Jewish Voice Today - July/August 2014

Volume 48 | Number 4

JEWISH VOICE TODAY MAGAZINE

Rabbis Who Met the

Messiah

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Does Your Heart Beat

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M]L[ SHALOM The very first one was a member of the Sanhedrin named Nicodemus. He came to Yeshua under the cover of night, seeking confirmation that the remarkable, miracle-working teacher was indeed whom Nicodemus suspected He was. He came saying: “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him” (John 3:2 NIV).

That life-changing encounter took place in darkness. But a few years later another devout Pharisee would have his personal encounter in a blinding flash of light. Ever since Saul of Tarsus had his history-changing meeting on the road to Damascus, some of the most extraordinary transformative encounters with Yeshua (Jesus) have involved rabbis and devout teachers of Jewish Law. That’s why we’ve dedicated this issue of JVT to bringing you inspiring stories of prominent Jewish rabbis who came to recognize the Messiah-ship of Yeshua.

Many of these lost everything—families, followers, reputations, and possessions— as they followed their hearts’ conviction that Yeshua was indeed the long-awaited Jewish Redeemer.

There is something powerful and illuminating about these testimonies. As you read, I trust you’ll be stirred to pray for more such encounters to take place in these volatile and momentous Last Days in which we live. I believe this issue will certainly help you pray with more power and focus in this regard.

I’m also hoping you’ll continue your prayerful and financial support of the outreaches of Jewish Voice. Each day we’re laboring on multiple fronts to help make these kinds of miracles possible. And it’s happening! God is moving among the Jewish People and among Jewish leaders.

We’re living in exciting times. As always, we’re honored to have the opportunity to inform and bless you. Enjoy this issue.

Jonathan Bernis, President & CEO Jewish Voice Ministries International

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CONTENTS

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Up Front Shepherds in Search of Lost Sheep

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Perspective “Thou Art the One” —A Rabbi Meets His Messiah

Paul’s approach to ministry shows Yeshua’s heart for sharing the Good News first with His Chosen People, the Jews.

Hassidic Rabbi Leopold Cohn found Yeshua through the prophets—then brought the Truth to New York City.

By Jonathan Bernis

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Perspective Thorns and Roses: A Tale of a Hungarian Chief Rabbi

A Physician’s Assistant shares his call to love the Lemba people in Zimbabwe— part of the Lost Tribes of Israel.

By Joshua Brumbach

By Timothy Kearns, PA-C

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PERSPECTIVE Yeshua, the Most Famous Jew

Perspective Solomon Ginsburg, Missionary to Brazil

By Dr. Jacob Gartenhaus

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MINISTRY UPDATE Standing in the Gap in Zimbabwe

Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein embraced Yeshua—and shared in His sufferings of persecution.

Disowned by his family and excommunicated for his belief in Yeshua the Messiah, Solomon Ginsburg followed God’s call to bring the Good News to South America.

By Mitch Glaser

Executive Editor Jonathan Bernis

Though often ignored throughout the centuries, people all over the world are remembering Yeshua’s Jewish identity.

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One of Israel’s most famous Rabbis leaves a mysterious note to be read after his death, revealing the name of Yeshua as the true Jewish Messiah.

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speak the truth in Messiah—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit—I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Messiah for the sake of My people, those of My own race, the people of Israel (Romans 9:1-4).

The Apostle Paul is following a well-established pattern.

He enters the city of Ephesus for the very first time. True to form, he heads directly and purposefully toward

before continuing his trek to the synagogue, Paul stops to preach to this little Jewish community. He completes their understanding of John the Baptist’s forerunner role, water immersion and message. Then when they embrace the good news, Paul baptizes them once more, this time in the name of Yeshua. Then he places his hands upon them and the Holy Spirit of God seals the miracle of transformation by pouring Himself into and upon the joyous recipients.

Then it is on to his primary target: Paul entered the synagogue and spoke boldly there for three months, arguing persuasively about the kingdom of God. But some of them became obstinate; they refused to believe and publicly

the city’s main synagogue.

It is autumn, A.D. 54.

This pattern had unfolded in scores of cities and provinces visited by Paul over the previous 17 years of his apostolic travels throughout the eastern Mediterranean. In Salamis, Paphos, Perga, Iconium, Antioch, Derbe, Lystra, Thessalonica and countless other cities, Paul and his traveling companions had followed this script. Upon entering the city, Paul made a beeline for the synagogue where he would seize an opportunity to proclaim what he repeatedly called his Gospel—that is, “good news.”

