So what does Beit Rehovot mean anyway?
Our search for a name for our synagogue was important.
We had to be sure that our congregational name
reflected our vision for where G-d has placed us.
There were so many against us. Many who were only
too willing to misrepresent our doctrines and even
to attempt to mould us into the image which they had for us,
whether their motivation was benevolent or otherwise.
The story of Yitzchak in B’resheet (Genesis) 26v12-22
seemed to express our situation so appropriately.
We are seeking to reopen the spiritual life-giving wells
of Avraham’s faithful G-d, which centuries of false teaching
and departure from Torah have filled in;
the wells of Scriptural Messianic Judaism.
In doing so, we are not trying to make enemies,
but we must have our own identity as Jews
and the liberty to walk with Messiah Yeshua
in Judaism, according to Scripture.
This was what so many were opposing.
When Yitzchak’s servants dug the well
at Rehovot the Bible says that Yitzchak said:
“Now Adonai has made room for us in the land and we will prosper.” “Unless G-d builds the house, they labour in vain who build it...” so wrote Melek David in the Tehillim (Psalms).
This has been our constant conviction,
we cannot, must not, build this synagogue community.
If we do, by missionising or enticing people in
upon the basis of our own wisdom, the work is doomed.
G-d Himself must build and we are honoured to labour with Him.
G-d brought our community into existence;
each member has been called by Him into
the way (Halakha) of Messiah Yeshua.
Therefore we shall prosper.
The word Rehovot is the plural of Rehov,
meaning “Road” or “Space”,
Rehovot means “Spaces” or “Highway”
or as we usually say:“Wide open spaces.”
Beit Rehovot, the House of Wide Open Spaces,
is a place where there is room to be who we truly are;
Jews, without reference to what other religious groups,
even other forms of Judaism, think.
It is somewhere where G-d has created space to speak in His Torah,
to show the reality of the Jewish Messiah,
where people can be healed by His word,
and where followers of Messiah Yeshua can grow in Adonai.
Why not come and hear for yourself
the wonderful liberating message
of Yeshua’s atonement and the joy
of Torah living in our lives today?
