Halacha

We believe Yeshua is the promised Messiah of Israel and the Savior of the world. He came first as the suffering servant who was cut off for our sins, and He will return as the conquering King.

We hold that G-d is one and triune, and that Messiah is divine. We hold this as Jews following the faith of our forefathers, not as something borrowed from the church.

When G-d is seen and spoken with face to face in the Hebrew Scriptures, we understand that to be Messiah before His birth, because no one can look into the Father's holiness and live.

G-d's instructions were not cancelled at the cross. Sin is defined as being contrary to Torah, so if Torah had ended, sin would have ended with it.

We are justified by repentance and faith, never by keeping commandments. Torah is the guide for the life that follows, and that life sets our reward and standing in the world to come, not our entry into it.

A person from the nations who is fully grafted in, as Ruth was, is counted among the Jewish people. Ancestry gives no standing with G-d, and in the kingdom there will be no category of gentiles at all.

The church has not taken Israel's place. The promises and covenants made to Israel have not been transferred to anyone else, and Israel remains at the center of what G-d is doing now.

The Sabbath is Saturday, the seventh day, and it is the first and highest of the holy days. We keep it for worship, Torah study and fellowship.

The festivals of Leviticus 23 are G-d's own appointed times, not Jewish inventions and not done away with. We keep them because He set them.

Yeshua will return, put down all wickedness and reign on David's throne, and Torah will be the law of that kingdom.

We do not keep the festivals men put in place of G-d's. They came out of paganism and pushed His appointed times aside, and Halloween in particular is not harmless fun.

The dietary instructions stand, and Leviticus 11 still says what food is. Keeping them redeems nobody, it sets us apart.

Yeshua's blood is the final atonement for sin, and no atonement sacrifice will ever be brought again.

Salvation is received by faith as a free gift. It is not a possession that cannot be lost: a grafted-in branch can be broken off, and a person who has walked through the door can walk back out of it.

We worship as a synagogue, with the siddur, the Torah scroll, tallis and kippah, so that a Jew who walks in finds nothing strange here except Yeshua.

Giving here is voluntary. The tithe belongs to the Levitical priests and is not owed to a congregation, so what is given here is given freely.