In the “very interesting” category comes this video concerning the famous Jewish Rabbi, Yitzchak Kaduri. It is told that the Lubavitcher Rebbe foretold that Rabbi Kaduri would witness the coming of the Messiah. That got my attention, because quotes from the Lubavitcher Rebbe (Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson) comprise one of my favorite books, Bringing Heaven Down to Earth: 365 Meditations of the Rebbe
Anyway, Rabbi Kaduri’s thoughts were centered on the coming of the Messiah, during his final years on Earth. He passed on in January of 2006. Before leaving us, though, he apparently left two hints about the Messiah (Mashiach.) First, that He would appear after the death of Ariel Sharon. Next, that the Messiah’s name is Yehoshua, Yeshua, Yahusha… you got it, the one that most English speaking moderns call Jesus. Very interesting . . .
Yes, there is big controversy over this–many claiming that it is all an invention of Christians, and others saying it is a sign that the end of the world as we know it is imminent. One thing for certain: Ariel Sharon has been in dire medical condition since 2006. He is still with us, but has been comatose for some time now.
Any way you cut it… the entire situation is both strange and interesting. I need to research more, before I can comment, but didn’t want to hold back on sharing the video. By the way, I know nothing about the folks who are behind this film, but I do appreciate their making it available.
I’ll close with this followup, from the Israel Today website…
Rabbi David Kaduri, the 80-year-old son of the late Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri, denied that his father left a note with the name Yeshua just before he died.
“It’s not his writing,” he said when we showed him a copy of the note.
During a nighttime meeting in the Nahalat Yitzhak Yeshiva in Jerusalem, books with the elder Kaduri’s handwriting from 80 years ago were presented to us in an attempt to prove that the Messiah note was not authentic.
When we told Rabbi Kaduri that his father’s official website (www.kaduri.net) had mentioned the Messiah note, he was shocked. “Oh no! That’s blasphemy. The people could understand that my father pointed to him [the Messiah of the Christians].”
David Kaduri confirmed, however, that in his last year, his father had talked and dreamed almost exclusively about the Messiah and his coming. “My father has met the Messiah in a vision,” he said, “and told us that he would come soon.”
Israel Today was given access to many of the rabbi’s manuscripts, written in his own hand for the exclusive use of his students. Most striking were the cross-like symbols painted by Kaduri all over the pages. In the Jewish tradition, one does not use crosses. In fact, even the use of a plus sign is discouraged because it might be mistaken for a cross.
But there they were, scribbled in the rabbi’s own hand. When we asked what those symbols meant, Rabbi David Kaduri said they were “signs of the angel.” Pressed further about the meaning of the “signs of the angel,” he said he had no idea. Rabbi David Kaduri went on to explain that only his father had had a spiritual relationship with God and had met the Messiah in his dreams.
Orthodox Jews around the Nahalat Yitzhak Yeshiva told Israel Today a few weeks later that the story about the secret note of Rabbi Kaduri should never have come out, and that it had damaged the name the revered old sage.
John 5,43
I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not accept me; but if someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.
http://koti.phnet.fi/petripaavola/YeshuapromisedMessiah.html
This article has been written very interesting way of the Messiah according to the text of the old covenant.
Look for Yehoshua or Yeshua or JOSHU YAX
Bless is the name of the LORD!!!! for the Prophet Isaiah spoke of “Yehoshua” Chapter 7,and Chpt. 53. King David spoke of the Messiah Yeshua in psalm 22. Zechariah Chpt.12, Moses spoke of the Prophet like him to come in Deut.18. And for; Rabbi’s Yitzhak Kaduri,and Rabbi Haim Kneiveskzy for bless is he who comes in the name of the LORD!!!!!! for it’s by faith and not by sight that one is saved. for the forfather “Abraham” laid the example for what ” All-Mighty G-D” was to provide 4 once and 4 all, Amen & Amen !!!!
