Shalom,
For anyone who is serious about leaving the Fallen World, anyone who comes from a life not centered on Torah, and wants to be a Disciple of Yeshua the Messiah, they need to be willing to leave the life they have lived all their lives and enter a new world: the world of the Limudah.
The Limudah is the Covenant of St. James, the Teacher of Righteousness, to the Gentiles. The Limudah maps out a way of life for the individual who is completely serious about following Messiah and entering the Kingdom of Heaven.
The Person who comes outside Jewish Community and learns and lives the Limudah, is, in the eyes of Messiah, walking the Narrow Path spoken of in the Gospels.
In this day and age, people want to go from learning the exoteric ways of the Gentile Church, to all areas of Torah Observance without skipping a beat. But they err in this approach.
You don’t go from being a Master of Divinity in a Gentile Church to a Torah Sage with a hop, skip and a jump.
Even if you understand that the Limudah is gently guiding those from the Gentile nations to the Halakha of Mshikha and to Torah Observance, to bypass the Limudah would be like jumping in a High powered sports car, and forget the keys. You are going nowhere fast.
You can read all the books you like, you can learn many languages and purchase Jewish religious objects and apparel to your hearts delight…but none of this is living as a Disciple for a Gentile unless they divest themselves of what they learned in the Gentile world.
This is not about gaining but losing. Losing all the heresies and false teachings, and pointless directions that led nowhere.
The Limudah is simple and it is also complex. Simple because the Way of Light is told to us in simple, unadorned ways, a manner that any person can understand. Complex because reading the Limudah and actually living it are worlds apart: one is Theoretical, the other is practical.
You can read Holy Writings from now till the return of Messiah, but if you never apply any of what you have read, into being a living breathing Talmid, then it has been all for Naught.
The Limudah is less about syntax and poetry as it is a no-nonsense instruction manual on how to apply the Gospels in the life of one who does not come from the Jewish world.
You are not seeking to acquire more knowledge, more data, more rites and observances to add to that overflowing brainpan where that mass of grey matter resides, your seeking transformation from a person of the world, to a child of God who happens to live in the world.
Everything a person who comes from the Gentile World needs to understand in order to have a place with Messiah, and to be in the process of Tikkun or perfection for the Return of Messiah, is in the Limudah.
You could live your whole live striving to live the Limudah and still never master the Limudah the intracacies of it.
The Limudah is a calling. The Limudah should call to every Gentile seeker of Messiah.
Before you spend countless amount of money on books, tapes, CDs, workshops, seminars, before you register for countless yeshiva classes or anything else. Get to know Messiah through reading the Gospels, then start applying the Limudah in your life.
You do this and when Messiah returns, your place with Him in the Kingdom is assured.