“So are we Jews better off? Not entirely; for I have already made the charge that all people, Jews and Gentile alike, are controlled by sin. As the Tanach puts it, ‘There is no one righteous, not even one! No one understands, no one seeks God, all have turned away and at the same time become useless; there is no one who shows kindness, not a single one! Their throats are open graves, they use their tongues to deceive. Vipers’ venom is under their lips. Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness. Their feet rush to shed blood, in their way are ruins and misery, and the way of shalom they do not know. There is no fear of God before their eyes.” (Romans 3:9-18) This portion of scripture really shows the necessity of redemption in our lives from a life of sin, by the blood of [...]
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Emunah (faith) and bitachon (trust) in HaShem are the pillars of a believer’s life. The difference is simple: emunah is the belief tht HaShem is the Creator of the World, while Bitachon is living your life in a way that reflects your emunah for Him… How do we reach this level of Bitachon successfully? By constantly doing mitzvot- this ...
Jewish Prayer: Hitbodedut, Shacharit, Minhah, and Maariv. In traditional Jewish practice, the daily tefillot or prayers are divided into three separate services, Shacharit (the morning service), Minhah (the afternoon service), and Maariv (the evening service). Maimonides (1135–1204 CE) relates that until the Baby ...
A Great Holy King has arisen from the House of David. Possessing chochma, binah ve’da’at (wisdom, knowledge and undestanding). Void of any evil. Possessing Torah and observant of the Mitzvot as they have been prescribed by the Torah of God. As King Messiah said: HaBesurah al pi Mattityahu HaLevi (Matthew) 5:17-19 "Don’t think ...
Divine simplicity – an absolute unity Judaism is based on a strict unitary monotheism and a belief in one indivisible God. The Shema Yisrael, one of the most important Jewish prayers, encapsulates the monotheistic nature of Judaism. We read in the Jewish Scriptures: Shema Yisrael, HaShem Elokeinu, HaShem Echad Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God ...
Sitting in the Seat of Moses. (Mattityahu/Matthew 23:1-3) “Then Yeshua addressed the crowds and His talmidim: “The Torah-teachers and the P’rushim,” He said, “sit on the seat of Moshe. So whatever they tell you, take care to do it. But don’t do what they do, because they talk but do not act!” Within the Mes ...
In the spring of 1967, following close to a decade of relative calm, Israel found itself poised for war against four of its Arab neighbors. According to all the military analysts and pundits, it was to be a lopsided match. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) consisted of 275,000 troops, compared to the 456,000 soldiers of the combined Iraqi, ...
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 ...
Messianic Jewish Emuna: Tevunah – תבונה “Now, it is known that in Binah itself there are two levels; Binah and Tevunah. The matter of Tevunah is the aspect of the spreading forth of the light of Binah. (Shaar HaYichud, the Holy Rabbi Dov Ber of Lubavitch) The concept of Tevunah (תבונ ...
To be a believer in our Rabbi Yeshua the Messiah is impossible without emuna (active faith), this element for a believer is the most essential along with love, and without it as our foundation, everything will be in vain and useless. So what is emuna? What role does it have in our life, and how can we obtain this blessed gift from God? The answer i ...
Life with God isn’t purely intellectual. It isn’t purely emotional. And emotional-rationality doesn’t explain it all either. I am not alone, in the vast see of Jews and Christians, who feel we have connected in reality with God through experience. To the naturalist-rationalist-modernist this is nonsense, perhaps explained as some ...
There comes a time when every believer must decide if he will follow the ways of the Lord or the doctrines of men. It is hard for me to write this article it may even be my last, I’ve been attending a messianic place now for roughly a year. The only holy day I have yet to observe is Shavuot. The only thing left to do from here is ask myself & ...
Continuing from where we left off, I have a few Jewish friends who I believed to be true seekers of HaShem, but when I wiggled down to the root they were interested in nothing more than religion, they have no seasoning, not even salt in which to inspire others with they are but die bones. On my quest of conversion I found that Rabbi Yeshua truly is ...
Parshat Bashalach in the Torah not only teaches about how HaShem split the Red Sea, but it also teaches us the secret of an easy income, or making a living effortlessly, with no headaches, without breaking our backs like a pack mule, and without working from sunup until sundown. “Parshat HaMan”, which you’ll find in Exodus 16:4-36 ...
(Rambam, Mishneh Torah) “It is clearly and unequivocally in the Torah that the body of the commandments will remain for absolute eternity. It will never be changed, neither reduced nor expanded. This is indicated by the verse, “Be careful to observe everything which I am commanding you: You must not add to it, nor delete from it” ...
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