Do you really want Mashiach Now? Many people have that cry in their lips, but do not mean it. In the Amida which is a set of prayers composed by eighteen different prayers, we find at the end of it a prayer asking for Mashiach to come, to reveal Himself, and to bring Yeshuah / Salvation to our people, to our lives, to bring true Shelema (peace) to us and for all Israel His people.

The text says: “May the Shoot of David blossom and flourish, and let the light of Yeshuah / Salvation shine forth according to Your word, for we await Your Yeshuah all every day. We praise You, O HaShem, who causes the light of Yeshuah to come.”

With that prayer in mind, we should not be affraid at all to ask God to reveal the Holy Mashiach to us, HaShem is waiting for us to ask for that, and He will reveal him (the Mashiach).

To really want and yearn for Mashiach means that we need to learn more about such wonderful person, His birth place, His acts, His walk with Torah, and most important how the Hebrew Scriptures describe Him. We will learn two important prophesies here.

We learn that the Holy Mashiach is to be born in Israel, Beit-Lechem, a Jewish town close to Jerusalem 2000 years ago, the Hebrew Scriptures says: Micha 5.1 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.”

Yes, indeed Mashiach is to be a Sabra, a true Jewish settler! Let see what Jewish tradition thought of such passage: "And you Bethlehem-Ephrathah who are too little to be counted among the thousands of the house of Judah, from you in My name shall come forth the Messiah who is to be ruler in Israel and whose name has been called from eternity, from the days of old." [Targum Jonathan on Mikah 5:1 in the Tanach]

Second prophesy tell us that Mashaich will become our Korban / Sacrifice for sin the Hebrew Scriptures speak: "Who has believed what we have heard? To whom is the arm of HaShem revealed? For before Him he grew up like a young plant, like a root out of dry ground. He had no form or beauty. We saw him, but his appearance did not attract us. He was despised and shunned by men, a man of pains and familiar with illness; like one from whom we would hide our faces. He was despised and we had no regard for him. In truth, it was our infirmities he bore, and our pains that he suffered; yet we regarded him as punished and afflicted by God. He was wounded because of our sins and crushed because of our iniquities. The chastisement he bore made us whole, and through his wounds we are healed. We all like sheep went astray; we turned, each one, to his own way. Yet HaShem laid on him the guilt of all of us… After this ordeal, he will see satisfaction. By his knowledge my righteous servant makes many righteous; it is for their sins that he suffers. Therefore I will give him a share with the mighty; for he exposed himself to death and was numbered among the sinners. For he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." [Tanach, Yeshayahu (Isaiah) 53]

The Rabbis said: His name is ‘the leper scholar,’ as it is written, Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him a leper, smitten of God, and afflicted. Babylonian Talmud: Tractate Sanhedrin Folio 98a.

Read your Tanach (Hebrew Scriptures), and ask HaShem to reveal King Messiah to ou today!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCjhc7pLEY

If one is in search of a single codification that represents the essential core of Jewish belief, no source is better than the Rambam’s thirteen principles of faith (apart from the Hebrew Bible of course). The Rambam himself refers to these thirteen principles as "the fundamental truths of our religion and its very foundations" (Pirush on Mishnayos-Sanhedrin Chap.10).

We quote here the final of these two foundational principles:

Principle #12 " The days of Mashiach –(it is obligatory) to believe and trust that they will come…one who has doubts (about whether or not he will come) or degrades his glory- denies the Torah that explicitly promises (his coming and his greatness) in Parshas Billam (Bamidbar: 23-24) and "Netzavim" (NOTE: ibid. 30:3-5)"

Principle #13 "(The obligation to believe) in the Resurrection of the Dead" 

We see here that in establishing the very foundations of the Jewish religion, the Rambam dedicates two out of his 13 principles to the belief in the Messianic era. The Rambam makes it quite clear that Mashiach is a part of everything Judaism stands for. Just as one must believe in God to be a Torah Jew (principle #1), one is equally obliged to believe in the coming of Mashiach and Redemption (principles #12 and #13).

These are all pillars upon which the Jewish faith stands. In practical terms this means that should one deny the belief in Mashiach’s coming or the accompanying resurrection of the dead, such a person could no longer be accurately labeled ‘a believer in Judaism’, let alone a practicing Jew.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNLFDA3xjJ8

Many people asks us or assume who we are through the historical understanding of historical Christianity. Nothing can be further from the truth. Here is a small sample of what we believe.

The unity of God. We do not believe in the trinity. God is one. Maran Yeshua HaMashiach said: "One of the Soferim came up, hearing them reasoning together. Thinking that Yeshua had given a good answer to the Tzaddikim, he asked Him, "Which commandment is primary over all of them? "This is the primary commandment," Yeshua said. " ‘Shema Yisrael HaShem Elokenu HaShem Echad. [Hear O Yisrael, HaShem our Elokim, HaShem is One."

On Praying: We do not pray to any one else but to God, the God of Israel (we do not believe in three gods, or any other formula). We do pray however in the merit of our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua HaMashiach, we do not pray to our Rabbi Yeshua (that would be avoda zarah / idol worship). Maran Yeshua Himself told us how to pray to the Father in his merit (even rabbi Nachman said the same thing). Nowhere did Maran Yeshua say to pray to him.

The person of messiah: We believe that messiah was born of a woman, and that he is a man. Man sinned therefore a righteous man, who never sinned, a tzadik had to die in our place (read Yeshayahu / Isaiah 53 in the Hebrew Scriptures, and the Targum Onkelos, and many other places). We believe that our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua is a descendant of King David. His genealogy was never contradicted, disputed in his time, nor was ever a point to discuss, since it was well known. 

We believe that the Jewish messiah has been revealed, and his name is Maran Yeshua from Nazareth. We believe that he is a Rabbi (he is not dead but hidden for now, soon to be revealed again), an orthodox Rabbi (as understood in the context of 2000 years ago), a Pharisee, in today’s standards, a true Jewish Israeli settler who believed that the land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people, who lived by the same Torah given by Moshe in mount Sinai. We believe that Maran Yeshua commands his followers to follow the Torah of HaShem as a way of life.

