From Zoroastrianism in ancient Persia From Judaism in Israel From Christianity in the Middle East From Buddhism in the Far East 2. What is a common belief in almost all forms of messianism? The Messiah will def
Understanding Messianic Judaism Messianic Judaism is rooted in the early Jewish followers of Yeshua, who lived in the first century CE. These early believers, known as “The Way” (HaDerekh), were Jewish men and women who accepted Yeshua as the Messiah while continuing to live observant Jewish...
Rather would it seem as if every event were regarded as prophetic, and every prophecy, whether by fact, or by word (prediction), as a light to cast its sheen on the future, until the picture of the Messianic age in the far back-ground stood out in the hundredfold variegated brightness ...
A.Well, like all things in Judaism, I can’t answer that in one sentence. With Hashem’s help, I will tell you some of the most basic beliefs of Judaism, which you can use as a starting point. (And please see my FAQ pages as well). Judaism believes that the Creator is the Only...
the notion continued to resurface, and when one of the Rebbe's strokes left him without the ability to speak, the Messianic die was effectively cast. Every nod of his head, every glance of his eye, was interpreted as another sign that the longed-for Messianic age was just around the ...
“the world to come” in rabbinic terminology, the afterlife, paradise or hell. It is closer to a post-historical age like the messianic era in which it is humans (perhaps resurrected), not disembodied souls, who are compensated. However, the fact that there exists a dedicated world for ...
The marriage ceremony is basically a celebration of the founding of a new Jewish home, linking that event back to Eden and forward to the restoration of Jerusalem in the messianic age. So from a traditional legal perspective, a gay union would have nothing to do with marriage, and from a ...
The question “was Jesus the messiah?” requires a prior question: “What is the definition of messiah?” TheProphets (Nevi’im), who wrote hundreds of years before Jesus’ birth, envisioned a messianic age as as a period of universal peace, in which war and hunger are eradicated, and hu...
If it’s a given that the Bible means something to us as a culture, as individuals, then have we not already prematurely answered the question ‘what is the Bible?’ with the response appropriate to ‘what does the Bible mean?’ Could, in fact, what the Bible means to a particular ind...
Indeed the distinguishedscholar ofJewishphiloso-phy, Julius Guttmann, entitled his classic history,Philosophies of Judaism.²ButJew-ish philosophyismore thanasequence of doctrines or books. Like all philosophy, itis an activity,something one‘does.’³Forsome it is an intellectual exercise that ...