tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1234719670982368902024-02-20T19:06:52.793+02:00Combating MessianicsA. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-58630563374441582552016-06-23T14:14:00.001+03:002016-06-23T14:17:02.043+03:00Toldot Yeshu - Full Free English Translation<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Today I finished my translation of Toldot Yeshu, the real Jesus narrative. This amazing midrash will shock you with the real story. It's nothing short of absolutely eye opening and astounding - and it's not very long at all (about 11.5 pages in a Word document). Enjoy! :)<br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxgSOr7KioZeR1F3TjZ3LWlTMnc"><span style="font-size: large;">Click here to read Toldot Yeshu in English</span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-79424707285825298442016-06-16T15:56:00.003+03:002016-06-16T16:18:46.913+03:00I'm Back - With an English Translation of Toldot Yeshu!<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been absent from this blog for some time, but I'm coming back. I have translated most of Toldot Yeshu, a book I've mentioned in a previous post, and I'll be posting my translation of it here, probably incrementally for easier reading, and I may make a PDF file of the whole thing as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I could charge money for my translation, but I'd rather do it for the mitzva of getting people aware of the TRUE story of Yeshu! Remember, despite what anti-Semitic scholars might say or what threatened rabbis in Christian Europe might have said in the past, Toldot Yeshu is signed by R' Yohhanan ben Zakai, it is his midrash, and it is entirely true from beginning to end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is not only a holy book, it is a very important book, because it tells the real story of Yeshu, may his name and memory be erased entirely. There are so many amazing things found in this book, I can't explain it all or express my enthusiasm at this time - you'll have to read it all for yourself!</span>A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-65599436055180151302016-04-21T21:29:00.001+03:002016-04-21T21:29:55.648+03:00Necessity of the Oral Torah (Audio)<iframe frameborder="no" height="450" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/260222835&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%"></iframe>A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-52346927527954148042016-04-11T15:56:00.000+03:002016-04-11T15:56:02.841+03:00What Makes People Convert?<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the Torah of Rebbe Nahhman MeUman, entitled <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Likutei_Moharan">Likutei Moharan</a> (roughly translated: 'the compiled teachings of our Teacher, HaRav Nahhman'), R' Nahhman delivers unparalleled insights, drawing on the Tanakh, the statements of the Sages from within the Talmud and Midrashim, as well as from the Holy Zohar and the writings of the Ari z"l.<br /><br />So here in Torah 17 of Likutei Moharan, R' Nahhman tells us why some gentiles end up converting to Judaism. I will only post key sections of the Torah itself. The rest may be read <a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Likutei_Moharan#.2317_Vayhi_Hem_Merikim_Sakeihem">here</a>. I will underline key points and my comments/clarifications are in parentheses:<br /><br />"5. <b>But just how is it possible to make converts? — are they not quite far from the holiness of Israel? — and where does this come from, that it comes to their mind that they should convert?</b> Just know, that this is done through the aspects of (Eccl. 19): "Wealth adds many friends;" i.e. through charity that one gives to a wise scholar, <b>who is made up of several souls</b> of Israel, for actually, <b>how is it possible for a gentile to come to the faith of Israel? — are they not quite far from Israel? — and how is it possible to talk to them, that they should hear and come to the holy faith? — but, like when one is very far from another, and it is impossible to talk to him so that he can hear, it is necessary to write him some writing, so likewise it is necessary to send the idea of writing to them, until they can hear, though they be far.</b> For the root of the sense of hearing is because the letters of the speech are engraved in the air, and the airs strike each other, until it comes to the ear of the hearer, and therefore when the air is still and pure and clear, then when one speaks who is able to speak, then the speech is heard from afar, as we see tangibly, but when there is stormy wind, then it is impossible for the other one to hear, for the wind confuses and scatters parts of the airs and they are scattered, until it is impossible for the other one to hear even the voice, and even less so, the speech itself:<br /><br />[skipping two paragraphs]<br /><br />And then when the air is still and pure, then when the one speaks who can speak Israelite speech, i.e. holy speech, then <b>this speech is written and engraved in the air</b>, like (Ps. 45): "my tongue is the pen of a ready writer;" and <b>then the speech goes and is heard from afar</b>, like (Es. 9): "and his fame went out throughout all the provinces" for because the air is still and pure, they are able to hear from afar, <b>and then this speech is written in the books of the nations</b>, in various lands according to their writing, and then <b>the nations find in their books the reverse of their faith (they found contradictions), like we have found, several converts who converted because of this, because they found in their books the reverse of their faith. And where does this come from, that they should find now what is against their faith? — this comes but through the speech of the Tzaddik, which is engraved and written in the air, like: "my tongue is the pen of a ready writer;" and the air was still and pure through the aspect of "wealth adds many friends;" until the speech went out in the aspect of "and his fame went out throughout all the provinces" and was engraved and written there in their books (bits of truth from the speech of a Tzadik becomes written in their books, and causes contradictions, and through this they cling to the truth and convert to Judaism), and through this aspect they found in their books the reverse of their faith, and through this they converted, as several converts who converted through this relate, through their finding in their books the reverse of their faith, and all this is drawn from the aspects, as mentioned above.</b><br /><br />And this is like (Es. 6): "And it was found written, <b>that Mordechai had told</b>." Mordechai is like <b>the unbeliever at idol worship, as is written: "the Jewish man;" as our Rabbis of blessed memory said (Megillah 13): "Whoever denies the worship of stars and signs is called a Jew."</b> i.e. that <b>the words that Mordechai spoke</b>, which are <b>words of denial of worship of idols</b>, they were <b>written in the air, until writing was found in their books,</b> as mentioned above. And this is [the meaning of]: "And it was found written, that <b>Mordechai had told</b>," that <b>the utterances which Mordechai spoke, which are utterances of faith of the true Tzaddik, was found written in their (the nations') books,</b> for the speech of the Tzaddik went afar, until it was written and inscribed there in their books, <b>through which the reverse of their faith is found in their books</b>, for <b>it is found in their books holy speech which Mordechai spoke, who is like the Tzaddik,</b> as mentioned above. And this is: "And it was found written, that Mordechai had told," as mentioned above. <b>And then, when these nations come and find there the reverse of their faith, from this are made converts, like (Es. 8) "And many of the people of the land became Jews:"</b><br /><br />6. <b>But from just where does it come, that these ones specifically should find in their books the reverse of their faith and should come back and should recognize the faith of Israel, and the others should not find at all, and remain in their [false] faith?</b> Just know, that this is because of the <b>aspect of good, that is suppressed</b> under their (the nations') hands, i.e. the aspect of <b>parts of souls of Israel that is suppressed by them</b>, for <b>all the good is only the aspect of souls of Israel, i.e. when the nations strengthen up, they do not allow Israel to do mitzvot,</b> like it was found, that they decreed that they should not circumcise their sons that they should desecrate Shabbat (see Rosh Hashana 19, Baba Batra 60: Me`ilah 17). <b>Hence, the good that Israel needed to do, was suppressed under their hands, and also when they prevent Israel from serving Hashem Yithbarakh, through causes that they cause through taxes and property taxes that they levy on them, and also through their withholding benefits from Israel, through all this the good is suppressed under their hands, i.e. parts of souls of Israel.</b><br /><br />And <b>in the beginning this good (the bits of souls of Israel) that is suppressed by them remembers that it comes from a very holy and high place, (the parts of souls under the nations' suppression realize that their source in Israel) but they (the nations) just overcome this good and suppress it under their hands</b>, <b>until it is caught and tied by them, until the good itself forgets its loftiness,</b> and <b>through the Israelite speech, that goes out and is written in their books,</b> as mentioned above, then <b>this suppressed good there finds it in their books</b>, i.e. it finds there the<b> reverse of their faith (contradictions)</b>, and then <b>this good recalls its loftiness, how that it comes from a very high place, i.e. that it is parts of the souls of Israel, that all the worlds were created for them,</b> and "These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants... there they dwelt with the king for his work" (Chron. I 4), for Hashem Yithbarakh, consulted with the souls of Israel to create the world (Bereishit Rabbah 8, Midrash Ruth 2), and then <b>the good begins to be sorry and yearn because of it fell from such a high place</b>, and is now suppressed under their hands, and will come, God forbid, to annihilation and loss, and <b>it wants to go on and return to its place</b>; and because the good is already tied and caught by them in ties of ties, therefore when the good begins to return, then it draws and tears off with itself more from their evil. And this is like the converts that come to convert, who are like the evil that is torn off from them with the good, through the good returning to its place, for it is impossible for the good to return to its place, because of the vastness of the tying that is very tied and clipped there, and it is unavoidable that it should tear off with it from the bad, and this is the idea of converts."</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...particularly, in the same year that Rabeinu z"l (R' Nahhman) said this teaching, there were then many stories that were, suddenly after Shabat Hanuka when Rabeinu z"l said this teaching, suddenly a [Christian] priest converted from the village. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Afterwards, he (the former priest) was by Rabeinu z"l, and he told him that he found contradictions to their faith (Christianity) in their [religious] books.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Also, one woman converted with her children then, and she told that her family converted also because they found contradictions to their faith apparent in their books... (the text goes on to explain more examples of the same thing)"<br /><br />Here we see that after the Tzadik, R' Nahhman, had told over this Torah, several people converted in the same year. <b>Amazing!</b></span></div>
A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-49851986555416380732016-02-19T14:40:00.000+02:002016-02-20T23:17:39.526+02:00"The Talmud isn't the Bible"<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is an argument I've heard many a time, and that argument is that "the Talmud isn't canonized in the Bible, it's not the word of God". This idea comes from a complete lack of understanding the Torah.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />It also comes from the erroneous "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sola_scriptura">sola scriptura</a>" doctrine of mainly the Protestants. But don't they think the "Old Testament" isn't binding except for paying your tithes to the preacher? Oh, the irony. Well, I'm not going to focus on them. Instead, as the blog title implies, I'll focus on what many Messianics believe.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Many Messianics succumb to Karaite-like thinking, which rejects the Talmud, which is the codification of the oral Torah. You know, the Karaites, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Karaites#During_the_Holocaust">who were okay with Jews being killed by the Nazis, and appealed to the Nazis to not be considered Jewish</a>? Heard of them? Yeah, what bigger sell outs, what bigger disgraces of human beings could there be? But let's <a href="http://realbreslov.blogspot.co.il/2016/02/another-coincidence.html">not "judge"</a>, right?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />So if you read Deuteronomy 17 and don't know who the Court has been over the past thousands and thousands of years dating back to Moses - and there's only one candidate - who do you think it is? Are you stupid?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let's look at some facts. What Karaite or sola scriptura Messianic could tell me what "a man shall not leave his place on the Sabbath" means? Do you sit at home, don't leave your house? What if you drive to your congregation on Shabbat, as most Messianics do. If you're so into the plain written meaning of the Torah - how can you do that and call yourself a "Torah keeper"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The only reply I've received about this issue is that "the mitzva of congregating on the Sabbath outweighs leaving your place". What? From where? What logic? Which verses and what logic? Oh, I forgot, Yeshu said: "the Sabbath was created for man, not the man for the Sabbath" - so that means you can break Shabbat at your convenience, since Shabbat is supposed to be at your convenience? What about the man who was killed for collecting some wood on Shabbat, as the plain text of the Torah recalls?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And secondly, where does it say you can't collect some sticks on Shabbat? It's not "work" - right? Thank God, most Messianics aren't among Israel and therefore don't need to keep Shabbat, and they have no judgment for not keeping Shabbat. This is because the Torah was only delivered to Israel. And no, you can't just believe in some dead, heretical mamzer-Jew, and then consider yourself a Jew. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that that's not the way it works. If you do think that's how it works... I've got news for you. You're an idiot. Or just completely ignorant of the Torah, including the plain text of the Torah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Messianics know nothing about any of these things. If you want to know why we have such intricate details about some commandments - that's why we Breslovers have the super extraordinary book Likutei Halakhot, which explains the inner workings of the Torah, combining and unifying verses of the Tanakh, statements of the Sages in the Talmudim and Midrashim, the Zohar, and the writings of the Ari z"l.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So why would the Sages, who themselves authored the Talmud, not canonize the Talmud into the Tanakh? Because the Talmud is contained in the words of the Torah - it's the detail to the Tanakh, the background, the explanation. It was always orally relayed from the Judges of each generation to those of the next, and the instruction of the Torah was relayed to the common people from them - exactly as Deuteronomy 17 states! In plain language! The oral Torah is commanded to be obeyed by the written Torah itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Who else claimed to have the explanation of the Torah passed down to them from Moses to the Court he ordained, to the later High Courts throughout the generations? Who else even knows about certain Torah ordinances that were enacted in the days of Joshua, Samuel, David, Solomon, Ezra, etc? NO ONE ELSE besides those who codified this ancient oral Torah into written form, known as the Mishne and Gemara which are the two parts of the Talmud.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is no other in depth explanation of the Torah that so enlightening, so life giving (in that it actually allows you to carry out the commandments of the Torah!), than what the faithful of the Jewish people have been learning and living throughout this long exile. There's no other candidate for it. I'm sorry to tell you, but if you don't change, you'll get to the end, and the angel of death (who is a very real entity) will say to you: "I'm sorry, but the Jews were right".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Jews were right, have been right, and will be right. This is God's test for the nations, and so far, Edom/Christianity and Ismael/Islam have failed. That's God's plan, however, since by wrecking Edom as a people (God says he hates Edom in Malachi), he allowed the concepts of the Messiah, redemption, resurrection of the dead, and belief in the Hebrew Bible to exist among the people of Edom. Any of those gentiles who survive the worldwide catastrophic events awaiting us before the coming of the Messiah - and there likely won't be many - will now be able to understand what the heck just happened. They'll be able to submit and serve the True Messiah and the Jewish people, in a resurrected Suka of David, a restored Davidic Kingdom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It would be wise to get with it before it's too late - but in my experience, people aren't so privy to changing their ways. Even when they're argued out of them, logically, time and time again.