From: 	 heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Sent: 	 Thursday, October 9, 1997 11:14 PM
To: 	 "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"
Subject: Should Christians study Kabbalah?

> heb_roots_chr@geocities.com wrote:
> >
> > From:          Barry Meadows
> > To:            heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
> > Subject:      Sefirot
> >
> >  I was wondering,do you see value in the study of the Sefirot from
> >  the  Christian perspective?
> >
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> > 
> >

From:          Michael Silver <treelife@zianet.com>
Organization:  Etz Chayim - Tree of Life Messianic Jewish Congregation
To:            heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com 
Subject:       Sefirot

> 
> REPLY: My answer to this question is this: The New Testament was
> written by Jews, the words that came forth from the Messiah were
> framed in a Jewish conntext and had their foundation in the Old
> Testament or Tanakh. When you read the sayings in the New Testament go
> back to the Tanakh and you will find the Messiah's words based on the
> writings in the Tanakh. The New Testament has its foundation in the
> pages of the Old Testament. Trying to understand the NT without
> understanding the OT is like trying to read the fine print without the
> aid of glasses. All of the Shalichim or Apostles were Jewish and what
> they taught was based on what the Messiah Y'shua taught them which in
> turn was based on the Tanakh. The NT did not exist during the time of
> Messiah or for some time after that. So what Scriptures were the
> Apostles teaching? Tanakh!
> 
> Without the Tanakh you will never have any hope in understanding the
> NT. So are the seiforot important? Yes! It leads us into understanding
> the words of Messiah Y'shua. In our Bible Study class we are studying
> a book called 'Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus.' It is an
> excellent book. In it, the authors who are Christians, show that
> between the OT and NT 90% is based on OT. The other 10% is NT
> interpretation. Do you think that this makes studying the OT
> important? I do. Try it. It is not as boring as you may think.
> 
> R. Silver
> --
> Rabbi Michael Silver (Rav Mordecai Ben-Baruch)
> Etz Chayim - Tree of Life Messianic Jewish Congregation
> P.O. Box 364, Organ, NM 88052 (near sunny Las Cruces)
> 
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> 
> From:          Barry Meadows
> To:            heb_roots_chr@geocities.com
> Subject:      Kabbalah
> 
> do you see any value in studying the kabbala?
> 
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>

From:          Michael Silver <treelife@zianet.com>
Organization:  Etz Chayim - Tree of Life Messianic Jewish Congregation
To:            heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com 
Subject:       Re: Studying Kabbalah

REPLY: Kabbalah is Jewish Mysticism and there is not enough space to go
into this here. The basics are that Kabbalists strive to understand G-d
from a mystical viewpoint. Everything is driven from an esoteric
position. If you enter into a study of Kabbalah, be careful.
-- 
Rabbi Michael Silver (Rav Mordecai Ben-Baruch)
Etz Chayim - Tree of Life Messianic Jewish Congregation
P.O. Box 364, Organ, NM 88052 (near sunny Las Cruces)

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