The wonderful news Paul delivered in synagogue after synagogue across the Roman world was that the longawaited Messiah had come, had fulfilled messianic prophecy, had been executed for the sins of the world, and had been resurrected after three days and elevated to the right hand of God. His name was Yeshua, the Hebrew word for “salvation.”

Thus it would be much like that on this day of Paul’s arrival in storied, cosmopolitan Ephesus. As Acts 19 reveals, Paul’s first encounter here is with a small group of Jews who had been followers of John the Baptist. So, 6 JewishVoiceToday.org | 800-299-YESHUA

maligned the Way. So Paul left them. He took the disciples with him and had discussions daily in the lecture hall of Tyrannus.

This went on for two years, so that all the Jews and Greeks who lived in the province of Asia heard the word of the Lord (Acts 19:8-10).

Three months! Yes, Paul spent his first three months in this new city laboring to reach the Jewish population of

Ephesus with the good news of Yeshua. And when that venue was exhausted, he moved to another meeting place from which he could preach to both Jews and Gentiles— and remained there for two years! So thorough was Paul’s communication strategy that the above verse declares “all the Jews and Greeks” in the entire Roman province called Asia (comprising much of modern day Turkey) had been given an opportunity to accept or reject the message.

We have to ask ourselves, “Why this pattern? Why begin every new outreach in

The fact is, both the life and ministry of this “apostle to the Gentiles” clearly display a deep understanding of the “to the Jew first and also to the nations” principle. It is a principle established by Yeshua Himself in the way He defined His own earthly ministry. For example, in the tenth chapter of Matthew we find the Messiah sending the 12 disciples out to preach and minister. He commissions them with these instructions: “Do not go among the Gentiles or enter any town of the Samaritans. Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 10:5-6).

Later, when confronted by a Canaanite woman seeking help for her daughter, Yeshua explains, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24).

The fact is, both the life and ministry of this “apostle to the Gentiles” clearly display a deep understanding of the “to the Jew first and also to the nations” principle.

the city’s synagogue?” This is especially noteworthy because Paul’s primary calling was to take the Gospel to the Gentiles.

He declares this himself on several occasions in his letters. For example: For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostle to the circumcised, was also at work in me as an apostle to the Gentiles (Galatians 2:8).

Paul gives us insight into the thinking behind his strategy in his letter to the Romans. In it he articulates a principle that has become the anchor of my own life and ministry: For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile (Romans 1:16).

Last words are important words. And in His final instructions to His disciples before ascending into Heaven, Yeshua said: “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” After He said this, He was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid Him from their sight (Acts 1:8-9).

Yeshua is remarkably specific in terms of geography in these parting marching orders. He begins by focusing His evangelists toward Jerusalem, the historic, global heart of Israel and home to the largest concentration of Jewish People on earth at the time. Then He progressively widens the circle outward from there—Judea and Samaria representing the two principle historic districts of greater Israel and the two pieces of the divided kingdom.

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A Tale of a Hungarian Chief Rabbi

abbi Isaac Lichtenstein served for forty years as the Chief Rabbi of the Northern district of Hungary.

He was a respected authority who late in life came to the realization that Yeshua is the Messiah. Lichtenstein suffered greatly for his conviction.1

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He wrote several booklets arguing that faith in Yeshua is compatible with Judaism. Eventually, community pressure forced him out of his position as district rabbi, but he never accepted Christian baptism, nor did he ever join a church or denomination, despite extreme pressure to do so. He always remained within the Jewish community. In his own

words, “I will remain among my own brethren as a watchman from within, to warn them and to plead with them to behold in Yeshua the true glory of Israel.”

Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein is often confused with another great Jewish Believer with the same last name, Rabbi Yechiel Tzvi Herschensohn Lichtenstein (18311912), who was an incredible figure in his own right and also published articles in defense of faith in Yeshua and a well-known commentary to the entire New Testament in Hebrew.

Recalling that first experience with the New Testament, he later wrote, “I looked for thorns and gathered roses.”

Lichtenstein’s Early Life

Rabbi Ignácz (Isaac) Lichtenstein was born in 1824 and became a rabbi before turning twenty years old. After officiating for several years in different communities in northern Hungary, he finally settled down as the Chief/ District Rabbi in Tápiószele, where he remained for nearly forty years.

