YHWH – The four letter sacred name of the Creator
Yahushua – Commonly called Jesus in the West which is in error.
Torah – First five books of the Bible written by Moses
AFNHSS – All quotes from the Abrahamic-Faith Nazarene Hebraic Study Scriptures unless otherwise specified.
Matthew 23:7-8 (KJV)
"......And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren."
What Did Yah`shua Really Mean When He Spoke These Words???
Did you ever wonder why it is that in the scroll of Mattityahu originally written in Hebrew as are the other Gospels the word Rebbe (Rabbi) is Hebrew? Unfortunately those that argue it is Aramaic lack certain Levitical education. We do not write religious scrolls in Aramaic this is not the done thing in our people but this is not well known by many.
If I had said that the scroll of Matthew is Hebrew in the 10th century people would have laughed at me as many uneducated Christians do today but when this Hebrew Matthew surfaced because of Shem Tob I can assure you the Catholics were not laughing or pleased. Likewise I would caution you to laugh it off because even the scroll of Gilyanha (Revelation) was written in Hebrew but many find that hard to believe so let them remain in disbelief.
Notice this word `rebbe` is being used today and paraded in Churches to show condemnation of Rabbis generally. The only problem is that this title of rebbe was only applied to designated Pharisees of the Temple and this would indicate that Yahushua was a Prushim (Pharisee) who also had dealings in the Temple hence why he could stand and teach in the Temple (Mar 12:35) and be called a Rabbi.
If you are going to condemn and judge my title then you have to do the same to Yahushua and … this means you have no part in the kingdom with any of us.
How do you think Yahushua managed to teach in Synagogues? Did he just turn up unannounced or was he a recognized Pharisee/Rebbe in the Temple?
Mattityahu 13:54 ...
And when he was come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Where has this man this wisdom, and these mighty deeds?
Notice the emphasis on their synagogue. This was not His synagogue.
So one needs to be careful before you condemn all the Pharisees which Christendom has done including our Melek Yahushua also.
You may also wish to be informed that the translators who translated the original gospels from Hebrew to Greek actually never translated the term `rebbe` the seventy-three times that it should have been done when used in the other passages. This was Catholicism’s attempt to put the Rabbis down just as some foolish ones are trying to do today but little do they realize they will never succeed.
How would this fit in with the Catholic Church that has her hands in all this considering Rebbe Paulos who was both a Rebbe and a Pharisee too, and do you remember he also worked in the Temple? Does this ring a bell?
While many of you have made Rebbe Paulos a single man with no family, (another error of Christendom) he was both married and had children that were taken away from him by force, because of his affiliation to the Netzarim sect. Just as Muslims get kicked out of houses and lose their families today for rejecting Islam and accepting Yahushua Rebbe Paulos also had to pay a price.
How would this look if a rebbe of the Temple who was ordained by them has been teaching lawlessness as most of Christendom believes? If the Temple authorities had found out rebbe Paulos was such a rebbe he would have been stripped of all authority and publicly humiliated. Most of you do not know what that even means.
However that is how Christendom has presented him which is to put it politely one of the sins of Christianity. If you did not know this then understand that misrepresenting someone or something is a sin.
How would the priests of Rome explain this anomaly by suppressing the real teachers with a supplanted priesthood by Rome that was never scriptural? Women such as Nuns are not scriptural but many women still become Nuns, yet I don’t see you writing about this. Catholic Priests forbidden from marriage is unscriptural and so is their cultic religion but many continue in it which brings about many abuses of children and women…
Many people who have come out of churches and have little to no understanding of our heritage, jump to the wrong conclusion reading one line of text in the scroll of Mattityahu and then decide that everyone must be called brothers and sisters. Let me show you the errors of this thinking.
Let us assume a simple hypothesis that you are a single man looking for a wife. If you are going to call all women your sisters then who will become your wife? I first noticed this problem in the Pakistani Christian community where they actually do call everyone their sisters and these people have real trouble finding good believing wives because they see every woman as a sister in the Church. This problem is real.
Assuming you are a single woman seeking marriage then if you call all men your brothers then who will become your husband since you will see all men as your brothers. If everyone is a brother to you or a sister then who will become the judges in a dispute and who will be jury? It’s clear that these issues were never thought through by these groups of people.
