Beliefs

We chose to call ourselves Believers because:

• Its what we were called in the first Century, all the letters and books of the Disciples call us and refer to themselves as Believers.
• A Believer is someone who responds to their faith, what they read in the Word and understands that Word to be from YHWH.
• They Believed on Him (Yeshua) who came from Heaven to Earth, that He was the Torah made flesh, that 'He' is YHWH.
• Torah Reading, one of these Customs of the Fathers was reading the Torah over three years: In the Talmud (Megillah 29b) we find a brief mention that the Jews of Eretz Yisrael (the land of Israel) would take three years to complete the cycle of public Torah readings, as opposed to the custom in Babylonia to complete the Torah in one year. According to some commentaries the cycle followed in Eretz Yisrael was actually to complete the Torah twice in each shemitta cycle (Sabbatical cycle - a period of seven years) and therefore the cycle actually took three and a half years (see Nachalas Yakov on Mesechta Sofrim 16:10). So the Synagogues of Eretz Yisrael read Torah Triennially a Sidrah, but the Synagogues of Babylon read Annually or Parashah. This is the 'Custom of Yeshua or Fathers' to read Sidrah, were the 'Tradition of the Elders' is Annual readings.

Please see our Resources Page for a list of useful texts and articles of interest.