The Igeret of Ya'aqub to the Hebrew Speaking Assembly of Yarushalyam

The Igeret of Ya'aqub to the Hebrew Speaking Assembly of Yarushalyam

Ya'aqub, the servant of Alhym Yahushuah, to the Hebrew Assembly of Yarushalyam: Shalom elykham!

You know that Alhym has made Himself manifest among us in many different forms in ancient times, and has shown Himself in various manners to our fathers of the faith, and He spoke through the Naby'a'ym [Prophets]. However, specifically in this era [[the first century CE]] He has manifested to us in a physical form by His Son Yahushuah ha'Mashyakh, whom He has appointed as the heir of all things from His creation, and by whom He created all things, for nothing was created without Him.

Yahushuah is like the radiant glory of the light of the Father, and reflects His image, and He sustains all that which is in the world by a single word breathed from His mouth; and by Yahushuah, Alhym made a covering for guilt, and had Him to sit as His right hand.

Yahushuah is indeed higher than the divine beings [angelic beings, celestial beings], and His Name is above all others in the world. Alhym never said unto any of the divine beings, 'You are my Son, this day I have chosen you.' For, when causing His Chosen One to manifest in the world, He said: 'All the angels of Alhym shall worship Yahushuah.' For Alhym said unto His divine beings, 'I have made you as My servants, as a flaming fire.'

However, concerning His Son Yahushuah, Alhym has said unto Him, 'You are Alhym, and Your throne is for eternity; and a righteous sceptre has been placed in Your hand, and You will rule with it over Your Kingdom. You have loved justice and truth, and you have hated sin; therefore Alhym, the Alahota [Godhead], has anointed You with the oil of joy, even more than the divine beings. From the beginning You have laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands; and like a tallit, You will fold the heavens and the earth up. The heavens and the earth will be changed; but You will remain forever unchanged, for Your years have no end.'

Alhym never said unto any of the divine beings, 'Sit as My right hand, until I make your enemies as a footstool under your feet.' For, the divine beings are ministering spirits who are sent to minister the truth of the Spirit and the prophecy to those who are to inherit eternal life.

Brethren, you shall be very diligent regarding what you have heard in the divine teaching; for if you are not cautious in guarding it and keeping it before your eyes and on your hand, you will fall away from Alhym and He shall reject you and hand you over to the darkness. You have been taught that the teaching from Alhym given unto us is perfect, that it is without error. Be diligent in the truth.

If a divine word is spoken by the mouth of the divine beings, and it is confirmed in a way that every one assembled has heard it, but you neglect the order given, then you have sinned and you shall receive discipline; for it is our responsibility to share that which has been spoken by Adonai, and all things which have been confirmed to us by His very own mouth and through the divine beings.

You know that Alhym has confirmed them as being from Himself by various signs and miracles through Ruach ha'Kodesh. Alhym has shown us that He came down from the heavens to us in flesh, even appearing to be lower than the angels in His humanity, but having power beyond any imagination of man in His Alahota. And as such all things have been subjected under His feet. However, in His humanity we did not see all things subjected under His feet, for it was not the Will of the Alahota during our time.

Thus, we saw Yahushuah in His humanity, appearing to be lower than the angels; and because of His death and resurrection, He has been given glory and honour and a golden crown has been placed on His head; for Alhym, in dispensing khesed [grace] unto His chosen people, allowed His humanity to undergo death for the benefit of His creation. For He saw it fit to suffer on account of His people rather than to destroy them, for He is a gracious and loving Alhym! And through the suffering of His humanity, He perfects His chosen people, the Khasidim, and brings them into His loving arms as B'nai Or [Sons of Light].

He has chosen and He has appointed the elect among His Khasidim to stand up among His tribe as the Teacher of Righteousness in which He sanctifies; and the one whom He sanctifies is one with Him, and serves as the right hand of Yahushuah. Therefore Alhym is not ashamed to call His anointed as His very own brother, for he, while not being the same divine nature of Alhym, carries the humanity of Yahushuah as His right hand manifested on the earth.

