So then, brothers and sisters,
stand firm and hold on to the traditions which you were taught,
whether by word of mouth or by our letter.
2 Thessalonians 2:15

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Bet Avinu
HaYesod Program

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Mon, 29th Apr 2024 (21 Nisan 5784)

Christianity has been adrift from these origins for nearly two millennia, detached from the Land, the People, and the Scriptures of Israel. However, with an increasing understanding of Christianity’s beginnings and the return of the Jewish people to Israel, there is a growing revival and reform of biblical proportions.
Understanding the Jewish underpinnings of Christianity enriches believers’ faith, elucidates the Bible’s meaning, and unveils God’s plan for His people.
HaYesod: The Foundation is a program with interactive lesson workbooks and in-depth teachings that prepares believers to embrace their spiritual heritage and fortify their discipleship to the Jewish Messiah.
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HaYesod - The Foundation
Reconnecting the Jewish foundations of Christianity
The Land, the People, and the Scriptures of Israel

HaYesod – The Foundation

Lesson 1 – People of the Book


Introduces the Jewish people as God’s chosen agents of revelation, confronts replacement theology, and lays a solid foundation for understanding the Bible.

HaYesod – The Foundation

Lesson 2 – Grace vs Law


Corrects the traditional Protestant dichotomy between grace and the law by revealing the true meaning of each and their respective roles in the Bible.

HaYesod – The Foundation

Lesson 3 – The Covenants


Teaches God’s unchanging nature and the enduring significance of biblical covenants, forcing us to rethink the common assumption that the New Covenant has replaced the Old.

HaYesod – The Foundation

Lesson 4 – The Jewish Yeshua


Recontextualizes Jesus in his first-century Jewish context as a Torah-teaching rabbi, correcting the common Christian depiction of a religious revolutionary starting a new religion.

HaYesod – The Foundation

Lesson 5 – The Disciples


Introduces the concept of discipleship as understood in a first-century Jewish context, offering us a better understanding of what it means follow Jesus and raise up new disciples.

HaYesod – The Foundation

Lesson 6 – The Kingdom of Heaven


Explores Yeshua’s gospel message in its original Jewish context, emphasizing the need for repentance and his role as the promised King, poised to usher in the Messianic Era.

HaYesod – The Foundation

Lesson 7 – The Jewish Paul


Recontextualizes Paul within first-century Judaism, highlighting his identity as a Pharisee and challenging the conventional idea that depicts him as an apostate from Judaism.

HaYesod – The Foundation

Lesson 8 – Torah for the Nations


Explores the apostle’s solution for integrating people from other nations into a predominantly Jewish faith, emphasizing the Torah’s role for all disciples while acknowledging distinction between Jews and Gentiles.

HaYesod – The Foundation

Lesson 9 – The Appointed Times


Introduces the biblical calendar, emphasizing its enduring significance to the Jewish people, it’s spiritual implications for all disciples, and it’s prophetic connection to the Messianic redemption.

HaYesod – The Foundation

Lesson 10 – The Land, the People, and the Scriptures of Israel

Unveils God’s redemptive plan, emphasizing the centrality of the Jewish people while inviting Christians to embrace their partnership in fulfilling God’s prophetic promises to Israel.

HaYesod Module Two: The Sabbath
Coming Soon ...Explore the biblical Sabbath and its observance and
implications for Messianic believers today

1: The Sabbath – A Sanctuary in Time

The Sabbath is one of the Ten Commandments, but long before the giving of the Ten Commandments, the Sabbath has been blessed and holy since creation. On the seventh day, God “ceased” from creating the heavens and the earth. God blessed the Sabbath day by appointing it as a day for divine good. Like salvation, the Sabbath is a gift from God. The reward for keeping the Sabbath is the Sabbath itself.

2: The Sabbath – The Appointed Times

The Bible contains an ancient calendar of “the LORD’s appointed times,” holy days that He has set aside for meeting with man. The seventh-day, biblical Sabbath is the first on the list of the LORD’s appointed times. Each of them symbolizes a significant historical event from the past, and each one of them prophetically alludes to the work of Messiah. The Sabbath foreshadows the coming Messianic Era.