Early in his career, however, one of his teachers in the communal school of his district casually showed him a German Bible. Turning the pages, his eye fell on the name “Jesu Christi.” He became furiously angry and sharply reproved the teacher for having such a thing in his possession. Taking the book, he flung it across the room in a rage and it fell behind others on a shelf where it remained, dusty and forgotten.

Tisza Eslar Affair and Franz Delitzsch

In April of 1882 a fierce wave of anti-Semitism broke out in Hungary, culminating in the now historic “Tisza Eslar affair.” As is often the case, the blood libel was ultimately demonstrated to be false and baseless – thanks largely to a number of prominent Christian leaders, most notably Dr. Franz Delitzsch, a biblical scholar and professor at Leipzig University, who rose to the occasion to defend the Jewish People against the outlandish blood libel.

This act of defense by Delitzsch, such a prominent Christian, played a key role in Rabbi Lichtenstein beginning to rethink his position on Yeshua and the New Testament: “I was surprised, and scarcely trusting my eyes, I took a

New Testament out of its hidden corner; a book which some forty years before I had in vexation taken from a Jewish teacher, and I began to turn over its leaves to read. How can I express the impression which I then received?

Not half had been told me of the greatness, power, and glory of this book, formerly a sealed book to me. All seemed so new to me and yet it did me good like the sight of an old friend, who has laid aside his dusty, travel-worn garments, and appears in festal attire.”2

Recalling that first experience with the New Testament, he later wrote, “I looked for thorns and gathered roses.”

Lichtenstein’s New Boldness

For two or three years Rabbi Lichtenstein kept these convictions a secret. However, in time, he slowly began to teach some of these strange and new doctrines in his synagogue which both interested and astonished his hearers. At last he could contain himself no longer. On one Shabbat, while teaching on a parable of Yeshua, he openly proclaimed that his subject was taken from the New Testament and spoke of Yeshua as the true Messiah, the Redeemer of Israel.

He ultimately embodied his ideas in three publications appearing in rapid succession which created a tremendous sensation within the Jewish community, not only in Hungary, but throughout Europe. And no wonder; for here was an old and respected Rabbi, still in office, calling upon his people in burning words to align themselves under the banner of the long-despised Yeshua of Nazareth, and to hail Him as their true Messiah and King.

Opposition and Persecution

A storm of persecution quickly broke loose upon him.

From the Jewish pulpit and in the Press, anathemas were hurled against Lichtenstein, and he who but a few weeks before was classed among the noblest leaders and teachers was now described as a disgrace and reproach to his nation. Falsehoods were spread against him, and he was eventually cited to appear before the assembled rabbinate in Budapest.

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olomon Ginsburg was born in in 1867 in Suwalki, Russian Poland and brought up under a strict religious training by his father, an honored rabbi who hoped his boy would become a learned Jew and rabbi. With little opportunity to obtain a satisfactory education in czarist Russia, Solomon was sent to his mother’s relatives in Koenigsberg, Germany.

After completing his studies at the Liceum he returned home where he discovered that his father had arranged for him to marry the daughter of a wealthy Jew in Suwalki.

The dowry and other conditions had been settled, including an arrangement that Solomon and his wife would live in his father-in-law’s house, with all meals and expenses provided for seven years. This way he could devote his time exclusively to study for the rabbinate without any distracting cares and family responsibilities.

Although it seemed attractive, for Ginsburg there was a serious complication. The girl was only twelve years old, and he was fourteen! Although such early marriages were not unusual among Jews at this time, Ginsburg instinctively revolted against the idea, fled from home and never saw his father again.

Many adventures and hardships lay ahead as he hoped to one day reach the United States. He decided to first go to London where he had relatives.

There he would earn enough money for passage to America. He worked his passage from Hamburg to London in a vessel carrying a cargo of horses, arriving in London with only three

nickels in his pocket. His uncle cordially received Solomon into his home and gave him a job in his dry goods store.

One afternoon, while walking in the Jewish section of London’s East End, he was stopped by a Jewish missionary who invited him to hear a sermon for Jews. He accepted the invitation, and heard the gospel for the first time. The preacher’s text was Isaiah 53. This first glimpse of Yeshua as the Anointed One and the Savior of mankind marked the turning point in Ginsburg’s life.