Our Rabbi does not abolished Torah, he upholds it. He expands Torah deeper, he does not cancels it (heaven forbid). We believe that Maran Yeshua came first in the office of the suffering servant according the scriptures and Jewish traditions (Mashiach ben Yosef), and we believe that Maran Yeshua will return in the office of messiah, the conquering king (Mashiach ben David), according the scriptures and Jewish traditions. We believe that Maran Yeshua kept the shabbat, kept kashrut laws, celebrated all of the Jewish holidays, and commanded us to do the same as he did. Any person who does not keep any of these commandments (like our Rabbi told us to do) and thinks that he is following HaShem, and His messiah, that person is sorely wrong. The messiah should provoques us to do HaShem mitzvot (commandments) not to turn us away from them.

We believe that thousands of Jews believed and have believed in Maran Yeshua to be the Jewish messiah through out the generations. From Rabbis, to doctors, from teachers and students, thousands have come to believe that he is the Jewish messiah. We know, and acknowledge Orthodox Rabbis, Yeshiva students, and many learned people of today believe that he is indeed the hope of Israel,  Melech HaMashiach (we do not believe that they need to come out of their Synagogue of their choice if they choose not to, meaning they do not have to come to a Messianic Jewish Synagogue if they choose not to).

We believe that a Jew going to church should get out of there, and rejoin his people Israel. A good Jew never goes to Church but to teach the people from there to give up their paganism.

We believe the WHOLE Torah of HaShem is for us to do. Although for lack of Beit HaMikdash (Temple) and the present exile we can not perform some of its mitzvot (commandments), we are to do the most to do every mitzva that we can at all time.

Messianic Jews practice (at least we try) their faith in a way they consider to be authentically Torah-observant and culturally Jewish. We believe that Messianic Jews who are ethnically Jewish continue to be Jewish, since belief in the Jewish messiah is a Jewish biblical right / truth. We practice Judaism as we understand it, and seek to learn more concerning a life under the tutorship of the Torah, and Jewish tradition (We do not reject it, but welcome it, but seek to understand it in the light of the traditions of our messiah, his mesorah / tradition).

The Bible; The Tanach and the Besora Tova HaGeula / Good News of Redemption (Badly called New Testament or Re-new Covenant / Brit Hadasha) are inspired Biblical scriptures by Messianic Jews. We believe that we need to understand the Besora Tova HaGeula through Jewish eyes, this book was written by Jews to Jews, within a Jewish cultural setting (later on given a spin away from Judaism by anti-Semites non-Jews), thus we seek to redeem our Scriptures and teach them in a way that the historical context is restored, and shed of the goyish (gentile) interpretation that has been assigned for about 1800 years.

We believe that the Torah will be fully re-established when messiah returns. We believe that the messiah of Israel will teach Torah from Zion (as it is written). We strongly believe that if you seek to understand the Besora Tova HaGeula in its fullness, you need to know the Torah very well, the Jewish prophets, and Jewish writtings of 2000 years ago.

We are Zionist. We believe that a true believer in the God of Israel loves the land of Israel, loves the God of Israel, loves the Jewish messiah of Israel, loves the people of Israel (Jewish people). We believe that the land of Israel belongs to the world wide Jewish community (which will make aliya soon).

We believe that the holy Temple will be re-build in its proper area, and the Islamic structure (the abomination that causes desolation) in the temple area will be torn down (may it happen very soon in our days).

We believe that not ONE inch of the holy land should be given to terrorist or any one who does not stands for the interest of the Jewish people, this land is the homeland of the Jewish people. We believe that Jerusalem is the holy city, and Israel the center of the world. We support the government of Israel insofar does not violates the Scriptures of Israel. We do not agree with the giving away of Gaza, Hebron, Shechem, or any other territories to any one but those who love and respect the people of Israel. We do believe that some non-Jews can and should live in the land of Israel insofar they help the people of Israel to settle the land of Israel. We believe that when messiah is revealed a second time, he will help / inspire Jews to return to the land of Israel.

When Mashiach is fully revealed, he will bring world peace like, King Salomon did.

Biblical end times. Messianic Jews hold all of the following eschatological beliefs: the End of Days, the second coming of Maran Yeshua as the conquering messiah (according to Jewish tradition, messiah was going to be revealed then hidden, then again revealed just like Moshe did), the re-gathering of Israel, a rebuilt Third Temple, a Resurrection of the Dead, and the Millennial Sabbath, the world to come. We do not believe in the pre-tribulation rapture (it was invented by a Catholic Jesuit named Manuel De Lacunza 1731–1801).

We believe that because we have accepted the works of messiah in our behalf, that our demonstration of faith is following the commandants of God. We do not follow the commandments of God as a replacement of faith. We have faith, therefore we do the commandments of God.

We believe in the return of lost Jews back into the fold of the congregation of Israel. We believe crypto-Jews must be help to return to the congregation (many Jews were force to convert to other religions). We believe that there are crypto Jews in Muslim countries as well as Christians countries, e.g.: Latin America, India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, etc. We believe that for them to return properly, they must circumcise themselves and their children, follow the kashrut laws, learn to observe all the holidays, etc., in short to re-learn to live a Jewish life through belief in the Jewish messiah of Israel.

We do not uphold the idea of Benei Noach (Sons of Noach), we believe that any one who wants to have a serious relationship with God, should learn from Abraham, and do what he did. We believe that the idea of Benei Noach was invented fully when the Emperor Constantine forbade Jews to convert non-Jews to Judaism under the penalty of death.

We believe that Messianic Jews follow Judaism as we undesrtand it, and do not and should not follow Christian practices (we should not), BUT we do understand that is our duty to teach Christians concerning the Jewish roots of the faith, and reject all forms of paganism (we stronly believe that Christians should reject all pagan roots and practices). We believe in observing all Jewish feasts and fasts, including the Sabbath, or Yom Kippur. We believe that when the Jewish messiah is fully revealed,

We believe that Christianity as a religion will have not more use. We believe that Christianity has not future. There is not a word in the Holy Scriptures where Chritianity survives, only Biblical Judaism.

