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