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Shalom! Moje ime je Yacov, Jakov. Želio bih vam govoriti o odnosu između kršćanstva i židovstva. Ja direktne međunarodne kršćanska organizacija koja podržava Izrael i protivi se antisemitizam i nastoji educirati o kršćanima židovskog podrijetla od poruke Isus i Božje vječne ljubavi za Njegov narod drevni Izrael.

Znam židovski narod su podigli ustanak Židovi koji vjeruju u Isusa tako da možete budite uvjereni moja majka je Gentile, rimokatolička. Ona ne vjeruje u ono što ja vjerujem, ali nisam chalakikly židovski. Moja žena i djece, međutim, jesu. Sada sam odrastao u području New Yorku i bio sam poslan u obje škole rimokatolička i Židovske Community Centre. ja bio obrezani u djetinjstvu i sam bio "škropili" kao dijete, što sam više ne vrijedi uzeti u obzir krštenje (krštenje je izvorno židovski ritual koje proizlaze iz tevilah pravo zove Mikveh Brit su prvi vjernici u Isusa, koji su svi bili židovski).

Uz put sam postao tinejdžer bio sam agnostik - Ja ne znam što sam vjerovao, znao sam samo što nisam. Ali ja sam imao otvoreni um. Sad, ja sam uvijek imao osjećaj identiteta s Izraelom i židovski narod, ali nisam bio chalakikly židovske i odbacio sam katoličanstvo kao nešto idolopoklonički i korumpirane Dakle. Ja sam vam govorim kao osoba židovski i ja bi htio shvatiti zašto ja kao kršćanin sam Philo-semitski i zašto sam podršku Izraelu i židovski narod.

To neminovno dovodi do pitanja: "Zašto nosim gore moj židovske djece vjerovati da je Isus je Židov koji je imao židovski poruku i uči u židovskoj način za židovski narod?" Ako želite pogledati što je odvratna o kršćanstvu i njegova ružna povijest idolopoklonstva i anti-semitizma, ja sam s vama, mojim židovski prijatelj, sto posto. Uzeli su židovske vjere i oni pretvorili u helenistička, grčki, čak i poganski vjeru. Uzeli su židovske Mesija te ga pretvorio u goy. Uzeli su židovski rabin i učinio ga ikona antisemitske osjećaje. ono što su učinili nije racionalan i to je bio potpuno izvan sklada s kojim je bio i ono što je on učio. Moramo izvući razlika između Isusa i židovskih Isus iz zapadnog kršćanstva. židovska je Isus pozvao Rabbi Yeshua Ha bar Josef Notzri. Njegovo ime nije Isus Krist, to je bio Rabbi Yeshua bar Josipa iz Nazareta.

Ovaj rabin rekao je došao za izgubljenim ovcama doma Izraelova. Vi svibanj biti iznenađeni da znaju da se svaki pisac Novog zavjeta bio je Židov. Jedini izuzetak je bio liječnik koji je Gentile pretvoriti u jevrejsku vjeru, sve ostalo su bili uključujući i rabin židovske Šaul iz Tarza, koji je iz škole rabinski Hilela, učenik rabin Gamaliel, od Onkleos razreda, razreda i Johanan ben Zakkai. U judaizmu, ako ste upoznati s njom, te su se yeshiva, te možda znati.

I tako, ja sam suočena s ove dvojbe, bio sam odgojena u ono što sam rekao je kršćanstvo, ali na čitanje Novoga zavjeta sam saznala za to nije kršćanstvo, a zatim tu je judaizam koji je rekao da je isti kao i judaizam Mojsija i Proroke. Dakle kao što sam pročitao je "Brit Hadasha", Novi zavjet i otkrio sam da [kršćanstvo zapadnog kršćanstva?] nije ono što je Isus učio, trebao sam napraviti istu stvar sa Tenach, hebrejskog pisma . stoji u poslovice tri puta da nejednak saldo je mrzak Ha Šem. Dakle isto kao što sam otkrio da je kršćanstvo mutirani u nešto vrlo različit od onoga što je izvorno, mnogo isti nije dogodilo sa židovstvom.

Bio sam šokiran da otkrijete da u Tanak ne postoji takva stvar kao rabina. On se zove Moshe Rabeinu, ali nije bilo rabina. Postojale su leviti i svećenici. U Novom zavjetu nije bilo svećenika - to je nešto što je bio izmišljen. Bilo je prezbitera i starješine, ali nije bilo svećenika. Krist je svećenika, svaki kršćanin je trebao biti svećenik, nema poseban svećeništva. Tako nije bilo svećenika u Novom zavjetu i bez rabina u Starom. Počeo sam shvatiti zašto zidovski covjek, Karl Marx, rekao je religija con. Ali ja sam i dalje gledao sam došao gore sa pitanja, pitanja koja sam ja pitao i pitanja Htjela bih vas pitati.

Postoje dva razloga zbog kojih većina židovskog naroda Znam, susjedi, prijatelji i obitelj, odbaciti bilo koji ideja Isusa kao židovskog Mesije. Ti razlozi se uvijek

• Antisemitizam
• Ako je Isus bio Mesija zašto je ne dovesti u širom svijeta mir?

Stoga on ne može biti Mesija.

Let's begin s tim najosjetljivijim pitanjima, antisemitizma. Sam imao ujaka koji je bio ratni zarobljenik u njemačkom logoru. Nacisti će ga ubiti, ali on je bio spašen od strane Rusa u posljednjem trenutku, moja žena je otac je također bio spašen od strane Rusa u zadnjoj minuti, kada je on stajao zid čeka da bude pucao kada su Nijemci pokušavaju ubiti što mnogi Židovi jer prije nego što bi oni evakuirani i povukao u lice nadolazeći invazije. Moja žena je kći preživjeli, ali većina obitelji bili ubijeni. I naravno, oni su ubijeni u ime Isusa Krista. Rumunjski pravoslavna crkva, Rimokatolička crkva i mnogo Luteranska crkva u Njemačkoj surađivali sa nacistima. Hitler citirani Luther na dužinu - to je bio ne samo katolici, to je bio protestanti.

Kako mogu vjerovati da je osoba u čije ime se inkvizicija je bila jedna za drugom, jedna za drugom pogroma i na kraju Holokaust eventualno mogao biti kandidat za židovski Mesija - kada je u njegovo ime, ništa drugo nego genocid i istrebljenje i progon je došao do Izrael i židovski? "To je pitanje koje bih ja pitao, ali ovo je pitanje htio bih vas pitati.