</span>A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-16520145287086126492016-02-11T15:08:00.000+02:002016-02-11T15:09:16.705+02:00Where Most Anti-Missionaries Go Wrong 2<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the second post on this topic, I'll be discussing another concept that I haven't heard by many anti-missionaries. I'll explain why they sweep it under the rug and why they shouldn't. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Talmud, Brakhoth 18b, the Sages state: "<i>Tzadikim</i> are called living [even] in their deaths, as it says, "Benayahu ben Yehoyada`, <i>son of a living man</i>, great in deeds, from Qavse'el: he smote two mighty men of Mo'av, and he went down and smote the lion inside a pit on a snowy day." (Samuel II, 23:20)"<br /><br />It is known that great <i>tzadikim</i> are more able in their 'deaths' than in while living, because when they pass away from this world, they're uninhibited by the physicality of the world. Their Torah, their teachings, and their deeds are what continue on and what we can draw from. And as we learn the Torah of a great<i> tzadik</i>, we should bind our souls with his.<br /><br />A <i>tzadik</i> whose Torah is being learned moves his lips in the grave as the learner recites his words. This brings great spiritual pleasure to this <i>tzadik</i>.<br /><br /><i>Tzadikim</i> don't rot in the grave. Their bodies remain in tact. A <i>tzadik</i>, as explained in the previous post on this topic, is not merely referring to one whose good deeds outweigh his sins (see Mishne Torah, hil. Teshuva for this definition), rather we are talking about a great man who has completely annulled the desires of his flesh: greed, the urge for food and drink, and especially the lust for sex. These men conquered their natural inclinations to a great degree in order to serve HaShem unhindered - this is their level. As explained <a href="http://combatingmessianics.blogspot.co.il/2016/01/where-most-anti-missionaries-go-wrong.html">there</a>, Yosef was one to be specifically called a <i>tzadik</i>, mainly because of the test of sexual lust that he went through and passed. This is primarily what defines who is a <i>tzadik</i>, since sexual lust is the main trial of a person on this earth.<br /><br />So we see that <i>tzadikim</i> are called living, even after they 'die'. All truly observant Jews must believe this, because it is a matter of <i>emunat hakhamim</i>, belief in the authority of the Sages and <i>tzadikim</i>.<br /><br />Why don't anti-missionaries mention this? Because they fear believers in Yeshu may try to use this to back up some claim of their regarding their false messiah and idol? That would be my guess. But if that's so - why be scared of these bogus claims?<br /><br />I think I've been getting at something which needs to be said. Jews have taken an all-too passive stance about Christianity. Even the hardest hitting anti-missionary likely won't mention Toldot Yeshu. Why? Because Jews were persecuted for their beliefs for so long? There were forced debates between Rabbis and Christian priests and pastors, wherein the Rabbi was forced to lose the debate or if he won, Jews would be attacked or perhaps even massacred?<br /><br />Let's get our facts straight: Yeshu was a mamzer, he claimed his father was God and not the Roman soldier, whom Yeshu killed, and who was really his father. Yeshu performed sorcery and used Divine Names he didn't have the authority or permission to use, in order to perform miracles and sway some unlearned and weak minded people to his cause.<br /><br />Yeshu died, and and didn't ascend to Heaven. He made a huge mistake and as Onkelos found out before becoming a Jew, Yeshu paid for it by boiling in excrement as his punishment in Geihinnom, as Onkelos summoned Yeshu, among others, and kind of interviewed them, before he decided to become a Jew. This wise man ended up writing Targum Onkelos.<br /><br />Why don't anti-missionaries say this? Because they don't want to anger believers in Yeshu. They want to come across as 'civil' and 'respecting', and not be labeled as hateful or something else. It fits very nicely into the whole western societal idiocy that infects so many. Why can't they just call a spade a spade? I'm not here to bash any of them, truly, I think many do some great work, just that it only goes so far. It's incomplete, if they won't choose to refrain from candy coating the truth.<br /><br />Sometimes, being extremely forward and honest, even when it seems harsh, is the best way to affect people. That is, instead of being nice about disagreeing. No doubt, it will shock people at first. They'll become defensive and might even strengthen their belief in their idol when someone so truthfully calls him out for what he is. However, in the long run, it will do a lot of damage. When they hear a person speaking the truth about who they consider so great, they'll recognize in part that the truth has been spoken. On some subconscious level, this will bother them in the long run and eventually they might feel the need to come to terms with this conflict and really look for the truth.<br /><br />Appealing to emotions, and candy-coating the truth only works to gather in the weak who aren't totally in it for the truth. Telling it like it is might drive away the not-so-serious and draw the real truth-seekers out of their follies. I think that's a heck of a lot better, if you ask me.<br /><br />So, why do I have no problem mentioning the fact that <i>tzadikim</i> are truly living even after they've passed away? Because Yeshu wasn't a <i>tzadik</i>. Yeshu was the opposite to the extreme. It's a no contest, there's not a doubt about it, not a single question in my mind, and therefore, why would I be scared to mention this? What do I care if some unlearned fool who likely hates the Talmud, would like to try to use this quote to support their idolatry? I don't care, let them try to use it and let me set them straight. They already use many verses from the Tanakh which have nothing to do with their beliefs and can be easily proven to not be referring in any way, shape, or form to their idol. Big deal! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The ones who are serious will know better. The ones who are brainwashed Jesus drones will likely never snap out of it. That isn't my problem. My only obligation is to tell the truth and announce it loud and clear, and to use whatever skills or ability HaShem has granted me with to spread the truth of HaShem and his true <i>tzadikim</i>.</span>A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-76197184548048433262016-02-08T18:03:00.000+02:002016-02-11T15:09:34.671+02:00My Conversation with Carlos<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had an extended email conversation with someone named Carlos who sent a few emails, citing verses that supposedly prove his belief in the most popular heretical mamzer of history, Yeshu.<br /><br />I took it up to argue with him, and that is what I certainly did. This is a long discussion, but <i>it's golden</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />In the first emails, Carlos cites verses. I'm not posting this, since I'll re-cite each verse he mentioned, explaining their true meanings. I'll start with my first response:<br /><b><br />My response:</b><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Shalom Carlos, [here I explain my past to him and explain that I started out with no bias against my previous beliefs, but that studying Torah led me to the truth].</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">First of all, we must get one thing clear. The Torah states that God is not a man, nor a human being (ben adam), in BaMidbar/Numbers 23:19. This should be obvious, given there is no statement in the Torah, whatsoever, that indicates HaShem is a man. As soon as someone believes God is a human being, he loses his eternal life, his place in the world to come, and is a heretic - simply put. God is above and beyond conception, He is infinite and above time, space, and matter. At the same time, "the whole earth is filled with His glory", yet we cannot see or touch Him, we can only feel His presence and forge a relationship with him through learning Torah and praying to Him sincerely.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Also, God is not two, nor three. If he were a man, it would mean he is two. How did Yeshu pray to God if he were God? We recite the Shema` twice daily which is a proclamation of the oneness of HaShem, and this goes hand-in-hand with the previous paragraph that HaShem above and beyond the mind's perception. The verses in Tanakh regarding HaShem having an eye, that He sees, having a hand, sitting in judgment, etc, is all absolutely not literal. It is a necessary way of describing to the human mind how HaShem acts towards His creation. This is basic.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Secondly, nowhere in the Tanakh does it says the Messiah will be God. To the contrary, the Messiah is to be a son of David. To be a son of David means he is descended through David via his father. It means he must have a human father.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">All of our souls are like a breath from HaShem's mouth into the body. That's why we must take care not to damage this soul, but rather to return it to it's source in purity. In this way, you could say that every Jew is a son of God. And indeed it is so. However, this doesn't mean we are literally the children of God, as if He impregnated a human woman and we are the result. You only find such a ridiculous, stupid, silly, and evil concept among standard paganism and idolatry - not within the Torah in any way, shape, or form.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I feel it is this misunderstanding that you hold which leads you to other misconceptions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Psalm 22 does not, in any way, state that the Messiah would be tortured to death. See how you take a beautiful prayer of King David and twist it into something it is not. You should be ashamed to read such idiocy into these holy verses. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Your assumption about Daniel 9 is only what you read into it. And how can I trust someone who doesn't even believe in the oneness of HaShem and the fact that He is NOT a man? How could I trust such a person's interpretation of anything else in the Tanakh, when he doesn't even recognize these basic facts about the nature of HaShem?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Isaiah 52-53, "My servant" refers to Israel. It says so in Isaiah 41:8. You should read these verses in context.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moses was willing to give himself up to save all of Israel at a time when our destruction was being considered by HaShem for our sin of idolatry with the golden calf. Instead, you totally pervert this concept by insisting that you must worship an idol who supposedly sacrificed himself to himself (as you say, see how silly that is?). In other words, believing in Yeshu and considering him as a deity is the exact thing that will DESTROY Israel, NOT save us.<br /><br />You should read the Aramaic Targum (Yonatan) to Zechariah 12:10."And they shall supplicate Me because of their wanderings. And they shall look to Me to complain about those of them whom the nations thrust through and slew during their exile." In other words, they will look to HaShem about being killed, persecuted, and exiled by the nations, especially by the Romans and Christians who used Yeshu to disqualify the Jewish people and remove their importance, they identity, their supreme role in the world, and reduce them to dust. Again, Yeshu is the exact opposite of what we would hope for as the Messiah - plainly and clearly.<br /><br />On the last part about "mourning over an only son", the Sages comment that one of the Messiahs will be slain and the people of Israel will mourn over him as if he were their only son. Not "God's only son", see the difference?<br />Why wasn't this Yeshu? Because he didn't fulfill the role of the Messiah, and we don't consider him as valuable to us as an only son - instead, we consider him as an enemy, evil, wicked, exactly as he was.<br /><br />Zechariah 13:7 doesn't say at all what you claim it to say. The man in Zechariah 13:6 who has wounds "between his hands", meaning on his back (see Rashi) is a FALSE PROPHET, who was disciplined for being such. I don't know where you get these silly interpretations of these verses you quote - but it is sure getting old fast.<br /><br />Zechariah 11:4-6,10-11 do not say what you claim - at all. You simply read things into the text. You're just taking your mistaken beliefs and inserting them wherever you want.<br /><br />As for Psalm 2:1, the nations have accepted your messiah, but they reject the Messiah of Israel who will come to defy the wicked nations of the earth and crush them. This is Gog U-Magog, see Ezekiel 38-39. Yeshu wouldn't fight for Israel, he would turn the other cheek. He brought nothing but evil for the Jewish people, much less victory against our enemies.<br /><br />Isaiah 49:3 says Israel is God's servant. 49:4 expresses ISAIAH'S (not the Messiah's) frustration over Israel's sins. So you suggest we should sin by believing in a false messiah and claim him to be a god? You see the irony here?<br /><br />Isaiah 8:14, read the context. Isaiah is prophesying to the kingdom of Judah that the alliance between the kingdoms of Ephraim and Aram wouldn't be successful against them. The two sons, `Immanuel and Maher-shallal-hash-baz are two literal sons that were born to Isaiah's wife (the `alma, young woman). Isaiah says in 8:3 that he became intimate with the prophetess (his wife, the `alma/young woman) and she gave birth to the second child, just like in chapter 7 where the first child, `Immanuel, was born to Isaiah also as a sign to Judah that God is with them (as `Immanuel means "God is with us", i.e. on our side). In Isaiah 8:18, Isaiah says "the children whom HaShem gave to me as signs". `Immanuel was Isaiah's own child, not Yeshu - the text itself says that. You can't argue with that.<br /><br />Isaiah 6 is talking about the repentance of Israel back to the Torah. It mentions nothing about Yeshu, obviously.<br /><br />Psalm 69 is about David. See the first verse.<br /><br />Psalm 118 mentions nothing about Yeshu, again.<br /><br />Now that I have cleared up all the lies about what you claim these verses state. Answer me these:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">4. How do you reconcile the fact that the name of Yeshu has been used to consider the Jews irrelevant and the most hated and despised people on earth? That's the work of the Messiah?</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">5. How do you reconcile the fact that the people of Israel returned to the land of Israel after around 2,000 years of exile - WITHOUT Yeshu involved at all?</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">6. How do you reconcile the fact that HaShem did open miracles for the people of Israel, without Yeshu involved in any way?</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">7. How do you reconcile the fact that your beliefs force you to say all Jews who don't believe in Yeshu are lost, while at the same time the Torah always states that those Jews who follow HaShem's Torah and believe He is one are the righteous, the save, and are therefore the ones inheriting eternal life with eternal bliss?</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">8. How do you reconcile that the Torah says God is not a man, as I cited above, yet you turn around to believe He supposedly incarnated as a man and sacrificed himself to himself, for a problem he himself caused (the doctrine of original sin)? That is what you believe, it makes no sense, and it is actually hilarious to think someone could believe something like this.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">You see, what you believe is so illogical, it is hard for someone on the outside of it all to believe that someone could actually believe this. You need to break through the emotional programming and make a straight line to the unadulterated truth. It is the only thing attaching you to these extremely bizarre beliefs that are clearly foreign to the Torah. It may take a while to deprogram, but if you would really like to serve HaShem alone in the right way and attain true eternal life with Him (by being incorporated into Him through learning His Torah, living it, breathing it, and annulling yourself to Him), it is a necessary step to take. I can promise you: when you come out on the other side, you will feel relieved, happy, content, and rejuvenated, and you will finally be able to tell the difference between the real thing and the fake.