3: The Sabbath – A Taste of the Kingdom

The Sabbath day provides us with a foretaste of the kingdom and the World to Come. The kingdom will be an era of peace, abundance, fertility, prosperity, and the universal knowledge of God, the Sabbath uniquely embodies and rehearses those things. The Sabbath signifies God’s eschatological rest. In this way, the Sabbath provides us with a picture of salvation.

4: The Sabbath – Sabbath and the Jewish People

The Sabbath day offers holiness and blessing to everyone, but the Jewish people have a special rela- tionship with the Sabbath. God gave the Jewish people the obligation of observing the Sabbath day holy in every generation as a sign that He has sanctified Israel by setting the Jewish people apart from all other peoples.

5: The Sabbath – Sabbath and Gentile Believers

Although God gave the Sabbath to Israel as a sign of their set-apart status, that does not mean that Gentiles cannot participate in the Sabbath as well. They can, at the very least, remember the Sabbath day and honor it, just as the God-fearing Gentile believers in the New Testament did.

6: The Sabbath – The Day of Delight

Sabbath observance is a lot more than just taking a day off from work. The Sabbath-keeper turns his foot back from seeking his own pleasures because of the Sabbath. The Sabbath is to be celebrated, not merely observed. By treating the day with honor, being selective about what activities he engages in, the Sabbath-keeper honors the day, and the LORD rewards the Sabbath-keeper.

7: The Sabbath – The Day of Rest

The Jewish people are to cease from work on the Sabbath day. However, the Hebrew word we translate as “work” (melachah) does not refer to hard labor or making a living; it refers to various acts of creative production. For six days man is permitted to take mastery over creation. On the seventh day, we stop and remember that God is the true creator.

8: The Sabbath – The Sabbath Breaker

In this lesson we will learn about Yeshua’s attitude toward the observance of the Sabbath. Why would a Christian be interested in keeping the Sabbath? Because that’s what Yeshua did. He kept the Sabbath, according to the commandment.

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9: The Sabbath – The New Sabbath

In this lesson, we will learn about how the church abandoned Sabbath observance as a way to distance itself from Judaism and the Jewish people. The transition from Sabbath to Sunday began in the first century, but the transition was not really completed until the fourth century. Sunday is a perfectly appropriate day for worshiping together so long as we don’t refer to it as the Sabbath day.

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10: The Sabbath – The Day of Eternity

In this lesson we will learn about how, in the coming Messianic Kingdom, all citizens of the kingdom will observe the Sabbath. The Gentile nations will go up to Jerusalem to worship the LORD from Sabbath to Sabbath. We will also learn that restoring the Sabbath is part of four key prophetic restorations.

HaYesod Module Three: The Festivals
Coming Soon ... Explore the biblical Festivals and its richness for Christians today.

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1: The Festivals – Cycle of Sanctification

The Bible contains an ancient calendar of “the LORD’s appointed times,” holy days that He has set aside for meeting with man. The appointed times include the Sabbath, Passover, Pentecost, Festival of Trumpets, Day of Atonement, Festival of Booths, and the Eighth Day. Each of them symbolizes a significant historical event from the past, and each one of them prophetically alludes to the work of Messiah.

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2: The Festivals – Pesach and the Seder

When Yeshua told us to “do this in remembrance of Me,” He spoke in the context of a Passover Seder. The Passover sacrifice in Egypt occurred on the fourteenth day of the first month on the Jewish calendar. On that day, God struck down the firstborn of Egypt but spared those in homes marked with the blood of the Passover lamb. As a faithful Jew, Yeshua kept Passover in Jerusalem every year, and His last supper with His disciples was actually a Passover Seder meal.

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3: The Festivals – Seven Days of Redemption

Passover is more than just the seder night. In fact, the seder night is only the beginning of seven days of Passover—the seven days of Unleavened Bread. These days are to be a memorial, an appointed time, and a permanent ordinance. Just as the exodus from Egypt took place in two stages, so the coming of Yeshua takes place in two stages. The events that happened during the seven days of Passover in the days of the redemption from Egypt teach us about the events that will take place in the days of the redemption of the Messianic Era.