The message and its impact upon him were strangely and wonderfully related to an incident in his early life, and had not that incident occurred,

he might not have accepted the missionary’s invitation. Told in his own words the incident is of arresting significance: “My father was celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles, sitting in a Succah (Lev. 23:34-43) close to our house. He had a number of visitors, and as I had passed the age of thirteen and was considered a full-fledged Jew, I was allowed to stay and listen to the talks and discussions.

Upon the table were several books, among them a well-used copy of the Prophets. Accidentally, I opened that book and was reading the fifty-third chapter of Isaiah. There were some comments in the margin and one remark seemed to loom out above all the other scribblings: ‘To whom does

the Prophet refer in this chapter?’

Innocently, I turned to my father and asked him the very same question.

He looked at me quite surprised and a profound quietness seemed to come over him. Not being answered I repeated the question, when my father snatched the book out of my hand and slapped me in the face. I felt chagrined and humiliated. I did not like that kind of answer. But in the providence of God it served its purpose, for when the missionary asked me to go and hear him on that very same chapter, I went out of curiosity to see if he had a better explanation than the one my father had given me.”

With this incident vividly impressed on his memory, Ginsburg was to learn about the Messiah Yeshua. As he listened to the missionary unfolding prophecy after prophecy, with Yeshua as their fulfillment, it seemed that a weight of doubt was lifted from his heart. Faith did not, however, come quickly or easily. For three months he struggled within himself to the point of damaging his health. Finally, on hearing a sermon on Matthew 10:37, “He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me,” his soul was touched and he resolved to follow Yeshua at any cost.

When his uncle learned of his decision, he gave Ginsburg a choice: Solomon had to give up his belief in Yeshua or else lose his position.

Solomon refused to give up his belief, and he was driven from his uncle’s home. No Jew would hire him, and

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abbi Leopold Cohn was born in 1862 to a family of Hassidic Jews in Berezna, Hungary, which is now part of the Ukraine.1 Both of his parents died by the time Leopold was seven years old and he was then raised by family members and his older brother, Joseph. At the age of 12, he knew he wanted to become a rabbi. For three years, Leopold trained for the rabbinate under the tutelage of the Chief Rabbi of Sziger, a well-known, miracleworking rabbi named Zalmon Leib Teitlbaum, and then moved to a larger Yeshiva where, according to Israeli historian, Yakov Ariel,

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“Cohn pursued his studies at the prestigious non-Hasidic Hatam Sofer’s Yeshiva in Presburg, currently Bratislava, the Slovak capital.”2 Young Leopold received “Smicha,” ordination, as a rabbi at the age of 18 and then, as was the custom, a marriage was arranged. At the age of 19 he wed Rose Hoffman, the daughter of a wealthy friend of Reb. Teitlbaum. Mr. Hoffman supported Leopold in his studies and the young couple moved in with Rose’s parents.

Rabbi Cohn and Rose settled into a good and productive Jewish life. He was known as a scholar and had a bright career in the rabbinate ahead of him. However, tragedy struck when Mr. Hoffman died almost a year after Leopold and Rose were married. Leopold had to put down his studies and started advising and counseling individuals, as well as forming a little study center with a handful of young students.

Some years later, he became a circuit rabbi and served the Jewish communities in three small Hungarian cities: Apsitza, Oyberapsa, and Middlespsa. 3 Yet, as is true with most of us—there were other issues boiling beneath the surface of the young rabbi’s life.

He knew, as did every Jew, of the prophecies concerning the coming of the Messiah. Cohn also knew the disappointment of European Jews who had followed a number of false messiahs some years before, including the more recent Jacob Frank, who lived from 1726-1791 and left major disappointments among European Jews in the wake of his false claims. 4 Yet, this did not deter Rabbi Cohn

from wanting to know more about the Messiah, who he would be and when he would come.

His curiosity led him to study the Prophets, especially the book of Daniel. Rabbi Cohn continued to study and came to the conclusion that the date traditional Judaism suggested for the coming of the Messiah and the Messianic Age had passed and should have taken place during the time predicted by the prophet Daniel.

He wrote in his autobiography, “During my leisure, I had frequent recourse to my Talmud, in which I at one time read the following: “the world is to stand six thousand years; two thousand confusion and void, two thousand with the law and two thousand the time of the Messiah”…I asked myself, “Is it possible that the time which

I was awestruck and fell upon my face exclaiming with all my heart, “My Lord, my Messiah, Yeshua, Thou art the One in whom Israel is to be glorified.”