my jewish people i wait for you, come to me, come to us, be new jews in name of christ, christians, amen
I just don’t get my big brothers from the Yahudah tribe? A revered man, loved by thousands (even orthodox Yahudim) and he said that the Messiah that was coming to SAVE Israel in the latter days had appeared to him and showed him his name and other signs and messages and this is blasphemy or a lie? Come on my big brothers!! I used to hate the Christian Jesus, and stopped praying or speaking to god altogether due to the hipocracy of the Christian church and its leaders, but after reading that Jesus was a Jew and finding out BY MYSELF that Yeshua or Yahshua UPHELD Torah, taught from the TaNaK and spoke highly of the old prophets, etc..I (once again) became enthused with the scriptures and its teachings..It is Paul and his followers who were used as an excuse to betray the real message of Yeshua to uphold Torah and do its good deeds. I have decided to do the living words and NOT disregard the Torah for man made traditions. I despise man made traditions for it is written: “Cursed is he that has faith in men” SHALOM..
Note to Jonathan: I appreciate your taking time to comment, but the policy of this blog is to not approve comments that are mean-spirited. On Roadturn, we seek mutual encouragement. Certainly, there is room for disagreement–but not for name calling and venom. Read the post again. I didn’t make the film, but I do find it interesting. I don’t have enough information about the Rabbi to know whether the claims are true or not. I am a Christian–a believer in Jesus as the Messiah–but I became one as the result of a personal calling, not because of this video. I only recently heard of Rabbi Kaduri. Shalom.
Jesus has told us in the New Testament not to believe anyone who says: I saw Him or I am Jesus. He said that He would come with all His glory at the end and divide people, the bad and the good separately.
God is in us. Wake up.
Whatever religion you are.
We are all one.
We are all one family.
Cant read anymore all this lies from religion organisations…..with the target to have the only truth!
DONT BE BLIND OPEN YOUR EYES AND YoU WILL EXPERIENCE GOD.
Bless you and wish all souls with or without body health, peace and freedom.
I don’t understand why Christians are jumping for joy. Yehoshua is not an exclusive name, especially not to point to Jesus. Yehoshua was a common name, & Yeshua of Nazareth was never called Yehoshua. Yeshua is a shorter variation of the name Yehoshua. Yeshua was never called Yehoshua just as Yehoshua son of Nun was never called Yeshua. On top of this, does any Christian read the other things Rabbi Kaduri said of this Mashiach? That the Mashiach is alive & in Israel. So in no way is the person that Rabbi Kaduri is referring to is Jesus. Plus, do Christians think any observant Jew would hold the same concept of Mashiach as their Christ? No!
Dear true believers , it matters not when MESSIAH is coming what matters are we READY ?
Math . .25: , Says only the wise virgins will be ready when the groom comes for HIS bride ; and that ” ALL” the virgins are sleeping , and not just the foolish . John 3:3 Says one MUST be BORN AGAIN , John 3:8 says “EVERYONE ” who is born again can do what Philip did in
Acts 8:38 also Isa. 41:3 . What Christians are ” calling ” Born Again (speaking in tongues ) is not scripturally born again , ( THIS IS WHAT BORN AGAIN ACTUALLY IS 1 John 3:9 &
1 John 5:18 ) JUST what MESIAH taught . GO and sin no more , and Be You perfect as your Father in Heaven is PERFECT .
No excuses 1 Tim . 2:5 , John 17:19 , Rom . 3:25 , God cannot be tempted with evil James 1:13 ,and YAHOSHUA was . The message from Gen. 4:26 to Rev. 3:8 ; John 17:6 &:12 & :26 has always been about the HOLY NAME Psa. 68:4 . John 3:12 & :13 says this new birth MUST be done in this life span or not at all . YAH will NOT give His glory to another name Isa .48 :11 , Isa . 43 :7
which is our calling Col . 1: 27 & Eph .3:19 & Eph .4;13 & Rom. 8: 29 Those coming up in first resurrection will not be bride of Messiah says Math . 22:30 . How do we awake to be a wise virgin ? John 14 :17 and Acts 1: tells us what we MUST DO , ” if ” we have eyes to see . All the parables speak of this PEARL OF GREAT PRICE and how , and what we must do to receive it . It CANNOT be bought with money , Math .25: says we must by and sell to receive the baptism of the HOLY SPIRIT : by what I have shared with you , it is clear this is with the love for truth which is Psa. 119:151 so says 1John 3:4 and TIME AND EFFORT ,the hundred and twenty disciples prayed continually for ten days ,and received it . Matt Sorger sought yah for one hour per day standing with up stretched arms and received this after four months . He wrote a book called POWER FOR LIFE . 1 Peter 3:21 says it is THIS BAPTISM THAT saves us , that births us again !!!! If you find scripture confusing there is a good reason for this Rom.2:13 explains .