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">-Aharon</span></span><br /><br /><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Carlos' reply:</b><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Hi aaron! thanks for sharing a little bit of your story with us, why do I say with us? because we are created in his likeness just like he said in genesis </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2110116100" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204 , 204 , 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">1:26</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> let us create a man in our likeness, Hashem undoubtably is one but at the same time in three, just like you and me: we are Spirit (life energy), Soul (feelings) and body (temple) the most ingenious invention earth is the computer which is inspired in man’s three in one also: electricity (power), hardware (body) software (programs) all in one, so the messiah is the number 2 in the original three in one, the mystery of the number seven: seven days in the week because of creation, i’m also a musician so i can tell you the mayor scale which is the main and most important has 7 notes, in the whole scale note number 3 is perfect has no sharp, and note number seven is also perfect has no sharp, so the other 5 notes has sharps that makes 10 + 2 (3 and 7 that are perfect) so the whole spectrum is 12, just like the months and digits in the clock (Time) just like the tribes of yisrael and the disciples of my master Adonai, the sun light is white (look at the moon at night when full contact with sun light) when he sunlight touches water and a prism or crystal u get 7 colours no more and no less, nature and numbers never fail, I would like to teach you more about the nature of the universe, these besides love which is the most important subject are the teachings of Yeshua, Melech malchei hamelachim, and a little bit of my background: I grew up in south america, I’m still learning hebrew, I speak 5 more languages, including japanese which is my current country, I was a complete ignorant, but I submitted to Elohim and he taught me, had an encounter with them, my wish was to be like enoch the teacher the 7 after Adam whose soul was completely wrapped with Ruach, Everybody has access to that nowadays, but only through Yeshua, no messianic church me taught me things, out of the blue i found a messianic synagogue by myself after knowing all these things.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hi Carlos, excuse my delayed reply. You really must read what the oral Torah has to say about these verses. Anybody can read anything in the Tanakh and make assumptions. Humans being made into "Our Image" doesn't mean HaShem has a body. If that's what you get out of it, you've severely degraded and bastardized the Torah.<br /><br />As for the white light becoming 7 colors via a prism or crystal - you're right. However, if you think the Emanations of HaShem (the Sefirot) are HaShem Himself, you're wrong. The Sefirot are ways we perceive HaShem's output into creation, they are not separate gods, God forbid, or separate entities. There is no trinity, there is no 7 or 10 gods represented by the Sefirot. HaShem is One and UNCHANGING, as the Tanakh states. Only, when we perceive what He does, we perceive supposed differences whereas actually HaShem never changed and is infinite and unable to be measured or contained in any sort of description or category.<br /><br />Through Yeshu, you have access to a counterfeit source of spiritual energy that is from the forces of evil that seek to feed off of aspects of true Holiness and Godliness. They seem real and strong, but they are only strong for a time before running out, like a storm wind. The real thing is much stronger, real, true, and holy, not what the spirituality from the belief in Yeshu is at all. The real thing is only accessible through refining yourself through the Torah and conversation with HaShem ALONE. If someone believes false things about HaShem, then they're not even on the track of true holiness and service of HaShem, and the spirituality they attain is evil disguised as good. Just as a Buddhist might attain spiritual 'heights' in his meditation, he is drawing from the forces of evil. A believer in Yeshu does the same thing.<br /><br />Spiritual feelings and emotional feelings are not a testament to the truth because many religions have spirituality that leaves people with tangible feelings. Miracles, also, are no testament to a true prophet or a true Messiah. The plain written text of the Torah warns us that if we listen to a 'prophet' who performs miracles but says one word contrary to HaShem's Torah, he is a false prophet and not to be followed, and in fact he is to even be killed.<br /><br />Unfortunately, you have been duped by a false prophet and a false messiah who offers nothing but nice warm feelings and an illusion of light and spirituality. Just like the evil inclination gives. When you get to the end, you'll see it is nothing but darkness, death, and impurity, God forbid.<br /><br />I see you did not reply to any of my refutations of your claims about the verses you cited, nor did you answer my questions. I know why this is, because whenever I have argued specific points with my Messianic friends and family, they usually have nothing to respond in the end. I am still waiting for my brother to respond to a specific point I made to him, and after several years and several reminders, he hasn't said a word. It is because you all do not really know what the Torah states, you don't have your theology in a straight line because you couldn't possible, since your theology is absurd according to the Torah.<br /><br />It is simple: serve HaShem alone, doing the Torah as His tzadikim have relayed it to us, without question and without doubt. Without philosophy, without trying to define God. The truth is only one and not two or more. Everyone, Jews and gentiles, must serve HaShem only according to what HaShem has commanded to them, depending on whether they're Jewish or a gentile. I hope you find the right path and get out of this big illusion and delusion of the false man-god idol known as Yeshu.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">God has No Body, He Is One, One white light, there’s no such thing as seven Gods, But he’s Three energies in One like a genetic code, translated to blood, in case of human beings, he’s the source of all Good, talent and love, the Dark energy, (Lucifer) lost his glorious state, and he wants to be like man, and mess up with the human genome, (transhumanism) that’s why his number is number of man three times: 666 (according to the prophecy of john the apostle) every thing that goes against nature Is not from Hashem! I’m sorry bro, but The shephirot is kabbalistic!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Sefirot are from Kabbalah and you don't understand them, and now what you wrote is a bunch of jibberish trying to say God is one and not a man, yet he somehow still is. I have been in your shoes before. I got out, you can too.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Way to not respond, again, neither to my refutations of your claims about the verses you cited, nor answer my questions at the end of the first email. As I said in the last email and I'll remind you again: you have no response. Also, whatever I write doesnt matter to you because you disrgard what I write and dont pay attention. If you paid attention to my words, you'll see I already answered your false claims in this latest email. Youre thinking in philosophy and philosophy is error. God is one, not a human, which the Torah plainly states. Theres nothing else to add, it's game over already.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I feel a lot of pride in you, and let me tell you according to the book of Ezekiel that was the first sin committed in the universe, the big light (Hashem) created lucifer (small light) but he was filled w pride (darkness) and he fell astray from the light and the void was created in a realm, every man is a temple, a house with no water and no light is void and has no purpose (just an example), the mayim Chaim chinam is Ruach and the light is Hashem but he is not a man, that's why through perfect genetics he manifested to mankind through Yeshua, everything was created through him and by him, in the beginning there was the word and the word was with Elohim and the Word was Elohim, and the word was made flesh, so in other words we see creation in Genesis from a word, Elohim is an unchanged energy and the source of love, but he had to speak to create through power of spirit to create so: light= Hashem, Word of light= Yeshua, living water and power= Ruach they're all one in three: let's create man in our own image= three in one!!!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carlos, you sit here and disregard everything I write. You arrogantly proclaim your man-god idol and have ZERO response on all my refutations of your points plus ZERO reply to my questions in the first email. Every time I argue with a messianic xtian and it gets to the point that they cannot refute a single point of mine, they resort to personal attack, just like you.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anyone reading this conversation can see you are an ignoramus arguing with someone who knows relatively very little about Torah, but still tons more than you who cannot even accept the simple oneness and incorporeality of HaShem. As I said before, and I'm sorry it hurts your feelings, but you're not even in the race yet, you haven't even begun, and you know nothing about Torah since you cannot even grasp the basics because of your mindless submission to your idol. You were not even open to the truth since phase one, there is no helping you until you realize how idiotic your beliefs are in light of Torah, and how childish your argument methods are in trying to get out of answering my questions (which is fair since I answered all your original points) by calling me names. Didn't your man-god say to not judge the sliver in another's eye when you have a whole beam of wood in yours? Also, he said to turn the other cheek, so if I call you what you are, don't call me a name back, turn that other cheek and let me slap it too. You're not acting very christ-like with your angry, worked up attitude. Didn't Yeshu say to just love your fellow man? I don't find any love from you, you are full of hate. Why not follow the man you claim is a god so vehemently? You're not acting like a very good believer...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Easy Aaron I appreciate you writing me back but we haven't met in person yet for you to say I'm full of hate, personally I think everyone is equal we are all children of Hashem, he teaches us, we look everyday for innocence, and look more for talent, he's the one to give us that and we all are Jewish in essence because we all come from Adam but then the bene Elohim came and messed up our Dna, that's why the messiah had to recover human race back with blood!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please answer all points I made in the original email, since I took the time and answered all your claims. I'll copy </span></span>and paste them here.<br /><br />>>> 1. How could Yeshu be paternal descendant of David if he didn't have a biological father?<br />>>><br />>>> 2. Do you realize, reading through the books of Samuel, Kings, and Isaiah, that the whole hope of Israel, and the coming of the Messiah, is for a restored Davidic Kingdom?<br />>>><br />>>> 3. If you realize the above, then how do you reconcile the fact that Yeshu had nothing to do with the restoration of the Davidic Kingdom, never mentioned it, and that all of his followers only look for a fake, fairy tale, "kingdom of heaven" which they say exists in their hearts, and that the Davidic Kingdom is disregarded entirely?<br />>>><br />>>> 4. How do you reconcile the fact that the name of Yeshu has been used to consider the Jews irrelevant and the most hated and despised people on earth? That's the work of the Messiah?<br />>>><br />>>> 5. How do you reconcile the fact that the people of Israel returned to the land of Israel after around 2,000 years of exile - WITHOUT Yeshu involved at all?<br />>>><br />>>> 6. How do you reconcile the fact that HaShem did open miracles for the people of Israel upon our return to Israel, without Yeshu involved in any way?<br />>>><br />>>> 7. How do you reconcile the fact that your beliefs force you to say all Jews who don't believe in Yeshu are lost, while at the same time the Torah always states that those Jews who follow HaShem's Torah and believe He is one are the righteous, the save, and are therefore the ones inheriting eternal life with eternal bliss?<br />>>><br />>>> 8. How do you reconcile that the Torah says God is not a man, as I cited above, yet you turn around to believe He supposedly incarnated as a man and sacrificed himself to himself, for a problem he himself caused (the doctrine of original sin)? That is what you believe, it makes no sense, and it is actually hilarious to think someone could believe something like this. (This point you have addressed, albeit in a completely unsatisfying and illogical way)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1_Joseph and Miriam were both cousins and descendants of the tribe of Judah (the Lion) and from direct lineage of David</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2_It’s an eternal restored davidic kingdom on earth (haaretz) so not only in israel but also for all the goyim</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">3_Kingdom of heaven is the third heaven, first is the atmosphere of haaretz, second is the universe, and the third is where the throne of hashem is (multiverse) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4_Well jews has been despised by the babylonians, Egypt, Rome, Soviet union, Nazis, Persia, all of these aforementioned kingdoms don’t exist no more except the reminiscence of rome (Vatican the kingdom of lucifer) and it’s about to fall</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">5_Well some israelites have always been living around haaretz and in haaretz the whole time, close areas include: Jordan, Palestine and Lebanon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">6_Rachem miracles are always present, but Yeshua’s miracles reinforced the new covenant from the tribe of Judah which is love others like yourself, that means the levitical law (moshe’s) is not necessary the ONLY one after the hamaschiah came for the first time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">7_Never said nobody is lost, only Elohim knows, and only Hashem knows what eras in the persons life elohim reveals individually so that’s a very delicate question that nobody knows the answer except for the Yeshua part.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">8_Well according to bereshit The whole creation was made through the word of G-d, He said: (that’s a word) Let there be light, so Yeshua (Messiah) is the Word of YHVH made flesh genetically perfect from Adam, and the original sin is listed in bereshit as the Fall from Gan Eden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">1. Joseph wasn't his biological father, so he couldn't have been a Davidic king. The maternal ancestry doesn't count for tribal status. You claim he didn't have a human father, but we know his father was a Roman soldier and that Yeshu was a mamzer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2. The Davidic Kingdom is more like an empire that conquered nations in order to claim the full span of the Land of Israel, which is massive. The Prophets speak of there being gentiles in the Days of the Messiah, obviously not everyone will be Jewish. Also, in the time of the Messiah, like it was fornthe time of David and Solomon, converts are not accepted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">4. I agree. All those nations that hated Jews don't exist and that the Roman empire turned into western society and Christianity. The Protestants broke away somewhat from the Catholics, but they still do the same idolatry. Meaning all of the believers in Yeshu will fall, not just the Vatican, because they're all idolaters and their idol Yeshu has been used to persecute Jews more than anything else over the paste two millenia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Shalom Again Aaron! receive a Sephardic salutation with a mix from the tribe of levi, naphtali and issachar from </span>here!!<br /><br />1-Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel. Joseph and mary were cousins so there is the legal right right there<br /><br />2- Romans are Devilish we agree on that, then again the davidic kingdom goes in genetic info (blood)<br /><br />3-Agree on that too Hashem lives in an eternal present, Yeshua is his word made flesh, essentially he is not elohim, but he is seated on his right hand, meaning he has the same power, because he is his word and Ruach haqodesh is the power 3 in 1.<br /><br />4-Correction they were already idolatrous when constantine knew about ha maschiach<br /><br />5-ok<br /><br />6-Gotta love the Goyim bro, if you hate there is darkness inside, were one with the goyim through his name now, Love others like yourself, bc the life in essence contained in others is the same in you… if you love Hashem cannot hate others bc in a way Hashem is in them…<br /><br />7-Only Him knows But it’s not through thorough laws anymore<br /><br />8-Think of the WORD like a Verb theoretically and linguistically you cannot have any action in no text without a Verb , it denotes action past present or future, so He is His verb Made flesh for the planet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First of all, Carlos, you're not from this tribe or that. You can't simply come up with "oh yeah, I'm from this tribe". All of that is a fantasy and not true, you cannot prove it. It's also a form of replacement theology to say you're the real Jew since you think the actual Jews are doing it wrong. You're the mistaken one, we're the only ones to keep the Torah for thousands of years, no one else. And the 613 commandments of the Torah were delivered only to us.