THE AUTHENTIC HISTORICAL TEACHINGS OF YESHUA
Home Temple seminary training is based on the historical spiritual teachings of Mar Yeshua, the Master Jesus. These are NOT the teachings of Christianity. Until recently scholars have studied the teachings of Yeshua exactly as they appear in the Greek language and vocabulary of the New Testament Gospels, even though they knew that the sayings had been transmitted without context, reinterpreted, and spun to reflect early gentile Christian doctrines about the Lord Jesus (KurioV IhsouV). What they overlooked was that the Aramaic-Hebrew vocabulary and spiritual concepts used by Yeshua were grossly misunderstood in their translation into New Testament Greek, and therefore did not represent his authentic teachings. The faithfulness (emunah) urged by Yeshua became Christian “faith” meaning belief (pistis). Yeshua’s key concept of the Malkuth, divine Sovereignty shared by spiritually reborn saints, became the Christian idea of the Basileon, Kingdom of Heaven. And on it went.
The early non-Jewish churches did not attempt to understand or transmit the historical teachings of Yeshua. By mid-first-century, before the earliest Gospel had been written, they were in bitter conflict with the original Jewish congregations. The gentile Hellenistic churches developed a proto-orthodoxy that would survive and be known as Christianity, based not on the teachings of Yeshua, but on Pauline doctrines about a deity called Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who died as a human sacrifice to propitiate a patriarchal God for the sins of humanity. But Paul never knew or studied with Yeshua. He boasted that what he called “my gospel” was based on his personal visions, and that he had not studied with the Apostles and disciples of Yeshua. He was particularly opposed to the views of James the Just (Yakob Ha-Tzadik), the brother and chosen successor of Yeshua [Galatians 1:12, 2:12, et al.] But today scholars have tools to reconstruct the authentic historical teachings of Yeshua.
Kabbalistic frame of reference
By using modern biblical criticism to read and interpret Paul, the Christian Gospels (which were based on Pauline theology), and applying the same to other extant sources of Yeshua’s teachings like the Aramaic core of the Gospel of Thomas, then translating the Greek sayings and parables back into their original Hebrew-Aramaic language, we can begin to recover the historical teachings of Yeshua. They can be further illuminated by examining the Jewish wisdom, Merkabah, and messianic traditions of his era. When we do this, we find that the teachings of Yeshua were rooted in the proto-kabbalistic mysticism of the wisdom and apocalyptic schools of the sophisticated Jewish diaspora community in Babylon–the probable location of the so-called “lost years” of Jesus. That is where his concept of the Bar-Enash or Son-of-Man Messiah originated, as opposed to the Son-of-David Messiah of Palestine adopted by Paul and the early gentile Christians.
The historical teachings of Yeshua were Kabbalistic. The inner-circle teachings given by Yeshua to his closest disciples are incomprehensible if taken out of their Kabbalistic frame of reference, and even many of the public teachings have Kabbalistic background. The Master saw himself as a prophet and first-born of the Bar-Enash or New Humanity revealed in visions by the Babylonian mystics who wrote the books of Daniel, Trito-Isaiah, Enoch, and the Babylonian Talmud. The Bar-Enash, Son-of-Mankind Messiah (New Humanity or “Second Adam” of the Pauline letters) would redeem mankind from its bondage to sin. Each soul born of the Old Adam would have the opportunity to spiritually redeem itself from bondage to evil and rebirth itself as a member of the body of the Christ or New Humanity. Spiritual rebirth as a yeled or “newly-born” could be achieved by following the Halakah or “Way of Walking in Life” taught by Yeshua.
In other words, Yeshua’s Son-of-Mankind Messiah or Christ is not just Jesus, as taught by Christianity. It is a corporate spiritual being–the pre-existent heavenly archetype of a coming New Adam or Humanity that is to be spiritually reborn soul by soul while living in flesh. Those who achieve this establish the Malkuth or Sovereignty (not “Kingdom”) of Godhead on Earth. Over the ages humanity and the planet will transform spiritually until the Messianic Age or ‘Olam Ha-Ba is fully established on Earth.
For an introduction to the historical teaching, go to the YouTube Page and view the series entitled the Pre-Christian Teachings of Yeshua. The book covers shown are some of Dr. Keizer’s many writings on the authentic teachings of Yeshua. Others can be found in the Catalogue at www.wisdomseminars.org, his seminar and teaching site. Included in ordination training are the complete weekend seminars entitled Yeshua: The Unknown Jesus, and The Yeshua Seminar.