SINAI 6000
A resource center
for seekers after the
ONE TRUE GOD
and
HIS ORIGINAL REVELATION.
Why “SINAI 6000”?
The biblical calendar places us in the year 5778 (2018),
which is in the 6th millenium.
Mt. Sinai is the site
of representative humanity’s encounter with the
CREATOR
whose nature could previously only be discerned
from HIS visible world.
Sinai is the sanctified mountain
where the CREATOR GOD
revealed his ineffable name
—-YHWH—
and HIS one-time
historic
complete
revelation
defining mankind’s relationship
toward HIM
and toward one another.
The recipients of this revelation were—
Moses
and the “mixed multitude”
of Israelites and non-Israelites
who joined the freedom pilgrimage
from Egypt to Mt. Sinai.
The Hebrew Scriptures’
canon of 24 books
open with this unique revelation called
TORAH,
YHWH’s Guidelines for Living.
NEVIIM continue
YHWH’s divine pronouncements
“Thus saith ADONAI. . .”
through the Prophets of Israel.
KETUVIIM
concludes the canon—
wisdom books, psalms, narratives
and chronicles of the chosen people’s
successes and failures
as YHWH’s
“light to the gentiles”.
The three together form the TNK.
As gentile believers
in the CREATOR,
the GOD of gentile Abraham and Moses the Israelite,
we acknowledge only the
TORAH, the five books attributed to Moses,
as “divinely inspired”.
We believe that the books comprising the
Neviim and Ketuviim
have been written and recorded by men
as part of the chosen nation’s etiology/history,
depending on its obedience to or disobedience of the TORAH.
We do not consider them as the ‘very words’ of YHWH,
except those specific words quoted, recorded,
and attributed to Israel’s God, YHWH.
Still, we choose to learn from the people of Israel,
with whom YHWH made
the only Covenant HE ever made with humankind.
We believe the Jews know best
how to read, translate, interpret and teach their Scriptures.
Their Torah scholars, sages through the ages,
have studied and expounded on
YHWH’s utterances regarding Torah life
that Israel was given the mandate
to model to the nations.
But we also recognize, as an ancient rabbi maintains,
that the TORAH as given to Moses, is but
“an unripened fruit of the heavenly tree of wisdom.”
It is only the beginning of our TRUTH quest.
As gentiles drawn to the GOD of Israel,
we are among the “many peoples”
who seek the LORD OF HOSTS,
who take hold of the robe of an Israelite saying,
“We will go with you; for we have heard that GOD is with you.”
[Zechariah 8:23]
And so each gentile who is spiritually awakened,
hears YHWH’s call in his inner sanctum,
only because he is still seeking.
Not content with teachings
of confusing man-made religions
based on confusing man-made scriptural foundations,
he decides to take yet another leap of faith ,
ready to unlearn all previous religious orientation
and theological presuppositions,
to start learning afresh from
YHWH’s original revelation.
Each seeker is invited to join us
who have discovered this ancient pathway,
long travelled by the chosen people
since their first encounter with YHWH
in that sanctuary in time past,
in that sanctuary in the wilderness.
SINAI 6000
is a way of thinking
and a way of life
based on “the Way”,
YHWH’s TORAH,
applied as much as it is possible
to our times and our culture,
whichever society or ethnic community we belong to.
We do not evangelize
nor try to convince anyone to ‘convert’.
We study, we share as we learn,
we are in continual transition,
for the nature of Divine Truth and the Revelator
requires an open mind and a yearning of the heart
that is always on a quest for more truth
in YHWH’s inexhaustible book of knowledge.
Sinai 6000
is not a “church” nor a “religion”
but a community of like-minded gentile believers
who make a conscious decision
best expressed in the words of
a Jewish interfaith proponent
—-Abraham Joshua Heschel—-
“I belong to the community of Abraham [the nations],
and my rabbi is Moses [the Hebrew].”
“Thus saith the LORD:
Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for the ancient paths,
where the good way is;
and walk in it,
and find rest for your souls.”
[Jeremiah 6:16]
And we responded:
“We will walk in it.”
And so one’s pilgrimage to Sinai begins,
at whatever point in life
. . . for it is never too late,
as long as the Giver of Life
continues to sustain our life on earth.
Rambam, last stanza of a poem
“From Thy Hand, Lord, give forth honor”
written in honor of the Pesach festival–
The mountain of His holiness,
His Holy Temple standing on the heights of eternal hills,
That is Sinai,
the glory of God that dwelled upon it, thrills,
Let the nations proclaim His majesty and awe,
the voice of the Red Sea, never-ending,
where His flock saw, all of His wonders, miracles, beauty.
Cleanse yourselves, O ye nations and states,
raise up your son, give glory and honor to [YHWH]!
A Sinaite’s Liturgical Statement of Faith