Ako ste bili na čitanje Tenach kada je uhićen Jeremije proroka i bačeni u cisternu je ukazao ljudima na Zakon, Toru. Upozorio ih je na predstojeće sudbina i presuda i rekao im da je Bog bio ljut s njima za njihovo idolopoklonstvo i nemoral . Kao i većina ostalih proroka bio je progonio, ali on nije progonio u ime Baala. On nije bio proganjani u ime čast Moleku. Većina hebrejskih proroka koji su bili progonjeni ili ubijeni od strane vlastitih ljudi ubijeno je u ime od Jahve i Mojsije. Oni su bili optuženi da govore protiv Toru i Mojsije kad su rekli da je Božji sud je bio idući u dogoditi se na Jeruzalem.

Sjećam prije nekoliko godina kada je pravoslavni Židov nosi kippah izvuče pištolj na sjeveru Tel Aviv i ispalio metaka direktno u leđa izraelski premijer Yitzak Rabin. Činio je to u ime judaizma. Činio je to u ime Tora. Činio je to u ime Jahve. On je to učinio u ime Moishe Rabeinu. pravoslavnoj Židov ubijen Yitzak Rabin, svoj premijer, on ga je ubijen dolje u ime Mojsije. Mogu li odbaciti Mojsije i judaizam zato što je netko ubijen Yitzak Rabin u njegovo ime? Mogu li odbaciti Mojsije i židovstva jer proroci bili proganjani i ubijeni u njihovo ime?

Simon Bar Kochba došao i bio je hvaljen kao heroj. Bio je proglašen biti Mesija by Rabbi Akiva u ime Mojsiju i prorocima. Izraelskog opće i arheolog, prvi načelnik Glavnog stožera izraelske vojske, Yigal Alonova, rekao je nešto drugo. Opisao Bar Kochba kao nešto za brute koji je jednom nogom 90-godišnja rabin u glavu i ubio ga, kukavički Warlord. Netko tko je power-hungry. Neki su ga vidjeli taj način, ali Rabin Akiva je rekao da je Mesija. I u ime Mojsiju i judaizam Rabin Akiva obećao je židovski narod bio je Mesija i da će ih donijeti pobjedu. Zatim u bitci od Betar najgore holokaust u srazmjerno smislu koji je ikad dogodilo da Izrael je uzeo mjesto. razmjeran U smislu da je kao loš kao što je holokaust iz 1930-ih i 1940-ih kada se to dogodilo samo u svojoj zemlji. Zbog Rabin Akiva proglasio Bar Kochba biti Mesija u ime Mojsiju i judaizam mogu odbaciti Mojsije i judaizam? Ne, Rabin Akiva nije donio mir u Izraelu ili uspostaviti svjetski mir, preko njegova Mesije, Bar Kochba, iako je u ime Mojsije i židovstva je rekao da će .

Ako ste proučavali judaizam znate o Shabbati Tzvi. Većina rabina u glavnim područjima Europe i Sjeverne Afrike (i mnogi drugi) rekao je on bio Mesija, ali on nije bio Mesija. Na kraju je vodio ljude u ono što se najbolje se opisati kao nešto uokviren u razuzdanost i glomazno razočaravajući. Ipak, bilo je to u ime Mojsije i proroci koji rabini proglasio Shabbati Tsvi biti Mesija. Mogu li odbaciti Mojsije i židovstva jer rabini zaveden židovski narod o Shabbati Tsvi u imena Mojsije i judaizam?

Dvije generacije kasnije rabini did it again. Oni su, rekao je Jakov bio Frank Mesija na širokom razmjera. Ali Jakov Frank nije bio Mesija još u imenima Mojsiju i judaizam the rabini rekao da je i neke vrlo loše stvari se dogodilo da je židovski narod. Bilo je mnogo ljudi koji su rabini rekao je Mesija pravo do sadašnje dobi i oni su uvijek ih naviještati biti Mesija u ime Mojsije i judaizam. Ubojstva i zločina počinjenih u ime Mojsije i judaizam. Progon Židova rezultirao kao izravna posljedica Rabbi Akiva akcije počinjen u ime Mojsije i judaizam.

Na osnovu čega mogu odbaciti Mojsija i judaizam zbog onoga što je učinjeno u ime Mojsije? Ne mogu odbaciti Mojsija i judaizam zbog onoga što je učinjeno u ime Mojsije. Moram prihvatiti ili odbiti Mojsije na temelju onoga što je Mojsije rekao i učinio, a ne na temelju onoga što drugi je rekao i učini u njegovo ime. Ovo pitanje nije ono što je učinjeno u ime Mojsije, pitanje je Mojsije. Dakle moje pitanje da li je,

Na osnovu čega mogu odbaciti Yeshua, Rabbi Yeshua iz Nazareta, kojega pogani poziva Isus iz Nazareta? "Na kojoj se osnovi mogu odbaciti njemu i odbiti na temelju onoga što je učinjeno u Njegovo ime na židovskom narodu i prema drugima? pitanje nije ono što je učinjeno i je u njegovo ime po drugima - pitanje je ono što je on rekao i ne? Pitanje nije ono što je Isus rekao da je rekao, pitanje nije ono što drugi nisu generacijama i stoljećima nakon njegova javnog djelovanja u Izraelu. Pitanje nije taj. Pitanje je On sam. Smatrao sam Mojsije, osim onoga što je učinio u njegovo ime.

Sada ne razmišljam o tome, ali goys (pogani) će reći mnogo o tebi ista stvar da mislite o njima. Oni su ove mitove i teorije zavjere o židovskog bankara i židovskih trgovaca i židovskog naroda pokušava preuzeti medicinske struke i akademske institucije, što Židovi scapegoats za većinu čovjeka grešaka i problema kada je u tome što svi znamo postoje dobri Židovi i loš Židovi, isto kao što postoje dobri i loši pogane poganima. To je lako reći: "Oh, Židovi", i to baš tako lako reći: "Oh, kršćani". Ne pravi Židov bi počinio ubojstvo u ime judaizma. Ne pravi Židov će progoniti svoje proroke u ime judaizma. Nijedan pravi kršćanin bi počinio ubojstvo u ime kršćanstva. Nijedan pravi kršćanin bi ubojstvo Božje izabrani narod, Židovi, u ime židovske vjere. Kršćanstvo je židovske vjere.

Kako možete odbiti Isus na temelju onoga što je učinjeno u njegovo ime, osim ako odbijete Mojsije na istoj osnovi? I don't reject Mojsije onih razloga - da ne bi bilo fer da se Mojsije i ne bi bilo fer da ja. Pitanje je - Mojsije je bio u redu? Nadam se da vam neće odbaciti Isusa na tim osnovama - to ne bi bilo fer da ga i ne bi bilo fer za vas. Pitanje je - je Yeshua pravo? Not the Gentile Isus, ali ne i katolički ili protestantski Isusa. Jevrejska Jesus - Bio je u pravu?