By saying that everyone should be a brother and sister you have created a conundrum because you failed to understand the words of Yahushua. The problem is that you are falling into the trap of what I call `Church` (A Circle/Circus).
It’s a never ending circle with no answers. Things are not thought through properly and unrighteous judgment is applied that results in problems later.
The Catholic Church has laid this trap and most of you fell right in it.
Some of you have even forgotten that by doing this you are breaking all patterns of leadership commanded in Scripture by YHWH.
Do you see the problem in this comedy of errors? The whole thing is unsustainable.
Just look at the streets of England a week ago (August 2011) and what happened when the police were told just to `stand and watch` the first night in London. Shops were burned down, businesses looted and the police became nice spectators.
Where there is no authority there is chaos forcing the people to take up weapons to defend themselves. This happened in England during those 4 days of violence.
Likewise in Churches since the authority is broken there is chaos. You have all sorts of loose unclean demons infecting people and the Pastors have only become spectators to this whole charade.
When Elohim’s authority is shunned then lawlessness is followed while Elohim removes Himself from the situation altogether so you do not find YHWH there. We know this very well because it happened to our people in Y’sra’el when they allowed unclean spirits to enter the Beyth Ha Mikdash (The Temple), then YHWH departed.
In any society where the rich have no boundaries on how rich they can be, then the poor can only become poorer, creating wide gaps of wealth.
And, since wealth is not distributed righteously, therefore inevitably unrighteousness will follow. This is why YHWH instituted tithing to help distribute and keep the balance of wealth and it was rebbim/Prushim that were to maintain order but many of you refused to give tithe. This is how YHWH blesses those who give tithes and He takes away from those who do not tithe to his Torah teachers.
Tithing to a lawless (Torah-less) church is forbidden and a sin but many of you don’t know this so you continue in your ignorance.
Did you know that in Judaism the first thing that you are taught is how much you will tithe before you become a member of a synagogue? This is a good thing because it means the rabbis can keep a lid on things and help those in the assembly who are most needful.
This money is subsequently channeled to help organize places like running Jewish nursing homes, charities to give free food and so many other things come out of it.
How many rabbis do you know who own their own private jets?
I can name you dozens of Christian ministers who own jets. Do you even bother to see the difference that most Torah-based rabbis try to live their lives humbly, without being a burden on others.
Most of us work and teach, and I am writing this while I travel to work in the train.
The rabbis are respected authorities in Jewish Synagogues while in Churches you are still arguing over why are we called a Rabbi?
Now you go do a comparison between unrighteous Christian ministries and how many peoples` money is being siphoned off from them daily on God channel, TBN, Day Star, Revelation TV, Gospel TV, Faith World, Wonderful TV, UCB, Inspiration, Love World TV, and other channels by unrighteous preachers preaching a money gospel, give a 100, give a 1000, give, give, give so where are your ministers to police all of this chaos and unrighteous behavior?
This is one of the very important functions of the Rabbis in their congregations.
In the House of YHWH there is order and His servants are meant to keep this order.
The scroll of Mattityahu is for instructional and historical purposes and not setting new agendas or dogmas as Christendom has done. We cannot behave like the Christian Church by allowing lawless preachers to make everyone a sinner by giving a license of cheap grace.
They created a new dogma by abrogating the Torah, the law of Elohim and now lawlessness ensues in Churches called GRACE where practicing homosexuals demand to be married and you have to do it.
Is this the truth of Christendom that you want to give to others?
All teachings must come out of the Torah to be authoritative.
If you are going to tell me or someone else that they cannot call themselves a rebbe (Rabbi) then you must show them/me this from the five books of Musa (Moses),
and furthermore show me where YHWH My Power has revoked the Covenant that He gave to my forefathers and to me by extension.
What many of you are attempting to do is to circumvent authority through ignorance which is not allowed and I won’t allow it either.
The authority given to me or another Rabbi is not our authority but this has been delivered through heaven and it is part of the covenant given to us as an eternal ordinance.
I am talking about the Covenant given to the Levites who were righteous teachers of the Tabernacle and Temple.
Do you think anyone other than Elohim has the authority to remove this Covenant?
The answer astoundingly is `no one can annul a covenant which is eternal`.
