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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.

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Devotional
Psalm 23 – The Valley of the Shadow of Death

by Rich Freeman, D. Min. One of the ways that we often describe intimacy with God is by calling it a mountaintop experience. We are in a real spiritual battle, and our enemy Satan will do anything and everything he can to make sure we do not get to where…

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Jewish History
Heroes of the Holocaust: Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto and Yeshua

For many years I believed that there was little information available for the modern researcher describing the situation of Jewish believers (Messianic Jews, Hebrew Christians etc.) within the Warsaw Ghetto.

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Jewish Festivals
A Post-Passover Reflection: Covid-19 and the Ten Plagues of the Passover

The Ten Plagues The Jewish digital magazine, The Tablet Magazine, printed a comic strip drawn by Jules Feiffer with the title, “Wherefore (Why) is this plague different than all other plagues?” The Feiferesque drawing has one man sitting by himself at a rather long Seder table. The humor might need…

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Jewish Festivals
Passover and the Resurrection

He is Risen! “Brethren, I may confidently say to you regarding the patriarch David that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day. And so, because he was a prophet and knew that God had sworn to him with an oath to seat one of his descendants on…

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Jewish Festivals
Passover and the Lord’s Supper

Maundy Thursday “When the hour had come, He reclined at the table, and the apostles with Him. And He said to them, ‘I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer; for I say to you, I shall never again eat it until it is fulfilled in the kingdom of God.’”…

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Jewish Festivals
Passover and the Lamb

Good Friday “But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities;the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed.” Isaiah 53:5 This has been perhaps the most trying time our nation—and the whole world—has faced in recent history. It feels as if nearly…

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Jewish Festivals
Is Celebrating Passover Mandatory for Gentiles?

As a Messianic Jewish ministry, we often receive questions such as, “Are Gentiles required to observe the Jewish Sabbath? What about the holidays?” In particular, we understand that many of you may be wondering if it is mandatory to observe Passover and perhaps have a Seder of your own. Believers…

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Jewish Festivals
What is the Afikomen?

During the traditional Passover Seder, it is customary to place three pieces of matzo (unleavened bread) inside a bag with three compartments. Early in the Seder, the middle piece of matzo is removed, broken in half, and one half of the matzo is hidden away until later in the…

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Jewish Festivals
The Meaning of Leaven in the Passover Seder

(Abridged from Messiah in the Passover, Chapter 6: Passover and the Lord’s Supper) The context for 1 Corinthians 5:6–8, the first of three Passover-themed passages in this epistle of the Apostle Paul, is that the Corinthian church accepted with prideful arrogance the presence of someone in…

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Israel
The Significance of the Passover Elements

The removal of leaven Before the beginning of the Passover, all leaven, which is a symbol of sin (1 Cor. 5:6-8), must be removed from the Jewish home. The house is cleaned from top to bottom and anything containing leaven is removed. Then, the evening before…

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Antisemitism
A Dark History but a Bright Future

There is a dark side to church history—a past that is not often revisited. Believers are generally shocked to hear that their theological heroes supported violence against the Jewish people

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Antisemitism
Is The Gospel of John Antisemitic?

Charges of the New Testament and, particularly, the Gospel of John being antisemitic are nothing new. Many Jewish people grow up in neighborhoods suffering antisemitic attitudes from Gentile neighbors. It is assumed that they were Christian simply because they were not Jewish and went to church. We might reason that…