Po drugom stoljeću židovski povjesničar, Max Dimont nam govori da je do 25% Židovi u Jeruzalemu vjerovao je Mesija. Jedini razlog poganima vjeruju u njega, jer je Židovima vjerovao u Njega na prvom mjestu. Jedini razlog zbog kojeg je Novi zavjet je zato Židovi ga je napisao. Kako onih koji sebe nazivaju Židovi i oni sami su kršćani pozivanje proizvodi za revizionizam, prepisivati iskrivljavanje povijesti. Ima je ništa Gentile o Isusu i njegovu poruku, osim što On voli pogane i želi ih spasiti i želi ih da vjeruju u Boga i židovski židovski putu spasenja. To je sve - Ili l 'Goyim - svjetlo narodima. To je moje prvo pitanje, moj dragi prijatelj Židova. Kako možete odbiti Isusa zbog onoga što je učinjeno u njegovo ime, kada su činili iste stvari u ime Mojsije i judaizam?

No, tu je još pitanje Htjela bih vas pitati. To pitanje je,

Ako je Isus bio Mesija, zašto nije on donijeti mir u svijetu? Zašto je tamo holokausta, zašto su tu inquisitions i pogroma? Zašto dolazi do gladi u Africi? Zašto se uništava je okoliš? Zašto je svijet postaje sustavno lošije za svakoga u njega i tako često Židovi dobivanje najgore najgore? Kako je on mogao biti Mesija? Gdje je mesijanski otkupna? To je smiješno je vjerovati On je Mesija, svijet ne bi bilo na način da je sa stvarima koje pogoršava za nas. Kako možete vjerovati u njega? To je pitanje.

Vratimo se, a ne na bilo koji kršćanin izvor, a ne na bilo koji izvor Gentile, nije bilo ljudskih izvora - na Riječi Božjoj, hebrejski prorok, Daniel 9:26-27 - Daniel Ha Navi. Mesija će morati doći i biti odrezani, biti ubijen prije njihovog uništenja Drugog Hrama. To nije kršćanski tumačenje - ne, to je ono što tekst kaže i pokušati čitanje Sanhedrin 96-98b. Zašto rabini kažu da postoji prokletstvo na čitanje Daniel 9? Budući da je vrijeme za dolazak Mesije je prorekao u njemu. I dok čitamo Sinedrijem zaplaka "Oy v 'oy, Mesija je došao - ne hram je uništen i on nije došao, jao nama." Bog ne može slomiti njegova riječ. Antički mudraci shvatio to je bio oko Mesija. Morao je doći i umrijeti. Ratovi i pustoš određuju se do kraja.

U židovstvu rabini ići na najveće duljine pokušati pomiriti dva nepomirljiva slike Mesije. Ha Moschiach Ben Yosef i Ha Moschiach David Ben - Mesija i Sin Josipa i Mesije Sine Davidov. The King osvajanje i patnji Sluge su poziv Ben Efrajim. Neki rabini, rekao je jedan drugi će uskrsnuti. Postoje dva Messiahs. To je dva Messiahs ili jedan sa dva dolazak Mesije? Daniel je bio u pravu - to je bio jedan dolazak Mesije s dva, bio je prikazan budućnost. To je ono što Mojsije govorio. Ovo je kako će se to dogoditi. On će doći. On će biti odsječen. On će biti ubijeni. Ratovi i pustoš određuju se do kraja. Onda on će opet doći.

U Njegov prvi dolazak On dolazi kao patnja službenika u lik Josef. Razmislite o Josipu u Knjizi Postanka, svoje židovske braće ga je odbio, ali goys ga je prihvatio. On je otišao s mjesta osude na mjesto uzdizanja u jednom danu kao i Rabbi Yeshua. Osef je izdala njegov brat, Yehuda, (Juda), za 20 srebrnjaka kao što je Isus bio predan je Yehuda (Judas) 30 srebrnjaka. Yosef braća nisu ga prepoznaju na njegov prvi dolazak, oni su mislili da je goy, egipatski. I tako Isusova braća mu ne prepoznaju na njegov prvi dolazak, oni misle On goy, On je za kršćane. Hollywood mu je dao plavu kosu i plave oči, ali on nije imao plavu kosu i plave oči. Moje pitanje je ovo:

Ako je hebrejski prorok koji je dobio najjasniji sliku onoga što bi bilo poput budućnosti, ako mu je dao najtočniji detalj kako mesijanski otkupna doći u Izraelu i svijetu, ako je rekao Mesija će doći i biti rez off i ratovi i pustoš bi se odrediti do kraja, kako možeš reći Isus nije bio Mesija, jer postoje ratovi i pustoš? Oni su trebali imati dogodilo.

Razmislite o Mojsiju. Prvi put kad je pokušao spasiti svoj narod oni su ga odbili. To je bio drugi put su ga prihvatili. Kao i kod Yosef, prvi put su ga odbili, to je bio drugi put su ga prihvatili. Zašto bi je Mesija biti drugačije? Hebrejska pisma ne reći da je On će donijeti mir u svijetu. Ona kaže da će doći i donijeti pomirenje. Ona kaže da će doći i biti odrezani. Ona kaže ratovi i pustoš utvrdit će se do kraja. Tada će doći i donijeti mir u svijetu. U Njegov prvi dolazak On je došao da plati cijenu za grijeh koji sprječava mir od narednih. U Njegov povratak On će donijeti mir [Shalom Izrael]. Ne razumijem argument:

Kako možete reći da nije Mesija, jer on nije donio mir u svijetu, ali je poginuo kada je to točno ono što je Danijel rekao je Mesija je trebao učiniti? Zašto ne rabini ti reći ovo? Bojim se da ćete morati pitati ih - Nisam rabin, ali ja znam što drevnog rabina rekao - "Ne čitati Daniel 9, tu je prokletstvo, ako vam je činiti." Koje su to boje? Možete li zaista vjerujete da je Bog bi stavili nešto u njegovoj riječi, da on nije želio da shvatite? Zašto bi On stavio tamo?

Tu je bio rabin koji je zamrzio kršćani, jer On je poznat, ali ništa progonstva u Istočnoj Europi. Njegova obitelj imala je strašno progonili. Njegovo ime je Leopold Rabin Cohen. Samo jednom u svom životu je on ikada vidjeli Novog zavjeta te ga je pokupio i bacio je na zid u svom nasilnom gnjev zbog pogroma da je njegov narod doživio u shtetls Uskrsa Europe. U očaju da bježite anti-semitizma, stigao je u New Yorku i tamo je počeo studirati i studija i studija. Studirao Tore i Talmuda studirao i studirao Mishnah. On je pročitao Midrashim, ali on je odlučio da umjesto studiranja rabinski komentari na Proroka kako će studija prorocima, a kada je došao u 9 Daniel je imao pitanja on nije mogao odgovoriti. Tako je otišao u Talmudic književnosti, on je otišao na tractates poput Velikog vijeća, a otkrio je ono što sam otkrio - Mesija je morao doći i umrijeti prije Drugog hrama biti uništeni prije 70AD. To je moje pitanje,

Ako Rabbi Yeshua (Jesus) samo da je ono što je Mesija stadoh prorokovati kao što će morati učiniti kako možeš ga odbiti na temelju da je ispunio proročanstvo? Možete odbiti nekoga na temelju njihove ne da je ispunio proročanstvo, ali kako može li logički, racionalno, kao i Židov, pred Bogom, Ga odbiti na temelju ispunjavanja što je on trebao napraviti?