<br /><br />1. The word is not virgin. `Alma does not mean virgin. Not only that, the child along with the other one in Isaiah 8 were both born to ISAIAH'S WIFE, the `Alma. AND, Isaiah says that, himself in Isaiah 8. Go read it for yourself. I already addressed this point and now I see you didn't read it. The two children `Immanu'el and Maher-shallal-hash-baz were children born to Isaiah, as explained in Isaiah 7 and 8, as signs for the kingdom of Judah that the alliance of Ephraim and Aram wouldn't be victorious, but that God would save them from their enemies. If you can't even read that in context, in the plain written text, then that's pretty bad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There, Isaiah says himself that `Immanu'el was his literal flesh-and-blood son, born to his wife who is the obvious "`alma" of chapter 7, as it says plainly and clearly in the text.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Do you see how you have been lied to, Carlos?</b> Can't you read this for yourself and see? Can't you take off the blinders and see the truth? Anyone who reads the plain text of Isaiah 7 & 8 cannot possibly be mistaken about this, it's<b> <u>as clear as day</u>.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Aaron we live in the year 5776, If you know how to interpret prophecy through the torah, then I ask you, whats the prophecy for today on behalf of the king of the universe?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First of all, will you admit you were wrong about Isaiah 7, now that I showed you verse by verse what it actually says there?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The prophecies and events in Isaiah 7 & 8 were for that time, obviously. The Rabbis canonized it as Scripture because it is appropriate for all generations to realize that when Israel does HaShem's will, the Torah, then God will protect them. This applies obviously for today, as well. And today, we have Russia, Iran, and other enemies to our north, looking to destroy us, which is a very similar circumstance to what was going on in Isaiah's day. We can learn from reading Isaiah that HaShem will protect us and save all of those who trust in Him alone and do His will.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well I believe also the Torah is eternal, He will protect not also Us but tho the rest of the Goyim that love him and are circumcised in the heart also… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Circumcision of the heart, the Tanakh describes, is breaking the ego and submitting to HaShem and His Torah. And I already explained the difference between good gentiles and bad gentiles and what a Jew's sentiment should be toward all of them. You seem to answer me like I didn't just explain that to you. I don't know where your disconnect is.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[Sends me a link to some song on YouTube. I guess thinking is getting too strenuous for him.]</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carlos, you never admitted to being obviously wrong about Isaiah 7. I thoroughly showed you what was in chapters 7 & 8, don't play ignorant. Be honest with yourself.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[Again sends me another link to a song on YouTube and says nothing.]</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Carlos, you are the most ignorant person I have come in contact with. You live a lie and a fantasy that you cannot even back up. I have proven you wrong TONS of times since we began arguing and you continue on like you made sense. Pathetic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Aaron This is my prayer for u… Rachem…</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">[Again he posts another YouTube song. See a trend here?]</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You're blinded to the truth. Spiritually blinded. You cannot look at the truth and see it, or ever admit wring. You say you are righteous, but you are wicked for denying the plain truth. God will repay you for denying His truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">違います, I don’t know about you, but everything you wish to me badly will come back to you, and as I pray for you, abundance and prosper will follow me until the end of my earthly days, YHVH lives eternally</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You have no spiritual protection, that's why Christians and Messianics deal with demonic activity that bothers them, when they get involved in spirituality. You're worshiping an evil persona of deceit and lies. Thus, those of us who have true spiritual protection, tefillin, mezuzot, and Shema`, are protected. I don't suffer from problems like you will, from this interaction of ours. May you suffer from a lot until you give up and see the truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">those are just garments, I was healed from leukemia, been in many countries, learned many languages, play 4 instruments, Sing, self taught nobody taught me (can you do all of these,?,,,, Doubt it) I don’t have spiritual protection, my spirit is Sealed by the ruach, I’m a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven and that’s irreversible…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>End of the discussion - for now!</b><br /><br />How do you think it went? Who won? Care to comment?</span></div>
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A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-81969594753022671142016-01-24T14:13:00.000+02:002016-02-11T15:12:07.927+02:00Where Most Anti-Missionaries Go Wrong 1<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have a little bit of an edge over some anti-missionaries, at least in one way, since I know the inside mindset of Christians and Messianics. As I've <a href="http://combatingmessianics.blogspot.co.il/2013/12/the-point-of-many-messianics-is-not-to.html">stated before</a> on this blog, many anti-missionaries focus on 'Jews for Jesus' and other normative Christian groups. What they don't realize is that many former Protestants, who you could easily argue are still Protestants, but call themselves Messianics or Hebrew Roots Christians, are not really mainly focused on converting Jews. They're mainly focused on discovering the supposed Jewishness of the <a href="http://combatingmessianics.blogspot.co.il/2015/12/toldot-yeshu.html">most popular mamzer</a> perhaps in all of history: Yeshu.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Many anti-missionaries, especially those who have always been Jewish all their lives or have never been Messianics or known and explored the mindset of Messianics personally, don't really get where the Messianic or Hebrew Roots Christian is coming from.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Part of this problem is because of the new idea within Judaism of being closed off, not seeking converts or to bring back gentiles of partial Jewish ancestry. While it's true, Judaism is the only one of the so-called "Abrahamic religions' (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) that holds that you do not have to be one of them to be good and righteous in God's eyes. The Torah clearly states that gentiles can be righteous without being Jewish. Any learned Jew knows that. However, in relaying this concept <i>properly</i>, many anti-missionaries are inadequate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A good Rabbi I know, <a href="http://www.soulmazal.com/">Rabbi David Katz</a>, has explored the true meaning of the term 'ger', which often in Torah literature doesn't refer to a convert to Judaism, who is mostly called a Jew or sometimes a '<i>ger tzedek</i>'. Instead, the term <i>ger</i> often refers to those who are associated to some degree with the Jewish people, but are not, for whatever reason, technically Jewish. He also relays in his teachings that although the <i>ger toshav</i> (a gentile who rejects idolatry lives by the universal Noahide laws, if not more, and is permitted to live among Jews) isn't officially recognized or accepted today in a formal way, such a person can truly be a <i>ger toshav</i> in all regards just without official recognition, yet. Such a person can take on most of the Torah's commandments as the Jewish people were commanded at Sinai, although he is not obligated in all of them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This idea is largely swept under the rug, out of the sight of people, and this is a problem, because if we had more leaders among the Jewish people teaching the truth of the term '<i>ger</i>', we could bring an end to much idolatry and false religions among the gentiles, and perhaps even the entire fall of Christianity as we know it, save for perhaps the Roman Catholic Church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since this is so huge, that is the precise reason why it is not popular today. The world has been increasingly led into an insane place where almost nothing makes any sense. People are more wicked as the days go on, and lack of faith in HaShem and in His Sages whom He appointed is in serious lack, even among some practicing Jews. For this reason, the truth will appear crazy, insane, or too much for most people to handle. This is because what is normal and good has become crazy to people, while what is crazy and evil has become normal to them. This, unfortunately, has affected most of the world and it is a sure sign that the time of redemption is coming closer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All of what I've written here so far is not the main point of this post, it's just a necessary introduction. I want to touch on a more serious point that almost no one realizes or actualizes in serving HaShem. That point is the very important and pertinent idea of the <i>tzadik</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Moses was the leader of Israel and was the only one fit to lead the Jewish people out of Egypt, bondage, which is synonymous with sexual sin - taking Israel out of that and unto HaShem and His Torah. The soul of this leader is termed 'Moses-Messiah' in the Holy Zohar. The author of the Zohar, Rashbi (Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai), embodied this soul. Later, the holy Ari z"l, Rabbi Isaac Luria, who spent many days in total seclusion and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitbodedut">hitbodedut</a></i> by the Nile river, attained huge insights into the Zohar and his some of his extraordinary teachings were written down by one of his main disciples, Rabbi Hayyim Vital z"l. The Ari z"l also embodied the 'Moses-Messiah' soul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Later came another unparalleled master and teacher, who built upon the layers of Torah revelation that Moses, Rashbi, and the Ari z"l, relayed to the people of Israel via God's great mercy. His name was Rabbi Nahman (commonly spelled 'Nachman') of Uman. The numerical value of his name, Nahman ben Simha, is the <i>same</i> value as Shimon ben Yohai. Rabbi Nahman, after having spent many days and hours in seclusion/<i>hitbodedut</i>, bonding with his Creator, receiving unparalleled insights into the Torah, and breaking his bodily urges, ended up passing away at the young age of 38. After revealing unparalleled Torah insights for his time, the Ari z"l also passed at 38. All three of these <i>tzadikim</i> had disciples record their teachings, and it is likely these disciples all possessed parts of the same soul.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why do I mention all of this? Because it is absolutely necessary to know about and follow the Torah of these <i>tzadikim</i> the same way you had to have followed Moses to get out of Egypt. Some tried to leave Egypt before Moses was ordered by God to lead them out. They ended up failing and dying, unfortunately. Others protested Moses' leadership in the wilderness, namely Korah and his followers. They were swallowed up by the ground. Only Moses could lead Israel out of Egypt and into righteousness, righteousness which is characterized especially by breaking the lust for sexual sin, which is the overall lust that all the 70 prototype nations embody, and the opposite of which, corrected sexuality, <i>tikun habrit</i>, which is the overall rectification since it is the whole basis of the Torah as evidenced by the <i>brit mila </i>(circumcision).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The male sexual organ of the man of Israel is termed the <i>ot brit kodesh</i>, literally 'the sign of the holy covenant'. The Sabbath is also called a sign, an <i>ot</i>, and there is much that these above-mentioned <i>tzadikim</i> link between the idea of pure, corrected sexuality, and the Sabbath, both of which are considered to encompass the entirety of the Torah. Meaning, if you uphold either of them, it is as if you uphold the whole Torah, and if you blemish either of them, it is as if you've sinned against the whole Torah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Moses-Messiah is not to be confused with the Messiah of the redemption who will be as David in every respect. David's role was to establish the Torah of Moses and present the kingship of HaShem through it, unto all Israel, resulting in a Jewish Empire which spanned much larger areas than any historian would like to admit. The role of the Messiah will be to teach the Torah of Moses, Rashbi, the Ari, and Rabbi Nahman - which are all layers of the same Torah. This is why Rabbi Nahman stated that the Messiah would write a commentary on his magnum opus, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breslov_(Hasidic_group)#Important_books">Likutei Moharan</a>. Well, no wonder!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Anti-missionaries often do not stress the importance of following the <i>tzadik</i>, because, since Christianity tried to copy something from this very real and practical concept of the <i>tzadik</i>, the anti-missionaries have grown to disregard it and state that no one needs an intermediary between them and HaShem. We do, he is Moses who returns to constantly reveal new revelations of Torah. It has nothing to do with, <i>lehavdil</i>, the opposite, the man-god idol of the Christians. However, since many anti-missionaries have not merited being drawn near to the true <i>tzadik</i> throughout all of his reincarnations, they fail to see the necessity and therefore throw the baby out with the bathwater when it comes to arguing this point against Christianity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I write much more about the subject of <i>tikun habrit</i> and the <i>tzadikim</i> on my alternate blog, <a href="http://realbreslov.blogspot.com/">here</a>. It is a must for everyone to absorb this information, and it can turn an idolater into one who serves HaShem properly, according to the Torah of HaShem's messenger, prophet, and appointed leader of Israel: Moses. Every Jew must be aware and must be told who is the true <i>tzadik</i> of this generation. The latest 'version' of the Moses-Messiah soul reincarnating into this world is in Rabbi Nahman of Uman. We must learn his books and put all of the advice to practice. You'll see, it will become very hard, even if it seems very easy, because it has the power, if simply done by us, to purify our souls entirely. This is true even in this sick generation where we have been subjected to the worst sexual perversions that have become normalized by the world around us, shoved in our faces, and made the norm. In this time when complete faith in HaShem and His Sages and <i>tzadikim</i> is hardly realized and much less actualized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">To be a true anti-missionary is not just to debunk the false messiah, the false <i>tzadik</i>, it is to reveal and promote, <i>lehavdil</i>, the true <i>tzadik</i> and spread his Torah. This is where most anti-missionaries will not go, because all they know is standard Judaism, without much of the life, spice, and the joy that the true <i>tzadikim</i> teach us, in explaining to us the inner workings, the spiritual life, that is behind every single letter and word in the Torah and in the statements of <i>Hazal</i> (the Sages of the Talmud).</span>A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-19874778123784655042016-01-19T15:05:00.002+02:002016-02-11T15:10:59.383+02:00Isaiah 7 & 8 - The `Alma<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have had multiple conversations with Christians/Messianics about Isaiah 7 recently.<br /><br />Many quote a single verse from Isaiah 7 which is mistranslated, supposedly saying a 'virgin' will give birth to a child and his name will be `Immanu'el</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First of all, the world `alma (עלמה) simply does not mean virgin. It means a young woman, who may either be a virgin or may be married and not a virgin. The Hebrew word for virgin is bethula (בתולה), not `alma. Hebrew does not have unnecessary and redundant words. If two words in Hebrew have a very similar meaning, there is always some difference in meaning that results in them being different words, comprised of different letters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, this is unnecessary to delve into or to even understand at all, because the answer of what this verse in Isaiah 7 is referring to is answered <b>in the very explicit text of Isaiah.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Isaiah 7:15 - The sign for Judah in those days was to be a son to be born to the `alma (young woman, NOT virgin), and Isaiah will call this son of his `Immanu'el, meaning God is with us, that is, God is on Judah's side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Isaiah 8:4 - Like with `Immanu'el in chapter 7, it also says this child won't get very old before God saves Judah from invasion. Rashi actually says they're both the same child, simply with two names.