Sincerely ,cc
Just incase a novice to the scriptures is reading this , Math. 25 : 5 All the virgins are the body of Messiah asleep .
All have oil an earnest ( like a downpayment ) of Holy Spirit says 2 Cor. 1: 22 John 14 :17 with but not in them .
All have a Bible lamp says Psa .119: 105 Yah `s word is a lamp unto our feet
You see scripture MUST interpret scripture or it is not correct . Isa .28:10 -: 13 & 2 Peter 1:20
All have vessels their body flesh . compare 1 Thes . 5:23 with Acts 8 ;11 & :23 . and they must be filled with oil . Heb. 12: 13 without Holiness we will NOT see Yah , as Messiah Yahoshua saw Yah IN HIM John 14:10 ,John 17 : 22 -:23 US TOO the SAME!!!!! Holiness comes from Holy Spirit .
@cc:
Amen and Amen.
The Lord bless your life and ministry.
Is it a coincidence that Yeshua is revealed by Rabbi Yitzchek Kaduri and a year later I take a picture in Phoenix Arizona where Yeshua Hamashiak, Jesus the Messiah, also reveals in the clouds that He is also the Father, and that His signature is The God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob? Check out my website and this very important confirmation of His Word at “www.CloudsGodsMural.com” ; this is no hoax, so help me God.
This is very interesting. It does say (In Joel I think) “In the last days young man shall have visions and old men shall dream dreams.” I can read a little hebrew (printing) and I am not quite sure how the english transliteration spelled out Yehoshua, though it seems reasonable to believe it. As someone pointed out earlier, Yehosua is not an unusual name.
Still it is interesting and something I will look into. I can certainly see his sons reluctance to believe it. If the Messiah to come has been here in the person of Yeshua, he would have had to comprehend something that has been misunderstood for over 2000 years -and I don’t know how he would begin to communicate it.
I note that many Christians have posted here. His comprehension and the Jewish comprehension of “Messiah” is much different than yours. Messiah does not translate into ‘Christ’ or divinity or even provider as a sacrifice for individual salvation. It means annointed one, and in this case a very special annointed one.
He would be bringing Jews to repentance as well as a leader of those who were allready living a Godly life. The same as Jesus was when he walked the earth. His mission was to bring back the lost sheep of the house of Israel, free Israel from they tyrany of Rome, and ultimately bring in righeousness and genuine peace and Holiness and health to all mankind. He would be a Messiah and (what Rome murdered him for) a King. He will bring about the Kingdom of Heaven, or the Kingdom of God, here- on earth.
I think It is as difficult for Christians to understand the role of the Messiah in Judaism as it is for Torah observant Jews to consider the possibility that when the Messiah comes, it could actually be Yeshua, the real Yeshua. The original followers were an accepted part of the Jewish community.
But that was 2000 years ago, 2 millenia of many of his supposed followers distorting him and his message and persecuting his people so that Jesus was synonomous with those who hated Jews. – how could he be the Messiah.
Anyway, I’m glad you posted this – I will look into it.
Thank you, Browndog.
A couple of observations:
1. Isn’t “Christ” the Greek rendition of “Messiah” … both meaning, “The Annointed One”?
2. Isn’t the concept of Messiah pretty straightforward–”The Deliverer”? Moses and even Cyrus, King of Persia, were “messiahs.”
It seems to me the situation is fairly simple: The Jews in the time of Jesus wanted deliverance NOW (at least those who weren’t members of the ruling elite did). Since Jesus did not come down from the cross and wipe out the Romans, they completely dismissed him as Messiah. It was only those who saw him defeat the biggest enemy of all–death–who first believed.
When Jesus comes again in glory, all will understand. For now, he is revealed only to those whom the Father chooses–and perhaps one of those individuals was Rabbi Kaduri.
Surely, it is all a great mystery–but a fascinating mystery. It leads me to wonder how Jews and Christians agree (or don’t agree) on the Holy Spirit–the Ruach Hakodesh.
