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Rabbis Who Thought for Themselves – Part II
Three weeks ago I posted a blog about Rabbis Who Thought for Themselves, which has now been shared around the world and I am still receiving emails about that post. The original post highlighted eight...
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Yahrzeit of Rabbi Lichtenstein
Today, Hoshanah Rabbah, marks the yahrzeit of Rabbi Ignácz (Isaac) Lichtenstein, one of our great Messianic Jewish forbearers. Lichtenstein’s Early Life Rav Lichtenstein was born in 1824, and became a...
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Creation and the Hidden Light
Parashat Breishit The Torah relates the story of the six days of creation in order to refute other theories that claim that the universe came into being through some cosmic accident or coincidence. As...
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Wrestling with the Divine
Parashat Vayishlach This week’s parasha continues a theme we saw in last week’s parasha, Vayetze, which began and ended with the mentioning of angels. So too our parasha continues in the same venue. In...
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Revealing Something Deeper
Parashat Vayigash Redemption, divine mediation, and messianic hope. These are just a few of the themes gleaned from this week’s Torah portion. However, there are two particularly profound incidents...
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Revealing Mashiach
Parashat Vayechi It can be said that everything written in the Torah concerns Mashiach. As such, how does this week’s Torah portion, Vayechi, reveal Mashiach? Continuing on the themes from last week’s...
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The Leper Scholar
Parashiot Tazria-Metzora Our Torah portions this week discuss the malady of tzara’at. Previously I have discussed how tzara’at is not what we often think it is. Although it is common to understand...
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Why Do We Need Yeshua?
Parashat Shoftim For those of us who take Jewish life seriously, value Judaism, affirm the continued covenantal election of the Jewish people, and affirm G-d’s continued work among our people, we are...
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A Chasidic Parallel to the Incarnation
The idea of a pre-existent Messiah is not completely unknown to Judaism. In fact, I lightly touched on this idea in my previous blog post on Breishit, where I connected this idea to Creation, and...
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Rabbis Who Thought for Themselves
I get tired of the common myth circulated by anti-missionaries that the only Jews who believe in Yeshua are ignorant of Judaism and have been deceived into believing that Yeshua is the Messiah. The...
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