A key difference between Messianic Jews and Reform, Conservative, Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox Jews (except with the Chabad movement) involves their beliefs about the messiah. The Chabad movement and us believe strongly in the Mashiach. We happen to disagree in who messiah is, but we believe that many chabadnics have come to believe in Maran Yeshua as the Jewish messiah (We met a few, from simple people, to Rabbis).

We are not Jews for Jesus. Nor we are affiliated to that or similar organization. We believe that a Jew who comes to believe in Yeshua, their Jewish messiah should live a closer life to Torah. Jews should not pray to Jesus (Heaven forbid), nor acknowledge him (the Christian Jesus is NOT the same as the Jewish messiah). We believe that Jesus and Yeshua are two different persons. One is anti-Torah, non-Jew (Jesus), the other one is an Israeli Orthodox Rabbi (Maran Yeshua), a Jewish settler who brings us closer to Torah, to love Israel, and the Jewish people. We believe that Jewish people going to Church should come out from there and learn to live a Torah life.

We reject the testimonies of thousands of people who said have believed in the messiah of the Bible, but acted contrary to his ways (anti-semetic). We reject anti-semitisim, force conversions, persecutions done in his behalf (even when they did not know him, nor the Jewish messiah ever asked them to do so). Any one who says loves the God of Israel and the messiah of Israel but hates Jewish people is deceived, rejects the rights to the Jewish people to the Holy Land (like Nutri Karta), he has come to believe in the anti-messiah. It is imposible to love the God of Israel, love the Jewish messiah, and yet hate the Jewish people, and their right to the land of Israel.

We reject all possible rejections of our Bible heritage. The Scriptures of Israel are Jewish, from Genesis to Revelations, and need to be understood within a Jewish context to be understood correctly. Any attempt to understand the scriptures in any other light will provoque errors (like people trying to understand the Besorah Tova HaGeula through Greeks eyes, when all the writters of this amazing revelation are all Israeli Jews!).

We believe in redeeming our messiah from the hands of those who have the wrong idea of who he is (this is why Jewish tradition says that he is sitting at the gates of Rome).

In short, we want Mashiach Jewish. We believe that he is Jewish, and he did not create a new religion. He left to heaven an Israel Jew. After the return of Eliyahu, and Enuch, Mashiach will return as he left, a righteous Israeli Jew who should be listen, and followed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcoBbVqnUTU

Armilus / Anti-Messiah? – ארמלגוס "Rab said: All the predestined dates [for redemption] have passed (according to Daniel 9:26 Mashiach was to come before the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash / Temple), and the matter [now] depends only on repentance and good deeds. But Sh’muel maintained: it is sufficient for a mourner to keep his [period of] mourning. This matter is disputed by Tannaim: R. Eliezer said: if Yisrael repent, they will be redeemed; if not, they will not be redeemed. R. Joshua said to him, if they do not repent, will they not be redeemed! But the Holy One, blessed be He, will set up a king over them, whose decrees shall be as cruel as Haman’s, whereby Yisrael shall engage in repentance, and He will thus bring them back to the right path." Sanhedrin 97b

These times will be of great pain for Yisrael, and ALL the nations of the world will be against her. The world will be following the command of this world leader, who will be a swift talker, thereby convincing the world that he is doing all the things that he does for peace sake, but in reality they are done to the destruction of Yisrael. His name according to Jewish Tradition is Armilius, know by the non-Jews as Anti-christ (this is the king spoken of in Sanhedrin 97b). This Armilius will gather the nations of the world around him and will proclaim himself the world’s true leader. Only Yisrael, the nation of HaShem will resist him. The wrath of Armilius will then rage against Yisrael and those who join them all over the world.  According to the Book of Zecharya, chapter 12 to 14, Melech HaMashiach returns pierced, once He is recognized by His Jewish brothers (by the piercing He has Zecharya 12:10), and they call upon God’s help to deliver them from their enemies.  This is when the end of this age comes, and the Kingdom of Melech Mashiach comes to power, our Sar Shalom / Prince of Peace (Yeshayahu 9.5).

Mashiach is our Prince of Peace; He will rebuild the holy Bet HaMikdash (Temple), and teach us Torah from there. Once there is peace upon Yerushalayim, there will be Shalom every where. If there is not Shalom in Yerushalayim, there will not be peace any where. Let’s pray and be active for Mashiach is coming soon. Our שר שלום / Sar Shalom! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2vbZG4_g8k

(Mattityahu/Matthew 28:18-20) “Yeshua came and talked with them. He said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore, go and make all people from all nations into talmidim, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember! I will be with you always, yes, even until the end of the age.”

These were the last instructions of our Master to his talmidim (disciples) in the Good News according to Mattityahu. Here we are given the command to go to all people and make them into talmidim or disciples which would be more familiar language for most readers. The concept of discipleship however was not a new one in the time of Yeshua, as we see here in the writings of the wisdom of the great rabbi’s of Israel.

(Talmud / Pirkei Avot 1:1) “Moses received the Torah from Sinai and transmitted it to Joshua; Joshua to the Elders; the Elders to the Prophets; and the Prophets transmitted it to the Men of the Great Assembly. They [the Men of the Great Assembly] said three things: Be deliberate in judgement; develop many disciples; and make a fence for the Torah.”

This is a call given to us all as believers in Yeshua the Messiah of Israel. As believers we all have a purpose within the body of Messiah, we all have different callings and functions and it is up to each of us to pray daily and seriously about our calling whether it be as a healer, prophet, comforter, or even a teacher. The preceding duties we just a few examples of a wide range of duties within the body, it could take months, or even years to fully gain a firm ground in our call and understanding the responsibilities of the duty. A sad reality is that many believers from various denominations have genuine God given gifts as disciples and they are exploited for money and fame, a popular example of this are faith healers.

