How does the “one new man” relate to Tikvat Israel?
The ‘one new man’ is a phrase from the New Testament that describes the accessibility to God by Gentiles without the need to become Jewish. In the 1st century either one was Jewish or was a pagan, a believer in the one true God or a polytheist. Many Gentiles saw the reality of the true God through the witness of the Jewish people and often affiliated with synagogues to worship the Lord. However, unless the Gentile converted to Judaism, he could not fully participate in synagogue activities, thereby creating a secondary class of people accompanied by discrimination and insecurity. In the Book of Acts in the New Testament, God reveals to the Apostle Peter that Gentiles can equally enter in the kingdom of God by believing in Yeshua without the requirement to first become a Jew. The Apostle Paul later explains that God has created a ‘one new man’ out of Jews and Gentiles, where Jews can remain Jews and Gentiles can remain Gentiles but still be equal before God by their mutual faith in Yesh