Prorok Izaija u 11. poglavlje je rekao: "Narodi će mjesto na 'root of Jesse" u "shoresh Yshi". The rabini su uvijek rekao da je shoresh yshi je Mesija. Židovi i kršćani, njihovi učenjaci uvijek su se složili, narodima, poganima, narodi će doći do Korijen Jesse. Pogledao sam na anti-semitski svijet, pogledala sam na svijetu, gdje postaje kršćanin u Saudijskoj Arabiji netko je odrubljena glava ili je visio, svijet u Sudanu, gdje je gotovo 2,5 milijuna kršćana već ubijen, a više su okrenuti izglede smrti. Ipak, Gentile takozvani kršćanski narodi ostaju gotovo tiho, nitko ne poziva na bojkot na saudijske nafte ili akademski bojkot na mnogim narodima koji progone kršćana u islamskim zemljama, ali kada jedan narod na Bliskom istoku koji štiti prava Arapski kršćanima, Izrael, brani se od istog militantni islam da ubojstvo kršćani, svatko želi osuditi Izrael.

To je nelogično, to nije racionalno. Izrael je liječenje većine kršćana, osim židovski vjernici u Isusa, bolje od njih kršćani liječiti, osim u SAD-u i, do stupnja, u Velikoj Britaniji. Većina naroda nikada nije dao Židovima vrsta slobode da Izrael daje kršćanima. To nije racionalna, ali oni mrze Izrael. Nije racionalno mrzim ljude koji primaju tri četvrtine Nobelove nagrade za unapređenje znanosti, kemije, fizike i osobito biomedicinske znanosti koje su spremljene bezbrojne živote - zašto bi ti mrzim te ljude? U cijeli svijet ima anti-semitizma, čak i od ljudi govore da su kršćani. Iako su sva četiri evanđelja jasno pokazuju da je Isus bio raspet pod Poncijem Pilatom, rimski guverner imao zakonsku odgovornost za smrt i iako Isus reče: "Ja sam ležao dolje Moj život i nitko ga uzima od mene", a iako Kršćani vjeruju da je Bog rekao On je bio idući staviti Mesija do smrti kao obred pomirenja za grijeh, pa iako Isus nikada nije okrivio nikoga za njegovu smrt i iako apostoli rekao je da je rimski guverner zajedno s Velikog vijeća, ali to nije židovski narod, iako okrivljuje Židove za smrt Isus je direktno u suprotnosti s povijesti i učenje Novog zavjeta, oni su i dalje govore Židovi ubili Isusa. Kako iracionalan! Ne, to antisemitizam nije racionalna.

No, postoji nešto čak i više iracionalan. "Mi smo vas mrze, Židov, ti si" Kike "ili" prljav Yit ", get out of here! You're no dobro, mi ne želite u našoj zemlji, ići u vašu zemlju, ali ste nema pravo da bude tamo bilo, ste nema pravo da postoje! No, ne događa da štuju Boga svoga ". "Mi smo vas mrze, ali mi ljubav svoju Mesija. We're će slijediti svoje Mesija. "Zašto će Eskimi štuju židovskog Boga? Zašto će Pigmejcima štuju židovskog Boga? Zašto će Skandinavci štuju židovskog Boga? To nema smisla, ako mrzim te ljude. Zašto ti ne poklonim im je Bog? Budući da država će pribjeći Korijen Jesse. Moj dragi prijatelj Židova, ti i ja i mrziti antisemitizma. Ti i ja smo na gubitku to objasniti intelektualno - možemo doći do nekih objašnjenjima, ali cijela povijest uspomena dolazak leđa to iste stvari - to nije logično.

Ako netko mržnje, zašto bi slijediti jedan od njih? Zašto bi vas vjeruju da je njihova knjiga i klanjati im je Bog? Da postoji samo jedan, jedan i jedan jedini koji bi mogao da se ljudi štuju Boga nacije i rase su inače mrze. Zatim, Ja sam ne kazivanje taj pravi kršćani, ponovo rođen kršćani, pravi Evangelicals, mrziti je židovski narod. Ako pogledamo zemlje s visokim evanđeosku stanovništva, naći ćete još u holokaustu da zemlje poput Nizozemske i Danske zaštićena Židova. To je uglavnom katolici i nominalna koji su ih progonili protestante. Američki Kongres, American College of rabini vrlo dobro zna da okosnicu židovske podrške za Izrael u Americi nije židovske zajednice - ima samo 6 milijuna dolara u Sjevernoj Americi u većini. To je evanđeoski kršćani koji su pro-cionista. Većina od njih. Nisu svi kršćani su antisemitski. Te vidjeti, isto kao što postoje ljudi koji će vas mrze zato što si Židov, tvrdeći da je kršćanin, ima i drugih kršćana koji će vas volim, jer si Židov. Oni će reći: "Kako se možemo klanjati židovskog Boga i vjerovati u židovski Mesija i čitati knjigu i židovske ulog naša vječna sudbina, i vjeru, na to i mrzim te ljude koji ga je dao za nas?" Oni nisu svi iracionalan.

Ali, ne treba se ni iracionalan. Mnogi ljudi zove sami kršćani se ponašaju iracionalno, oni su se klanjao židovskog Boga i vjerovati u židovski Mesija, a mrzili Židove - to je iracionalan. Ali ne možete biti iracionalan Židov. To je racionalno pitanje koje zaslužuje racionalan odgovor.

Ako On nije Mesija, koji bi pogani štuju Boga svoga, tko je? Zašto drugi ne oni štuju, Bog tvoj, ako on nije jedan Bog je rekao da bi ih to učiniti?

Pa, imam drugo pitanje, također iz hebrejski prorok Izaija, poglavlje 52 i 53. On je rekao, "Svi smo kao ovce imaju zaluta, svaki ima okrenuo na svoj način."

