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A Bewhiskered Believer Bewildered By Beard-Hating Brethren Several years ago I was interviewed by a pastor for a job as principal of a Christian school. At the end of the interview, the pastor offered me the position, and said he really hoped I would accept it. "There’s just one more thing," he said rather hesitantly. "If you do decide to take the job, I’ll have to ask you to shave your beard." The pastor was quick to assure me that he himself had nothing personal against beards. It was just that a few parents from some fundamentalist churches had enrolled their children in the school. These parents wanted good role models for their children, and a fuzzy-faced principal in a Christian school did not fit their definition of a good role model. I assured the pastor that if I decided to accept the position as God’s will, I [...]
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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 ...
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 real ...
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 s ...
Seder traditions for us are an collection of practices that are Sephardic in origin, but for many of us these practices have grown and changed because they were practiced underground in either maranno or crypto-Jewish households. Remember: Sephardic Passover customs and traditions can vary from region to region, country to country, city to city, co ...
Before I formed you in the belly I knew you, and before you came out of the womb I sanctified you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations. (Yeremiahu 1:5) A mother in a delivery with a high temperature, waits to deliver a premature baby. The doctor comes in with the grim news. In order to save your life you must have an abortion ...
Torah Tidbit: What is Emuna? What does it mean and how does one have the means of obtaining it? Emuna is faith. Pure and utter faith almost to an ignorance of all common sensibility and reason. Believing that everything happens for a reason and is for the best. It is a belief that God controls every aspect of the entire universes, from a galaxy col ...
When we are called by the father to receive the gift of faith, in the redemptive work of our Rabbi Yeshua the Messiah (His death and resurrection), upon acceptance we are instantly a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17) “Therefore, if anyone is united with the Messiah, he is a new creation- the old has passed; look, what has come is fresh and ne ...
The Science of Homosexuality: “Well I was born this way – God created me this way – God made me a homosexual” Due to the Fall of Mankind and sin entering the world it opened the door for physical degenerations, mutations, and physical and medical anomalies in the human genome as well as chemical imbalances and deficiencies i ...
When we study Torah we should be very careful not to read into it things that are not there. At the same time there is an abundance of ideas and issues that are not so obvious to the casual reader. I am not referring to what we might call "reading between the lines," where all sorts of concepts may be developed with little or no actual co ...
Ask someone coming out of Synagogue on a Shabbat, “Do you believe in God?” and the worshipper is shocked. “What type of question is that? Of course I do!” Then ask him, “Do you consider yourself religious?” and you’ll hear “Certainly. That’s why I’m here!” This is normal. These conve ...
There is a saying in English which we call the KISS method. Keep It Simple Stupid. It means that when we are trying to explain something we should keep it at a very basic level so that everyone can understand. I believe that this must also apply to the situation of doctrines and beliefs. The harder we make it for people to underst ...
Mashiach is the Hebrew word for Messiah. The word Messiah in English means a saviour or a “hoped-for deliverer”. The word Mashiach in Hebrew actually means “anointed”. In Biblical Hebrew the title Mashiach was bestowed on somebody who had attained a position of nobility and greatness. For example, the High Priest is referred ...
The Joke: A Jewish businessman in Chicago sent his son to Israel for a year to absorb the culture. When the son returned, he said, "Papa, I had a great time in Israel. By the way, I converted to Christianity." "Oy vey," said the father, "What have I done?" He took his problem to his best friend. "Ike," he sai ...
“But Moses said to the Lord, "Please, O Lord, I have never been a man of words, either in times past or now that You have spoken to Your servant; I am slow of speech and slow of tongue." 11 And the Lord said to him, "Who gives man speech? Who makes him dumb or deaf, seeing or blind? Is it not I, the Lord? 12 Now go, and I will ...
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