The Jews in the their Land in the Talmudic Age

Jewish Christians: The Parting of the Ways

Babylonian Talmyd b. ber.28b-29a

I.4 A. Our rabbis have taught on Tannaite authority:

Simeon Happaquli in Yavneh laid out the eighteen benedictions before Rabban Gamaliel in proper order. Said Rabban Gamaliel to sages, “Does anyone know how to ordain a ‘blessing’ [curse] against the minim?’

Samuel the younger went and ordained it.

A year later he forgot it [29A], and for two or three hours he attempted to recover it. But they did not remove him [as leader of the worship-service]. But did not R. Judah say Rab said, “If someone made an error in any of the benedictions, they do not remove him, but if he did so in the ‘blessing’ against the minim, they do remove him, suspecting that he too is a min [and is sympathetic to them].”

Minim - sectarian Jews whose religious beliefs and practices set them apart from the rest of the people. - JITLItTA, p, 288

The Curse of the Minim is a curse on Jewish Christians as supported by early sources.

Ante-Nicene Fathers 1: The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus Chapter XVI

cursing in your synagogues those that believe on Christ

Nazarene Jewish Christianity: From the End of the New Testament Period Until Its Disappearance in the Fourth Century Birkat Ha-Mînîm

Jerome wrote to Augustine (ep. 112,13): “Until now a heresy is to be found in all of the synagogues of the East among the Jews; it is called ‘of the Minaeans’ and is cursed by the Pharisees until now. Usually they are called Nazarenes.” In Amos 1.11–12: “until today they blaspheme the Christian people in their synagogues under the name of Nazarenes.” In Is. 5.18–19: “Three times each day they anathematize the Christian name in every synagogue under the name of Nazarenes.” In Is. 49.7: “They curse him [Christ] three times a day in their synagogues under the name of Nazarenes.” In Is. 52.4–6 adds nothing different to the above

The Ancient Palestinian Birkat Ha-Minim:

May the apostates have no hope, unless they return to Thy Torah, and may the Nazarenes and the Minim disappear in a moment. May they be erased from the book of life, and not be inscribed with the righteous. - HUCA, Vol. II (1925), p. 306

Accroding to Galon the minim and the Nazarenes (Jewish Christians) were one and the same “for why would Rabban Gamaliel have reacted to any heresy except one that posed a special threat in his own time? There was nothing new about non-Pharisaic sects like the Sadducees.” (JITLItTA, p, 290).

Jereome on the Nazarenes and Jewish Observance

The matter in debate, therefore, or I should rather say your opinion regarding it, is summed up in this: that since the preaching of the gospel of Christ, the believing Jews do well in observing the precepts of the law, i.e. in offering sacrifices as Paul did, in circumcising their children, as Paul did in the case of Timothy, and keeping the Jewish Sabbath, as all the Jews have been accustomed to do. If this be true, we fall into the heresy of Cerinthus and Ebion, who, though believing in Christ, were anathematized by the fathers for this one error, that they mixed up the ceremonies of the law with the gospel of Christ, and professed their faith in that which was new, without letting go what was old. Why do I speak of the Ebionites, who make pretensions to the name of Christian? In our own day there exists a sect among the Jews throughout all the synagogues of the East, which is called the sect of the Minei, and is even now condemned by the Pharisees. The adherents to this sect are known commonly as Nazarenes; they believe in Christ the Son of God, born of the Virgin Mary; and they say that He who suffered under Pontius Pilate and rose again, is the same as the one in whom we believe. But while they desire to be both Jews and Christians, they are neither the one nor the other.