What are Gentile Hebraic Roots?

The Balance Between Torah and the Brit HaDashah

The intention is not to disregard the Torah and focus only on the Brit HaDashah (Renewed Covenant), nor is it to ignore the Renewed Covenant and follow only the Torah. Both flow from the same divine source—the Word of Y’hovah—and are inseparable in purpose and revelation.

If the roots of a tree are cut, it dries up and bears no fruit. In the same way, when Christianity rejects the Torah—the foundation of the Renewed Covenant—it loses its strength and direction. The Torah gives life to the Brit HaDashah; therefore, Y’hoshua HaMashiach did not come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets, but to complete them.

“Don’t think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete.”
— Mattityahu (Matthew) 5:17, CJB

Without Torah, the faith of the nations becomes disconnected from its root, drifting into error and man-made tradition. The Hebraic Roots movement is not a new doctrine—it is a restoration of the original faith lived and taught by Y’hoshua and His talmidim.

The Roots That Nourish the Tree

The Torah is the root of Y’hovah’s people. Every teaching, prophecy, and promise of the Renewed Covenant draws life from it. Y’hoshua is the Living Torah, the Word made flesh, showing us how to walk in obedience to Avinu Elohei.

“The Torah of יהוה is perfect, bringing back the being; The witness of יהוה is trustworthy, making wise the simple.”
— Tehillim (Psalm) 19:7, TS2009

When Christianity separated itself from its Hebraic foundation, it lost the original understanding of holiness and obedience. To rediscover these roots is to return to a faith that produces fruit worthy of repentance—one rooted in Torah and watered by the Ruach HaKodesh.

The Lost Sheep of Yisra’el

Y’hoshua declared His mission plainly:

“I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Isra’el.”
— Mattityahu (Matthew) 15:24, CJB

This is the prophetic call of restoration. The return of Efrayim (the ten lost tribes) represents the awakening of those scattered among the nations who recognize the Shepherd’s voice calling them home. These are not converts to a religion—they are restored covenant people, returning to Y’hovah through Y’hoshua HaMashiach.

Y’hoshua is not coming for a people who reject the Torah, deny Yisra’el, and claim to have replaced it. He comes for those who honor the Torah, the Shabbat, and the Feasts of Y’hovah—the people who keep His commandments and follow His voice.

The Grafting of the Nations

Sha’ul (Paul) used the image of the olive tree to reveal a great mystery of redemption:

“For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more shall these who are the natural ones be grafted into their own olive tree?”
— Romiyim (Romans) 11:24, TS2009

“Contrary to nature” means that the Gentiles had no natural tendency toward Y’hovah’s Torah or covenant ways. Yet by His mercy, they were grafted into the olive tree of Yisra’el through Y’hoshua.

A Gentile who is born again through Y’hoshua HaMashiach remains Gentile in the flesh, but spiritually becomes part of the Commonwealth of Yisra’el:

“At that time you were without Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Yisra’el and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no expectation and without Elohim in the world.
But now in Messiah יהושע you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of the Messiah.”
— Eph’siyim (Ephesians) 2:12–13, TS2009

He now walks in the same Torah, honors the same Shabbat, and rejoices in the same Feasts of Y’hovah as all who belong to the covenant. This is not “becoming Jewish”—it is becoming obedient.

Rejecting Replacement Theology

Replacement theology—the false idea that “the Church” replaced Yisra’el—is a deception that has severed millions from their spiritual heritage. Sha’ul warned clearly:

“But if some of the branches were broken off, and you — a wild olive — were grafted in among them and have become equal sharers in the rich root of the olive tree,
then don’t boast as if you were better than the branches! However, if you do boast, remember that it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.”
— Romiyim (Romans) 11:17–18, CJB

Gentile talmidim are not called to replace Yisra’el but to join Yisra’el through the covenants of Y’hovah. The Torah, Shabbat, and the Mo’edim (Appointed Times) are not “Jewish holidays”—they are Y’hovah’s eternal appointments with His people.

When a believer embraces these Hebraic roots, he stands on the same foundation as Avraham, Yitzhak, and Ya’akov, sharing in the promises of Y’hovah through faith and obedience.

Returning to the Ancient Paths

The prophet Yirmeyahu cried out:

“Thus said יהוה, ‘Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where the good way is, and walk in it; and find rest for yourselves.’ But they said, ‘We do not walk in it.’”
— Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 6:16, TS2009

The call of the Hebraic roots is the call to restoration—to return to the unity of Torah and Spirit, of truth and grace, of Yisra’el and the nations reconciled in Y’hoshua HaMashiach.

Let us no longer live with religion without obedience, or grace without Torah. The olive tree still stands, and its root still nourishes all who humble themselves before Y’hovah.

“It is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.”
— Romiyim (Romans) 11:18, CJB

May we, both Jew and Gentile, stand together as one new man—restored, obedient, and ready for the coming of Melech HaMashiach.

By Rabbi Francisco Arbas — Netzari Mashiach Judaism
www.netzarim-talmidim.org