“Why do most Jews reject Jesus as the Messiah?”……Answer: The Jews rejected Jesus because He failed, in their eyes, to do what they expected their Messiah to do-destroy evil and all their enemies and establish an eternal kingdom with Israel as the preeminent nation in the world. The prophecies in Isaiah and Psalm 22 described […]

“What is the Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)?”……Complete Jewish Bible – History…The Complete Jewish Bible was translated by David H. Stern, an Israel-based Messianic Jewish theologian. Published in 1998 by Jewish New Testament Publications, the CJB claims to be "Jewish in manner and presentation." The names of the books are Jewish along with their English names […]

“What is the guff?”……The guff is a term the Talmud uses to refer to the repository of all unborn souls. The Talmud is the Jewish commentary on the Torah, or the Old Testament, and especially the first five books of the Bible known as the Pentateuch. Jewish tradition states that the Talmud began as oral […]

“What is the Hebrew Roots movement?”……Answer: The premise of the Hebrew Roots movement is the belief that the Christian Church has veered far from the true teachings and Hebrew concepts of the Bible. The movement maintains that Christianity has been indoctrinated with the culture and beliefs of Greek and Roman philosophy and that ultimately biblical […]

“Was Jesus a Jew?”……One needs only to search the internet today to determine that there is great controversy and disagreement over the question of whether Jesus of Nazareth was actually Jewish. Before we can answer this question adequately, we must first ask another question: who (or what) is a Jew? Even this question has its […]

“What is Messianic Judaism?”……Messianic Judaism is the term given to Jewish people who believe and have accepted Yeshua (the Hebrew name for Jesus) of Nazareth as the promised Messiah of the Hebrew Scriptures. These Jewish people do not stop being Jewish, but they continue to remain strong in their Jewish identity, lifestyle and culture, while […]

613 commandments From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The tradition that 613 commandments (Hebrew: ├Ä┬¼├Ä┬┐├Ä├û”├Ä├å ├Ä├ù├Ä┬¬├Ä├▓├Ä├▓├Ä┬¼├ö├ç├ä: taryagmitzvot, “613 Mitzvot“) is the number of mitzvot in the Torah, first occurred in the 3rd century CE, when Rabbi Simlai mentioned it in a sermon that is recorded in Talmud Makkot 23b.[1] These principles of Biblical law are sometimes […]