As disciples or talmidim of our Rabbi Maran Yeshua we need to follow in His footsteps and be humble always and not allow ourselves to become puffed up with pride and arrogance with the gifts given from heaven, a common gift that causes us to be puffed up is wisdom and knowledge. As ambassadors of the Kingdom of Heaven, we representatives of the Torah and the lifestyle it lays out for us as believers and it is the very commands of Yeshua who said we are to teach and obey them. Discipleship comes with many difficulties when we go out and teach the nations the way of the God of Israel, a common problem is theological disputes because of traditions passed down throughout the generation that are hard to break but not impossible; this is most evident within traditional Judaism and Christianity. However we are commanded to be humble, patient and loving towards those we teach so that they will be able to see the light within us and the merciful and compassionate love of the God of Israel within us. Even within the wisdom of the sages and great rabbi’s of Israel we see examples of how we are to conduct ourselves.

(Talmud / Pirkei Avot 1:12) “Hillel and Shammai received the tradition from them. Hillel says: be among the disciples of Aaron, loving peace and pursuing peace, loving people, and bringing them closer to Torah.”

As we have learned previously, love is the fullness of the Torah, so in loving people and pursuing peace as Hillel and Yeshua both teach us; we are bringing them closer to the Torah and revelation of the God of Israel. If we pursue anything other than peace or love such as arrogance or a haughty spirit when we teach and proclaim the Torah of God then we are only repulsing people from the Torah and leading them to believe the God of Israel is not a loving, peaceful and compassionate God. As His children, we need to be just like our Father in heaven and the only way is though the Yeshua the Messiah because He is in the Father and the Father is in Him. Again within the wisdom of the Sages we see a teaching regarding discipleship and how those who are gaining disciples should conduct themselves.

(Talmud / Pirkei Avot 1:11) “Avtalyon says: Scholars, be cautious with your words, for you may incur the penalty of exile and be banished to a place of evil waters [heresy]. The disciples who follow you there may drink and die, and consequently the Name of Heaven will be desecrated.”

(Talmud / Pirkei Avot 1:11 commentary, Complete Artscroll Siddur) “Scholars, be cautious. The mishnah speaks allegorically of the dangerous results of unclear teachings that lend themselves to misinterpretation. Do not express yourself in a way that can be misunderstood by students other than your own. You may be forced into exile where unworthy students may sin, based on a misinterpretation of your teaching. If they die as a result of their sins, God’s Name will have been desecrated.”

Here is a teaching regarding discipleship that has been passed down through the ages and even our Master Yeshua knew and understood this very rabbinic teaching, we see the importance of our words with the disciples we are gaining in the name of Rabbi Maran Yeshua. We do not want to desecrate Heavens Name or God’s Name, so we need to be very careful  when we are instructing and giving guidance to those God sends to us as disciples to either council, heal, comfort and in this case more specifically to teach and proclaim the coming Kingdom. Even though we are human and subject to error which we all are, we need to have the proper intent in our hearts to do what is right, and if we are doing anything wrong which can and will lead to sin, then we need to repent, this goes for everyone especially myself who is proclaiming this message. God knows His true disciples and that they are after His own heart and truly desire to serve Him, and through progressive revelation of the Holy Torah we all will grow in faith and come to know our Blessed Father in Heaven better every day through serving Him.

(Mattityahu/Matthew 10:24-25) “A talmid is not greater than his rabbi, a slave is not greater than his master. It is enough for a talmid that he become like his rabbi, and a slave like his master.”

Our ultimate authority on Torah is our Rabbi Maran Yeshua; we cannot invent anything new or teach anything that is against the teachings of our Master. Even the way we conduct our lives and the content of our character must be within the boundaries of the Torah with the peace and love as our goal, as taught by the great rabbi’s and sages and most important by our Messiah Yeshua. We need to have the desire to walk and talk like Yeshua, and become genuine servants of God; then when the disciples that each of us have gained will see a revelation of the Messiah through us and desire to follow after His way, the only way, creating more disciples and bringing revelation of the Torah to this troubled world.

(Luke 9:1-2) “Calling together the Twelve, Yeshua gave them power and authority to expel all the demons and to cure diseases; and He sent them out to proclaim the Kingdom of Heaven and to heal.”

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The earliest followers and disciples of Rabbi Yeshua of Nazareth believed that Yeshua was the promised Mashiach (Messiah) of Israel and the Redeemer of all nations. However, they did not believe that Yeshua came to start a new religion or to abolish the Torah (Teaching, Instruction) of Moshe; instead, they continued to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as participants in the ancient Israelite faith, now called Judaism. To be clear, the first known Christians in fact were Messianic Jews. Messianic Jews still practice Jewish law and tradition but also follow the Jewish Messiah. A Christian does not follow Jewish law and tradition.

Are Messianic Jews really Jews? This is one question that has come up that I find especially curious. While Jewish interest in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sufism is so commonplace as to have given rise to terms like Bu-Jus, Hin-Jews, and Jufis), a Jew who finds himself attracted to Yeshua (who was after all a Jew) is somehow weird. The issue isn’t theological. Buddhism and its absence of God, Hinduism and its plethora of gods, and Islam and its final Book and Prophet, are each completely opposite to Judaism. If we can have Jewish Buddhists, why can’t we have Jewish believers in Yeshua?

The first followers of the Messiah were all Jews. The first century movement was one hundred percent Jewish movement. The Besorah Tovah (Good News) is a Jewish book, and Yeshua was nothing if not Jewish; all his teachings are kosher, and understood within a Jewish historical context. So if was good enough for all the early Jewish believers, why not today’s Jews?

Yeshua taught Torah, as did His disciples after his death and resurrection. He never told them to start another religion and He never broke Torah law. Why would His true followers want to be a different religion than He was?

On the other hand, any Jew who cuts himself off from the destiny of his people and from his God by denying the revelation at Sinai, in which God taught all of the Jews that He is the one and only God, and that His Law is binding on the Jewish people forever, there by definition ceases to be a “good Jew”. A Jewish person can be a wonderful person, doing acts of man-to-man kindness all day long, but such is only half of a whole picture that includes decency both in man-to-man relationships as well as man-to-God relationships. The whole package is required to be a member in good standing of the Jewish community.

