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What is B'rit Chadashah?

B'rit Chadashah is Hebrew for "new covenant." It can also be translated "renewed" or "newer" covenant, depending on the context. The L-rd's initial covenant with Israel was renewed with His people Israel on better promises.

The L-rd states in Jeremiah 31:31-34: "Behold, days are coming, declares the L-rd, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, declares the L-rd. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the L-rd, I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the L-rd', for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, declares the L-rd, for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

The blood of Messiah was able to bring lasting reconciliation and absolute rebirth to the people whom G-d had been grooming with His Torah for centuries. But it wasn't meant to stop there -- as Israel and her Messiah were to become a light to the nations, the nations were intended to receive the blessings of salvation in the same manner -- but by adoption.

B'rit Chadashah is the other half of the one Word of salvation. It not only provides interpretation for what had been recorded before in the old testament, but it finds its very roots and soil by which it springs in the eternal truths manifested there. Similarly, as all of the law speaks of Messiah, only in the final revelation of the new covenant could any wholeness come.

Messianic Scribal Arts promotes the understanding of the old and new covenants as an inseparable whole, much in the same way that the head is inseparable from the body. Thus, we scribe the B'rit Chadashah in the same manner as Torah, in Hebrew on parchment or vellum, and affixed to aytz chayim, with every jot and tittle intact. May our L-rd provide more illumination on the matter as we continue to do the work of scribing His Holy Word.