Our Distinctives
Bamidbar: "In The Wilderness" (in English "Numbers", too boring at title) 27.13-18 You know how the Rabbi will introduce an interesting or important visitor to the synagogue and have them stand or even say a few words? Well lucky me, I got to introduce two folks visiting our service from the planet Neptune! They came to earth researching “faith”, a hard concept to reconnoiter from their spaceship and they want to know about Messianic Judaism and its relationship to traditional Judaism (whatever that might be) and faith in general. They told me if they don’t like what they found out, they would wipe out life here on earth. Seemed a bit judgmental. Aliens! In my humble opinion, the practices of Messianic Judaism more resemble the patterns in Jewish scripture than any other strain of Judaism. Here in this portion, the commissioning of Joshua as future leader of Israel, we see some of these Messianic Jewish distinctives practiced in specific. (Numb...