Thursday, November 25, 2004
Funny, you look SO Jewish!
We went into the New York City. To the Jewish section. Such a blast!! Everyone was so accepting and sweet and i had an encounter; that was the most special of all. After spending way to much money on kosher groceries and stylish millineries and Eichler's Judaic and Book store (I LOVE THAT STORE!),...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Will the real Messiah please stand up?
Dear Mrs. Blogski, There is one thing that seperates me from you, an orthodox jew: the belief that Yeshua - Jesus - is the Messiah. "How can you say that?" i image you would shout. "How can you believe that a man who's followers murder us is the messiah? Not even Hitler killed as many Jews as the...
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Monday, November 22, 2004
Diving Deeper
Dear Mrs. Blogski, At the beginning of our discovery of Torah, our perspective had been mostly shaped by Messianic teachers...teachers who believed in Yeshua - Jesus - as the Messiah, and yet had realized the validity of the Torah in the modern day. These teachers were sometimes just a few steps...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2004
I was a lawless Christian
I was raised as a Protestant Christian. Jesus was my God. I believed that there were two parts to the Bible: The Old Testament - which was good for stories and interesting background information - and the New Testament, which contained the revelation of Jesus and the way of salvation. I believed...
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Sunday, November 14, 2004
Dear Mrs. Blogski, You don't know me. Not yet, at least. But I'm a secret admirer of yours. So much so that, I shamefacedly confess, I often play the copycat. I mimic your gestures, your semantics, your fashions, your little nuances that most outsiders wouldn't pick up on. Your way of life...
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The Confession of a Sabbath Keeper
We thought they wouldn't mind. It was like dropping a bomb. First there was silence, then utter chaos. They went along with the reschedule from Sunday morning to Sunday evening for about two weeks, and my family enjoyed the first Shabbat of our lives. And then it started getting ugly. We had stepped...
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Saturday, November 13, 2004
Shabbat
That was all easy enough. So, we added a few holidays to the year, big deal. We took the liberty of adjusting he dates of some of the holidays to work around the camp schedule. Shabbat was one of those holidays. Havdalah had come out of the bathroom and into the rest of the fmaily and we celebrated...
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Friday, November 12, 2004
Observance
The Torah is for today - It was a great philosophy, but what I was learning had tohave some skin and bones on it. I started taking little steps according to what I knew. On Sunday night, the end of my "Christian Sabbath", I celebrated Havdalah (the Jewish ceremony marking the end of the Sabbath)...
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Thursday, November 11, 2004
Earliest Memories
Fiddler on the Roof; I think that was my first exposure to Orthodox Judaism. It was a family favorite from the time I was very young. We sang the score and quoted Tevye. But the first time I really got the point was later, when I was around fourteen. I watched it as if I had never seen it before and...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Strange Family
We were never really normal. All my friends went to school; we were home schooled. The other kids went to youth group; we joined our parents' activities. The other kids gulped down Coke and gobbled up Twinkies; we shopped at the health food store and ate organic vegetables. I looked at my friends'...
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