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changing.

If you study the subject, you will also find that the dress, the customs, and the doctrines of the
Hebrews have changed just as much as their language in the same span of time. Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob all dwelt in tents. They lived a nomadic life. You will find nothing similar to it in Israel today.
Even Yahshua lived the life of a wanderer. He did not have a home, or a ministry center. He even had
to borrow a donkey when it was time for His triumphal entry into Jerusalem. If you want to live like
Yahshua, imitating His life and customs, you might start by selling your car, getting rid of your home
or apartment, giving away all of your furniture and possessions to the poor, and sleeping outside on
the side of a hill, or in the bow of a boat.

The reality of Yahshua’s Hebraic life is not so romantic as many today imagine it to be. If Christ is
the measure of a true “Hebraic life,” or even Abraham, then I am confident that there are few among
the Messianic and Hebrew Roots movement who would desire the real imitation. Sprinkling one’s
speech with modern Hebrew words, and learning how to write the Babylonian Hebrew script will not
make you more like Christ. I recently came across a quotation that has a right perspective on the
matter.

One who romanticizes over Judaism and loses focus of the kingdom of Heaven can be compared to
a carpenter who is infatuated with the hammer, rather than the house it was meant to build.
[Troy Mitchell]