U srednjem vijeku rabin iz Francuske pod nazivom Rashi rekao je da je o židovski narod pate za Gentile naroda. Zamjenički pomirenje. To je bio ne o Mesiji, to je bio oko Židovi se. "Tko je povjerova našoj poruci i kome je ruka Gospodnja je otkrila? Odrastao je pred njim poput natječaja pucati, kao korijen iz suhe zemlje. On nije imao veličanstven oblik niti veličanstvo da bismo trebali gledati na njega, niti izgleda da smo trebali biti privučeni njemu. On je bio prezren i napušten među ljudima, čovjek boli i vičan, kao jedan od kojega ljudi sakriti svoje lice, on je bio prezren, a mi ne cijenim ga. Sigurno naša tuga On sam rodila i naše tuge Nosio. Mi sami cijenjen ga bije od Boga i ponižava. On je probijen kroz (kao u raspetog) za naše grijehe, On je bio shrvan za naše opačine. The karanje naše blagostanje pala na Njega i Njegove scourging smo ozdravi. Svi smo kao ovce imaju zaluta, svaki ima okrenuo na svoj način, ali Gospodin je izazvao bezakonje nas sviju da padne na njega. "

The rabini reći ovo je o stradanjima židovskog naroda od Rashi. Zašto se događa da Targum Jonatan i drevnih rabina prije Rashi je rekao da je oko Mesija? Zašto rabin Avraham Farazel reći ovo izgleda kao Isus? Prije Roshi nisu rekle da je samo ili prvenstveno o stradanju židovskog naroda. Doista, u bilo kojem smislu primarne kako bi mogao kad te patnje sluga bio nevin, ali Izaija lamentede grijeh hebrejskog naroda? To je bilo uključeno po Eliezeru Ha Kalr u sinagogi liturgiji za Jom Kipur. Ovaj jedan je Bog koga će udarit će postati obred pomirenja za grijeh - Corban - ljudske žrtve. Ipak, kako ovo rabini objekt. Judaizam kaže akevah (obvezujućih od Issac za žrtve od Abrahama) je polemika protiv ljudske žrtve. To je odvratno. Kako bi Bog se netko žrtvovao kao čovjeka kad je rekao da je zlo?

U akevah Bog rekao Abrahamu: "ne žrtvuje svoga sina", a kršćani će naravno reći da je to zato što je išao žrtvovati svoga sina. Rabini kaže ljudska žrtva anti-židovska. Slažem se da je ljudska žrtva drugim bogovima je demonski. Međutim, isto Rashi koji je rekao da je ovo o židovski narod je rekao da je ljudska žrtva. On je rekao da je Židovima patnja vicariously za Gentile naroda. Mi ne možemo imati ga u oba smjera. Ili judaizam ne dopuštaju ljudima da pate vicariously za grijehe drugih ili ne. Rashi i oni koji vjeruju da je Isus Mesija složiti. To čini. Kako možeš reći Bog ne dopušta ljudska žrtva za grijeh, u ime nekog drugog kad židovske interpretacije samog On kaže ne.

Pitanje je koji je patnja? Je li Izrael, ili je to bio Mesija? Pa, Izaija opetovano castigated Izrael za svoj grijeh. Taj sluga Gospodnji bio nevin. On je učinio krivo, Izaija kaže - nije u redu na sve. "On je bio istrijebiti iz zemlje živih, za grijehe naroda kojima moždani udar je posljedica". Pogani nisu Božji narod u to vrijeme. On je bio odsječen zbog Izraela grijeh. On je došao k poganima kasnije. Kako mogao Internet biti Izrael, za Izraelci sagriješili? U širem smislu to nalikovati Izrael, ali ovo je bio bezgrješan sluga. Pitanje je tko nije bio u pravu, kršćani ili Rashi? Pitanje je tko je bio u pravu, Rashi ili ranije rabina koji je rekao da je Mesija? To je Mesija.

To je pitanje koje rabin vi vjerujete. To je moje pitanje.

Kako mogao Internet biti židovskog naroda, ako u prvom redu su sagriješili? Kako mogao Internet biti židovski narod pati za grijehe naroda, kada su sagriješili. To je bio bezgrješan sluga.

I kako možeš reći da Bog ne bi neka jednom umrijeti za grijeh drugoga kad judaizam sebe kaže izravno suprotno?

Ali imam posljednje pitanje. Ja ću čitati iz hebrejskih proroka Zaharije poglavlje 12.

"Mi smo pročitali na teret riječ Gospodnja Izraelu. Ovako izjavljuje Gospodin koji se proteže nebesa, polaže temelje na zemlji i oblika duha čovjeka u njemu, 'Ja ću napraviti Jeruzalem čašom koja uzrokuje reeling svim narodima oko i kad je protiv opsade Jeruzalema it će se protiv Jude i to će se dogoditi u taj dan da učinit ću Jeruzalem teškim kamenom i sve to podići će biti teško ozlijeđeno, a sve narode na zemlji će biti prikupljeni protiv njega. "

The issue is Jerusalem, the final status of Jerusalem. Not the West Bank, not the Gaza strip, not the Golan Heights, Jerusalem is the issue. All the nations will come against it. When the Chinese massacred between 7,000 and 8,000 students it was witnessed by over 1 billion people on television in Tienamen Square. How many UN resolutions were passed condemning China? None.  When the Muslims massacred 2.3 million black Christians in Sudan by Islamic militias, how many UN resolutions, how many Security Council resolutions, how many calls to boycott Sudan? Bez. How many UN resolutions passed against Israel – how many Security Council resolutions? 50% of all resolutions in this General Assembly and more than 50% of the resolutions in the Security Council. Go ahead – kill a couple of million blacks – who cares? They're poor, they're black and they have no oil. But go into the Gaza Strip to stop people from shooting Ketusha rockets and stop them killing your children and the world wants to condemn you. It makes no sense, but how will it end?

Zechariah tells us in this chapter in verse 9. “It will come about in that day that I will set about to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication. They will look upon Me whom they have pierced (crucified) and mourn for Him as one mourns for an only Son.”

Who said so? Jacob Prasch? No. Try Rabbi Moshe Alshek. Read what the sages about this and Who it was.

“They will look upon Him whom they pierced and mourn as one mourns for an only Son”.

The One we rejected, the One whose Name we spit at, the One we curse is the One who has come to save us. Yes, He is coming to save you!  That is my question:

Ako On je Onaj koji je ispunio proročanstva, ako je moralo doći i umrijeti već, ako je obred pomirenja za svoje grijehe, ako On je Onaj koji dolazi spasiti Izrael i On je Onaj koji je već došao da spasi vam, želite li da se spasim? "Kako može bilo tko nazvati ovo odbijanje judaizam? To je moje pitanje. Kako možemo odbiti židovski Mesija koji su poučavali židovske temu na način da se židovski židovski narod i napravio ne-Židovi vjeruju u židovskog Boga, pročitajte knjigu Židova i vjerujem u to. Kako može bilo tko pozvati da ne-židovski, anti-židovski ili otići iz židovstva? On svibanj biti odlazak iz onoga što ljudi nisu u jevrejsku vjeru. On svibanj biti odlazak iz židovstva odgovoran za ubojstvo Rabin. On svibanj biti odlazak iz židovstva koji proglasio Bar Kochba biti Mesija. Ali to nije odlazak iz židovstva vaših otaca, od patrijarha, Mojsija i Proroke.