So, Messianic Jews consider their primary identity to be "Jewish" and belief in Yeshua to be the logical conclusion of their "Jewishness." They try to structure their worship according to Jewish norms. They uphold the Torah of HaShem as their main constitution and the teachings of Rabbi Yeshua HaMashiach as the main Torah teacher.

They circumcise their sons. They abstain from non-kosher foods. They observe the Sabbath, and the Feasts. Most do not use the label "Christian" to describe themselves. They also have a strong desire to pass on their Jewish identity and culture to their children. In a nutshell Most Messianic Jews are much more "zealous for the Law (Torah)."
Messianic Judaism is a biblically-based end-time movement of Jewish and non-Jewish people who have come to believe that Yeshua is the promised Messiah of Israel.

We know Sadly, Jewish brethren who have been assimilated into the mainstream church, we do not agree with that, and wish them back to the true Torah of Mashiach.

Our hope of the world is that Messianic Jewish movement will unify as believers in Yeshua and doers of the Torah by laying down our differences and forming a unified community. Thereby becoming the light of the world that we are expected to be.

Rabbi, Yeshua HaMashiach thought us, in Mattityahu 5:17-19: "Don’t think that I have come to abolish the Torah or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete. Yes indeed! I tell you that until heaven and earth pass away, not so much as a yud or a stroke will pass from the Torah – not until everything that must happen has happened. So whoever disobeys the least of these mitzvot and teaches others to do so will be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But whoever obeys them and so teaches will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9HuIDF7qtQ

To some, the concept of a Jew believing in our Rabbi Yeshua seems to be a contradiction. The reason is, many people have a dichotomy set up in their minds. On the one hand, you have Jews and Judaism and on the other hand, Christians and Christianity.

You are either one or the other…..so the thinking goes. But this simple dichotomy is in reality not so simple. If we go back 2,000 years historically, we find that our Rabbi Maran Yeshua was a Jew living in a Jewish land among Jewish people. All of His followers were Jewish as well as the writers of the Besora Tova HaGeula (Good News of Redemption) and for many years this faith in our Rabbi Yeshua was strictly a Jewish one.

From the Besora Tova HaGeula and other historical evidence, many believe that in the first century there were literally hundreds of thousands of Messianic Jews. In addition, there were Messianic Congregations/Synagogues scattered throughout the Roman Empire and beyond. These first-century Messianic Jews remained highly loyal to their land and their people.

Whether it was Jewish to believe in our Rabbi Yeshua was never an issue. Of course it was Jewish! What else could it be?

The biggest question back then was whether Rabbi Yeshua had been sent for the Gentiles also. When God miraculously showed the Messianic Jews that He was the messiah for both Jew and non-Jews alike, then non-Jews from every nation began to pour into this Jewish faith.

Through the years, as the numbers of non-Jews believers increased, they began to predominate in this Messianic Jewish faith. With the passing on of the Jewish Hash’lichim (emmisaries) and the early Messianic Jews, the Jewish roots of the faith were eventually lost. This “De-Judaizing” process continued until one of the greatest paradoxes in history; it became alien for a Jewish person to believe in Rabbi Yeshua as his Messiah.

A Jew should know / believe that Mashiach is one of his own, therefore believing in him is the natural thing to do! They (non-Jews) should became like us (following the Torah of HaShem), not us like them (breaking the Laws of HaShem).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pyQzUUyp6U

In the Talmud it is written, "When will the Messiah come?" And "By what sign may I recognize him?" Elijah tells the rabbi to go to the gate of the city where he will find the Messiah sitting among the poor lepers (Sanhedrin 98a). ‎"The Messiah — what is his name?… The sages say, the Leper Scholar, as it is said, ‘surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him a leper, smitten of God and afflicted…’" (Sanhedrin 98b).

Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi met Elijah standing by the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. He asked…Elijah, "When will the Messiah come?" "Go and ask him," Elijah replied. "Where is he seated?" Rabbi Yehoshua asked. "At the entrance to the city of Rome," Elijah answered. "How will I recognize him?" Rabbi Yehoshua asked. Elijah replied, "He is sitting among the poor lepers, all of them bandaging their wounds…" (b.Sanhedrin 98a)

Of all the traditional titles and names traditional Judaism applied to Messiah, one of the strangest is the Talmudic title, "the Leper Messiah." The title is derived from Isaiah 53:4 where it says, "Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted." In reading the prophecy of Isaiah 53, at least some Sages understood the suffering servant character described therein to be the Messiah. They interpreted the phrase "he took up our infirmities" to refer to leprosy.

And the rabbis say: "[The name of Messiah] is The Leper of the House of Study, as it is said, ‘Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by Him, and afflicted.’" (Sanhedrin 98b)

Perhaps this is one reason why the Master’s ministry often focused on the healing of lepers. In Matthew 10:8, He tells His disciples that healing the sick and cleansing lepers are signs of the Kingdom of Heaven. Whenever Yeshua healed lepers, He instructed them to go and present the sacrifices prescribed in the Torah for their ritual purification.

On the one hand, biblical leprosy was a real disease, a fearsome affliction equivalent to a sort of walking death. On the other hand, biblical leprosy can be understood as an archetype for all human disease and mortality. It can be understood spiritually as the corruption of our human flesh. In all of the above cases, Yeshua offers the solution. He is the suffering servant of the Isaiah passage. Through His ministry, He fulfilled this passage exactly as the Talmud interprets it. He took up the uncleanness of the human condition in order to heal. Thus it is written in Isaiah, "But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed." (Isaiah 53:5)"

To the followers of the Suffering One, his afflictions, described in Isaiah 53, are the agonies of one dying to provide atonement. Let us praise the God of Israel, our Redeemer, who has provided his Messiah to take the just punishment for his people so that we might be forgiven our sins! Isaiah 53 must be understood as referring to the coming Davidic King, the Messiah. The plain reading of the text makes the position that Israel is the Suffering Servant, impossible, only Mashiach could be the one that the text is speaking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dzKlmOSCPk

Weekly Sidra: Shemini (Eight)
Torah Portion: Vayikra / Leviticus 9:1-11:47 
Haftorah: Sh’muel Bet / II Samuel 6:1-6:19

This week’s Parasha is called Shemini, which could be translated the Eighth. The number eight represents a level that is higher than nature, and above time. This is the level of the miraculous, which is not bound by the laws of nature. The number eight is also associated with the revelation of Mashiach. It is also commanded that when a son is birth that we are to perform the rite of circumcision on the eight day of his birthday.

