I have to agree. The more I hang around this forum the more I see that a lot of people- Jew and Gentile alike- have a very romanticized view of the "Jewishness" of Jesus and His teachings. It's only after a certain maturity in faith arrives that people can let go of the whole ethnicity of God and His plan and embrace a working, healthy and holy relationship with Him.
What I have noticed is that the obsession with all things Jewish and Judaic really reduces Christianity down to a series of propositions and theologies- just like any denominational process. It changes Christianity into a subject for debate and the search of the perfect set of Messianic religious dogmas and trappings. But, when I read the NT, I see that Christianity was primarily intended to put endless religious debate over laws, interpretations and religious practices on its head. It is about a life lived in loving God and neighbor through action, led by the Holy Spirit, whose indwelling changes everything and makes all this religious stuff rather useless.
In religious forms of Christianity, like Catholicism, Anglicanism etc, we start up using traditions as a help to serving God but we end up serving the traditions instead. I see this happening full-throttle in the Hebrew roots/MJ movement as well. The more emphasis we see on "keeping God's appointed times" or using Hebrew words or whatever, the more we see people serving tradition and religion and the less we see of people living a life led in obedience to the things taught on the Sermon on the Mount. The Spirit-filled life takes a back seat to the abstinence of driving a car on Saturday, or feeding the poor or meeting wounded people on the steet with nothing but the Gospel of salvation. Lighting candles or wearing tzitzis or celebrating New Year does not fulfill the Law of Christ. While there is nothing wrong with religious observances we always seem to end up serving them and not the other way around. It's part of human nature and the desire to save oneself or guide one's own spiritual walk through our own efforts.
I just hope and pray that all this religious ritual/laws stuff does not take control of the MJ denominations like it did with many other forms of Christianity. It's really up to this generation of MJs to make a change.