Moj dragi prijatelj Židova, skrenuti sa svog grijeha, napraviti teshuvah, (pokajanje) i pitati, Bog vaših otaca, da oprosti tvoj grijeh koji Yeshua platili u njegovoj smrti. U Njegovo uskrsnuće je uskrsnuo kako bi vam život vječni. Da, On je to učinio ustati. Tko je rekao da - Jakov Prasch? No Probati čitanje Isusova uskrsnuća koje rabin Pinchas Lapide, pravoslavne profesor, Hebrew University. Probati čitanje rabin David Fulsser koji je bio pravoslavni profesor na Hebrejskom sveučilištu. Iz židovske perspektive uskrsnuće Isusa je nepobitan. Ideja da Mesija će doći i umrijeti ustati i opet - to je ono što je rekao o chabadniks Menahem Schneerson samo Schneerson nije uskrsnuo od mrtvih. Isus će doći i umrijeti na Pesač i nakon umiranja na Pesač je uskrsnuo iz mrtvih. The rabini ga nije volio, ali je rekao da je učinio čuda, kao nijedan drugi rabin i svojim učenicima učinio čuda u njegovo ime, uključujući i podizanje ostalih iz mrtvih. Coming to die at Pesač, diže iz mrtvih, čini čuda, njegovi učenici rade čuda, a zatim uzlazno do neba od Maslinskoj gori. Gdje ću citat iz? Evanđelja? Ne, ja citat iz Avodah Zarahba koji nisu pisali Židovi koji su vjerovali u Isusa. To je napisao rabini koji su bili protiv Židova, vjerujući u Isusa. Kada vaši sljedbenici priznaju te stvari, to je jedna stvar. Kada se sa svojim protivnicima reći da je istina, to je nešto drugo.

On je Mesija? Da, on je. To je vaša odluka.

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Molimo kontaktirajte nas. Molimo nama razgovarati. We want you to meet other Jewish people that have found the truth. The truth is that the Tenach was right. The prophets were right. The Messiah has come. The Messiah has died for sin.  He has risen from the dead and conquered death and He is coming again!

James Jacob Prasch

I was born of Jewish parents in the Bronx, New York. There were only a few Jewish families living in the project buildings where I grew up. As a young boy I was sent to Hebrew School and believed in God. When I was 12 years old my mother died, a year before my Bar mitzvah. After that I stopped believing in God. Being part of a hated minority, I was often taunted and beaten up for no other reason than, I was a Jew.

My response as a 14 year old was to buy and carry a gun for self defence. It was not a hard thing to do in the neighborhood I came from. Doing so, helped me not to live continually in fear. When I was 17, I joined the US Army and shortly after my 18th birthday, I was sent to Vietnam in 1966. I was a Combat Engineer and my role involved clearing minefields and booby traps and helping to build base camps.

In Vietnam, like so many other soldiers I found it hard to cope with the reality of war. Drugs were readily available and before long it became an easy way to escape from the horror and hopelessness of it all. I completed my tour of duty and was honourably discharged after 2 years of service. I found it very difficult to adjust back into civilian life again.

The year was 1968 and the hippie era was in full bloom. I soon joined the hippie lifestyle with it's drug culture and non-conformist ways.

I wasted the next 10 years of my life, being stoned out of my mind on all kinds of drugs. I was looking for inner peace but couldn't find any. I was walking down many dead-end roads in search of answers in order to give life some meaning. I was looking in all the wrong places, Eastern Religions, the Occult, and early New Age teaching. Many of my friends who took the same journey either overdosed on drugs, committed suicide, and some even wound up in insane asylums. Those were pretty severe consequences for choosing the wrong lifestyle, don't you think?

During this time I decided to travel around the world. I thought that I might be able to find peace somewhere. Maybe there was a Utopia or Paradise in some little known place and all I had to do, was to find it. I thought that I would start my search in Australia and work my way around the world.

I landed in Sydney, Australia nearly broke, shared a room in a broken down boarding house in a run down area, with another drug addict, and eventually got my first job working in a brewery. It wasn't quite the paradise that I was hoping for. Eventually I met and married an Australian girl. She was also into drugs and I found out later that she was also an alcoholic. Over the years we had two children together. Eventually after 7 years of ups and downs things turned bad and we separated. When that happened it tore me apart and I tried to take my own life. We were living in a remote town in Queensland at the time.

Then a breakthrough came from an unexpected source. Even though I had no interest in Judaism or any religion at that time, my wife came from a Christian background and she wanted our children to attend a Sunday School. I didn't object but could not understand at the time why she wanted to do that, as it was totally opposite to the lifestyle we were living.

When the children stopped attending the Sunday School without any notice, the local minister in charge visited the house to find out if everything was OK. Once I told him the story, he was genuinely saddened and concerned for my welfare, and he befriended me. Up to that point in time, my “so called” friends deserted me. I had learned that when you are really 'down and out', most people really don't want to know you. I guess this happens because they feel at a loss of what to say or do when such devastation occurs and your life falls apart. I realize now that you have to have real answers and real hope yourself, in order to be of any use to someone else in such a crisis.

I am so thankful that this man was a genuine 'man of God', who was there at the right time for me. The last thing that I needed was some self righteous, religious type of Clergy, turning up with  condemnation and pity, instead of compassion.

This man listened and shared my sorrow. He never tried to “Bible bash” me, but instead would ask if he could pray for my situation. One time when he was leaving he asked if I would like to read a little booklet that explained some very basic things about life, from the Bible. I accepted it and read it after he had gone.

The booklet explained about our relationship to God and His relationship with mankind. It talked about man's beginning and how things went wrong, and what God did in order to restore us back to Himself. In the back of the booklet it had a simple prayer you could pray, if you wanted to get right with God.

I had a good laugh and screwed the booklet up, threw it onto the floor in the corner of my room.

It was the first time that I had laughed for weeks since I tried to end my life.

The thought that someone who was born and died two thousand years ago, could do anything for me today was more than my depressed mind could take. The thought that people would live their lives based on the instructions written in a book, was so foreign and absurd to my drug affected mind. I dismissed the whole thing outright and gave it no further thought.

A few days later, I was considering my life, and actually revisited many of the things in my life that caused me pain and anguish. It was as if my whole life was replayed and it flashed before my eyes. Somewhere deep inside of me, I cried out to God, saying “why did all this happen to me?” I also cried out to God, that if You are real then please reveal Yourself to me? At that time some of the things written in the little booklet that I threw off in the corner a few days before, started to come back into my memory. I found the little booklet, unscrewed it and read it again. I then cried and realized then and there, that these words were not just ordinary words, they were words from God and they were speaking directly to my heart. They went through me like nothing ever did before, I was hit right between the eyes with pure TRUTH.

