h Hebrew elements and names were removed in the early periods like 100 to 300 AD that is my understanding of early church history.

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Yes, it's very nice to have the lunch time live stream! In Switzerland and it's the perfect time to follow along during/after dinner and before bedtime😁

It is fixed now. Thanks!

@@Grafted Of course!

@@Grafted, This was a really well-thought-out video! I really appreciated the analogy you made between transcultural and transgender, because it really helped my idea of how a commonplace Jew would interpret a gentile imitating them. This livestream was goodly linked to your other video: "Why Grafted?", which had similar ideas construed. I used to be of the mindsets that: (1) Gentile = pagan, and since Jesus is God, and came to the earth as a devout Jew, I didn't want to be a "gentile Christian". And (2): since most of the disciples considered themselves "Christians" and were jewish, messianic Judaism is the "right Christianity". I feel that through this video, I gained these perspectives: (1) Jesus came as Jewish, because it was understood during the first century that Adonai was above other Gods, and was the "King of the Jews". And (2): being a gentile simply means that your roots are distant from Israel, not that you are pagan. I now understand that it is perfectly acceptable to remain a non-denominational Christian, and a gentile, that loves Jesus. Sidenote: I know- my first name is Jewish! It's cool how God uses names on different people than we'd expect. Also: Just Abby, not Abigail. 🙃

Same thing happened to me! Audio plays fine on my phone but not on my roku.

The 613 come from all the commands given in the Torah. Over half of them are only for the priests and temple practices. Those other 603 tell you how to carry out the 10

Dr. Tom is usually using the Tree of Life Version - a Messianic Jewish translation of the Bible.

You are right. 2 Timothy 3:16-17

Yes, Torah means "instruction" but even within the Torah, there are instructions given to different people - Levites, the High Priest, women, and the outsider in their midst (aka Gentiles) - to name a few. Just because they have different instructions doesn't mean they are any less part of GOD's family or better or worse than anyone else. This idea remains in the New Covenant. Gentiles (and Jewish people) are to turn away from sin toward GOD when believing in Yeshua. The passage you mentioned from Galatians 3 where Paul says there is neither Jew nor Greek is talking about status. He also says there are neither male nor female in the same verse. I think we can all agree that believes in Yeshua are still distinctly male and female. The same applies with Jew and Gentile. When we believe in Yeshua, we are all of equal status but we have distinctions and GOD desires us to worship Him as those distinct people. If the goal were for everyone to be Jewish, the outcome of the Jerusalem Council in Acts 15 would have been very different! There's a lot to this topic but hopefully this helps clarify a little bit!

​@@Grafted If the goal after the Acts 15 council was to set forth different commands for Jews and Gentiles within the communities of believers then I find the apostolic letters from Paul, Peter, James, Revelation, 1-3 John etc. to be quite inadequate in helping me understand those things. Can you tell me where else I can go to find a complete list of distinctive commands for Jewish believers and a distinct list of commands for Gentile believers?

Do you mind if i continue this? I don’t mean to be obstinate but rather I would really like to clarify in my mind. I understood at the acts 15 council gentiles were given 4 torah commands to keep (which goes against what I was taught about not needing to obey the laws) and then they said Moses is taught everywhere. I thot this meant that they were to start with these 4 laws and then as they learned more they could apply the rest in order to walk in Holiness and be alight to the world. We decided, because so many ppl disagreed to basically do our own thing and starting with keeping the 10 words or instructions we would also do what Jesus did as He was our example. So we eat what God has put aside for us to eat (thinking He set aside this as food even with Noah before the Jews?) and keeping the instructions that applied to us as a woman and man that could be done without the temple or all that. The thing is since we started doing this keeping sabbath etc two things have happened one is that my husband and I have changed and our relationship and time of study has been so very blessed , the second is we have experienced ‘very’ light persecution (for lack of better word). We have been accused of becoming Jewish and legalistic. At the same time more and more friends are coming to our bible studies and of course this is one the reasons I need to understand. I am thinking the reason the country is lawless is because the church has become lawless. Why are we so resistant to keeping laws that both the old and new testaments tell us are not to hard to keep? One day I will have to ask our pastor but now asking you is a safer way to go. You seem kind and willing.

I agree with you and that is same way I understand. @wendy

Fixed, thanks!

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That's a good question, Carol! I can tell you that the 10 commandments are the moral law. God gave them to Moses to show the Israelites their sinfulness. I think people with good intentions get a little confused between them and the 613 laws that the Israelites were given as a temporary system because there was no permanent atonement for sin at that time. Fortunately, since Jesus was crucified, buried, and arose from the grave, the debt we owed for our sin for all generations was paid in full. That's what Jesus meant when He said, "It is finished!" He did not abolish the law of Moses, He fulfilled it. He was the only Man Who could do it perfectly because He was sinless. Therefore, we don't need to follow the laws of Moses. BTW, God stated near the end of the Old Testament that the 10 commandments are written on the hearts of all people of all generations. That's what the conscience is for....to enable us to see our sin and repent. 😊

Yes, through grace He died for them, too.