Messiah means “annointed one.” There is nothing devine about the title. The followers of Jesus, those that knew him best, were Jews. There was nothing he said or did that went against Judaism. His followers were practicing Jews, plain and simple. It is even possible that a majority of Israel saw him as their King. But he was never viewed as a divine figure by those who knew him best. Even his resurrection would not be considered evidence of him being God. One thing that didn’t exactly change, but opened the doors wider, is that gentiles could be followers of the Messiah and fully partake in the kingdom without full conversion. Judaism was always universal, in that gentiles could be Righteous God Fearers awithout full conversion. They needed to follow the covenent God made with Noah. If they wanted they could become full Jews. This didn’t change with Jesus, but something unique happened. They were fully accepted as Nazarines , etc, without having to convert. Even though they were believers, this did not close the door to some of them still following the Torah and becoming full Jews if they so desired. That is why James says in Acts “For Moses is still preached….”
Things changed with Paul, who never even met Jesus, except in ‘dreams & visisons.’ He wrote in greek and used the word “Chirst” and equated it with Messiah. Paul combined mystery religions of a divine saviour (christ) who descends and is sacrificed, along with the gnostic idea of someone bringing a secret message into this world of darkness, an Judiasm.
There is definitely a difference between Messiah and christ. They are two different concepts..
yehoshua means salvation and whoever the real messiah would be it would be apprapro to refer to him as G-ds salvation. There is a detail that the paganised jews who are following doctrines invented by the catholic church and the jew hater martin luther are overlooking. Rabbi Kaduri never said the actual name jesus (haysus in spanish and the horse in Hebrew. as in psalm 33 false is the horse (HEYSUS-JESUS) for salvation. sus the numerical equivalent for the word horse in hebrew is 666 so according to john in the christian book of revelations it would seem that jesus himself is the false messiah anti christ(anti-messiah) most jewish bible scholars identify the suffering servant as Israel but there are those who identify him him as the messiah. Actually I would not be suprised since the meassiah as formulated by the sages is the embodiment of Israel and his job is to redeem them,not cause them more suffering as the almost 2000 year persecution and murder that his followers brought upon the Jewish people. IF the verses in isaiah 53 refer to the messiah they actually prove the opposite of what tyhe christians claim and mabe thats why rabbi Kaduri focused on those verses. If the verses do not fit jesus and they are about the messiah they actually prove he is not the messiah. despised and rejected of men. the most popular religious figure in history where adoring crowds followed his every move was despised and rejected? or israel the most despised nation on earth. his sickneses he bore (he bore the sicknesses or cured the sicknesses. while the latter is ascribed to him where does it say anywhere in the new testament that he had a sickness? and since there are so many sicknesses the indication in the verses would mean that he suffered from a varirty of sicknesses. which one did he bare for us? cancer heartdisease ,diabetes? or mabe the real messiah will identify with his people who were falsely accused of spreading the black plague and just about every other malady that plagued mankind and thats what it means he bore he wiill see his seed prolonged, really li
ved marry and hasve children. I know his diisciples if you are a christian and want to brelieve invent an answer. Israel despite millenia of persecution murder and martydom sttill live and still see their children learning torah and following in the paths of torah. It is interesting that after identifiyiong je-zeus with the greek name it is suddenly the fashion to call him yeshua or yehoshua Perhaps that is to get them used to the fact that the real; meassiah will be a religious Jew who keeps G-ds commandments and will bring about the long awaited yeshua(salvtion) one more thing. I have a friend whos oldest sons name is yeshua and he middle ones name is eliyahu(elijah). mabe he is the messiah. for more on isaih 53 look up rabbi tuuia singers website He absolutely demolishes the claim that those verses refer to jesus
Zaidyavi, you certainly have some interesting insights. I think it might be helpful to some to make clear the context (or a bit of it at least) of Messiah, Salvation, etc -as it has been understood by Jews. This would include things that Jesus and his disciples believed and practiced. I mention this because I could almost hear a ‘friends of Israel or Jews for Jesus or other Christian Jews saying – yeah but the Jews are wrong. Well, if they believe that, then they have an obvious problem, for their beliefs go against the beliefs of the one they believe in.
