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What authority do you have to decide halakha? PDF Print E-mail
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Sunday, 02 March 2008 08:24

None at all. As a site, we aren't deciding halakha. We are publishing halakha accepted by others and linking the relevant discussion. We don't attempt to force ourselves into the seat of Moses, because we have the living Messiah, Yeshua of Nazareth who is like Moses, living in us as believers.

Just like submission to the new Sanhedrin is voluntary, submission to the Jerusalem Council, its rulings, and the halakha promoted here is voluntary. No one is forcing you to adopt the standards that are discussed and published here. If anything, this site exists for your education and betterment in your walk with Yeshua as your Lord and Savior as you see fit to adopt.

If you see on this site a ruling, or halakha that you disagree with, then this site exists for you to feedback and be heard! If you have a disagreement, then come and be heard and by all means please engage in its related discussion on the forum, or bring it up in the chat room. If you are a Messianic believer, this is your website. What halakha is promoted here depends entirely up to you and your participation.

As believers, it is our responsibility to be workmen approved who "correctly handle the word of truth." We are all here to determine the truth of what it means to be a talmid (disciple) of the Messiah, Master, and Rebbe Yeshua; and it is only by solid study, clear documentation, and much peer review, we believe, that solid answers to these issues of Messianic halakha can be derived successfully which will stand the test of any case brought against the answers that do get published on this site.

It is the goal of this site to publish a halachic guide for all Messianic believers worldwide, tested by solid study, documentation, and peer review, so that the halakha of the living Messiah Yeshua can be taught to others and lived out in the earth.

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