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Most believers appreciate having a clearer understanding of the Scriptures from a Jewish perspective. Explore more about our faith in Jesus from this angle and other topics, including evangelism, Israel, antisemitism, biblical festivals, the international Jewish community, Jewish roots of Christianity, personal testimonies, and prophecy.
Shavuot can be a relatively confusing Jewish holiday because we don’t read about it very often in the Bible. It is possible that you might have never heard of it. But it is one of the big three holidays; this was one of the pilgrimage holidays in which the faithful…
During the joyous Jewish holiday of Shavuot, many special foods are eaten to commemorate the Zman Matan Torah—“the season of the giving of the Law.” The rabbis believed that the Torah was given on the day of Pentecost, fifty days after the second day of Passover. Never before had the…
Holidays and Festivals Shavuot, or the Feast of Weeks, is one of the three “convocations of the Lord” that, along with Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles, constitute the “appointed times” (Leviticus 23:4) for Israel to gather in Jerusalem. It may be thought of as a unit with Passover, as…
Now that it is September, we are in the midst of the most important holidays in modern Judaism. These holidays are both spoken of in Leviticus chapter 23, and the reason they are so important is that they deal with the topic of atonement. Whether religious or not, most Jewish…
Introduction As the leader of a traditional mission to the Jewish people, I believe that all Jewish people need to accept Jesus in order to have a place in the age to come (John 14:6, Acts 4:12). I do not believe that a Jewish person is capable of keeping the Law…
So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? By no means! Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle to…
From the time the Church triumphed over the paganism of the Roman Empire and assumed the mantle of worldly political power, the dark shadow of antisemitism has been its lasting shame. This deadly shadow has hovered above the terrible deeds of the Crusaders, the Inquisition, the pogroms, and the horrors…
Since Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire around 325 CE, the Jewish people have struggled to survive centuries of prejudice and condemnation. Christianity, when it was first recognized by Rome, had already rejected its Jewish roots and its debt to the Jewish people. A long, bitter winter…
It is a widely-held misconception that a Jewish person who follows Yeshua as Messiah is no longer Jewish. This view has been mistakenly repeated both by Christians and Jews. But if well-known atheists such as Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud are still considered Jews, how could a dedicated Jewish follower…
Although this question is frequently asked, many attempts to answer it are based on misconceptions or prejudices rather than pure facts. The simple answer to this question is that a person DOES NOT have to stop being Jewish to believe in Jesus. The reasons for this are as follows. In…
If Yeshua (Jesus) intended to create a new religion, He went about it all wrong: He aroused the suspicion, and then the hostility, of the religious establishment. He picked an oddball assortment of disciples, deliberately allowed Himself to fall into harm’s way, left no writings of his own (an essential…
“Totally unacceptable!” That was the basic response of a respected friend in Seattle, upon considering the claims of scholars that everything Yeshua (Jesus) taught can be paralleled in ancient Jewish literature. I can understand my friend’s sentiment. After all, we who believe He is the Messiah want to honor Yeshua…