That being said, the concept of all men being damned to the eternal torture of God in hell is foreign to Judaism. An individual saviour to die for mens sins so that they can escape hellfire is ( besides being a bizzare belief and making God far worse than hitler) not needed. Whatever happens in the afterlife, magically going to heaven for believing the right thing or hell for making a mistake is simply not part of Torah, or Judiasm. We dont need a saviour to be tortured for us. We all will face God one day, and though at times there are indications of vicarious suffering, there is no need for God to have the Romans Cruelly crucify a man to save others. Salvation in the fundemantalist Christian sense is not a reality. Salvation and eternal hell fire is not part of Torah, or reality.
Salvation to the Jew can mean a lot of things. But when it comes to the Messiah it means salvation of Israel and ultimately the nations. The Messiah would rid Israel (at the time of Jesus) of Rome and restore the Kingdom of God -or heaven, on earth. The world would be ultimately saved from evil leaders, evil nations, and there would be an end to war. Repentance and wholeness and health and genuine peace and righeousness would prevail. That is salvation.
As far as individual soles being saved – there has never been a need for a crucified saviour to save gentiles. God made a covenant with all nations and peoples and the door has always been open.
Was the real Jesus or Yeshua who walked on the earth 2000 years ago annointed of God to bring about repentence, etc. When the Messiah comes, will it be him? Someone could believe it or not believe it- I’m not sure what it changes.
For a gentile to believe he is God- well I think that can lead to a valid love of God , and God would accept it. When a Jew has that belief he is making a big mistake. At the same time, many people have turned their lives around thru a misguided faith.
I think Jews, especially those who love God, to be able to understand the real Jesus who was a Torah obvservant Jew, and guide these people with understanding so that they stop believing falsehood and unintentionally practicing idolitry. There is no man between man and God
The true Christians have never persecuted the Jewish people for we clearly understand the Scriptures that the Messaiah would be offering Himself tss a sacrifice for humanity, and the Prophet Daniel had written that He would be cut down by the Gentiles, in this case the Romans, not the Jews. Anyone who blames the Jews lacks understanding for the Apostle Paul clearly repeated what Jesus had said, that salvation came through the Jews. There are many sects that have deviated from the truth,
…among the Christians and among the Jews. The evil-one was very cunning in watering down Christianity by causing the Romans to absorb the Christianity after the evil-one saw that persecuting the true Christians was not destroying Christianity, but rather spreading the Truth much faster. It was a clever ploy, but the true Christian remmant did not fall for the ploy, and continued with the truth to this day. Jesus said that the door that leads to salvation is very narrow and few enter through it. He also said that He had another flock, besides the Jews, and that one day they He would bring them to Himself as one flock. The days are here and Messaiah is revealing Himself through many means, that He Is Jesus. Beware brethern, do not aceept any other Messaiah that is going say that they he is Him.
God Almighty is “a just God” and has to punish sin and sinners or else He ceases to be a “just God”. He was very clear to Adam and Eve that they would surely die that day if they took of the only tree that He forbid them to take from. They received their punnishment when they disobeyed and He did not allow them to take any more fruits from the tree of life–so they died a physical death before one thousand years passed from the moment that they ate of the forbidden fruit. God did forgive them by shedding the blood of innocent lambs and osed the skins to clothe them. So man fell and lost his right to this plannet; the evil-one
…now had the rights to the planet. Now a new “Adam” was needed to live a perfect sinless life and be offered as a sacrifice for all humans and therefore be able to take the rights from the evil-one. The Passover had shedding of innocent blood to protect the Isrealites from death, and is a symbol of the Messiah shedding His Blood to protect those who by faith accept the Messiah and thus be justified from eternal death and thus be saved. Hell was prepared for the fallen evil-one and his followers; but those who don’t aceept the Messiah’s sacrifice, will have to be included in Hell because He is a Just
…God who has to punish sin. But those who are “justified” by God through His Son Jesus (He is God Almighty who limited His existence to auman body, has all the attributes and authority of God) they will be with God in Heaven. The Jewish Messiah already came and and suffered just like Issiah 53 said that He would suffer. The innocent Lamb of God shed His blood and now death just passes over us and cannot touch the soul, just the flesh. We are justified by Grace if we accept His free gift, and repent from our sinfull life, and are Baptised in the name of Jesus (Acts 4:12) or Yeshua, just like Peter answered in Acts 2:38.
