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Hebraic Roots and Rabbis Gone Wild
In this third, concluding part of this series, Jewish Israel examines the "spiritual" dynamic of the movement which inspires "Christian aliyah", especially taking a look at some of the rabbinic personalities involved in this precarious venture.
Wild Weeds Take Root
Baruch Abrahamovich (Avramovich), the leader of the Christian messianic group which aims to make aliyah and establish a commune-like settlement in Samaria, is connected to both Christians and Jews enamored with the so-called Hebraic Roots or Restoration of Israel movement.
As indicated in our previous reports, Abrahamovich has featured messianic Hebraic roots leader Eddie Chumney on his Christian radio show and was apparently introduced to influential Israelis by Ben Ehrhardt, one of the foremost leaders of the Ephramite sect of the Hebraic restoration movement. One former Ephramite
who found her way to Judaism writes :
"Erhardt exemplifies a large percentage of rank and file Ephraimites, particularly those who desire to live in Eretz Yisrael while holding fast to their Messianic beliefs, which, ironically,
they passionately disavow as being Christian in nature…He preaches total disassociation from any former members of the Ephraimite movement who have rejected Jesus as G-d or Messiah.
Discovering Hebraic Roots or Just Digging In?
Generally it can be said that the "Ephraimite," "Restoration of Israel", "Two House" or "Ten Triber" movements are Christian messianic sub-sects. The adherents of these sects, sometimes referred to as "Joes"– for the house of Joseph, or "Northern Kingdom Israelites", consider themselves grafted-in to the Jewish root through Jesus. They believe that the Land of Israel is their eternal inheritance to share
with “their brother Judah”( the Jews) as co-heirs under a new covenant governed by jesus. Many, but not all, of these cults promote the idea that certain "born-again", “Christian Zionist” sectors of the church are part of the “lost tribes” and actual blood descendants of the ancient Israelites.
The Hebraic Roots movement was at one time considered fringe, but it is gaining popularity, with respected publications, such as the Jerusalem Post Christian Edition, which has featured articles on the subject.
According to a recent video produced by missionary Christine Darg, who is closely affiliated with the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus and the International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem (ICEJ), "The Hebrew Roots movement strongly emphasizes the completion of the unified House of Israel in jesus christ, who's known in Hebrew as 'yeshua'.
And this commonwealth of Israel is made up of Jews and non-Jews alike – what the apostle Paul called 'the one new man'." Darg goes on to say that "Adoption and engrafting into a commonwealth of Israel has now made it
the right of every born-again believer in the messiah to participate in the lifestyle of the Jewish people.”
It should be noted that Hebraic Roots movements are made up of varying messianic streams which have inconsistent, some would say, evolving ideologies. The leaders are often at odds with one another, and more than a few of the personalities involved are confused and colorful, to say the least.
Like other jesus sects, many adherents of the Ephramite movement no longer consider themselves "Christian", although they remain christ-centered. Their "Jewishness" is manifested by their replacing certain "pagan" church traditions with Jewish rituals and observances. Some Hebraic roots leaders absurdly proclaim themselves to be "Torah observant" and have taken on the title of "rabbi", while fiercely holding fast to their belief in jesus and preaching the gospel.
Like other messianic groups, no matter how you contrive, contort, and package them, these sects remain Christian by any other name. Some theologians consider the Hebraic Roots doctrine to be a modern-day spin on British Israelism, a belief that people of Western European descent, particularly those in Great Britain, are the direct lineal descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel.
It is important and fair to note that more than a few members of these messianic sects, including Jews lost to Christianity, have indeed made the crossover into authentic Judaism or have joined a number of burgeoning Bnai Noach groups.
These successes have encouraged and inspired certain Torah observant rabbis and scholars, to deem the evangelical thirst for the Hebraic Roots of Christianity to be part of an end-times prophetic process.
Hebraic Roots and Rabbis Gone Wild - Jewish Israel
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