Therefore I am politely teaching you that your talk is unscriptural for removing titles. If the world has titles like Colonel, Major, Prime Minister, then how much more so in heaven and on earth of His servants. Yesterday a Pastor phoned me to come to a TV station to explain about unrighteous behavior on TV where one Pastor usurps a TV program of another Pastor to put himself before the other one. He also asked me to tell the people how do we recognize if a man is from G-d or self. Why do you think he asked me to do this?
If you challenge the authority of a Rabbi by which he is called out to teach and the anointing of the Ruach Ha Kadosh (Holy Spirit) by which he is able to help the people of Yahuweh (YEHWEH – Another ancient way to pronounce the name) then you challenge the very authority of Heaven.
This puts you in a very precarious situation....
Bmidbar 25:7-8...
`And when Phinehas, the son of El’ezar, the son of Aharon the kohen (priest), saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; 8. And he went after the man of Y’sra’el into the alcove, and thrust both of them through, the man of Y’sra’el, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Y’sra’el`.
Why all the issue of titles? This is because people like to be politically correct.
Yet the funny thing is I did not choose to be called out by YHWH when he called me out, but I accepted His voice. When he sent someone from Jerusalem to anoint me I did not at that time understand what it meant to be anointed but now I do.
Yet you are quick to judge me and write to me and tell me I should not be called a Rabbi as if I am just waiting for you to tell me what to do next. Where were you when I was a Muslim for thirty-five years of my life and none of you had the courage to tell me I was in a false religion and a Hebrew instead?
You have no authority given to you to change the ways of my forefathers. My Father in heaven who loves us delights in us to do His will and we are happy to serve Him in uprightness.
If Phinehas my forefather did not need anyone’s permission to enact a Torah commandment even so far as to kill an unrighteous man committing whoredom with a harlot in a brothel then why would I before I reach out to help those desperate in need, those who seek help to teach them the righteous ways of YHWH and how they can receive His blessings?.
I have done no wrong by being called a Rabbi that is the title my forefathers used, Musa was called Rabenu, but do You comprehend this? I doubt you do.
This problem has affected a lot of people both in the Hebrew Y’sraelite camp and Churches where there is no real form of leadership. They run after each other and think all is well when everything is coming apart at the seams. They want to call each person a brother but that brother is ready to stab them in the back for a position and name. The term brother has no authority. Even in the Kingdom, Yahushua will appoint Rabbis and you won’t be calling him brother I assure you.
Bmidbar 25:11-13 ...
`Phinehas, the son of El’ezar, the son of Aharon the kohen (priest), has turned my wrath away from the children of Y’sra’el, while he manifested much zeal for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Y’sra’el in my jealousy.12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of shalom (peace). 13 And he shall have it, and his descendants after him, even the covenant of AN EVERLASTING PRIESTHOOD; because he manifested zeal for his Elohim, and made an atonement for the children of Y’sra’el`.
It was because of Phinehas’s zeal that we received the priesthood and by this priesthood we are TEACHERS FOREVER.
By being a teacher we can and should be called `rebbe` ordained by another teacher in authority; This is the most suitable title for a teacher and is a Scriptural one which means `someone who has good knowledge and understanding of Scripture and Elohim`
. Yahushua would not tell you not to call yourself a Rabbi when He called Himself a Rabbi!!! This also explains the distorted teachings of Christendom in which the title of Rabbi was removed from the Gospels many times over to hide the truth.
Malaki 2:4-6 ...
`And you shall know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant might be with Lewi, says YHWH of hosts. 5 My covenant was with him of life and shalom (peace); and I gave them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and was afraid before my name. 6 The Torah of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in shalom (peace) and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity`.
Most of the Christians don’t even know His name so how can they FEAR THAT AWESOME NAME.
We fear HIS NAME because of the responsibility given to us.
While I have seen many Christians backstab and slander each other usurping even positions of authority as their right I would not dare dream of this. That is the difference between a true Servant of YHWH and a so called servant who is just a miscreant.
We are to teach His people that the Covenant of Shalom was given to us FOREVER and no church or other individual has the authority to take it away.
Let me show you that the Torah commands to put Rabbis in places as teachers from which we choose judges.
Dabarim 16:18 ...
`You will make Judges and officers in all your gates, which YHWH your Elohim gives you, throughout your tribes: and they shall judge the people with righteous right ruling`.