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There, Isaiah says himself that `Immanu'el was his literal flesh-and-blood son, born to his wife who is the obvious "`alma" of chapter 7, as it says plainly and clearly in the text.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What baffles me is how anyone could misconstrue these prophecies and events to mean that it is referring to their false messiah. It is a pathetic attempt at finding the pagan tradition of man-gods being born of virgin mothers in the Tanakh. It is also a result of not even being able to read anything in context, or in it's true understanding, but instead taking verses completely out of context to try to prove something that the text of the Tanakh simply does not say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is one point that any Christian/Messianic with a brain would have to agree. However, they always find ways to try to get around looking at the clear-as-day meaning of these verses.<br /><br />One Christian person I explained this to said she had to understand Hebrew first, to evaluate whether or not the Tanakh is really saying what it does. That's absurd because there is no way a bad translation could even not say that `Immanu'el was Isaiah's literal child. There is no way a bad translation would botch the clear meaning of these two chapters in Isaiah. You cannot get out of the obvious context and meaning of all these verses. It is very clear what is stated in these chapters of Isaiah.<br /><br />Secondly, I told this woman that I understand Hebrew. I speak Hebrew, I write in Hebrew, and I study many aspects of Torah every day in - yes, you guessed right - Hebrew. Yet, in her sad attempt to deny the plain meaning and context of Isaiah 7 & 8, she refused to listen to me. That is outright ignorance and stupidity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another person I explained Isaiah 7 & 8 to, by simply quoting surrounding verses to the `alma verse, asked me: "</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you know how to interpret prophecy through the Torah, then I ask you, whats the prophecy for today on behalf of the king of the universe?" (Notice, he wouldn't admit being wrong about his ignorant understanding of Isaiah 7 & 8)<br /><br />To which I replied: "First of all, will you admit you were wrong about Isaiah 7, now that I showed you verse by verse what it actually says there?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The prophecies and events in Isaiah 7 & 8 were for that time, obviously. The Rabbis canonized it as Scripture because it is appropriate for all generations to realize that when Israel does HaShem's will, the Torah, then God will protect them. This applies obviously for today, as well. And today, we have Russia, Iran, and other enemies to our north, looking to destroy us, which is a very similar circumstance to what was going on in Isaiah's day. We can learn from reading Isaiah that HaShem will protect us and save all of those who trust in Him alone and do His will."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">People who are so brainwashed with Jesus, that they can't even be open to the obvious meaning of a few verses in the Tanakh, which any normal person with a functioning brain would be able to clearly see. They always like to talk about Jews being 'blind to the truth', but as we see, we have the truth and see the truth. They, on the other hand, have 'spiritual blinders' over their eyes, as a result of their fatal dedication to their false messiah, man-god idol.</span></div>
A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-37225534503832018052015-12-28T16:05:00.001+02:002016-02-11T15:11:13.431+02:00Toldot Yeshu?There is a very interesting book titled Toldot Yeshu which explains the life of Yeshu HaNotzri. It is based in part upon the account of one of the multiple 'Yeshu's mentioned in the Talmud. This specific Yeshu is the one that the self-conflicting 'gospels' draw from the most.<br />
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In the Talmud are mentioned multiple people entitled 'Yeshu', and they lived at different times. The one discussed in Toldot Yeshu was a student of Rabbi Yehoshua` Ben Perahya, who admonished him for paying too much attention to an innkeeper's wife. When Rabbi Yehoshua` was reciting the Shema`, Yeshu came to him to see if his teacher would accept or reject him. Rabbi Yehoshua motioned to Yeshu to wait. This may have been a mistake on Rabbi Yehoshua`'s part, since the halakha is that when you recite the Shema`, you shouldn't gesture with your eyes or hands so as not to make the recitation of the Shema` to seem mundane or random.<br />
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Yeshu misunderstood Rabbi Yehoshua's gesture. Instead of understanding it to mean "wait a minute, I'm reciting Shema`", he took it to mean "get out of here". Yeshu then put a stone to a tree, a Babylonian idolatrous custom, and bowed down to it.<br />
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Yeshu made a journey, then, to Egypt, which was a common place for Sages and Torah scholars to travel at times when the Romans would seek them for persecution. While he was there, he engaged in some Egyptian mysticism and magic, learning these things and incorporating them into the Torah mysticism he had learned from his teacher.<br />
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When he came back to Israel, he stole a Divine Name from the Temple. He used it, along with the Egyptian magic he had learned, to perform miracles. These miracles were able to have been performed, and were performed, by the Sages mentioned in the Talmud. In fact, to be mentioned in the Talmud, a Rabbi must have had the ability to raise the dead. However, anyone who knows anything about the Torah knows that magic is forbidden, and this includes using Divine Names of HaShem to perform miracles. The only exception is when there is an absolute necessary need to perform miracles. This is not often, and the average person could easily misuse these powers. Therefore, the secrets of these Divine Names and what we know today as practical Kabbalah were not taught to anyone. They were only entrusted to the wisest and most humble Sages who had fear of Heaven and would never misuse these Names and powers.<br />
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The story goes on, of this man nicknamed "Yeshu", an acronym for "Yimah Shemo Wa-zikhro" (Y-Sh-W/U, i.e. Yeshu), who had lived in the century before the classic Yeshu of Christianity is thought to have lived. I won't recount the rest of the story, since this isn't the focus of this post.<br />
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Toldot Yeshu is basically built around the details of this Yeshu from the Talmud. It includes more detail in the narrative than the Talmud offers.<br />
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It strongly appears that the Yeshu/Jesus of Christianity is built around multiple figures around that general time. Remember, as much as the gospels of the Christian Bible, which were canonized by blatant anti-Semites, conflict with one another, there were many other gospels that were rejected for canonization. They all include added, different, and conflicting information.<br />
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Why so many discrepancies? Because the accepted Yeshu of the Christian and 'Messianic' worlds never existed as they think. He is a persona invented based upon more than one historical person. They added some very clear standard paganism, like the virgin birth, a man-god, and thus we have the perfect blend of bits of Judaism and Torah mixed with outright paganism.<br />
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Even the Messianics cannot escape this, unless they abandon their new form of Christianity altogether, or found an even newer version based on partial rejection of key passages in the Christian Bible.<br />
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What the smart Messianic will do is continually recognize the Jewish aspects of Yeshu and the Christian Bible, and despite not rejecting them yet, let these bits of holiness into them, If they keep this up and keep seeking the Torah, they will eventually be led to the recognition of the fact that Yeshu definitely was not the Messiah, as is clear to those not in a brainwashed state of mind, and that the Christian Bible, AKA "the New Testament", is full of errors, inconsistencies, and is no place to find the truth.<br />
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I believe that the Messianic movement has been primarily a stepping stone for those who will make it out of the idolatry and lies altogether. It takes a lot to deprogram the mind into rejecting an idol and false messiah that you have been warned your entire life that if you reject him, you won't have eternal life. Christians and Messianics set this up as their very first rule, their number one priority, and their entire main focus. It is all about accepting Yeshu, and this is the main thing to them. To be able to reject that obvious flaw can take a lot for the normal person who has been subjected to such brainwashing by likely most or all of their friends and family for perhaps their while lives.<br />
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To help with this, it seems to me that HaShem has made many aware of the fallen sparks of Torah, purity, and holiness that have been suppressed and subdued under Christianity, and through them, one can find their way back home. It won't be easy, but if you, reader, are someone on the verge of making this decision: you absolutely must do it, and you will regret it in the end. At all.A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-63810166244560088042013-12-18T13:43:00.000+02:002013-12-18T15:28:50.316+02:00The Goal Of Many Messianics Is Not To MissionizeThis title may come as a shock to you! I didn't even realize until recently that many Jews think that the entire Messianic 'thing' is mainly about missionizing Jews in attempt to get them to believe in their god and messiah. If I am telling you otherwise - <i>then why is my blog self proclaimed as an anti-missionary one?</i> Surely, there are many other questions that would arise from this. It will all be very clear to you shortly, and not just that. You will understand more about the minds of Messianics that will undoubtedly give you a psychological advantage in addressing their claims against the Jewish people.<br />
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Jews for Jesus, as I have mentioned before, is not really a Messianic organization. <b>It is mainstream Christian in theology</b> and countless Messianics would not consider them having the same purpose as they themselves do. The confusion that comes from Jews for Jesus being labelled Messianic is that they target Jews for conversion to Christianity, and therefore they want to show the targeted Jew a Jewish depiction of Jesus.<br />
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Both might use copious amounts of Jewish imagery in an attempt to feel really, really Jewish - while in reality being very ignorant and looking pretty hilarious. Take this picture, for example:<br />
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However, as I have also explained in previous posts, the majority of those who title themselves Messianic are not heretical Jews, but are<b> former mainstream Christians</b> seeking a deeper understanding of their god and messiah, which has led them, via a handful of quotes from the New Testament, to a Karaite-like view of Torah (reminiscent of the sola scriptura doctrine of Protestantism), and a kind of craving for the supposed Jewish aspect of their messiah.<br />
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<b>The difference</b> between these former mainstream Christians who now embrace a new sect of Christianity called "Messianic" and the missionaries at Jews for Jesus is that the former are concerned more with getting other Christians to a supposedly more authentic form of Christianity, while the latter are not focused on that but instead seek to convert Jews to Christianity.<br />
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Now, <b>there certainly are Messianic organizations that are concerned with converting Jews</b>,<b> but when it comes to the individual Messianic</b>, they are more often than not, <b>not focused</b> on trying to change Jews' beliefs. A few even believe that you shouldn't change Jews' beliefs, but that they are fine as they are and even "saved" by observance of Torah. Others consider them heretical for that, since Paul clearly told them no one is saved by works, while at the same time occasionally stressing the importance of the "law" in his epistles.<br />
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<i>Are things clearer, now?</i><br />
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Really, though,<b> is it important</b> to know the intentions and mindsets of all kinds of different Messianics that there are? The answer is <i>yes and no</i>. Yes, because it can give you a better idea of what you might encounter and why. Knowing why, as in where this person comes from and what their motivation in their beliefs are, will give you a big advantage. Also, anti-missionaries can have much better precision in combating this brand of Christianity as opposed to another brand. You cannot always use the same weapon against them all, because among themselves they often do not agree, and they usually are often shooting from totally different positions.<br />
The answer is also<i> no</i>, in that there are universal Christian arguments that cover the Messianic sect as well, which you can combat regardless of whether the opponent is a more mainstream Christian, or a Hebrew-Roots Messianic, or a FFOZ kind of Messianic, or a Nazarene Jewish or Nazarene Israel kind of Messianic, or this other kind, or this kind, or that kind - given the complexity and sometimes minutia of difference between one group to the next.<br />
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So, now you know the answer to the question in my beginning paragraph: t<b>his blog is not just an anti-missionary blog, it is even more than that.</b> It is an overall Messianic combating blog, as the name clearly implies, because it will argue against Messianic ideas <b>whether or not</b> they are used to try to convert Jews to Christianity.<br />
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Every Jew reading this who knows a little bit about his faith, I can tell you - the ideas that abound in Messianic theology are severely limited and can often be shot down with even just a basic knowledge of Hebrew. For example, at a Friday night Messianic "Shabbat gathering", "bible study" on the weekly parasha, I heard someone quote a Messianic commentator correlating the name Levi to the Hebrew word "lev" (meaning heart for those not aware). <i>This is severely comical,</i> since, as you might know, Levi/לוי is spelled with a ו and lev/לב is spelled with a ב - not the same letter thus the words do not originate from the same root word which indicates they would have a similar meaning. Also, ו is truly pronounced w, not v. The confusion is based on the fact that this guy didn't was reading the words Levi and lev in transliterated Hebrew (Hebrew in English letters), and he could not read Hebrew. This oh-so great and insightful Messianic commentator didn't know anything about Hebrew, yet he thought he sure did.<br />
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This is why dealing with Messianics and Christian missionaries can be so difficult sometimes - not because they know what they're talking about, but because they know so little about Hebrew, the Torah, Jewish tradition, and they are so stubborn in their ignorance that even when you prove them wrong, to them it is not proving anything. Albeit, of course there are Messianics who do know Hebrew; especially the more scholar-tastic folks at FFOZ and some other organizations.<br />
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However, that's not the point. The point is, Jesus was a far cry from being the Jewish Messiah, and that is clear to anyone with <b>even just a basic, unadulterated understanding</b> of Tanakh. Without going into the Oral Torah, which is denied as being authentic by many Messianics, their claims surely can be refuted by <b>merely a surface reading </b>of the Tanakh. The best answer is understanding who the Messiah is supposed to be as pretty clearly laid out in Tanakh and of course with sources in Oral Torah.<br />
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Reading the sequence of Tanakh from <b>Samuel through Isaiah</b> is particularly eye-opening. It shows clearly that the yearning for the Messiah to restore Israel to its former glory, and greater, means another David. After Kings David and Solomon, who had finally begun to achieve what the exodus of Egypt and all the generations of Shoftim had been leading up to, the people of Israel began the fall via mainly <b>idolatry</b> and other sins. Therefore, the process of ultimate redemption was unfulfilled and was put off for a later time. Jesus, lehavdil, was nothing like David whatsoever, in fact, polar opposites. What happened as a result of his existence, or supposed existence, has been <b>absolutely the opposite</b> of what the result of the coming of the real Messiah will accomplish. This, perhaps, will be the topic of a future post of mine.A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-77387260685974705362013-11-15T00:41:00.003+02:002013-11-15T01:13:49.080+02:00Rome's Jesus<h2>