God had fixed for the appearance of our Messiah had passed away without the promise of our true and living God being fulfilled?”5 Cohn continued, “…I realized dimly that the Messiah must have come about four hundred years after Daniel was told by the angel about the seventy weeks. There was gladness in my heart, to find it true that the Messiah should have come about that time, according to Daniel 9:24. 6 Eventually, he told his congregation about his struggle and they did not understand; soon he was persecuted for having “strange” Messianic beliefs and expectations and his congregants all left his synagogue!

Leaving his wife and children behind, Cohn decided it was his time to go to the “promised Golden Land” of America to make a better way for his family and to continue his search for the Messiah.

He found housing with an old friend and looked for a synagogue position. Then one day, as he was walking toward the apartment of the leader of his Hassidic sect in New York City, he passed by the DeWitt Reformed Church7 where he saw a sign in Hebrew that invited all who passed to come and hear a Jewish preacher talk about Passover and the Messiah. Cohn was intrigued and so he stepped inside, but would not sit down to listen.

Instead, he left a note for Hermann Warszawaik, the young Jewish man who was speaking. Warszawaik’s story is also fascinating, as he came from a religious Polish Jewish home and became a Believer, studied in Scotland and came to the United

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Standing in the Gap in Zimbabwe

n the afternoon, I was starting to feel pretty tired. My compassion level for patients was dropping, and all of a sudden the nurse came into my room and said, “Can you see this patient outside?”

Feeling tired, I said, “Can’t they carry the patient into my room?”

She said, “Well, she looks pretty sick.”

So I went outside and I went up to this cart that was being drawn by two donkeys, and I saw a near-death look on this young female who was dying from AIDS. I found out that she had come 8 kilometers (almost 5 miles) to seek help.

It was kind of like a slap upside my head, because two minutes before that I was in my room feeling sorry for myself. That was God saying, “How do you feel now?”

I didn’t know what to do. I saw a dying woman, and I couldn’t help her. But as a man of God, I couldn’t share love and I could show compassion. That’s not easy for me to do, but God working through me made it very easy.

Timothy Kearns, PA-C is a graduate from Touro College’s Physician Assistant program at Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, New York.

Mr. Kearns has practiced Emergency Medicine in Hampton Roads since 1996 with an additional 3 years of occupational medicine.

Since 2006, he has volunteered on a dozen mission trips to Ethiopia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and India.

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Loveness did make it that day.

The 24-year-old woman who only had hours to live received prayer from our intercessory team. Within minutes after their prayers began, she sat up and began to eat and drink. Because of faithful prayer warriors and compassionate medical personnel willingly standing in the gap, this young lady was saved from the brink of sure death.

If you are interested in going on a future outreach with us, see our trip schedule online: www.jewishvoice.org/outreach.

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Yeshua, the Most Famous Jew

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hether people love Him, despise Him or try to ignore Him, there can be little doubt that Yeshua of Nazareth is the most famous Jew in history.

No one has had such international impact on the lives of people from various countries and cultures. Yet we almost forget that Yeshua started His amazing religious movement in the Land of Israel among our Jewish People.

This charismatic Rabbi and self-proclaimed Messiah has caused much controversy among many, but also great attraction among others within the Jewish community.

Take for example the following quote from another famous Jew: “As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene …. No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life.

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrase-mongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot (a witty remark).”

— Quote taken from “What Life Means to Einstein,” The Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929. Einstein (1879-1955) was a physicist and professor at Princeton University.

This fascination with Yeshua within the Jewish community has certainly grown stronger in recent years. Why are an increasing number of contemporary Jews intrigued with this Rabbi from Nazareth?

First, we can’t help but notice that the entire historical context of Yeshua is thoroughly Jewish. He

was born of a Jewish mother in the first century Land of Israel. He was circumcised on the eighth day and dedicated in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem according to Jewish custom (Luke 2:21-38). Yeshua grew up in a traditional kosher home, regularly attended His local synagogue and no doubt diligently studied His Jewish culture and faith (Luke 4:14-22). The Gospels record the fact that He faithfully celebrated all the Jewish festivals such as Passover, Tabernacles and Hanukkah. Like all observant Jews of that time, He spoke Hebrew (along with Aramaic) and often quoted the Tanakh (Hebrew Scriptures) as He taught the riches of the Torah. It should not surprise us that Yeshua also looked like a “normal” member of the Jewish community. He wore the traditional tzitzit/fringes on His garments (Matthew 9:20) and was even called “Rabbi” by other esteemed rabbis (John 3:1-16). With all due respect to the great Renaissance painters and Cecil B. DeMille movie depictions, Jesus was a traditional Jew! We could say that a funny thing happened on the way to the 21st century. The Jewish Yeshua was eventually transformed into the non-Jewish Jesus. Yet we live in a day when many people, both Jews and Christians, are yearning to rediscover the Jewish Yeshua. This has led many of us Jews to read carefully the original source material; not the religious books about the Middle Ages, but the New Testament written by Yeshua’s earliest Jewish followers. Many of us find ourselves, like Albert Einstein, “enthralled” with the original understanding of Yeshua.