And Alhym says, 'I will make Your name known to My children; and within the assembly they will praise You, for by praising You, they praise My Son, and by anointing You, they anoint the feet of My Son, and by holding Your hand, they hold to the skirt of My Son.'

Behold, brethren! It is through Yahushua that Alhym has given His anointed Teacher of Righteousness His very own children, to teach them and to care for them as His very own. For through Yahushuah the Teacher of Righteousness will release His children from the bonds of darkness.

I write none of this any manner of boasting. You know that it is taught in Scripture that the Teacher of Righteousness is the manifestation of the right hand of Yahushuah Mashyakh, the Son of Alhym, in this world, and His Beit Knushta is like the hairs on the back of the right hand of Yahushuah, for there can not be one without the other, and together their counsel is the counsel of Alhym. Let none boast who are chosen by Alhym to serve His people, lest Alhym remove that one and choose another. For the Teacher of Righteousness is a man, with flesh and bone like all other men, but He has the Spirit of Alhym within Him for bringing light into the world and to cause a hedge to be constructed around the Sons of Light.

The Teacher of Righteousness was not created in the same manner as the divine beings, but was born of other divine beings in the heavens and was manifested from the seed of our father Abraham, whom Alhym called out of Yanduah, the land of his fathers. You know that our father Abraham prophesied by the Spirit of Alhym that one would come into this world and be given the name of Ayapah and that He would bring light to the scattered house of Yisrael, and that He would bring the people of Alhym into one fold under the one Shepherd Yahushuah ha'Mashyakh.

Thus it was in accordance with the Will of Alhym that he should be manifested on this earth and appear like His very own brethren in order that He may show forth the mercy of Alhym to His people and to serve as the high priest on earth, faithful in all the Pillars of Alhym, and to make absolution by way of sacrifice for the people of Alhym. For, in a similar manner, Yahushuah appeared to us as a man, that He could suffer in His humanity, and undergo the human trials and as such He is able to assist those who suffer in His Name.

Therefore, brethren, those of you who are called by Alhym to serve as His own people, take into consideration the Holy Shalyakh and High Priest from heaven, Yahushuah Mashyakh, and His right hand, the Teacher of Righteousness, the earthly Holy Shalyakh and High Priest.

Like Yahushua in His humanity, the Teacher of Righteousness is faithful to Alhym who chose Him and who appointed Him, as was Moshah and all those within his house. For every house is built by some man; but the One who builds all things is Alhym, and the house that is faithful to the Torah of Alhym is built by He who gave Torah.

Listen, my brethren: Ruach ha'Kodesh has said: 'Today, if you will hear the voice of the right hand of Mashyakh, and if you do not become full of pride and if you do not anger Him like the enemies of the truth of Alhym, I will bless you with the rain in the proper time and you will have eternal life.'

While Alhym has spoken to the people of Yisrael, He became agitated at those tribes, and said unto them, 'The hearts of these people are not stable, for their hearts goe from one place to the other and are not faithful, and they have refused My Halakha; therefore, I have sworn in My wrath, that they should not enter into My rest until they walk on the path of the way of My Halakha in My Son Yahushuah, My Mashyakh.'

This is a warning, my brethren, lest there be in any man among you who has a heart of darkness, and any man among you that does not believe these words from Alhym and take them to heart, and you depart from the way of the One Alhym. Be careful to examine yourselves each day, and never permit yourselves to have a heart of darkness and depart from Alhym.

Do not depart from the truth of Alhym and do not have doubt, and do not say within your heart, 'Why is it this way', or 'How is this to be'? For with every question of doubt, one distances himself further from Alhym. Trust in Him who gives the True Light and be at rest at the feet of Mashyakh who has manifested His right hand among His very own people, the Essene Khasidim. For in being faithful in all things, we have a share in the blessings which have been promised by Mashyakh, but we must persevere in the teaching and have firm confidence even unto the end.

But those who do not believe, and those who have doubt within their heart or lead others to doubt, they shall surely have no part with Mashyakh. For if they have once tasted of the truth and then turn their backs on Alhym by their doubting His revelation, it would have been better if they had never known the truth, for in this manner they will forfeit their reward and shall have none.