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There are a large amount of Messianics, who after defection from the mostly Protestant churches, have researched the origins of the things they rejected from mainstream Christianity. Like Christmas, Easter, Sunday sabbath - things they could not find in the Bible. So when they figure out where these things came from, they realize that they were supposedly created during or around the time of Constantine, a Roman Emperor who further organized Christianity from its founding.<br />
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In other words, Constantine added certain pagan elements to Christian belief, contrary to what original Christians believed.<br />
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What they do not realize is that before Constantine, Christianity was founded by a Roman emperor, Titus, destroyer of the second Temple, and who suffered a horrible death as a result of his sins. According to the Talmud (Gittin 56b), a mosquito or insect flew in his nose and into his brain where it slowly ate away at it for seven years. When he died, his head was opened and the insect had grown to the size of a bird. He did not just get this for destroying the second Temple, but I believe also for the creation of the Jesus fable. You'll find out soon what I am talking about, if you don't already. This stuff gets really interesting...<br />
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A big claim by many Messianics is that Christianity was not originally the Roman Catholic brand that was put together by Constantine. I can prove that wrong, and I want to make this blog short and sweet, so I will.<br />
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Aside from Christmas, Easter, Sunday sabbath, etc, which Messianics are well to know isn't "in the Bible", there are other things done and believed throughout the whole Christian spectrum, Catholic, Protestant, and Messianic, which also clearly have nothing to do with a real Jewish messiah.<br />
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And these things were present at the very beginning of the Christian religion, along with Christmas and Easter which were already Roman holidays. Messianics say the "New Testament" is free of these things, and while there is no mention of Christmas, there is of a virgin birth and a multitude of other things you will see shorlty which parallel the life of Mithras, the Roman's sun god.<br />
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The Christian Bible's narrative of the Jesus story corresponds to several main life events of the pagan sun god of the collective pagan religion of the various ancient world powers, like Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and Rome.<br />
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The details are vivid and undeniable!<br />
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Is there anything else I can say? Throw in some Jewish concepts, names, a couple ideas, mix it with the sun god's life and story and - wallah! you've got Jesus!<br />
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The evil slime I mentioned above, Titus Flavius. In very, very short words, when Titus came to attack Israel, a Jewish scholar named Yosef, or Josephus in Latin, defected and endeared himself to the Roman general Titus. Josephus changed his name to <i>Flavius</i> Josephus in honor of his new master. As the Roman Empire deified their emperors to the status of gods (like the Pharaohs of Egypt), Titus, who had succeeded his dead father as emperor became the "son of god". With the help of Flavius Josephus and others to throw in some Jewish ideas and concepts, in order to put an end to the Jewish uprising against Rome that were fueled by their strong belief in a Davidic Messiah who would restore Israel to Jewish hands, the Jesus narrative was formed.<br />
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Titus did something extraordinary for evil by mixing himself (a Roman "god") and the Mithras sun god myth of Roman paganism with the concept of a Jewish Messiah, <b>only changing the warrior Messiah concept, which had cost a lot of Roman soldiers their lives</b> in a Jewish revolt shortly before Titus' destruction of the Temple, to a pacifistic man.<br />
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By doing this, he sought to end the idea of a Jewish warrior Messiah like David, so the Jewish people would be docile and accepting of Roman rule in the future. He fused the Roman religion with some Jewish concepts, and created a monster that is one of the biggest religions today, and has been for the past near two thousand years.<br />
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What Titus Didn't Expect</h2>
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Is that, after 2,000 years of exile, the Jewish people have survived anything and everything that Rome's successor, Christian Europe, could throw at them. It was a low time, a down point, a real dark age. But now, Jews have not only survived, but we are now in our land and the redemption of everything is about to happen.<br />
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Christian Europe is dying, being raped by Islam. Christianity is dying altogether in Europe, only maintaining to exist strong in America. The whole world's societies are experiencing religious decline as secularism and religious-in-name-only reign supreme. The Jewish people are still waiting for a warrior Messiah who will shake off all foreign rule, and that is what we are going to get - <b>someone completely different than Jesus</b>. Someone who will rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, return the exiles of Israel, and lead Israel back to a Kingdom, the Kingdom of HaShem on this earth; something Jesus never did and never did anything remotely alike. In the end, there will be only one truth and all will admit the truth of Torah and King David's throne will rule once again.A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-39212528335351499322013-11-09T22:33:00.002+02:002013-11-09T23:03:18.316+02:00Dwindling Messianic Numbers? Family Matters 2<h2>
My Jesus-Loving Brother</h2>
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It has been almost a year before my last post, but I want to get back into blogging regularly here, so stay tuned.<br />
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My Messianic blogger brother, Judah Himango, whose blog site is called Kineti L'Tzion (if only!) recently blogged about "apostates", Messianics leaving Yeshu. I am glad to announce, former Messianic blogger Gene Shlomovitch has rejected the Christian messiah. This is especially good for me to hear, being that Gene is a Jew. I have been trying to find Gene's email address, but I haven't been successful. Gene, if you're reading this, contact me, I want to congratulate you.<br />
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What Went Right With Me</h2>
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The blog also mentions me, and the descriptions of my exit out of that world are not accurate. Twisting the facts to present things well is okay for Messianics and Christians, I guess, since Paul said its okay. I will tell you all how it really happened:<br />
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It started by studying Judaism. Judah got that much right. When you study Torah and are really interested in it, it can have life changing effects. It can make an idolater into a worshiper of the One True God. After all, isn't the whole point of Torah serving HaShem and Him only? Shema`, anyone?<br />
And as I began learning Torah, I began to realize how little Messianics know about it. How little I knew about it. Today, after studying for a couple years, clearly I do not know much. That is the scope of how huge Torah is. By it's nature, being divine, it is actually infinite. In the end, it just doesn't take long to figure out, Jesus and Torah don't go together; and that was ultimately the sole changing factor in my ascent from the pit.<br />
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There were other factors which helped, but were not the main cause. Such as Messianics are as fractured as a community as Protestants, in fact perhaps worse. Every person believes something different that puts them at odds, at conflict, and even sometimes considering others heretics. That's what I saw among the many Messianics I knew and knew of, all different kinds ranging from those who are almost just like regular Christians to those who lived as Orthodox Jews. And that lack of unity is what I am about to talk about...<br />
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<b>No True Messianic Unity</b></h2>
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While the lack of unity in the Messianic community may be a strong point of it's impending downfall, it is only an outside view of the deeper issue. The deeper issue is that either you will find it to be a nice little denomination of Christianity that makes you feel important and righteous for leaving certain elements of Christianity (that, by the way, which is not true for the J4J crowd who promote standard Christianity and disagree with most of who call themselves Messianic), or you do like I did and learn so much Torah that Jesus is just going to have to go for good. Because, once you learn so much about HaShem and His will, you cannot serve another.<br />
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As someone who had never been Messianic pointed out to me, it seemed to him that the whole Messianic thing is just a dying cause, because there is no stable framework to maintain it. Either people will just end up being Christian, or their own thing altogether, or they will end up in Judaism or being Bnei Noah.<br />
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You know what? That guy was right. And I think the second option, their own thing altogether is what the reality already is in the Messianic world. So many Messianics are fragmented into little groups or even individual people, that it is just like a fantasy club where people make up their own religion - and that brings me to my next point.<br />
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Feeling Like God?</h2>
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For the majority of Messianics it is this: you get out of the Christian church. You realized Christmas isn't in the Bible. Easter isn't, either. Heck, neither is the Sunday sabbath. Oh, and eating pork is bad, the Bible says. Yeshu said he didn't come to abolish the Torah, so I must have to keep it now. Paul says we aren't saved by works, but we are under grace, but that works are still necessary for salvation - wait, doesn't that contradict?<br />
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So some reject Paul, but most don't. But they get to the Torah part, so what do they do? Learn Hebrew? Listen to the people who have been living it through thick and thin for the last couple thousand years? Usually not. Usually, they end up making <b>their own brand</b> of "observance" of Torah. They have no Oral Torah, they reject it, therefore the Written leaves them confused and incomplete, especially since they don't even understand Hebrew to really read it for themselves. And no Oral Torah means no Torah at all and no stability. Anyone who really knows Torah knows what I am talking about. Halakha is the how-to guide and yes, it is of divine origin. Moshe learned the background info for the mitzvot of Torah that we term "Oral Torah". Of course he knew the background information! Of course he knew how to answer someone about all the details, how-tos, all the intricate depth of the Torah! Of course that was passed on! Anyone with a clear head, not brainwashed to think otherwise, will say: yeah, you have to listen to the Jews and their ancient traditions to know about the written law given to them.<br />
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Do you know how many times I have been left with no response by Messianics about what happened to the Mosaic Court of Devarim (Deuteronomy) 17? Or how they carry out that clear command from HaShem given in the verses of that chapter? Regardless that it is a rhetorical question, the answer is that no Messianic has ever told me how they carry out the command to not veer to the right or left of what the Hakhamim of Israel say. <b>Not even one.</b><br />
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The point of these last three paragraphs is that they make themselves their own halakhic authorities (yet, halakha is a bad word by them). And how do they claim to have that authority? By the authority of Yeshu, who told Peter he now had the ability to "bind and loose", terms of halakhic significance. And that this power is accompanied by their "holy spirit". Yeah... riiiight...<br />
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And now we have come to the next point - keep following, I can't imagine any other anti-missionary has gone this deep!!!<br />
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Spiritual Authority?</h2>
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Judah also mentions in my blog that one thing I had been "into" in my Messianic days was personal spiritual revelation. Yes, that's right. And so is he still into, along with my parents and all of my siblings. Is it reliable? No. How do I know? Because I have witnessed literally hundreds and hundreds of "words of the Lord", "words of knowledge" and "prophetic words" come out to either never happen, being false completely, or having some truth mixed with error, or rarely actually coming true.<br />
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Their is some reliable knowledge, and some things are not prophecies but rather they are information. This comes from the fact that you can definitely gain knowledge from the other side. You can even gain extra-sensory information from having no spiritual contact, merely being in touch with your soul which sees lots of things all the time.<br />
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That isn't the point. The point is, it does not have the reliability to give any psychic a career - much less determining Torah law! Guessing can be more accurate than these "words" people get. Nonetheless, people claim that they have the spiritual knowledge to know if they are sinning or not.<br />
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Clearly, with the wide ranging variety of Messianic ideas about the laws of Torah that exist, this claim couldn't possibly be true. Everyone ends up believing they are the ones who have it. Like my parents said in response to me asking them how they believe they can drive on Shabbat, igniting the engine, without transgressing "do not light a fire". I also asked that if they take the written command so literally, how do they even leave their house on Shabbat, since the Torah says no one can leave their place on Shabbat. To these questions, they replied "we feel that the need for fellowship overrules these things". Who actually buys that answer?<br />
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What if Mr. McMessianic number two or three thinks he can't drive, on the contrary? And he is spiritual too, listening to the same spirits you do - what then? They don't even think about these things.<br />
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It is a whole big disaster (especially since most of them shouldn't be attempting to keep Shabbat, unless they're actually Jewish), and it all comes back to everyone deciding for himself what the right way is. That means no unity, no adhesiveness, no future for any Messianic community which will continually split up into offshoot after offshoot after offshoot...<br />
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So, Uh... Messianic Numbers Dwindling?</h2>
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I don't know statistics, and I don't care. Even if Messianic numbers happen to be on the rise, it doesn't take away from anything I said because it means that the whole Messianic "movement" is just a waypoint. There may be big influxes of former standard-Christians, but in the end, they will either end up leaving or becoming their own Messianic sect, like everyone else. And if they end up going the second route, they may be called Messianic and even meet and "fellowship" (I always loved that goofy term) with other Messianics, but they will ultimately be doing their own thing if they never eventually leave.<br />
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Judah said in his blog that Judaism is not the problem for people turning from Yeshu, but as we will see, his Messianic religion was perhaps not made for any other purpose than to introduce some aspects of Judaism to goyim.<br />
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Higher Purpose?</h2>
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Rambam says that Christianity and Islam, two religions that mimic, borrow from, and all claim some succession to the original religion - Judaism, were allowed to thrive in much of the world for the purpose of introducing to the nations the concepts of Divine Law, Messiah, Resurrection of the Dead, etc; all so that when the actual Messiah comes, the world will be prepped. And I guess when formerly dead righteous Jews begin to resurrect from the grave, they won't believe it is a zombie apocalypse...? ;)<br />
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So, based on this idea, perhaps the Messianic "movement" is a movement in the right direction for some people, in that some definitely choose unadulterated Torah over the joke that exists in Messianism and their dead messiah who didn't do diddly-squat to bring in no exiles, to build no temple, nuthin'. It could be that this is why people usually eventually leave the Messianic world one way or the other.<br />