Judges are not created out of thin air, but the twenty three judges needed in a Beyth Din (House of Judgment) are chosen from reputed teachers who are actually Rabbis who have to make judgments based on Torah laws.
How would they know how to make a decision if they do not know any Torah?
A Rabbi in essence is given that authority.
Therefore learn to respect your Rabbis and YHWH will give you respect and If you put down your Rabbis then YHWH will put you down. When we were young we were taught that a teacher in school is above both our father and mother in the home and we must give the utmost respect and listen to him.
I did that as a child and never got caned at school, while my elder brother who would not do the homework got regular doses of the cane, but when I came to England I saw the complete reverse in British society, where children are seen swearing at their teachers.
I was shocked at this behavior, and look where British and American societies are at. There is no blessing in their lives. Discipline starts from the home and I remember well my mother’s cane flying in the air to hit my elder brother for being silly in the home. Today we talk about our mum’s flying cane and laugh about it but it was necessary!
I realized one thing that to respect your parents is to respect Elohim and to disrespect your parents is to disrespect Elohim this is the bottom line.
If you have broken this authority then you have lost your blessings. Fix the authority and fix your blessing structure.
If we are asked to respect our academic teachers more than our daddy then how much more for those who teach you the ways of YHWH which leads to eternal life and many earthly blessings? Yet many foolishly question the title of a Rabbi who is simply a teacher appointed by the Most High Eloah. A person well versed in the language of Elohim and His ways.
A Rabbi is supposed to explain the most intricate details of what YHWH is trying to communicate to His people. Without a knowledgeable teacher Y’sraelites will not be able to make sense of many texts in Scriptures. Our great Rabbi who received and gave the Torah to Y’sra’el was no other than Musa Rabbenu. Even Yahushua spoke about Him with respect and dignity unlike some of you.
Yahushua was the greatest Rabbi to ever live on this earth and there is none like Him to this day and never will be. Yet he in his humility gave tremendous respect to Musa.
Yahuchannan 5:45-47 ... `Do not think that I will accuse you to the Abbah: there is one that accuses you, even Musa (Moses), in whom you trust. 46. For had you believed Musa (Moses), you would have believed me: for he wrote of me. 47. But if you believe not his writings, how shall you believe my words?`
Mattityahu 23:1-3
`Then Yahushua spoke to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, "The experts of the Torah and the Pharisees sit in Musa’s (Moses) seat: 3 All therefore whatever they tell you to guard, that GUARD AND WORK; but do not imitate their deeds: for they say one thing, and do another"`.
So you think you can ignore Yahushua’s words too?.
Even He commanded you to obey the Rabbis?
He went so far as to tell you that you should obey them WHATEVER they speak from the Torah but many of you have foolishly rejected the Torah.
You imitate your lawless pastors but He said
`do not imitate those who say but do not do`.
Yahushua will be appointing Rabbis in the kingdom.
And some of you are teaching not to call others Rabbis.
Only the uneducated in Scripture can teach this way.
So what do we do with our brother Kohen Mattityahu, is he circumventing the eternal covenant to make teachers/rebbim?
Let me now give you the real translation.
Abrahamic-Faith Netzarim Hebraic Study Scriptures
Mattityahu 23:7-8 ...
`.... and greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, MY GREAT ONE, MY GREAT ONE. But be not called My Great One for one is your Adon (Master: Lord), and all of you are brothers`.
Of course they were all brothers because they were all Yahudim why would they not be? Just as Africans from the same village call each other brothers this is the meaning here and not some supplanted meaning derived out of religion.
Mattityahu 23:9 ...
`And call no man your abbah upon the earth: for one is your Abbah, which is in the shamayim (heaven)`.
So are you going to stop calling your father `daddy` also, and how silly will that be?
This is the foolishness rampant in churches but this is not what is taught here. Maybe this is why the British and American children call their dad by their first names like Tom, Jack, Matthew, David, and Paul instead of daddy.
This is so rude to call your father by name while we are taught to even call our elders with respectful titles.
Yet scripture teaches that you can have spiritual fathers which can be Rabbis to others.
But even a Rabbi has an eternal Father apart from his earthly father.