This number is also related to the world to come, which can be viewed through the shadow of Shemeni Atzeret which is the “the Eighth [day] of Assembly” , which is a day after the last day of Sukkot, which is celebrated the eight day. So the number eight is not an end but the beginning of some thing new. With the eighth day we leave the area of creation and even step across the boundaries of the passing the messianic age to a whole new level. The eighth day does not fall within world history and the human task to sanctify time.

World history goes on six days, until a period of rest which is the Shabbat or Sabbath day of creation called “ yom shekulo Shabbat” the day that is all Sabbath (the Sabbath is rehearsal for the future world. Each week we have the glorious opportunity to partake in the world to come), then comes the reset button which is the eighth day. From then on people will not longer toil on the fields of world history. After the seventh day, the eight day will begin, a day without an end. This day is described as the endlessness day. It is within this frame that we receive from heaven the New Jerusalem, Yerushalayim Shel Zehav. Hitgalut / Revelation 21:2 I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready like a bride adorned for her husband.

Shabbat is Me’ein Olam Haba – a Taste to the world to come.

Shabbat signifies not only that HaKodesh Baruch Hu (the Holy One blesed be He) rested at the end of the creation, but it signifies the end of this world as well. Why did Hashem specifically rest on the Seventh Day? Could He not have created for three days, taken a day off, and then finished the work? Shabbat as the Seventh Day is the day of rest not only because it represents the creation but also because it represents the Next World. As this world approaches its end, we move towards a “yom shekulo Shabbat umenucha lechaye haoloam” “a Shabbat and rest day for eternal life”. Shabbat is not only a holy day but will represent the holy era called the Next World. Shabbat in that sense as well gives meaning to the creation.

The rabbi’s of old tell us: “This world is like a lobby before the World to Come; prepare yourself in the lobby so that you may enter the banquet hall” (Avot 4:21). The main purpose of this world is as a means of entering the Next World. Of course this world is a place where we can learn Torah and fulfill Mitzvot, but our main goal is to strive to arrive in the Next World, to a “yom shekulo Shabbat” where “HaShem alone shall be exalted in that day” (Yeshayahu 2:17), everything else will be null and void.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B37Mp6mhs3A

Our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua is Jewish. This obvious reality has too often been obscured by both Christian and Jewish attitudes polarized by prejudice, hatred, and fear.

There is a growing number of Jewish people who, like Rabbi Lichtenstein, Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, have been prompted, for one reason or another, to investigate seriously what the Good News actually contains. This writer is among them. We have come to recognize through careful investigation that the Good News is something different than we had first supposed.

First of all, we have discovered that its authorship and cultural background are Jewish. The beginning scenes of the Good News are centered in the land of Israel, at the time of the Second Temple. Even as the focus widens from the original setting, the action takes place primarily among Jewish communities in the Diaspora. The Good News writers, with perhaps the exception of Luke but very likely a convert, are all Jews. The early Emmisaries and followers of our Rabbi Yeshua were also Jewish.

Mashiach (Messiah) a Jewish idea. Actually the idea of a Mashiach begins in the Torah and the Tanach, the Hebrew Scriptures. The Christian Messiah does not exist (is not a Gentile idea at all), and the Jewish Messiah is exclusively Jewish.We believe that our Rabbi Maran Yeshua who came for both the Jew and the non Jew but within a Jewish context to be understood properly. We believe that Christianity has not future, and is a sin to believe in a gentilized messiah.

We see nothing in the Good News that is non-Jewish or anti-Jewish. It is to the contrary, woven with the warp and woof of Jewish hope and prophetic promise. If one can accept the revelation of Moses and the prophets with utter seriousness, there should be nothing really strange in the Good News, it is simply Jewish, it is a family discussion / story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyaSKpe98tU

The Korban Todah (offering of thanksgiving) of a Nation.

The special laws of the korban Pesach (offering of Passover) can be understood in a similar manner, for it too is an offering of thanksgiving – not for a personal case of redemption, but rather for our national redemption.

Let’s review the special laws of the korban Pesach to show how they help to create a special environment in which we can thank the one who took us from Egypt to the promise land.

a) First of all, in the time of the Bet HaMikdash (Temple), everyone was obligated to gather in Jerusalem and offer their korbanot in the Bet HaMikdash while the Leviim sang the Hallel (Psalms 113–118). [That in itself is a 'national thanksgiving.']

b) Eating the korban Pesach was by ‘invitation only.’ In other words, it was necessary to know ahead of time (before the korban is offered) who would be eating it. The purpose of this law is not to limit the amount of participants, but rather to make sure that everyone will attend [just like invitations for a wedding or any other important event.]!

c) The korban must be eaten with matzot and marror. The primary reason for eating the korban Pesach with matza is similar to the reason for eating the korban Todah with matza; that is, to ensure that everyone ‘sits down’ to a meal.

d) Marror can be explained in a similar manner. Its primary purpose is to make the meal of the korban Pesach more ‘formal’ (and tasty – a little ‘salad with the shawarma’), but once we are adding herbs to our ‘sandwich,’ we take a bitter herb to remind us of our affliction in Egypt [l'havdil - sort of like food at a 'theme party'].

e) Using only roasted meat, not cooked but not raw (see 12:9-10) also ensures that it will be an enjoyable meal for all.

f) No leftovers – ensures that everyone will enjoy the meal and not think about ‘saving’ the meat for later.