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Maybe Messianism is a gateway drug for some Christians to get them eventually hooked on the real stuff that gets you the highest. I would like to believe that, and I see that it happens like this sometimes. A large part of the Assyrian-exiled "northern tribes" never returned but were absorbed into various nations. Some of them have come back, like the Bnei Menashe of India for example. For those of you who say "I'm Ephraim", the answer is clear: Torah is the only way. Real Torah, conversion to Judaism by a beit din of kosher Jews. That is how it works, that is what HaShem says in Torah, and that is the only way you'll be an Israelite. Yeshu doesn't have any magical miracle cure for your gentile-ness. Nor do you need a cure for that - you can have a place in the next world without being Jewish! The Master of all the worlds laid out His standard of righteousness for Jews and non-Jews in His Torah.A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-63739099735835104002012-12-11T14:24:00.003+02:002012-12-11T14:24:53.362+02:00Getting Through to Messianics Part 1I recently watched a featured video by Jews for Judaism Canada:<div>
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Now, readers, the content is well and good, but it doesn't necessarily get through to <i>Messianics</i>. Of course, Jews for Judaism is primarily countering Jews for Jesus, not necessarily Messianics. And yes, there is a difference. As my brother recently wrote about in his Messianic blog, there is indeed a difference. While some J4Jesus might call themselves Messianic, the difference I am talking about is in the intentions of the missionary organization J4Jesus and the intentions of most groups titling themselves Messianic.</div>
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Again, I agree entirely with the content of this video, but let me show you some places that Messianics will try to get a word in to prove otherwise.</div>
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1. Rabbi Skobac's first point is that when the coming Mashiahh is reigning as King, Israel will have been returned from exile. He says the past 2,000+ year exile, but couldn't it have been around the first century CE? It definitely could have been, and that is what any given Messianic might point out regarding this first point.</div>
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However, Rabbi Skobac is correct in that - this didn't happen in the time of Yeshu. It could have, but didn't. There were many Jews still in Bavel, and that is actually given in the Gemara, by Resh Lakish, as one of the reasons for this past Roman exile.<br /><br />I don't believe, however, that all Jews must be in Israel in order for the Mashiahh to return Dawid's Kingdom. I think that will be a result of that Kingdom being re-established, and should it be soon in our days.<br /><br />2. Rabbi Skobac's second point is of the Temple and that it was still standing when Yeshu is said to have existed. That doesn't necessarily mean there couldn't have been a return of Dawid's Kingdom via his descendant to be Mashiahh, but it definitely would have needed to be at least somewhat reconstructed to its former glory.<br /><br />However, that did not happen in the early centuries CE.<br /><br />3. The third point raised is that when Mashiahh comes, world peace will come about. This is true, but only after Israel destroys many nations.<br /><br />But neither destroying Israel's enemies nor the resulting world peace happened via Yeshu. In fact, the opposite. As the Rabbi mentions, wars increased, sometimes in the name of Jesus, and very often against Israel. The Crusades, which resulted in persecution and destruction of Jewish life that had yet remained in the Land of Israel. Christian Europe was constantly involved in the persecution of Jews, a special hatred that is specifically bred by Christianity itself which labels Jews as "primitive" and non-believers in their claimed salvation.</div>
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4. The fourth point is that at the time of the reign of King Mashiahh, Dawid, and his restored Kingdom, Jews will collectively become observant.<br /><br />This is true, because by both physical and spiritual means, this re-establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven upon this earth, which is the Kingdom of Dawid, the aspect of emuna (faith) in HaShem will be elevated to it's proper place. This will affect the whole world, in fact, and lead to remaining nations in the earth to undoubtedly draw closer to HaShem.</div>
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For especially over the last 2,000 years, secularism and philosophy (the attempt to rationalize the Creator) have flourished, causing atheism, and people who follow their family's religion only in name. The Catholic who goes out and parties, does whatever he wants in his college years, indulges in hedonism. The Muslim who does whatever, just prays extra on Friday. And the Jew who minorly observes some religious customs while basically doing whatever he wants, following along in the culture of where he lives.</div>
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It would have been better had all of the nations stayed with their native pagan beliefs instead of forming new religions like Christianity and Islam which make mention of the Jewish people and claim to be the correct extension of them, and claim to correct mistakes that the Jewish people supposedly made. That is the largest catalyst of world anti-Semitism.</div>
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A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-35012578829388358002012-10-13T22:05:00.001+02:002012-10-13T22:10:27.997+02:00"Shadow of Things to Come" 2: Shavu`othThe great day of Shavu`oth, the memorial of the giving of the Torah to Israel at Har Sinai through Moshe Rabbenu. A time to celebrate the Torah which separates the people of Israel from all other nations.<br />
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The Torah proclaims that HaShem is One; that there is no other Creator besides Him. One of the biggest forbidden things in the Torah is serving, worshiping, or even thinking about doing such. In fact, even if one defecates on an idol as an insult, if that is the way its worshipers praise this false deity, that person is still guilty of a sin, albeit an accident.<br />
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Merely giving the impression of serving any other god, even when one is not actually doing so, is forbidden. This is because a Jew must be seen as serving only HaShem, being that he is chosen for special service to HaShem, and any indication of foreign service is forbidden to the extreme.<br />
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So clearly, Shavu`oth has nothing to do with anything contrary to HaShem and His Torah. However, the Messianics and in fact all strains of Christianity say that on this day, there was a supposed outpouring of the "Holy Spirit" on "Pentacost" which is their holiday partially derived from Shavu`oth.<br />
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The term in Hebrew is Ruahh HaQodesh (please note: "hh" refers to the guttural "h" sound of the letter "hheth"; whereas most people pronounce this the same as the letter "khaf", a "kh"/"ch" sound). I distinguish between this and the Christian concept of Holy Spirit. It is said that the followers of the Christian messiah had a day paralleled by the Shavu`oth account of the Torah being spoken by HaShem in all the 70 languages of the goyim. What is claimed to have happened is people "speaking in tongues".<br />
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Speaking in tongues is meant in the NT to mean speaking in foreign languages at random. Whereas today, the Pentacostal sect of Protestant Christianity as well as some Messianics and other Christians know it is unintelligible speech as well as foreign languages.<br />
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"Speaking in tongues" may be random jibberish, a form of demonic influence on speech, or be a mixed spiritual experience; or it could be all of those or any combination of those. The point is, people who worship a foreign entity and breach a basic law of Torah - to serve only HaShem - are not in a position for spirituality in qedusa, rather they partake in the side of qelipa; the other side.<br />
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In other words, the Pentecost and the "Holy Spirit" of the goyim and of `avoda zara are the sittra ahhra (other side) version of what is in true Torah-Judaism.<br />
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Just as I learned earlier today on Shabat (it is motza"sh as I am writing this), in Liquttei Moharan, torah 8, the sighing of a Jew is great. The breath (neshima) is related to the soul (neshama) and has to do with the ruahh (spirit/wind/breath) of life that HaShem breathes into creation. The sigh of the Jew, fills the hhesron (lack) which exists in a given thing because of a lack of 'ruahh' in that thing. This sigh draws life into the thing.<br />
On the flip side, the resha`im (the evil) symbolized by `Esaw who is "ish se`ir" draw their fulfillment of lack from the other side in what is a "ruahh se`ara" (storm wind), which is strong temporarily but results ends up sweeping away the bodies and souls of those who use it.<br />
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This "Holy Spirit" of the Christians is an aspect of `Esaw, the "ruahh se`ara"/storm wind, which has strong but temporary strength, and eventually passes away like every storm, bringing the bodies and souls of those who are caught up in it away into destruction. As we see, Christianity is passing away; and Messianism will either result in the currently non-Jewish, potential Jewish souls eventually coming to true Torah or the withering away of their lives.A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-36646656414089934952012-10-07T00:22:00.003+02:002012-10-07T00:22:50.297+02:00"A Shadow of Things to Come"It has been a while since my last blog post since I've been enjoying all of the hhagim. In light of the holidays, I'd like to take a brief look at the overview of all 7 of the DeOraita holidays. These are usually used as "proofs" by Messianics and "Hebrew Roots" Christians to the authenticity of their god's supposed miraculous birth and his claimed existence and ascension.<br /><br />In fact, they are each usually referred to as "prophetic pictures" having described their god and messiah's supposed first coming and his fantasized second. In response to such an idea, I'd like to briefly refute their main points, and give the correct understanding. This post will be dedicated to Pesahh, and I'll continue with Shavu`ot, and Sukot.<br /><br />Pesahh, firstly, as everyone knows, is a memorial of the exodus from Egypt. This is replayed in the exodus from every exile, in fact, since our Sages say that every exile is called "Egypt". A huge reason many of the Jewish people are often ensnared in exile, despite the fact that there is abounding persecution in each, is cultural assimilation and the idols of materialism. Cultural assimilation works in two ways. While in one way it leads to a loss in the number of Jews via intermarriage and through Jews thinking of themselves as one with the local populace, acting, talking, and dressing like them - it can also work in spreading Jewish lineage to those who are born goyim, and after a generation or two, those children often feel an arousing to return to some of their ancestors' people and religion.<br />This is explained by Rabi Nahhman of Uman, as I recall, having to do with Jewish souls being overpowered by the forces of the "other side", actualized by the goyim, and they end up being freed and returning to their source after some generations. This is the beauty of the idea of encouraging zera` Yisrael (that is, non Jews with some Jewish lineage or ancestors; for example, someone with only a Jewish father) to return to Judaism.<br /><br />Nonetheless, Pesahh has nothing to do with Jesus. His worshipers claim him to be the "sacrifice lamb", akin to the pascal lamb, the blood on the doorposts, etc. What is quite comical is that slaughtering this lamb was a direct affront to the Egyptians, since they worshiped a lamb-god. Egyptians wouldn't kill and eat sheep or cattle, just like modern day Indians wouldn't the latter. Meaning slaughtering this lamb had to do with defamation, insult, and affront toward foreign deities, yet these people assign it to the exact opposite. Think about that for a moment.<br /><br />I could go into the placing of sins upon sacrificial animal for atonement, for the Tanakhic fact that prayer is as these sacrifices. I could tie in the idea of repentance and confessing sins to HaShem as necessity in the act of repentance, etc. All of these things are known and written of, and I am fairly proficient in that knowledge. However, not many Messianics are very much. There is tons of confusion in their minds about this issue, as a result of the erroneous doctrines they are brainwashed with. I am not going to go in this topic on this particular post, but it would be a good one to write about in the future.<br /><br />Pesahh truly symbolizes Jews getting out of exile, returning to the Land of Israel, rejection the way of life of the goyim, and their religions and idolatry (whether of gods or materialism). Christianity and all its forms, including Messianism, couldn't be a better example of the kind of foreign religion and idolatry. As you'll see, Messianism claims to be a fulfillment of the Tanakh, but yet is actually be the direct opposite, as in this case.<br /><br />So let's see who HAS done HaShem's will and has gotten out of exile, back into the Land of Israel and have merited this return which keeps coming into fruition, continuously removing the layers of galut. Is it the Messianics, the vast, vast majority of whom live outside of Israel and most of whom are not halakhically Jewish? Or is it the Jewish people, who continue to go according to the Sages of Israel, not those who come up with their own interpretations, and who have returned to the Land of Israel in mass, established a thriving nation there, and are on their way to complete redemption? The answer is extremely obvious.A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-68917725305485962612012-09-10T00:59:00.005+03:002012-09-10T00:59:45.593+03:00Antidote To The Big SwindleI want you all to <a href="http://www.breslev.co.il/articles/breslev/uman/antidote_to_the_big_swindle.aspx?id=22796&language=english">click this link</a> and read my article that was published (thanks to R' Lazer Brody!) on Breslev Israel. It is about my spiritual journey from the fake sadiq to the Sadiq-Amath. Enjoy!A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-40655467115766353952012-09-04T02:02:00.004+03:002012-09-04T02:12:07.099+03:00Family Matters<b>Still Waiting...</b><br />
I've been waiting for over 2 weeks for a response from one of my brothers (biologically speaking), combating an issue he raised on my other brother's blog. I countered what he said and backed it up with verses from the Tanakh and common Torah knowledge and concepts. Very basic, not hard to do.<br />
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I still haven't received an answer, after reminding him about 2-3 times.<br />
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Just today, I confronted my ex-sister about a Christian anti-Semitic picture she 'liked' on Facebook, stating something like: "Draw the line between tradition and Torah, or you'll end up like the Pharisees". She proceeded to tell me that Torah isn't tradition (because, you see, tradition is just so bad...), but that it is a command, something obligatory.<br />
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I told her that if the Torah commands to teach it to our children and thereby be passing it on... it is logically and obviously then also tradition. This is a very simple concept. It is extremely elementary, and it just goes to show how much logic these people must throw away in order to maintain their senseless theology.<br />
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I also mentioned to her that Messianics sure like to take verses here and there from the Tanakh to supposedly support their beliefs - but they CAN'T EVEN answer me when I ask them one single question raised against them from the Tanakh. Weak. They apparently don't realize, taking out snippets of the Tanakh and mis-applying them <a href="http://judaismsanswer.com/A%20Chassidic%20Rabbi%20Makes%20a%20Startling%20Discovery.htm">can be done to make a <i>chicken</i> look like the promised messiah</a>. Poppycock (pun intended) like this is what happens when people who aren't adept at any level in Hebrew and Judaism try to make messianic claims.<br />
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It is so ridiculous how they tout and tout but then when I confront them they can't answer back. It is actually comical. When I recently began to converse with a Messianic blogger, I wrote to him a lot and answered some of his questions. It was civil until he chose not to answer my questions at all in our emails, but instead posted one of my questions on his blog. In the comments, this guy used the "born of a virgin" verse in the Tanakh - which doesn't actually exist since the word in question is alma, not bethula (idiots...). Despite that he doesn't know any Hebrew, he wanted to convince me that the Septuagint backs him up. He said that I was having a hard time arguing with him (HAHA), and that I should call for some back up.<br />