We live in a day when many people, both Jews and Christians, are yearning to rediscover the Jewish Yeshua.

Besides the Jewish context of the Gospels, many are drawn to Yeshua because of His amazing message.

People from all nations have been captivated by the power and truth of the Messiah’s teaching. The universal appeal of His message has attracted followers from all tribes and tongues of the world. While some world religions and pagan expressions seem to teach violence and subjugation, Yeshua’s focus is love. And not just an emotional sentimentality, but a selfsacrificing love that would even care for a potential enemy (see Matthew 5:43-48). He often emphasized the priority

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The Note That Shook The World (And…It is Still Shaking!)

Rabbi Kiduri’s note, translated into English, reads “Concerning the letter abbreviation of the Messiah’s name, He will lift the people and prove that his word and law are valid. This I have signed in the month of mercy, Yitzhak Kaduri.”

The first letters of each word in the underlined sentence above, in Hebrew, are Y-H-V-S-V-O—the Hebrew name of Yehoshua, or Yeshua.

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hat happens when perhaps the most revered orthodox rabbi in Israel’s modern history proclaims that Yeshua (Jesus) is the real name of the Messiah? That is news that would certainly shake the “religious” world! And, that is precisely what has happened in the life and revelations of Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri.

When Rabbi Kaduri died in January 2006, between 250,000 and 300,000 people attended his funeral. The streets of Jerusalem had to be closed.

The President of Israel gave the eulogy. Practically everybody who was anybody in the Jewish orthodox world either attended or spoke at the funeral. Kaduri was deeply connected to Israeli politics and to the lives of Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon. Millions around the world adored him. This was no little obscure rabbi tucked away in the bowels of Israel! When Yitzhak Kaduri spoke, the Jewish media was quick to snap up practically everything he said and take it to print …except his final and most poignant revelation.

In the late fall of 2005, Rabbi Kaduri made two shocking pronouncements that were witnessed by many of his followers and ultimately reported in several Israeli publications. The first shocking thing he claimed was that he had met the Messiah in a vision and knew His name. Kaduri promised he would write Messiah’s real name in a note. The note was to be sealed and locked away until one year after his death. The note was then to be opened for the world to see.

The second shocking thing he proclaimed was that the “coming” of this Messiah would not happen until “after Ariel Sharon dies.”

The implication of this startling prediction was that Messiah would come “soon” (no specific date was set) after the death of Sharon.

Within a couple of months, on January 4, 2006, Ariel Sharon suffered a stroke and lapsed into a coma. We now know that his coma would last for eight years. Sharon finally passed away on January 11, 2014. However, just a few weeks after Sharon went into his comatose

The decoded note, according to Israel’s most venerated orthodox rabbi, revealed the name of the real messiah was none other than Yeshua (Jesus).

state, Rabbi Kaduri died! The Jewish world waited with baited breath for the opening of the numinous note.

Early in 2007, the Kaduri note was unsealed, and it appeared on his own website, Kaduri. net. Both Israel Today Magazine and News First Class reported the story.

Israel Today is a Messianic publication, and News First Class is a Hebrewlanguage-only Israeli news source.

The problem was that the note had been written in a cryptic and coded fashion.

This style of revelation was not uncommon for the elderly Kaduri. However, when the note was finally decoded, the furor began!

The decoded note, according to Israel’s most venerated orthodox rabbi, revealed the name of the real messiah was none other than Yeshua (Jesus).

Immediately upon the decoding of the note, the message was removed from his website, and the Israeli media, once anxious to report any and all of Kaduri’s utterances, went silent. The story was buried. Or, so they thought.

The dilemma was that the aforementioned Israeli news sources had already published stories about the note as well as revealing the screen-captures of the actual note that had been posted on the Kaduri website. Articles about Kaduri’s “Jesus” pronouncement now filled Internet websites and chatrooms.