This is the distinction that is drawn by Yahushua recorded by Mattityahu here, (that is), not to compare yourself to the Father in Heaven but most of you did not get it.
Mattityahu was giving us a glimpse of what was going on in the first century in Y’sra’el with some corrupt (Prushim and Tsadokim) Pharisees and Sadducees. He shows us some people had usurped authority to circumvent Elohim. But you know, in actual fact they were far better than today’s churches that teach lawlessness while they (Pharisees) at least taught the Torah, the LAW of Elohim even if they did not follow it themselves.
In the first century the issue was not calling someone a Rebbe, this was a respectful title for a teacher of the Torah.
(The issue was that) they started to use a term that had come to mean ‘MY GREAT ONE,’ which was a RESERVED definition for The Father in Heaven but using this term was the problem for men.
Using Rebbe was not the problem and to this day has no problems.
In the first century during the time of Yahushua, a group within the ranks of the School of Shammai including some hypocrite Pharisees had taken precedent and they loved to be called by the title of My Great One, and they said (claimed) `whatever we said is as if it is from the Shamayim (Heavens)`.
They refused to negotiate or to teach any gentile and saw them as unredeemable hence we see great tensions arose between these people and other Pharisees like Yahushua.
They also hated Yahushua and His miracles while the school of Hillel supported Yahushua.
Christians have greatly stumbled over this and misunderstood this.
The word Rabbi simply means ‘my teacher,’ (and) in fact Yahushua makes us Rebbim in the future kingdom also. Amein to that.
Mattityahu 5:17-19 ...
`Think not that I have come to destroy the Torah, or the prophets: I have not come to destroy it, but to reveal its full intended meaning. 18 For verily I say to you, until shamayim (heaven) and the earth pass away, one yud or nekuda shall in no wise pass from the Torah, until all of it has been correctly filled up. 19 Whoever therefore shall break one of the least of these commandments, and shall teach men to do so, he shall be called the LEAST in the kingdom of shamayim (heaven) but whoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called Rabbi (GREAT) in the kingdom of shamayim (heaven)`.
Here the term GREAT is not just great as in stature but the Hebrew term for a teacher and a Rebbe. Yahushua shows us by His own mouth that we will still have Rebbim/Pharisees in the Kingdom. A position confirmed by the Master Himself because He is talking about ‘TEACHING’ and the ones who have the authority to teach the Torah and the Tanakh in Y’sra’el were the Rebbim, past present and future.
YHWH’s kingdom has positions that will be granted to those ardently obeying Torah prescribed commandments that can be kept while the lawless (Torah-less) crowd will get the shock of their life.
Conclusion
In Conclusion anyone who is called a rebbe (Rabbi) has a great responsibility to teach Torah truths and not to subtract from the Torah.
Christianity has already subtracted the Torah and added the New Testament which in their mind has superseded the Torah, this is an error and will never stand.
The New Testament is simply instructions and history of our people and cannot subtract the Torah but only be allowed to uphold Y’sra’el’s teachings.
The Renewed Covenant (New Testament) simply confirms all that has occurred before and is yet to occur. It tells us the Messiah was to come and has come and will come again. It Reconfirms Torah and the Prophets.
It cannot supplant the Torah or the Tanak.
Therefore no one has the authority to make new doctrines and teachings solely based on the New Testament writings. If anyone has done this and you know many have then they are guilty of usurping the eternal priesthood of Y’sra’el and will be punished likewise in the judgment because nothing escapes the notice of YHWH.
While those who uphold the Torah and correctly teach things out of the New Testament to uphold and strengthen the Torah will receive an ample reward in the Kingdom to come.
Therefore, all Rebbim of the Master Yahushua hold strong.
Chazak - Be Strengthened.
Shalom Shalom
Rabbi Simon Altaf
This article may be distributed freely without alteration and is copyright to Abrahamic-Faith International Union of Synagogues.
Simon Altaf was chosen by Elohim in 1998 for the special End-Times prophetic calling. A lone voice in the wilderness, one taught by Elohim (Ps 119:120-121). He was told by Yahushua that he is from the house of Levi, the original priesthood, Semites called out of Islam to rejoin His people after his long exile from Iran, then India to Pakistan to England. Soon we will go back to Y’sra’el when our Master Yahushua returns. His promises are real and they will come true.
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