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After nearly finishing this excellent course, it is now clear to me what happened to those promising, but fated, minyans of Kabbalists that were formed as a hub under Rabbi Yeshua’ HaNoztri. The very first thing that Yeshua’ did was form small groups of Kabbalists to act as the hubs for the gentiles (Roman, Hellenic, Gadarene, Syriac, Samaritan, etc.) around them. As we see from the deeply Kabbalistic writings of the New Testament, what scholars call “the Jesus Movement” was certainly the most influential Kabbalistic school ever to appear since the time of Abraham.
However, two counteractive forces – one from the gentiles, the other from the non-Messianic Jews – ultimately ended up wiping out (or submerging) this promising stream of the wisdom of Kabbalah.
On the one hand, the gentile “Christians” ended up overshadowing the authentic wisdom of Kabbalah that Yeshua’s students had been teaching. Since these Romans, Greeks, and other pagans did not fully understand the very subtle and difficult way of Kabbalah, they ended up squeezing out this rarefied wisdom with the crude and idolatrous ideas of the local cults. On the other hand, rather than coming to the aid of these Messianic Kabbalists, the local Jewish communities (which also had a weak grasp on Kabbalah) wound up persecuting the very spearhead of Jewish (and worldwide) hope. This is why HaShem later came and destroyed the Second Temple, exactly for the hatred and disunity in the local Jewish community, which came to head with their persecution of Yeshua’s disciples.
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