4: The Festivals – Counting the Omer

The Bible tells the Jewish people to harvest one omer of “the first fruits of your harvest” and bring it to the Temple. Beginning on the day that the first omer of barley was harvested and brought to the Temple, a count- down to the next biblical festival began. The Torah commands the Israelites to count off forty-nine days and then celebrate the Festival of Shavu’ot (Pentecost) on the fiftieth day. Jewish tradition teaches that the period of the Omer count is to be a time of spiritual introspection. Yeshua’s resurrection occurred on the day that began the fifty-day count-off to Pentecost and His ascension on the fortieth day of the Omer.

5: The Festivals – Pentecost at Mount Sinai

At Passover, God redeemed the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. He delivered them with a powerful display of His glory. When the children of Israel left Pharaoh’s land, they left behind the culture of slavery, idolatry, and immorality that had governed their identity in Egypt. For forty-nine days they traveled through the wilderness. On the fiftieth day, they received a new culture; they received the Torah. Many years later, on the anniversary of the giving of the Torah at Sinai, God poured out His Spirit on the disciples of Yeshua as a guarantee of the good things to come at the time of the final redemption. Shavu’ot brings us to the next stop on the annual cycle of sanctification where we learn that the Torah and the Spirit are not opposites. They are supposed to work together to transform us from the inside so that we become the first fruits of the new harvest.

6: The Festivals – Days of Awe

While the spring festivals prophetically foreshadow Yeshua’s first coming, the high holidays of the fall pro- phetically foreshadow what Yeshua will accomplish in His second coming. The fall holidays commence with a period of time called the “Season of Repentance,” which inspires a deeper experience of the fear of the LORD. It is a time to remember that all our deeds are known and recorded by the Almighty. Our actions do have consequences and all of humanity will one day stand before the Ancient of Days and His Messiah in judgment.

7: The Festivals – Head of the Year

Rosh HaShanah is a day to proclaim God’s kingship, to hear the shofar, and to reflect on specific remembrances. In the days of the Bible, Rosh HaShanah marked the beginning of the agricultural year. The festival is primarily associated with the sounding of the shofar trumpet, the horn of the Biblical Era, which was used for various applications and occasions. The sages of Israel associated ten core themes with the sounding of the shofar. The so-called “Ten Remembrances” form a blueprint for the work and mission of our Master Yeshua.

8: The Festivals – Day of Atonement

Yom Kippur is the Day of Atonement. It is the holiest day of the year. In the days of the Temple, the holiest man on earth (the high priest) entered the holiest space on earth (the holy of holies) on Yom Kippur. His annual quest was to provide atonement on behalf of the nation. Yom Kippur reminds us that sin is a serious problem for humanity. We must humble our souls before the Almighty if we wish to draw near to Him. Through confession, repentance, and the atoning offering of the Lamb without blemish, we obtain a spiritual entrance behind the veil into the presence of God.

9: The Festivals – Festival of Booths

The culmination of the Bible’s holiday cycle is not Yom Kippur, as one might assume, but rather the festival known as Sukkot, i.e., the “Festival of Booths.” During Sukkot the Jewish people dwell in holiday booths outside of the comforts of home. The Jewish people refer to Sukkot as “the season of our joy.” At Sukkot, we celebrate the spiritual joy of emerging from the high holidays of Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur with a clean slate and a fresh start. The holiday of Sukkot is filled with sights, sounds, smells, and tastes that teach us about living a life of faith and about the future Messianic Kingdom.

10: The Festivals – Eighth Day Finale

How does a seven-day holiday have an eighth day? In the Bible, it happens. After seven days of Sukkot, the biblical calendar introduces an eighth day. In Hebrew it’s called Shemini Atzeret. This eighth-day celebration is shrouded in deep mystery and messianic allusions to the kingdom and the World to Come. It is a day to rejoice in God’s gift of the Torah, and it is the final day in the Bible’s divine cycle of sanctification. The annual cycle of sanctification vividly illustrates God’s greater plan of redemption while leading each individual into a personal experience of spiritual growth in individual faith.

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