Let me tell you a story: When the evil-one rebelled in Heaven, he must have poisoned the minds of the angels that were under his command (a third of angels in heaven, billions of them) with the common lie that God did not love them, because God was denying them . The evil-one used this same tactic that had worked so well for him, when he lied to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, “God doesn’t want you to be like gods, or He is denying you what you deserve to be or need to know” etc. This tactic is clearly illustrated when Absalom used it against his father King David. Absalom won the hearts of many people by lying to them that King David was denying them justice; and he granted them their wishes, just to win over their hearts. Now back to Heaven, the evil-one successfully injected doubt in the hearts of many of the citizens of Heaven, that God really did not love them and that God was not really who He said He was– the Creator of All. You see, because God is so meek and doesn’t show-off his power, He dwelled among the angels, as the Angel of the Lord. Even though He is so powerful, greater than all the Universes combines and then multiplied by many more trillions of times; He was not going to dwell among His angels as a “big ball of fire” but rather like one of them, because He is Love and He likes to dwindle among His created beings– He likes to fellowship with them—and of course no being can exist in His presence if He were to appear in His full form, not even the angels. That is why John 1:18 says that “No one has seen God any time” (meaning past present or future). He dwelt among them as the Angel of the Lord, and this made it easier for the evil-one to confuse and lie about who the Angel of the Lord was, and thus also make himself think that he could also take over the Kingdom of Heaven, and be even greater than God Himself. Obviously the evil-one found out who God really was when he lost after the mutiny, and was cast into the dark physical universe where the Earth is located (along with a third of his followers). But now God found it necessary to show “all of creation” that His love was beyond anything they had ever imagined. “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” Jesus said it in John 15:13. But here is the problem: God cannot die, even as the Angel of the Lord (Jesus before being born in the flesh), for He is eternal .So how can He show His love for ALL his created beings when He cannot die? Well, He had already created the smallest of His created beings, “man”, and man had a corruptible body, and was capable of dying—hmm, problem solved. If God Almighty were to be born as a human, He could die a physical death, and yet His spirit would continue to be eternal. If He died and suffered for ALL creation, as a small simple human, would there be any doubt that His love is genuine? By now the evil-one was already working on destroying the smallest created beings in the Garden of Eden. God set His plan of Salvation in motion, to pay the ransom for humans, and to demonstrate His great of Love for ALL creation! God Almighty is the Angel of the Lord AND is also Jesus Christ (and the Holy Spirit). He limited Himself to a human body, but He is the essence of Almighty God, or full Deity in an earthly vessel. He is no coward! He would not “a son” to die for Him, He himself came down to die for All, and He calls Himself as a human, the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, Almighty God in flesh (Read Isaiah 9:6). Blessed be the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, who showed His love for All of us!
I want to tell you there are several things that the New Testament Jesus did that went against Judaism. To begin with, he touched a leper which is forbidden by Torah. Secondly, he touched a woman who wasn’t his wife, which goes against the Talmud. Thirdly, he told his disciples to take a donkey that didn’t belong to them. So it is no wonder Jews reject the Jesus of the NT as the Moshiach.
The coming of the Messiah is an interesting issue to which many prophecies are connected.
Below, we are going to examine this area, that is, the prophecies connected with the coming of the Messiah. The purpose is to go through especially what has been told in the Scriptures – the Books of Moses, psalms and prophets – about the coming of the Messiah, the point of time of His coming, His life, His origins and whether or not these prophecies have already been fulfilled. In other words, the purpose is to find out how these things actually came true.
However, we will not only be restricted to the writings of the Bible, but also use old commentaries of the rabbis (Midrash, Targum, Zohar, Talmud, etc.) as assistance, because they are valued very much amongst Jews. What is surprising is that from these old sources – especially from the oldest – can be found a powerful expectation of the Messiah and a description of His supernatural characteristics, presented in a way which very much resembles the message of the New Testament. An example of this expectation of the Messiah is what Talmud has said on the following lines. They indicate that prophets prophesied only for the days of the Messiah:
“All prophets prophesied only for the days of the Messiah” (Sanhedrin 99a. p. 670).
