I'm Grafted In, yes?!

[visionary]

The recent roots of the Messianic congregational movement are found in the work of Joseph Rabinowitz, a Russian Jew who in 1882 traveled to Palestine to consider settling there. His original purpose was classic Zionism, but instead he found Yeshua on the Mount of Olives. He returned to Kishinev in southwestern Russia as a Jewish believer in Jesus and initiated the Messianic congregational movement there, which slowly grew for many years but has exploded since 1967.

 

[Steve Petersen]

In the late 1800s an Chadisic Jew, Rabbi Joseph Rabinowitz, whilst in Jerusalem, became convinced that the fullness of the restoration of all Jews could only be under the umbrella of Yeshua. He introduced his idea of an autonomous, indigenous Hebrew Christian community, but died before it came together.

Rabbi Paul Levertoff, another Chadisic Jew, who held the Chair of Hebrew Rabbinics at the Jewish Institute of Leipzig, came to London and, effectively, brought about what Rabinowitz had wanted to do. He later became an Ordained Minister in the Church of England and started an MJ church in London, where Jews and Christians worshipped in line with the Feasts etc etc.

The MJ movement was founded. The UK had a Messianic Jewish Prime Minister - Benjamin Disraeli. A very well-known Messianic Gentile was also around at that time: William Wilberforce, the anti-slavery fighter, and several other well known names.

That is a very brief account, obviously.

Yeah, I said ANCIENT Messianic movement.

 

[Heber Book List]

Oi vey! You want ancient, as in very, very ancient! There is no definitive answer - you could choose from all the apostles after Yeshua's resurrection, the two on the road to Emmaus, Paul's event on the road to Damascus, with his servants etc., and the places where he lived for the 17 years before becoming an apostle, formally, or Peter's friends and their family, or those to whom he preached, or there were the people prior to Acts 15 (by the time we get to Acts 15 there were already non-Jews worshipping in the synagogues in various places - that's what the debate was all about). Any of the above could have been involved in what we would call, today, a Messianic congregation, after the event in which they were involved - we do not know. Is that ancient enough

Added: Or you could look into the gospels - did Yeshua start a Messianic congregation / movement? Possibly!

 

[Steve Petersen]

Oi vey! You want ancient, as in very, very ancient! There is no definitive answer - you could choose from all the apostles after Yeshua's resurrection, the two on the road to Emmaus, Paul's event on the road to Damascus, with his servants etc., and the places where he lived for the 17 years before becoming an apostle, formally, or Peter's friends and their family, or those to whom he preached, or there were the people prior to Acts 15 (by the time we get to Acts 15 there were already non-Jews worshipping in the synagogues in various places - that's what the debate was all about). Any of the above could have been involved in what we would call, today, a Messianic congregation, after the event in which they were involved - we do not know. Is that ancient enough

Yes, that is the answer I was looking for. It is not obvious or is forgotten by most Christians who denigrate Messianic Judaism.