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“Torah is the mysterious bridge which connects the Jew and God, across which they interact and communicate, and by means of which God fulfils His covenant with His people to sustain them and protect them.” So says Rabbi Shraga Simmons in an article...
The Yalkut Shimoni is a piece of rabbinic literature, the oldest copy of which dates back to around 1310, but quotes many rabbis who lived far earlier in the first three centuries of this age. It touches on many future scenarios for both the nation...
Are events in the Middle East leading to the ‘time of Jacob’s trouble’ prophesied in the Bible, Jeremiah chapter 30? Jeremiah 30-31 form a unit in this prophecy in which the prophet turns away from addressing issues of his own time. Chapters 29 and...
In his book ‘26 Reasons why Jews don’t believe in Jesus’ Asher Norman says this is what the Messiah has to do to fulfil the prophecies of the Messiah: Have the correct genealogy by being descended from King David and King Solomon. Be anointed King...
An Orthodox Jewish man whom I was talking to about the Messiah, suggested that I read a book called ‘26 Reasons why Jews don’t believe in Jesus’ by Asher Norman. So I obtained a copy of this book and read it through. Obviously there were a lot of...
Sadly for millions of Jewish people the idea that Jesus could be the one to bring peace and reconciliation seems ridiculous and offensive. We used to know an old Jewish lady who was born around the beginning of the 20th century and brought up in a...
This is a chapter from ‘The Messiah Factor’ by Tony Pearce. In Leviticus 17.11 we read: ‘For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes an...
This is a chapter from ‘The Messiah Factor’ by Tony Pearce. By far the biggest stumbling block to any consideration of Jesus being the Messiah is the Christian claim that he is equal with God. I was discussing this question with an Orthodox Jewish...
In about 540 BC Daniel, a Jewish captive in Babylon, was praying to God for the restoration of the Jewish people to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the Temple. In response God gave him a remarkable prophecy that the Temple would be rebuilt in...
‘The Messianic era is a redemptive process which culminates in the perfection of society.’ So says Rabbi Boteach in an article praising the late Lubavitcher Rebbe who died on 12th June 1994. Rabbi Boteach describes the late Rebbe as one who more...
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