“The world was created only for the Messiah.” (Sanhedrin 98b. p. 667).
The whole article; http://www.jariiivanainen.net/Messiah_prophesies_Talmud.html
The essence of the Law, or the “spirit of the Law” is summed-up in Deuteronomy 6:5: “ And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.” and Jesus clarified it further by saying: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Clearly the Law allowed exceptions when a “greater good” could be done, as when you are demonstrating your love for God or doing good for your “neighbor” (a fellow human). For example: If a leper slips on a mountain trail and you see that he needs help right away, would you let him fall just because the Law says to not touch a leper? Clearly the greater good would be for you to save him. If an unknown woman falls into a lake and is drowning and you are nearby to assist, would you let her drown just because you cannot touch a woman who is not your wife? Clearly the greater good would be to jump in and save her. If an evil murderer came to you and demanded that you tell him where he can find Mr.X so that he can kill him, would you tell him where to go look for him, or in other words, would you tell him the truth just because the Law demands that you say the truth? Clearly the greater good would be to deceive the murderer and lead him away from Mr. X ; this in order to save his life. In all these cases, a life is at stake and breaking the written word in order to keep the “spirit of the Law” is the right thing to do. Have you read where King David went into the temple and fed his men with the bread that was strictly set aside for the Levites, in order to save his men’s lives? He broke the law but He kept the spirit of the law with a greater good, and God did not punish him. The same can be said of Jesus! Whenever He touched a leper or a woman, He did it for a greater good, to heal them or to save them. He also healed the blind man on the Sabbath by “working” as when He spit on the ground and made mud to apply to the blind man’s eyes; but He kept the spirit of the law by doing a greater good. Jesus clearly knew when to apply it and in all cases He broke laws that were not the original intent of God’s laws. Men had added so many more burdensome rules beyond what God had commanded. Spitting on the dust and making mud was now considered “working”? Healing a man on the Sabbath was now wrong? Healing the Leper’s and the sick women, and even raising the dead, all of these on the Sabbath, was now wrong? The religious leaders were actually imposing more than God intended – they were not keeping the intent of the Law –they were adding a burden upon the people. We need to always keep in mind the “spirit of the Law” and weigh the options justly, with God’s help, through prayer. Currently the laws of this country (the USA), have also gone beyond what the founding fathers intended for America. We are also losing our way! For example: Freedom of Religion is now being interpreted as Freedom From Religion (no religion). Speaking the Lord’s truth is now considered “hate speech” (at least in Canada and we are heading that way too). If the founding fathers were to appear in the present, they would also not keep these twisted laws which are not the original intent of their written constitution. They would say that we have also lost the intent of what they intended for this nation.
Now regarding the taking of the donkey: There are multiple explanations about why this was not a theft. Let me give you two of them. First, there is a possibility that Jesus had a prior arrangement with the owner of the donkey, and He knew that He could use it when ever he needed it. This is what Luke 19:29-34 says: “Jesus sent two of his disciples, Saying, Go ye into the village . . . ye shall find a colt tied, whereon yet never man sat: loose him, and bring him hither. And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him. . . . And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt? And they said, The Lord hath need of him.” Obviously the owner let them take the donkey because of either a prior arrangement or he simply knew who Jesus was, and he had no issue with Jesus borrowing it. Another possibility is an unwritten rule, that when a person of authority or a Rabbi requested to borrow an animal, that the right thing to do was to loan it out, knowing that it would be returned and the owner would be justly compensated. This can happen even in modern times. If a police officer doesn’t have a car and he needs to pursue a criminal, he can commandeer a citizen’s vehicle and he will not be prosecuted for vehicular theft – the policeman is not breaking the law.
Please google this phrase: “Did Jesus steal a donkey?” to read further from the websites that are listed.
Shalom Violaine,
I see your point of view. However, it does say in revelation that two prophets will foretell the conning of the Messiah (Yeshua): ישוע. So Kidduri could have been one of the prophets. Also, please note that the Greek language is as complex as Ancoent Hebrew. Hence, you can not, in no possible comprehensible way, translate te scriptures into English. You not only need the words (which are among the hardest), but you also need the mindset. It’s ALOT that goes into this.