To tell you a little bit about me I am 45 years old and I have recently left Israel to come to America in order to set up a new life here with my husband. He is an American and we met while he was in Israel volunteering in helping the poor in Tel Aviv through a ministry that assists with food and clothing distribution.<\/p>\n
Anyway prior to this I was a resident of Jerusalem for about 18 years and had made aliyah from France in which my family still resides.\u00a0My family is originally from Algeria and during the war they moved to France. I also have\u00a0three other siblings that are all still living there and I am the only one that has moved off.<\/p>\n
To begin with I would like to share with you one of the most\u00a0personal\u00a0things that \u00a0G-d did in my heart over\u00a0twenty years ago. To start off I came from a traditional\u00a0Jewish\u00a0family. My parents weren’t religious but we were proud to be Jews and we kept\u00a0what\u00a0we considered to be the\u00a0essential\u00a0parts of our\u00a0Judaism.<\/p>\n
One day we had a\u00a0Christian come to our house and strangely enough my mother helped him because his vehicle was broken down. Of course he\u00a0shared with us about Jesus and in return I told him that Jesus was Catholic and I’m Jewish and we don’t want anything \u00a0to do with Him. He went on to tell us how that Jesus was the Messiah and to study Isaiah 53 and\u00a0Psalms\u00a022 in the Tanakh. After He had left\u00a0my family just went back to what they were doing yet I being curious by nature decided to study the Tanakh and later I\u00a0hesitantly\u00a0and secretly picked up and read the new testament as well. When I began reading the new testament \u00a0I was shocked to find out that Jesus or Yeshua, which is His hebrew name, along with his disciples were\u00a0Jewish\u00a0just like me. Over a\u00a0period\u00a0of time God gave me a dream and\u00a0convinced\u00a0me likewise in my heart that I was a sinner\u00a0separated\u00a0from Him and that I needed His\u00a0provision\u00a0of salvation in Yeshua.<\/p>\n
Personally I think that every Jew ought to research the person and work of Jesus as being the Jewish Messiah. I have heard many of the objections but most of them have been reactionary comments versus any type of real scholarly criticism. When you think about the worldview of Jesus He is the most\u00a0influential\u00a0Jew to have ever lived. Why is that? Anyway I think that it\u00a0would\u00a0behoove you to\u00a0at least\u00a0do the research with an open and\u00a0honest\u00a0heart and not through the\u00a0skepticism\u00a0of the Rabbis.<\/p>\n
Just because members of our Jewish\u00a0community have rejected Him doesn’t automatically disqualify Hm for the title and position of Messiah. If you study the Torah and the Tanakh you will see that corporate Israel is constantly rejecting G-d and the prophets and this rejection led\u00a0us into the Diaspora to begin with. In other words what you might be rejecting may be G-d’s\u00a0provision\u00a0whether we fully understand it or not.<\/p>\n