The amazing story came to a fever pitch level when the book THE RABBI WHO FOUND MESSIAH was released in November 2013. A documentary movie about the book was also released. By the fourth month of the release of the book it was already in its third printing. The movie was being shown in churches across the nation. TV and radio interviews about the book’s story began to abound. The word was now officially out – worldwide.

But now for the absolutely astounding God-story that is still unfolding to this day… some months back, I received a phone call from a man and his wife who were vacationing in Key West.

They had stopped at a Christian bookstore in Sarasota on their way down to the Keys from their home in Indiana. They saw the book THE RABBI WHO FOUND MESSIAH and picked up a copy. They were particularly interested in the story because the gentleman, Chuck Mohler, had previously lived and worked in Israel for over eight years.

He was aware of Sharon’s coma and knew some information about Kaduri and his ministry. Mr. Mohler had actually been invited to speak before the Jerusalem Sanhedrin Council several years ago. He was the first Christian ever to have been invited to do so.

After reading the book and

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(Continued from page 7) From there the disciples are pointed beyond historic Israel to the diaspora—the Jewish communities scattered throughout the Roman Empire in cities such as Alexandria, Antioch, Ephesus, and Rome. The book of Acts is silent as to activities and travels of most of the disciples other than Peter, James, and John.

But Church history suggests that Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, and the others obeyed Yeshua’s command and fanned out across the known world— proclaiming the good news in the power of the Holy Spirit to Jewish communities from Ethiopia to North Africa, to Asia Minor to Europe.

They heard their Rabbi and Messiah declare Himself to be a shepherd sent to gather the “lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24).

They’d received and embraced His commission to go to the ends of the earth as under-shepherds to gather those lost sheep as well. Tradition tells us that most of them died martyrs’ deaths in that tumultuous, 40-year interval between Yeshua’s ascension and the destruction of Jerusalem’s Second Temple in A.D. 70.

Meanwhile, Paul was modeling the values and priorities that should guide our efforts today. Even though his primary call was to take the Gospel to the Gentiles, he never lost touch with God’s heart for the People chosen to bring Messiah to the world. Thus he never lost his burden “ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, the people of Israel.”

To the Jew first, and also to the Gentile.

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Even though his primary call was to take the Gospel to the Gentiles, he never lost touch with God’s heart for the People chosen to bring Messiah to the world.

Chief Rabbi Kohn proposed a compromise whereby Rabbi Lichtenstein might believe whatever he liked in his heart, however, he must refrain from preaching or speaking about Yeshua publicly. A group of rabbis would draw up a document stating that what Rabbi Lichtenstein wrote was done in a temporary fit of insanity and all he would have to do would be to add his name to this statement. Rabbi Lichtenstein answered calmly but indignantly that this was a strange proposal to make. They demanded that he should resign his position and be formally baptized to indicate that he was leaving the Jewish People. But he replied that he had no intention of joining the church and had found in the New Testament the true Judaism, and would remain as before with his congregation and teach it in the synagogue.

And he did so … in spite of tremendous persecution and reproaches. From his official position as the District Rabbi he continued to teach and preach from the New Testament. This was also a testimony to the strong attachment of his own community, which alone had the power to request his dismissal. In fact, much pressure was brought against members of his congregation, and relatives of his wife were completely ruined financially; but still they supported their esteemed rabbi.

Rabbi Lichtenstein and his writings become widely known, and different church and missionary organizations sought his services with tempting offers – including the Pope.

However, to all Rabbi Lichtenstein had but one reply: “I will remain among my own nation,

I love Messiah, I believe in the New Testament; but I am not drawn to join Christendom. Just as the prophet Jeremiah, after the destruction of Jerusalem, in spite of the generous offers of Nebuchadnezzar and the captain of his host, chose rather to remain and lament among the ruins of the holy city, and with the despised remnant of his brethren, so will I remain among my own brethren, as a

shadowed and even physically attacked on the street. His barber was bribed to disfigure his beautiful beard. His landlord kept a close watch on everyone who visited him and reported it to the rabbinical authorities. But, with all of this opposition also came interviews and discussions from fellow Jews from every walk of life.

The Final Years

Over the next twenty years Rabbi Lichtenstein traveled to many parts of Europe to speak about the truth as he saw it in Messiah.

Finally, however, all the raging storms of controversy began to take a physical toll on him. Spiritually, he remained undaunted.

