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A response to antimissionaries who claim that the nazarenes never
existed:
The Birkat ha Minim to which you refer was the
nineteenth line
added to the previous 18 lines in the Amidah. It was
conjured
up by Rabban Gamaliel (who was the grandson of the
famous
Gamiliel of the Sanhedrin, as mentioned in Acts). "Said
Rabban
Gamiliel to the Sages: Can any one among you frame a
bene-
diction relating to the Minim? Samuel the Lesser arose
and
composed it." ( Berakoth 28b, Babylonian Talmud). It
was
removed from the Amidah many years later when the
threat of the
Netzarim vanished from the synagogues
The Shemoneh Esreh, according to tradition, was drawn
up by
the Men of the Great Synagogue, had thus acquired an
extra
benediction, though it still retained the former name
Eighteen
Benedictions. The Minim were Jews who accepted Messiah.
"M" (mem) stands for the Hebrew word Maamine, which
means
"to believe"; the "i" (ude) stands for the Hebrew word
"Yeshua";
the "n" (noon) stands for the Hebrew word Nazaret, in
English,
Nazareth; the "im" (ude mem) makes the Hebrew word min
plural. The rabbis were notorious for playing with
words as they
did with Yeshu, turning the Hebrew word "salvation"
into a
curse. Kochav, the apostates to which you refer are
none other
than the "notzrim" or nazarenes, Jews who accepted
Messiah.
No other group was a threat to Judaism in the numbers
that they
Nazarenes posed.
Jerome spoke of this prayer as well: "The Jews
anathematize
three times daily in their synagogue the name of the
Christian,
disguising it under the name of the Nazarene." The
words of
Justin Martyr..."you curse in your synagogues all who
have
become Christians through HIM. And the other nations,
who you
make the curse effective, are slaying them who only
acknowledge
that they are Christians...you appointed chosen men
and sent
them into the civilized world, proclaiming that 'a
certain godless
and lawless sect has been raised by one Jesus of
Galilee, a
deceiver, whom you crucified, but HIS disciples stole
HIm by night
from the tomb, where He had been laid after being
unnailed to
the cross, and they deceive men, saying that HE is
risen from
the dead and has ascended to heaven'...the priests and
teachers
of your people have caused HIS name to be profaned and
blas-
phemed throughout the whole earth."
The Christians to whom Justin refers are the
Nazarenes...Jews who
believed in Messiah. Just like today, if a gentile
accepts Messiah...
that is not a problem for you...however when Jews
accept Messiah,
that is slap in your face since you believe that they
are committing
idolotry. The same thing occurred 2,000 years ago. The
rabbis were
not concerned with gentiles accepting Yeshua, they
were threatened
by their own people accepting a "so called false
elohim", for their utmost
concern was to preserve their uniqueness and prevented
assimilation
at all costs. Like I had said to you before, up to 20%
of the Jews who
attended synagogue 2,000 years ago were believers in
Yeshua. This
movement presented more consternation to them then any
other "so
called cult."
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