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People asked questions, but never answered any of mine. It was funny, this repetitive trend of me debunking lies and calling out their misconceptions, just for my own questions being ignored and me being asked more questions as if I didn't know how to answer. Or as if I didn't understand their assumptions that they were trying to get across. As if I had never heard such before in my younger years as a captive in Messianic theology. I answered and wasn't polite with them at all.<br />
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<b>Ignorance and Arrogance</b><br />
But you see, it doesn't get through to them ever. It is all about emotional connection and believing what you believe, knowing what you know, holding on to that "spiritual" emotionally warm feeling, and that assurance that you don't need to do jack, since Yeshu has it all covered. And how could you think twice? After all, if you're wrong, you <b>really are</b> screwed...<br />
So they decide not to believe the people who actually do speak Hebrew and who make it their business to learn Torah for the length of their lives. The people who have the Torah not just as God-given law, but as a tradition ingrained in their very culture as well as their constant daily lives.<br />
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Every time I eat or drink anything, after I go to the bathroom, before I do a misswa, when I behold the greatness of HaShem's creation; I give thanks and recognize the power of my Creator. And that is an obligation. These people choose to ignore those on a higher level than them and to learn from those who are actually in the position to teach. Not so Zekharya 8:23 of them, now, is it?<br />
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It is time wasted to try to convince a die-hard `oved `avoda zara.A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-81283087377569217942012-08-29T19:13:00.000+03:002012-08-29T19:38:17.439+03:00What Covenant Are YOU Under?!<span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Are You Under the New Covenant?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a whole belief held among Messianics, and almost exclusively among them, about "covenants". A series of "covenants" which is supposed to make it work that Yeshu initiated a "new covenant" for all of mankind. Giving them that "magical loophole" that I touched on in the very last post before this one. A magical loophole making them the new chosen people, or the Super Israel. As if...<br /><br />Islam doesn't even take it that far. They just say that the Jews messed up, and they have the real divine book, the Quran, and that Muslims are the new chosen people. And that's why a small group of Jews came into the middle of tons of their own and they still can't get us out of 'their' land.<br /><br />So where does this idea come from? Well, there was the covenant given to mankind after the flood. There are universal laws for everyone in the world to obey, and we know that the world will not be destroyed again by a flood.<br />We have the covenant given to Avraham which actually just started with him and extended onto his righteous and chosen offspring.<br />We have the fruition of that covenant given at Har Sinai between HaShem and Israel, the descendants of Avraham who were to possess the Land of Israel, promised to Avraham, and obey all of the commands of HaShem in order to be a special nation in the world with a special purpose.<br /><br />Then there is the covenant with Pinhhas, Dawid, etc. So what do these covenants have to do with Messianic theology?<br /><br /><b>"Brit Chadasha" - Its NOT the 'NT'</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">They say that Yeshu came to initiate a new covenant, which they say is what a verse in Yirmeyah ('Jeremiah') 31:30 is talking about. In this new covenant, which the supposed magical effect of believing in Yeshu automatically initiates people this new covenant, and apparently into the people of Israel too.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">But not so fast - let's go over 31:30-32 for a second:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span id="pink1">ל</span> הִנֵּה יָמִים בָּאִים נְאֻם-יְהֹוָה וְכָרַתִּי אֶת-בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל וְאֶת-בֵּית יְהוּדָה בְּרִית חֲדָשָׁה</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">30Behold the days are coming, says HaShem, that I will cut with the House of Israel and the House of Judah a new covenant. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span id="pink1">לא</span> לֹא כַבְּרִית אֲשֶׁר כָּרַתִּי אֶת-אֲבוֹתָם בְּיוֹם הֶחֱזִיקִי בְיָדָם לְהוֹצִיאָם מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם אֲשֶׁר-הֵמָּה הֵפֵרוּ אֶת-בְּרִיתִי וְאָנֹכִי בָּעַלְתִּי בָם נְאֻם-יְהֹוָה</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">31 Not as the covenant I cut with their fathers on the day of the gripping of their hands, taking them out from the land of Egypt, in which they broke my covenant, and [in which] I had been a master to them, says HaShem.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span id="pink1">לב</span> כִּי זֹאת הַבְּרִית אֲשֶׁר אֶכְרֹת- אֶת-בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל אַחֲרֵי הַיָּמִים הָהֵם נְאֻם-יְהֹוָה נָתַתִּי אֶת-תּוֹרָתִי<br /> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">בְּקִרְבָּם וְעַל-לִבָּם אֶכְתֳּבֶנָּה וְהָיִיתִי לָהֶם לֵאלֹהִים וְהֵמָּה יִהְיוּ-לִי לְעָם</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">32 Surely this is the covenant which I will cut with the House of Israel after those days, says HaShem, I will place my Torah inside of them, and on their hearts I will write it. And I'll be God to them and they will be My people.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">The Malbim comments extensively on these verses, which is the norm for his excellent commentaries. Basically the Malbim explains that the previous covenant was on the conditions that they don't cross it, that they don't sin. But, you see, people have a yesser hara ('evil inclination'). In this future covenant, it is stated that HaShem will write the Torah in Israel's heart, place it inside of them. The Malbim comments specifically:<span style="font-family: inherit;"> "...</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.66666603088379px; text-align: -webkit-right;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">שלא תתעורר אצלם בחירה הפך התורה", meaning that there will not be aroused in them any [free] choice opposite to the Torah. Annulment of any free choice contrary to Torah. That is what the REAL new covenant that will be.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><br /><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Has Yeshu </span>Annulled<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Your Desire to Sin? LOL</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So did you just read those verses, or what? What do they have to do with Yeshu? I have never met a Messianic that fully accepted the Torah, either (you kinda can't, believing in Yeshu and all).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So how are they supposedly in a new covenant where the Torah is written on their hearts, etc? They're not! And trust me, I had been Messianic before, and I sure had the desire to sin! I had an inclination to do wrong, like every other human being on the planet.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">And what has come from Yeshu in this world? The advancement and expansion of Torah Judaism, as well as people no longer being able to choose contrary to the Torah? <u>Definitely the exact opposite.</u> WHO are we kidding here? This "new covenant" idea of theirs is completely unfounded, and it takes a monkey reading the above verses to extract this theology from it.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Don't be a monkey. If you're a Messianic reading this, please remove the emotional conditioning and recognize how obviously erroneous your theology is. It just doesn't mesh with Torah.</span></span>A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-28263084699668252832012-08-21T13:19:00.001+03:002012-08-21T13:28:01.561+03:00The New Israel?<b>The New Israel?</b><br />
There is the classic Christian idea that they are the "new Israel", God's new chosen people. In fact, Islam has the same thing. "Oh the Jews, ohh the Jews... Once God's people then they [insert: 'changed the Tanakh', if you're Muslim]/[insert: 'rejected the Messiah', if you're Christian/Messianic] and now we ['have the restored religion of old which we now call Islam, as delivered to us by the prophet Muhhammad']/['have the new covenant of God which breaks all barriers between Israel and the nations, making all true believers in Jesus God's new chosen special people'], and the Jews are still going on their own fallen path, never recognizing the truth."<br />
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Do you see the pattern?<br />
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A popular question going on in some of the Messianic blogs of late has been "are Gentiles considered part of Israel [now that Yeshu apparently changed the Torah's clear distinction between Israel and the goyim]".<br />
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This idea comes from various places in the Christian Bible (what they call the "New Testament") which refer to goyim, via Yeshu, becoming "part of the commonwealth of Israel", or becoming "grafted in", and other such terminology. What is funny to me is that lots of these people say they are totally "pro-Torah" and believe that Torah is still valid (contrary to popular Christian thought) because of Yeshu's statement in Matthew 5:17-19, in which he says that he didn't come to abolish the 'Law and Prophets', but rather to fulfill them.<br />
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But rest assured that this statement is both contradicted and supported various times throughout their texts, as bipolar as they are.<br />
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So let's see what Torah has to say about this.<br />
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First, there is the fact that HaShem delivered the Torah to the Israel at Har Sinai. There ARE universal laws of Torah, called the Noahide Laws, which are binding on all goyim. However, there is much, much more given to Israel that is specific to Israel. We have Shabat which is a "sign forever", "between Me and between the sons of Israel", mentioned specifically. The whole system of Torah: written and oral, constantly refers to the separation and difference between Israel and the goyim. In brakha of Havdalla, we say "hammavdil bein qodhash lahhol, bein or lahhoshakh, bein Yisroal lajoyyim, bein yom hashavi`i lasheshath yamei hama`asa" ("[HaShem] who distinguishes between holy and common, between light and darkness, between Israel and the nations, between the 7th day and the rest of the days of Creation"). Then to top it off, we have this concept - as if it weren't clear enough already! - mentioned blatantly in Tehillim 147, <span style="font-family: inherit;">in the last two verses:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>מגיד דבריו ליעקב, חוקיו ומשפטיו לישראל. לא עשה כן לכל גוי, ומשפטים בל ידעום.<br />He declares His Words to Ya`aqov, His statutes and ordinances to Israel. He hasn't done such for any other nation </i>(literally "for any goy")<i>, and [His] ordinances they have not known.</i></span><br />
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<b>Magical Loophole?</b>Seriously, how much more clear do we need to be? If these Messianics believed in Torah, believed in Tanakh like they claim - how do they get over this verse and the whole entire concept of separation between Israel and the nations? It is quite ridiculous. But here is a probable Messianic "answer" to that question:<br />
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"Since Yeshu made a way for everyone to come to God through him, and since this new covenant is circumcision of the heart (a claim they make based on Yirmeyah 31:30-31), then all are made holy through him and brought into the commonwealth of God's people."<br />
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See, this is their loophole: Yeshu's magical powers. Even though they believe Yeshu said, as I cited earlier, that he didn't come to abolish or annul the Torah, but to "fulfill" it. No one can believe that, and then believe his supposed special powers changed a fundamental and extremely important aspect of Torah like this.<br />
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Let's keep in mind, in the days of `Ezra, many Jewish men were called out for having goyot as wives. Now, this was not like in the days of Shimshon, Dowid, etc, whose foreign wives were converted into Israel. In `Ezra's day, clothes were torn over this sin, and repentance was done. As one stated to `Ezra concerning this (`Ezra 10:2): <span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white;">'We have broken faith with our God, and have married foreign women of the peoples of the land; yet now there is hope for Israel concerning this thing." This shows how serious this concept is to Torah.</span></span><br />
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<b>God's Truly Chosen</b>What goyim may do to actually become God's chosen is convert to Judaism. Then they will be fully Jewish. But how could conversion into `Am Yisrael be promoted by Messianics, when they cannot adhere to or promote Judaism because of their above-stated beliefs. Even among the ethnically Jewish minority of Messianics, and the further minority who seek to adhere, they cannot adhere to halakhic observance completely because they breach a whole aspect of Torah/halakha.<br />
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IF Yeshu were truly the Messiah of Judaism, we would see many goyim perhapts of lost or partial Jewish ancestry (or possibly neither) convert to Judaism. This would be in fulfillment of many pasuqim in Tanakh regarding goyim coming to HaShem. But we see, this is NOT the case with Yeshu. In fact, it is much the OPPOSITE. Instead, there are attempts to take Jews away from Judaism, an overall hatred or looking down upon of Judaism. That is directly opposite of what will happen when the real Mashiahh comes into the world.<br />
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<b>The Reason</b>All of these erroneous concepts and absurd ideas are rooted in one thing. And that is a lack of understanding Judaism/Torah. Anyone who understands isn't fooled by a collection of Roman writings aimed to mix Judaism with Roman 'pagan' concepts. That's why the Yeshu narrative is paralleled to the supposed life, death, and resurrection of the classic universal mythologies of the Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, etc, etc. And that is why Catholic means universal. What Romans did was mix everyone under their domain into a common belief and culture.<br />
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They took some known and common Jewish concepts and mixed them with their religion. Thus Christmas, December 25th, had been known as Saturnalia, the birthday of the god of the sun. Easter maintained the name of the goddess of fertility (known as Isis, Ashtar, etc, by other civilizations). Most Messianics distance themselves from these holidays and from <u>Sun</u>day "sabbath", etc. That is fine and good - but they still maintain the idolatry and most of the totally mixed beliefs of Christianity, but simply put a supposed "Torah" label on it, attempting to make their pig kosher.A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-123471967098236890.post-58768149250168101622012-08-16T19:02:00.000+03:002012-10-09T09:55:19.708+02:00Intro InfoI was raised in a "Messianic" family in America, until becoming an Orthodox Jew after denouncing what I found out to be totally contrary to HaShem's Torah.<br />
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I have a brother who has a well known Messianic blog called <a href="http://judahgabriel.blogspot.com/">Kineti LeTziyon</a>. My parents, brothers, and sister still consider themselves Messianic of some kind. But hopefully that will all be changing!<br />
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Having spent years in this world of Messianism, I know all about many different kinds of Messianics, and all sorts of ideas that exist in their world. I am able to combat everything using the Tanakh. In fact, it is quite simple and all it requires is actually taking the Tanakh completely seriously.<br />
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For the minority of Messianics who believe in the idea of the Oral Torah, it is even easier to refute their false beliefs. However, the majority of people who call themselves "Messianic" ("Messianic Israelites", "Nazarene Israelites", "Ephraimites", etc as well as some who classify themselves as "Messianic Jewish") are people of a Protestant Christian background, and have a anti-traditional, Karaite view of Torah, which rejects the belief in the Oral Torah (silly, I know...).<br />
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So throughout this blog, I'm going to "combating" all sorts of Messianics beliefs, held by any and all Messianic group, outlook, or mindset. It shall be fun, and I hope that there will be many Jews involved in combating assimilation and Christian/Messianic missionizing who can benefit from the in-depth knowledge I have about the issue.A. Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17290668816169371637noreply@blogger.com0