Earlier today I was browsing Facebook pages that belong to people who are on my friends list when I came across a sister who uses the Hebrew word "YAHshua" to describe our Master. This is the message I sent her. I would love your comments below – especially if you disagree with the conclusions of [...]

Nine Questions About Mashiach Fundamental Questions & Biblical Truths Is the belief in a Mashiach (Messiah) a Christian idea? How important is the Mashiach to Israel? Is believing in a Mashiach reality or fantasy? Was the idea of a Mashiach invented by man to make us feel good to a future time of peace on [...]

Hoy, temprano en la mañana, estaba revisando las páginas de Facebook de algunas personas que están en mi lista de amigos cuando me encontré con una hermana que utiliza la palabra hebrea “YAHshua” para describir a nuestro Maestro. Éste es el mensaje que le envié. Me gustaría ver sus comentarios a continuación – especialmente si [...]

La primera letra del nombre de Yeshua es la Yud (י). La letra yud representa, en el hebreo, el sonido de la letra (Y). Muchos nombres en la Biblia que comienza con la letra yud son malinterpretados por las personas de habla hispana porque la yud en estos nombres ha sido transcrita en Biblias en [...]

La Besora Tova HaGeula (Las Buenas Nuevas de Redención) dicen: “Y llamarás su nombre Yeshúa, porque él salvará a su pueblo de sus pecados”. Mattityahu / Mateo 1:21. El Nombre del Mesías Judío es Yeshúa, y su significado viene de la raíz hebrea, Yasha, que significa “salvar”. Es por eso que fue llamado Yeshúa, porque [...]

And you shall call His name Yeshua; for He shall save His people from their sins. Mattityahu / Matthew 1:21. The Name of the Jewish Messiah is Yeshua, and its meaning comes from the Hebrew root, yasha, meaning “to save.” That is why He was named Yeshua, because He will “save” His people from their [...]

Bereshit / Gen. 6:9 -11:32 Yeshayahu / Isaiah 54:1- 55:5 Kefa Aleph / Peter 3:18-22 This weeks parsha starts with the following verse: Bereshit 6:9 These are the chronicles of Noah: Noah was a righteous man, faultless in his generation. Noah walked with G-d.  What constitutes a just man/woman, who is perfect in their generations? If [...]

May-June 2008 / Nisan-Iyar-Sivan 5768 As we study the Feasts of Pesach and Shavuot we cannot forget the intermediate days of the Counting of the Omer. In traditional Judaism the Counting of the Omer is a time of semi-mourning. There are no weddings, no celebrations, no cutting of hair and no listening to music. On [...]

July-August 2008 / Sivan-Tammuz-Av 5768 Judaism, at the time of Messiah, was the Judaism of the Pharisees. They followed the customs, traditions and Oral Law (Mishnah) as developed over the centuries from the time of Ezra, the scribe. So, when the Gospel writers wrote their letters they composed them in the framework of the culture [...]

Messianic Judaism / יהודים משיחים is a biblically based movement of Jewish people who believe in Yeshua (Jesus) as their Messiah. In so believing they have chosen to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob according to the Biblical customs and traditions of the Jewish nation. To some the concept of being Jewish and [...]