However, the primary reason for offering the korban Pesach is in order that we say magid – i.e. we tell the story of Yetziat Mitzrayim and then sing the Hallel once again. This aspect is the most similar to our explanation of the korban Todah, for in order to properly thank HaShem for our national redemption, we must tell the story in such a way ‘that we ourselves feel as though we had been redeemed from Egypt,’ just as the individual who offers the korban Todah tells his personal story of redemption to his guests.

Today, even though we are unable to offer the korban Pesach, we accomplish the same goal at the seder. Our custom of sitting down to a festive meal with family and guests while reading the haggadah, telling its story and singing its songs, achieves this same goal. May we be "zocheh / worthy" to fulfill it ‘next year in Jerusalem.’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCTUIz98weo

Mashiach kept the whole Torah. He told every one that Torah was to be kept (see Mattityahu HaLevi / Matthew 5, also 28). All his teachings have as a base the Holy Torah and the Prophets.

ANY ONE who teaches or proclaims that the Holy Mashiach broke the Torah and such notion is acceptable to him; this individual must be judged that his so called Mashiach is a false one, not the real one. This is the spirit of Armilus (anti-Messiah) present these last days. (See 1 Yochanan / John 2:18-22; 4:3) Armilus hates Torah and Israel.

The Holy Mashiach was to come before the destruction to the Holy Temple according the prophet Daniel (Daniel 9:26). This means that the Holy Mashiach would be able to KEEP THE WHOLE TORAH. Not just part as we do today (since about one third of all the commandments of the Torah deal with Korbanot and Temple service).

If some one proclaims today be the Mashiach, this person cannot keep all Torah (since the Holy Temple is destroyed), thus disqualify him. Yes, the Mashiach when He returns will rebuild the Holy Temple but according to Daniel 9:26 Mashiach will come first before the destruction of the Temple 2000 years ago! This is exactly the time when the Yemot HaMashiach (Days of Mashiach) were to start. And they did, with Mashiach’s coming!

Also, His faithful emissary Rav Shaul (Paul) kept the Torah and to prove it to the whole world he went to the Holy Temple to perform a Korban (sacrifice) for keeping a vow (see Ma’asei HaShlichim / Acts 21:20 -24). Rav Shaul never says “I’m not longer under the law brother” he never said, “Hey, this stuff is done away.” Rather he went through it, to show that he was faithful to the Torah of God. He was a true Talmid Chacham (Torah scholar)… not the Torah breaker some anti-Torah people believe him to be.

The fact is that many writings have been done with the nonsensical idea that our Holy, Rabbi, Maran Yeshua HaMashiach and all His Emissaries and followers were breaking Torah, and encourage others to break it as well. Well this is far from the truth. Maran Yeshua HaMashiach said, “He did not come to break Torah but to bring Shelema / Completion.” Mattityahu HaLevi 5:17. This is the true Mashiach, a true Torah man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J18lhJ2-mcU

One of the Sages from the Mishnah is quoted as this, "May you be covered in the dust of your Rabbi." Rabbis are passionate and animated. They would spend their days taking their disciples around teaching them, and as they traveled from place to place, they would literally kick up a cloud of dust. And because the disciples were following the Rabbi, at the end of the day, they would actually be covered in the dust their Rabbi kicked up.

The idea was that if you followed behind your rabbi on the dusty roads, you would get covered in his dust. Meaning, you were following his so closely to be so much like him that you are glorified to be covered with the dust he left behind. That is how close a disciple wanted to be to his rabbi.

This is from Mishnah,known as Pikrei Avot, "the sayings of the fathers." Yose b. Yo’ezer (a man) of Zeredah, and Yose b. Yohanan [a man] of Jerusalem received [the oral tradition] from them. Yose. b. Yo’ezer used to say: “Let your house be a house of meeting for the sages cover yourself with the dust of their feet, and drink in their words with thirst.” Mishnah 4

When the rabbi believed that you were call by HaShem to be his talmid (student), He would say, “Lech Acharai – Come, follow me.” And you would leave your family. You would leave your family compound. You would leave your village. You would leave the local synagogue where you had been studying. You would leave everything and you would follow that rabbi. You would become a talmid, a disciple, a student. You would give your life to being exactly like that rabbi. And you would follow him everywhere.

You wanted to be so much like your rabbi that when your rabbi would pick up a piece of straw and put it in his mouth then you would do the same.  And you would follow this rabbi everywhere. Because the rabbi believes that you can be like him.

Now, with all this in mind, look at Matthew 4:18. As Yeshua was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, He saw two brothers, Shimon called Peter and his brother Andrew. They were casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. Then let’s look at the rest of the conversation: Mattityahu (Matthew) 4:19-20. "Come, follow Me," Yeshua said, "and I will make you fishers of men." At once they left their nets and followed Him.

These men just dropped everything and followed Him at a few words from this Rabbi. They drop what they are doing and they follow the Rabbi. Then we read a bit later:  Mattityahu 4:21-22. Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, Yacob son of Zebedee and his brother Yochanan. They were in a boat with their father Zebedee, preparing their nets. Yeshua called them, and immediately they left the boat and their father and followed Him.

Why did Yeshua choose these men? Because He believed they could become like Him. Yeshua said: Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me. “A disciple doesn’t just want to know what the rabbi knows. A disciple wants to be like the rabbi and wants to learn to do what the rabbi does.”

Yeshua wants to be your rabbi. He wants to be your teacher, your master. He wants you to be His disciple, His student, His talmid. He is calling you today,“Lech Acharai – Come, follow Me.” It doesn’t matter who you are. It doesn’t matter where you are. It doesn’t matter what company you work for.

The most important thing is not how much you can memorize. It’s not about how much you know. It’s all about who you follow. You can be like the rabbi.” Became a Torah man like him!