They were personal words that had a life or death significance.

I felt convicted about the wrong things that I had said and done in my life. I felt ashamed that coming from such a rich Jewish heritage, I would lock God out of my life, I lived like He no longer existed. I cried out to Him to forgive me for my sins. I asked Him to help me to never do such things again. I did not understand the next thing that I did, but I asked Jesus Christ to come into my life and change me. I later found out that He is the Jewish Messiah, the Chosen Redeemer, the King of Israel, the One of whom the Hebrew Scriptures talked about.

I did not understand what transpired once I said that prayer, all I can say is that God gently touched me in a way that I never experienced before. He gave me peace that I never knew existed, real peace deep down on the inside.

For some time I thought that I was the only Jew in the whole world who believed in Jesus.

Later on I found out that there were tens of thousands of Jews throughout the world, who had taken this step of faith, in the Son of God. In fact all throughout history since Yeshua came, there were Jews like myself who believed in His claim to be the Messiah.

Some even being Rabbi's, devout and learned men, even Chief Rabbi's, it's true.

After I made my peace with God, I started to change. God removed the desire I had for drugs, cigarettes and other destructive things that I previously craved for and I never touched them again, which is nearly 30 years ago.

As God opened my eyes, I started to hate things that I used to think were good, and things that I previously thought were a waste of time, I started to see real value in them. Just as God said in His Word, all things became new.

Eventually my wife returned with my kids and things started to get back on track. After she saw the big change in my life, she also prayed and asked Jesus into her life as well. Things at least on the surface seemed to improve. However, after a number of years, she seemed to grow cold, in the things of the Lord. She slowly began to slip back into her old ways and in the end she was worse than ever. She was actively involved again with drugs, heavy drinking, the occult, and began mixing with some very bad people. I believe that she was just going 'through the motions' when she prayed to receive Jesus into her life, there was no real commitment made or genuine repentance on her part, when she professed faith in God.

Things eventually came to a head after our 25th wedding anniversary. Her behaviour became 'out of control' and it was not only hurting me, but it also damaged our young adult children. It also affected her own elderly Christian parents, who were retired and living with us at the time. We finally, mutually decided to separate, as she became unbearable to live with.

After that happened, I repented and asked God to forgive me for compromising my own life, by allowing certain things to go on and not taking a stronger stand earlier, out of fear of it costing me my marriage. I guess all it really did in the end was to prolong the inevitable.

Soon afterward, my wife started a relationship with another man which led to our divorce, which in itself was a very painful thing to go through. Afterward I realised that God had to always be first in my life, above any one or anything. I thought that if God wanted me to remain single for the rest of my life, then that was OK by me. My fulfilment in life was not going to be found in another person, but in the One who gave me life and who redeemed me.

For the next 7 years, I remained single and tried to follow the Lord, with all my heart. I became involved in a congregation where I met a Godly woman, who I eventually married. We both try to put the Lord first in our lives and in our marriage. Life at times is challenging and we feel so blessed knowing that God is with us in every situation and circumstance. There is nothing that we can face, that we can't get through, because He is Faithful.

I have learned that as human beings we were created to have a relationship with God.

Without that relationship we remain unfulfilled. You can try as hard as you can to get  satisfaction out of life, as I have tried, without success. The answer is not in human love, being powerful, being popular, being wealthy, or being healthy. There are people alive today who have all these things and are still searching for something more. They don't know themselves what it is, but they know that they are missing an essential component to make them whole, to make them content.

God knew that when He gave us a free will, we could choose to love Him or reject Him.

The Holy Scriptures challenges us all when it declares ” Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good;

Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!”

Trust or faith is only as good as the one who, you place that faith in.

Another Scripture tells us “But without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is (exists) and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him.”

If you search for Him with all your heart, you will find Him.

One day we will all stand before God to give an account of our lives. That will happen whether you believe He exists or not. Everything that you ever thought, said, and have done will be exposed and laid bare. Nothing will remain hidden from Him.

God has said that all have sinned and fall short of His glory. We have all missed the mark.

All of our righteousness is as filthy rags before God, who is Holy and Just.

How will you fare on that day? What plea bargain do you think you can make?

Do you really think that all the good that you have done in your life will give you enough credit to tip the scales in the right direction? Do you really want to face that day, standing in your own self righteousness? Knowing that God says ” The Lord looks down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there are any who understand, who seek God. They have all turned aside, They together have become corrupt; There is none who does good, No not one.”

You too dear reader, have the opportunity to choose life or remain dead, in your trespasses and sins. The Word of God tells us “Behold, I lay in Zion,  A chief cornerstone, elect,  precious,

And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame.” “The stone (Yeshua) which the builders rejected, Has become the chief cornerstone.” “A stone of stumbling, And a rock of offense.”

You can continue to fumble around in the dark as I did for a large part of my life, or you can make a decision to forego your own thing and accept God's way.

Yeshua said “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.”

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Dennis Hirschfield

The story is often told of a man walking along a beach, following two sets of footprints. Eventually he notices that the two sets of footprints converge into a single set. Intrigued as to how this may be, he follows the set of prints to their owner. The owner of the footprints reveal to the curious onlooker that indeed two individuals had been walking side by side, however when one of the walkers became too weary to continue, his companion bore him on his shoulders and carried on the journey. This story very much reminds me of my own experience. My companion throughout my journey, though unseen by myself, was always present with me, beside me. Gradually I came to realise this, but little did I know (at least for many years) that he has a name: Yeshua, Jesus.

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I was born in the US into a family of Jewish Holocaust survivors. My family origins was in eastern Poland, where most of my family stayed during the war except for a very few, some of whom escaped to the US and a few who escaped to the land of Israel.

My family were traditionally devout, religious Jews, however due to their extreme grief following the holocaust, they abandoned outwardly practicing Jewish religious practices, replacing this with a strong pride in their Jewish origins and strong identification with the State of Israel as an example of Jews who are prepared to fight rather than accept persecution. I grew up in this spirit of anger as a response to the holocaust and pride in my Jewish heritage. Along side this was strong identification with the State of Israel, which was from earliest age was nearly as much “home” to me as the US due to my close connections to my family there.

However, from a very early age, I was very uncomfortable. While I shared the strong sentiments of my up-bringing of pride in my heritage, and very strong linkage with my Jewish identity and the State of Israel, I still felt somehow empty and unfulfilled with my inner-self. It was not sufficient for me to simply “know” that I was Jewish, I wanted… needed to know in a deeper way what it meant spiritually. I became aware of a spiritual hunger; I desired to know not only the people and land of Israel, but indeed the Living God of Israel.

