Welcome to Ohr HaDerek
(Light the Way) Messianic Synagogue.

We are a community synagogue that is open to the whole body of believers in Yeshua and believe we need to work together to unite the body. As a community Synagogue, we are open to share events such as Bar/Bat Mitzvas, Shabbat Services, High Holy Day gatherings as well as other community events which includes Israel's independance day, Holocaust memorial day, Purim and Chanukah celebrations.

Come Join us as all visitors are welcome.

Were would you start in looking for the foundation of a Biblical based community?

The way I see it, we should go back to Noah, Abram, Isaac and Jacob, but with all of these individuals all we really have is a Family and the family run business, not a community as such. Although they had more people than many congregations do today, but these communities were dictated and directed by one leader, the head of the Family.

But the establishment of a community as I am looking at it, starts with Moses in the wilderness.
Leaders : Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Caleb and the 70 Elders, then the establishment of judges or leaders over small groups.

But what did Moses do that turned these tribes into a community?

Cecil Roth writes it this way in his book "A History of the Jews:" "He laid down the basis of an advanced moral and ethical system. He promulgated a code of laws, which formed the foundation of Jewish practice and jurisprudence to our own day, as well as of much of the humanitarian idealism of modern times."

Promulgate - make known by public proclamation;
Jurisprudence - the formal principals upon which laws are based.

If you wish to discover and learn about a true biblical based community structure, then I would suggest that you start by learning the structure that was setup under the leadership of Moses and re-iterated throughout the New Testament.