لَا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا المخلص ولَا مخلص إِلَّا الله

'The kohanim [priests] are mistakenly thought of as intermediaries between man and God. In fact, they are not meant to be intermediaries to God, but to enable immediacy to God.'

Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook

A Rabbinic and Messianic Jew dispute in Ashdod over the need of a Mediator - the Rabbi, like the Sadducees of old, takes the Hellenic position, dating back to Antiochus' campaign to uproot Biblical Judaism and to Alexandria's syncretistic influences, not the Torah's (D'vrim/Deut 18 v.15-18).

Yitzhak Kaduri's Messianic note