Among many, these are also two scriptural subject matters found in the same Book called The Bible causing opposite views and big arguments among teachers around the world. Many wrote and taught about them and proclaimed two views totally different. If one tries to support his study through various passages and declares his view correct, the other does the same to refute his fellow seeker.

Based on this situation, this is what i strongly believe : YHVH Elohim does not give simultaneously every knowledge to every teacher. In other words, discernment is given according to His Will. Every teacher might be right on one subject and might be wrong on another. He cannot be totally right, and thus has not the right to disqualify his counterpart. That is why there is most of the time two different ways of understanding the same topic.

That being said, let us go into the two subjects.

1/ The washing of feet

The event according to Yehochanan 13 about the washing of feet is another event that led disagreement among teachers, but not only among teachers but even among members, women and men, of many congregations.

Let us also recall a few verses : Yehochanan 13 : 12-17 : « And when He had washed their feet, He took his garment, and sat down again, and said to them : Do you know what I have done to you ? You call Me Teacher and Adon, and your saying is right for so I am indeed. if I then, Adon and Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another’s feet. I have given you an Example so that you should do as I have done to you. Truly, truly I say to you : the servant is not greater than his master, nor a messenger than who sends him. If you know these things, then you are blessed if you do them ».

What did they teach ? They teach to support their point of view that this washing of feet is not new ; that this was not the first nor the only time of washing of feet that occured in the Book The Bible. They also add that the washing of feet was necessary because their feet were dusty and dirty after a long walk, and thus it was not a special event or even a special ceremony to remember, to give a special attention.

However, according to the above-quoted passage, it does not sound like a customary or a common ritual of washing of feet to do after a long walk. His Words themselves gave a deep meaning of the event. He wanted them to realize how important it will be for them to do the same, to wash one another's feet. In other words, how important it is for them to serve one another, the same way when He said that He did not come to be served but to serve. Through this event, Yehoshua HaMashiach especially expected His Disciples to follow His Example, to have a servant heart. Did He not put aside His Status as The Son of Elohim ?

Did He really need to wash their feet ? Did The Son of Elohim need to behave as such, as a humble servant, to demonstrate His Love towards them ? To all intents and purposes, He did what He did for a Spiritual Focus. But it was also part of His Appointed Times. To serve one another is significant to demonstrate one's humility towards YHVH Elohim's Plan of Redempltion through Yehoshua HaMashiach Whom He sent.

Again, the washing of feet performed by Yehoshua HaMashiach was not a mere ritual of washing of feet. The time of Pesach should educate/re-educate us to be true servants. He left a Great Example of humility for us to follow. The Master became not only a servant towards His Disciples but especially a servant before His Father Who sent him.

2/ The head covering

We all know that the only passage that creates different opinions and brings an inability to agree among leaders comes from the Letter of the Apostle Sha'ul/Paul according to
1 Corinthians 11.

Considering that this passage cannot be erased from this Book and from this Letter, despite disagreements, I would like also to express my point of view through some verses of this chapter :

1 Corinthians 11 : 3-5 ; 13 : « And I want you to know that The Messiah is The Head of every man, and the man is the head of the woman, and Elohim is The Head of The Messiah. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head. But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, because it is like she were shaved. ... v.13 Consider in your heart : Is it fitting for a woman to be uncovered when praying unto Elohim ? ».

First, why did he need to point up what he pointed up according the verse 3 ? Why did he need to clearly define who is the head of who ? That The Messiah has a Head, that the man has a head, and that the woman has a head. Did he really refer to some culture, namely corinthian, as many judge ?

He spoke of the Elohim of Heaven and The Messiah of Elohim. He did not speak of a corinthian chief idol or else. He spoke of The Elohim of Heaven, The Messiah, and in addition the man to emphasize these existing levels of power, this hierarchical order.

My point of view is that the Apostle did not allude to the culture of the people he wrote to.

This passage « Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head ». His head could be interpreted that if a man prays and prophesies with his head covered dishonors The Messiah his Head, not his own head, because if he covers his head, he is on his own without having The Messiah as his Head.

The same, this passage « But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head ». Her head could be interpreted that if a woman prays and prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors the man her head.

With these two ways of interpreting « the head », my point of view is defined : it is proper that the woman covers her head when she prays and prophesies, regardless of her marital status, because she has the two first Heads if married, YHVH Elohim and The Messiah, and the third head, her husband. And if not married, she has two Heads.