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Continue reading →: Article: Isaiah 53: The Suffering Servant
Cutting through the distortions and mistranslations of this enigmatic text. by Marshall Roth The 53rd chapter of Isaiah is a beautiful, poetic song, one of the four “Servant Songs” in which the prophet describes the climactic period of world history when the Messiah will arrive and the Jewish people assume…
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Continue reading →: Part 2: “Israel is cancer that should be removed”, Iranian writes to me
A few days ago I posted an email from my communication with an Iranian man. Below are more of his rantings in reply to my answer to him: First of all, if USA and the West stopped supporting Israel, Muslims would kill all Israeli citizens. Be sure – do not…
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Continue reading →: “Israel is cancer that should be removed”, Iranian writes to me
For the past many months an Iranian man (I’ll call him Mahmud) has been writing to me about Israel, Jews, Judaism, Islam, his country and the rest of the Muslim world. Our dialog has been a mix of friendliness and hostility. This morning, after a long hiatus and no doubt…
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Continue reading →: A short guide to seeing prophecies about Jesus in the Old Testament
The gospel authors started the original trend. Since then, Christian bookstores have sold untold number of books outlining hundreds of biblical prophecies, all supposedly predicting the life of Jesus. Clearly then, Christians take great comfort in believing that the appearing of Jesus and the events of his life were prophesied long ago by Israelite prophets,…
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Continue reading →: News: Spanish town named “kill Jews” to seek Jewish studies center
(June 24, 2014 – JTA) — The Spanish town in the process of changing its name because it contains the words “kill Jews” is promoting plans to open a Jewish studies center. Lorenzo Rodriguez, the mayor of Castrillo Matajudios in northern Spain, was scheduled to present the plan at a meeting…
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Continue reading →: Paper: Paul Philip Levertoff and the Popularization of Kabbalah as a Missionizing Tactic
In the past few years, Paul Philip Levertoff, a Jewish-born convert to Christianity (he was baptized at age 17 in August 1895, in Konigsberg, East Prussia, after he left his family and the Jewish community) who later embraced Anglicanism (he was later ordained as a priest, becoming a missionary to…
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Continue reading →: Did the Jewish people deserve the suffering of the last 2000 years?
“We, the Jews, collectively rejected God and hung Him up on a cross to die, and thus we deserved the punishments that were heaped on our heads over the last 2000 years” – from an essay titled Why Us?, written by an anonymous Jewish convert to Christianity for Harvard Ichthus Christian journal. Many Christians, among them those…
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Continue reading →: Question from reader: how to tell a false prophet from the true?
A frequent visitor to my blog, Concerned Reader, a Christian, posed the following question to me: “Gene, I have serious questions for you. If the Christians have been deceived into believing a false prophet that G-d sent to test Israel, how are the gentiles supposed to trust G-d, or to…
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Continue reading →: My first “real” Shavuot free of idolatry… and I am excited
This year, a year that I have returned to Judaism and left idolatry behind like a long bad dream, has been an especially exciting one for me. It started with Yom Kippur. It was a solemn yet joyful holy day that I have spent with my wife and kids in…
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Continue reading →: A big THANK YOU to all my readers and blog followers
I just wanted to express my deep appreciation for all the readers and regular followers of the Daily Minyan. For the previous 3 year the Daily Minyan was among the top five most popular Messianic Jewish blogs (not that there was much competition, as there are not than many MJ…
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