As a very young man, not having any form of spiritual teaching, I turned to the only place I knew for answers: the Scripture. I read through the Tanach (Old Testament), but “curiosity” led me to continue into the section forbidden to all “good” Jews: The New Testament.

What I found there surprised and confounded me. Instead of encountering a basically anti-Semitic diatribe (as I had expected to find), I encountered the Living God of Israel, bring peace and joy through a relationship with himself. This left me very disturbed, as I was in no way prepared to “betray my Jewish heritage” (as I saw it) and accept the Way described within the New Testament, however having had a very real encounter with the living God and tasting of his spirit, I greatly desired him in my life.

I would love to say that I gave in to the call of God in my life, but being part of the people whom scripture describes as a “stiff necked people”, I resisted his call upon my life, preferring instead to attempt to make my own route to God in what I considered to be an “acceptable Jewish manner”.

I left the US to settle permanently in Israel at the age of 18. Living with my Israeli relatives, I discovered that they were just as alienated from Judaism, and any understanding of the God of Israel as were my US family.

Shortly following my aliyah (settling in Israel) war broke out and I was recruited into the Israeli army. My experiences in the army led me to find an entire people (the Israeli people as a whole) who were a demoralised and wounded people, desperately in need of the peace and fulfilment with God which I so longed for in a personal way. Upon completion of my army service, I was very broken and wounded in my “inner man”, and had now become desperate for answers and inner peace. At the same time I had resolved to return to the US, disillusioned at the lack of answers and inner pain which I had experienced in Israel.

However, God had other plans. I had always been drawn to believers in Yeshua, even whilst in the army. This was due to the obvious peace and joy which was so evident in them, which I so desired for myself. I didn't realise it but the Lord brought me in contact with these servants of his who were in prayer for me. Amongst these believers which the Lord drew into my life at that time was Jacob Prasch and his family!

I had a very close army friend who upon completion of his army service (prior to my own) had gone to Jerusalem to study in a Yeshiva (Rabbinical academy). He had invited me, upon completion of my Army service to visit him in the Yeshiva, were he said I would be welcome, be able to study about Judaism, and perhaps even find some of the answers which I sought.

I decided to take my friend up on his offer, as I had never before had this opportunity, and I very much desired to find what I now knew to be a relationship with God, but in an “acceptable”, “Jewish” fashion.

The Yeshiva received me as a challenge. They were very aware of my intention to return to the US, but wanted to keep me in the Yeshiva and ensure that I become a religious, Orthodox Jew. To this end, I was asked if I would be willing to spend time at a much more “intensive” and “advanced” Yeshiva in Bnei Brak (a very strictly orthodox area near Tel Aviv). Having always wanted to study Judaism “in depth”, I agreed.

In the Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, I was taken on as a challenge (to dissuade me from returning to the US, and to “convert” me to be an orthodox Jew). Intending at first to stay 2 weeks, I lengthened this to 4 weeks, 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, until eventually I decided to stay, and not return to the US.

Although from the outset of my rabbinical studies, I felt deeply unfulfilled, had many unanswered questions (particularly with regard to rabbinical interpretations of Scripture), I decided to “give it a chance”, feeling that “for now, it is for me to work upon studying Torah (the Law), and one day when I am a rabbi, I will realise the peace and joy of a relationship with God which I so desire”. I proceeded in this manner, and found myself both very successful and enjoying the intellectual stimulus and challenge of study of rabbinical law.

While this brought me no closer to my goal, the feeling of community acceptance, and “ego boost” that came from my scholastic success enabled me to put aside my deep misgivings and continue along this path for approximately 3 and a half years. At the end of that period, while I was not formally “ordained” (a ceremony which does not necessarily have the same significance as a qualification for spiritual leadership as in Christianity), the Yeshiva deemed me as having completed its course of study, and in the interest of my teaching others, as well as representing the Yeshiva, conferred upon me the title of “ Rav ” (rabbi).

Far from bringing me joy at the “honour” conferred upon me, I realised that I would never find the peace or fulfilment that I sought within the framework of rabbinical Judaism. It struck home to me that I had known the truth all along in that there is only one way to the Father, to his Kingdom, to a living (life giving) relationship with himself. That way is through the Messiah, Yeshua, Jesus.

It was time, I realised, to stop fighting, to stop resisting God's guiding hand over my life and accept him on his terms, on his conditions. There in the Yeshiva I surrendered myself to Him, and asked him into my life to be my Lord and Saviour. The change in me was immediate and dramatic. Where there was darkness (literally) there was now light, where sadness, joy, where there was hopelessness there was now optimism.

I also began to view Israel, in a new light – not through my own disappointed, judgemental eyes, but through the heart of a God that always deeply loves and cares for his people, who is ever a loving and faithful father to his children. Although I was unable to announce my new-found life in the Yeshiva, the Lord guided me through this by allowing me to be “discovered” (by means of being spotted entering a Messianic congregation).

Given a choice of renouncing my faith in Yeshua (with much financial incentives) and leaving the Yeshiva penniless and “disgraced”, my path was clear: to follow the Lord to the new life that I knew he would lead me to. He has been faithful to me. I was privileged in working to build his small but dynamically growing Body in Israel over the years in a variety of ministerial activities.

As the Lord has been guiding me in his service, he has also been at work in sanctifying and building me into his own image, an often difficult but always rewarding task.

Some years back, I had the opportunity of studying in a bible college in this country (the UK), which I have completed. I am currently completing post graduate work on uncovering the largely hidden and forgotten history of the early Jewish – Christian church, its relationships between the developing gentile church and emerging rabbinic Judaism. I have also had to privilege of sharing with the churches God's healing and dynamic purposes for Israel and the believing church in using the church as a vehicle of blessing Israel through the gospel of the risen Moshiach of Israel and the world that brings blessing and life to both.

Moriel & Jacob Prasch are honoured to welcome Michael to Moriel to help direct our Jewish ministry in outreach and messianic bible teaching.

While at Moriel we do not call clergy either “father” or “rabbi” as a religious title because Yeshua/ Jesus told us not to in Matthew 23, Michael Gubberman, like Saul of Tarsus did indeed reach the learning status of an orthodox rabbi in a recognized ultra orthodox Yeshiva. Within Moriel we often informally call Michael 'Rabbi Guberman' only because he actually was one; it is a job and background description only, not a religious title. The pope is not our 'holy father' – only God is, and our only Rabbi (exalted teacher) is “Rabbi Yeshua Bar Yosef M' Natzeret” (Jesus). It is a blessing to be aware however,

in an age of charlatan messianic rabbis who are not real rabbis and never were, The God of Israel still has actual rabbis like St. Paul and Nicodemus who have come to faith in Yeshua the Jewish Messiah.

Please e mail Moriel to arrange a speaking engagement for our brother in Yeshua 'Rabbi' Michael Guberman.