Our Rabbi said: “Do not think that I have come to loosen Torah or the prophets, I have not come to loosen but to fulfill. For truly I say to you that until heaven and earth pass away not one Yud or one stroke will pass from Torah until everything happens. All who loosen, therefore, from one of these small commandments and teach thus to the sons of man, will be called little in the Kingdom of Heaven, but all who do and teach this will be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.” Mattityahu 5:17-19

Our Rabbi said: Mattityahu 28:19, "Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations,… and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you." Teaching the Torah of our Rabbi, Yeshua. Read Tehillim / Psalm 67

We recommend you to take Torah living as taking “baby steps” for those seeking to enter a more observant life or another way “one mitzvah (good deed) leads to another”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgSMTFZEvW8

What is Avoda Zara (Idol worship)? Idol worship is not just a plastic Mary on the dashboard of a taxi in Mexico city.  Idol worship is coming into the presence of a holy God on your own terms, not on God’s terms. Doing what you want because your god loves you and changes His standards as you go along.  Idol worship is placing your faith in a thing of God and not in God Himself. This thing could be a Mezuzah, an ornament or a specific piece of clothing you wear. Idol worship also means that you have to recreate Biblical characters in your own image. Mohamed believed that Avraham Avinu (our father), King David, and even Maran Yeshua the Jewish Messiah were Muslim, and they worshiped and believed as he did. In general Christianity believes that their jesus did away with the Torah (Law) and now we live in an age of grace without Torah (no true).

We know that our holy Rabbi, Maran Yeshua was a Torah Jew, an Israelite, named Yeshua not Jesus (he never heard that name), born and raised in Israel. He is returning to the Holy Land (not to Rome) for the people of Israel, to rebuild the Holy Temple and to teach us Torah from there.  Making the holy Jewish Messiah into someone he is not is idol worship. We are not to pray to him, but through his holy merit, we are to acknowledge that he is the one send from HaShem. He is the second Adam, the one after Moses, suffering like Yosef (suffering, but at the end saving the Jewish people), coming back as King David, to fight the wars of God. This is our holy King!

Idol Worship is:

Idol worship is sometimes referred to as “star worshiping,” because the original concept of idol worship began thousands of years ago when people began worshiping stars in the sky instead of God Himself. They figured, “Well, if God created them to demonstrate His power, they must be quite powerful themselves!” And they would stand outdoors at night and worship the stars as mighty knights of God. From outdoor ceremonies it went to indoor ceremonies, and from indoor ceremonies it went to indoor ceremonies using stone or wooden symbols of the stars and their “powers,” which were worshiped as “representatives” of the stars. Over the years, the stars were gradually forgotten, and the symbols themselves began to be viewed as self-contained powers in their own right, creating the concept of idols and idol worship. Ceremonies ever increasing in complexity were built up around the idols and their indoor housings, and they soon spawned whole cultures, which regularly worshiped these man-made physical objects as gods.

What does idol worship mean today? Idol worship begins in the mind—it starts with an incorrect perception of God. It says you can turn an abstract (God) into a concrete (or wood or plastic), which of course, is impossible. Idol worship doesn’t just mean singing and dancing and bowing in front of funny-looking little statues—it means believing in any force, object or item outside of the infinite God Himself: an angel, a constellation, a force of nature, a living creature—or a funny-looking little statue. Everything is created by God, and to designate any piece of physical matter as “God” or a “Higher Power” is idol worship.

Not worshiping idols takes on several forms: besides praying to an idol, or bowing or otherwise showing obeisance to an idol, a Jew is prohibited from sculpting, building, shaping or otherwise creating the image, form or likeness of a human being, heavenly body (such as the sun or moon) or angelic creature (animals are generally fine), whether for his personal use or not.

Idolatry can take many shapes, in my opinion. It’s not only bowing to a representation of a deity, it’s giving up your faith to anything else than God. One can also worship a car, a job, a woman, etc. It doesn’t have to be a deity per se. You commit this sin if you ever come to consider something in your life more important than God.

Praying or worshipping some one else than God is also worshipping.

Our Rabbi, Maran Yeshua HaMashiach said in Mattityahu / Matthew 4:10, "You shall worship the Lord your God and Him only shall you serve." If we worship God in spirit and in truth, we cannot worship anyone or anything else. Anything we worship, other than God, is an idol.

We must only worship God and our worship must be in spirit and in truth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU_65qsu6bc

For many Christians that are supportive of Messianic Jews and the work of Messianic synagogues they support us as the “Jewish church”.

The “Jewish church” being defined as a Jewish cultural form of Christian faith. This can be seen in Hispanic, Korean, Filipino, Arab and other culturally sensitive forms of Christianity. Using the wording of missiology this is called “contextualization” and these other cultural groups like the local Hispanic Baptist Church or Chinese Methodist Church are true examples of putting Christian faith and practice within either Hispanic or Chinese culture and language and this is a great way for these non-Jews to experience their Christian faith within their distinct culture, history and language.

This view of contextualising of evangelical Christianity for Jews can be seen in the founding of the Hebrew Christian Alliance of America (now the MJAA). The HCAA was founded in the early 20th century as a way for Jewish people who were Christians and in the local church to also be able to have an outlet to express Jewish cultural expressions like Jewish holidays (Passover seders, Hanukkah menorah lighting, etc.) while having their faith practice within evangelical Christianity.

Messianic Judaism in contrast to the contextualization model which would make us the “Jewish church” or the Jewish culturally sensitive version of a trans-national universal Christianity.  We should be as our name says we are a JUDAISM, with our distinctive is that we are a Judaism with the Messiah, Yeshua and therefore we are Messianic Judaism.

The full adoption of this name as who we are and where we are moving for the future sets us in a scary position in a place outside either evangelical Christianity or mainstream Judaism, but it is the place that we must embrace. We are pioneers of a renewal of an old idea (Jews believing in Yeshua and living Torah) and also something new (building a 21st century Judaism within the context of 2000 years of development of Judaism).

So then we go forward defining who we are and making clear who we are not.

May we truly build a mature Messianic Judaism for the future…

By Sean Emslie, of http://towardblog.wordpress.com/.

Note: Is the belief of Beth HaDerech that Christianity has not future. When the Jewish Messiah is fully revealed, he will peal off the lies of all movements, including Judaism and Christianity, but basically, the Jewish Messiah will polish Judaism to its purest form, Christianity will be discarted, and all the world will learn the ways of HaShem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUMWmq1ezoM