Therefore, my brethren, stand firm in His promises and sit at His feet with full assurance that if you are faithful unto His Torah and walk in His Halakha, you will have eternal life. But if any of you fall short, and do not repent before it is too late, then you shall not be a member of the Covenant. For in the last days Alhym, indeed the Alahota, will come down and make a new covenant with His people, for them to be a strong people and to take within their own hearts His very Presence going forth from the Ark of the Covenant which will reside in the Temple of Alhym. In this manner they will enter into His Shabbat and be given rest, as He said concerning Shabbat, Alhym rested on the seventh day from all His works.

However, there are those who shall not enter into His Shabbat, for they have not believed, and they have permitted the seed of doubt to grow into a great tree which catches on fire from the lightening and is broken and destroyed.

But we who have had the privilege of hearing His promises, and of hearing concerning the future covenant made through the Teacher of Righteousness, we rest on Shabbat and remember the words and the promises of Alhym to us and to our future generations. Shabbat should cause us to call to our minds the future covenant that shall be made by Alhym on the day after Shabbat, for it will be on Shabbat that the Alahota shall stand directly behind the Teacher of Righteousness and instruct Him in the Way for the coming day. Therefore it is established, that the people of Alhym are to observe Shabbat, and in this we have no doubt. It was established from time immemorial and was blessed by Alhym.

The Spirit tells us that the day after Shabbat, on the day when the covenant is made through the Teacher of Righteousness, that the Spirit of the Word of Alhym will not go out to the nations as it did in times past, for the world is not worthy of His blessing; instead, when the Ark of the Covenant is sealed on that day, the Spirit of truth and light shall only shine within the Assembly of His own people, and by their example and by their teaching one another, will the people of the world have the opportunity to learn from the treasure house of Alhym. And it shall be by the Word of Alhym given unto the Teacher of Righteousness, the great warrior with the sword of truth, in that generation among the Holy Essene Tribe of Kahein, Levites and Manasseh, that the Truth of Alhym shall be made known to any man.

For the Word of Alhym is living, and it supplies all of our needs in understanding His truth, and it is sharper than a two-edged sword, and it is able to judge the heart and the mind. For the Word of Alhym, through His anointed one on earth, will make all things known in accordance with the Will of Alhym and it will uncover all things that are hidden in the time of the Father.

Therefore, knowing with faith that we have the Blessed High Priest, Yahushuah ha'Mashyakh ben Alhym, who has gone up into the heavens, let us persevere in professing Him and trusting in His right hand who brings us the Word of Alhym in truth. For we do not have a high priest who cannot understand the feeble minds and bodies of the sons of men, but He is able to understand the afflictions of the sons of men, for He too was afflicted. Therefore, approach the throne of Khesed [grace] with full assurance that you may obtain His khesed, and that you may find khesed in the time of your affliction.

You know that every high priest, who is born as the first born son from among the sons of men, is given authority over the things of Alhym, for the benefit of humankind, that he may present the offerings and the sacrifices for their guilt; and as a man he is humble and able to understand the fallen nature of men, and when they err he is able to sympathize, because he also is clothed with humanity and as such is susceptible to infirmities and illness. And, therefore, as a high priest, he is responsible for the people of Alhym, and he is responsible for himself, to make offerings and sacrifices for his and for their fallen nature. But know this, that no man is able to take this honour on himself, but only the one who is called by Alhym, as was Aharon.

In a similar manner Mashyakh did not exalt Himself to become the heavenly High Priest; but Alhym appointed Him as such and chose Him to be a priest for all eternity in the order of Malki-Tzadik. Thus, when Mashyakh was clothed in a body of flesh and bone, He presented the offerings and the prayers for the benefit of the people, and He raised the dead and He healed those who had illnesses; and His offerings were accepted. And after His flesh was speared and His humanity was nailed to the Cross, He became the cause of eternal life to all those who obey His Torah and walk in His Halakha. And Mashyakh was given the Name of Alhym, and He was the High Priest in the order of Malki-Tzadik....

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