H10 Tom Bradford's Torah Class - Hadassah Chapter 9 and 10 (End of Book)

So what we learn is that synagogues as the places where Judaism was practiced were first established in foreign lands where large populations of Jews lived (what we today call Diaspora Jews); and only later do we find the existence of synagogues in Israel. Even so, they were present and established in the Holy Lands well before the birth of Yeshua. The thing is, we need to understand that Judaism and the synagogue were man-made responses and solutions to circumstances of the times; it seemed right to the people who created and led them, and yet when compared to the Biblical commandments, there is a wide gap and there is conflict. The same thing happened with Christianity. At first there was simply the Way that Yeshua taught His disciples to follow (and it involved the instructions of the Hebrew Bible). But in time this was co-opted by gentiles who took this new Way to foreign lands, reshaped it and remolded it, until it was taken over completely by the Roman Emperor Constantine and the Church of Rome, and then it became an entire new religion that (like Judaism) began with a goal of solving a problem; and for the leaders of Christianity the problem was how to exclude Jews and the Jewish ways and therefore Jewish leadership so that Christianity could become a gentiles-only religion much the same way that Judaism was a Jewish-only religion. But by now neither Judaism nor Christianity much resembled the YHWH-ordained religion of the Bible.

Tom Bradford

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