In his An Appeal to the Jewish People, Lichtenstein wrote:

watchman from within and to plead with them to behold in Yeshua the true glory of Israel.”

Lichtenstein’s Resignation as Chief Rabbi of Northern District of Hungary At last, after losing all his abilities to save the members of his congregation from total ruin, and with his health greatly deteriorating as a consequence of his bold stand, he voluntarily resigned his office as District Rabbi. He then settled in Budapest, but the opposition to him was still relentless. He was

“At the very outset I make my honest and public confession, the result of earnest thought and inward struggle, that it is my steadfast, unalterable conviction … Yes, as a Rabbi grown grey in office, as an old Jew faithful to the Law, I confess candidly, Jesus is the predicted Messiah of Israel … for whom we long, and for whose Advent our people have ever expected. He is come! This is now my shout of rejoicing, which my lips and pen, and, if G-d wills, my prolonged life shall serve to make known.”

Quite unexpectedly he became very ill. As he realized that his end was approaching, in the presence of his wife and the nurse, he said:

“Give my warmest thanks and greetings, to my brethren and friends; goodnight, my children; goodnight, my enemies, you can injure me no more. We have one G-d and one Father of all who are called children in heaven and on earth, and one Messiah who gave up His life on the cursed tree for the salvation of men. Into Thy hands I commend my spirit.”

On the morning of Hoshanah Rabbah, Friday, October 16, 1908, at the age of 85, Rabbi Ignácz Lichtenstein entered into Paradise and was buried in the Central Jewish Cemetery in Budapest.

Zichrono livracha … May his memory continue to bless and inspire us until Messiah returns!

Selected Bibliography 1. The bulk of this article is taken from a blog I wrote in 2011: “Yahrzeit of Rabbi Lichtenstein,” Yinon Blog (www. yinonblog.com), Oct. 2011.

2. Lichtenstein, Isaac: “A Jewish Mirror,” a pamphlet he wrote over 90 years ago.

Brumbach, Joshua. “Yahrzeit of Rabbi Lichtenstein,” Yinon Blog. Accessed April 5, 2014 - http://www. messianicjudaism.me/yinon/2013/09/24/yahrzeit-ofrabbi-lichtenstein/ Kjær-Hansen, Kai. “Isaac Lichtenstein - a Jesus-believing Hungarian rabbi.” Paper delivered to the Lausanne Consultation on Jewish Evangelism (LCJE).

Lichtenstein, Isaac. The Everlasting Jew. Ed. Jordan Gayle Levy and D. Thomas Lancaster. Marshfield: Vine of David, 2013.

Quiñónez, Jorge. “Introduction to the Collected Writings of Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein.” HeGefen Publishing website.

Accessed April 5, 2014 - http://www.ha-gefen.org.il/len/ aalphabetic%20presentation/c13764/64550.php

Rabbi Joshua Brumbach is the Senior Rabbi of Ahavat Zion Messianic Synagogue in Beverly Hills, CA, and additionally serves in a variety of capacities within the Messianic Jewish movement both nationally and internationally.

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(Continued from page 11) he wandered through the streets of London for days, friendless and jobless. Observing his predicament, a missionary placed him in a home for Jewish Christians, where he was given instruction in painting.

A year later another uncle came to London to see him. When they met, his uncle said he’d come to take Solomon home. There was one condition, however. Solomon was to give up his new faith. The uncle warned Solomon that unless he consented to this he was to be excommunicated, disinherited, and considered dead. He was given a week to decide.

Solomon never forgot the horror of that seemingly never-ending week of dark, bitter days and sleepless nights. But the turmoil of his thoughts and the torment of his emotions did not make Solomon waver for one moment in his faith in Messiah. In the presence of his uncles and several rabbis he gave his final answer, declaring that he could not compromise with his conscience. On the basis of Hebrew prophecies he had accepted Yeshua as the Messiah. He was thereupon cursed and put in Cherem (that is, excommunicated). It was with a heavy heart that he left their presence, full of pity over their mistaken zeal.

A great desire to prepare himself for missionary service rose in Ginsburg’s heart. After a period of discipline and study, he graduated with honor from Harley College, London. He felt the call to work among Gentiles, and he received an invitation to the continent of South America. He left for Brazil with no guarantee of support, but supremely happy in the realization that he 22 JewishVoiceToday.org | 800-299-YESHUA

would serve his Messiah who had done so much for him.

Sometimes referred to as “the wandering Jew,” Ginsburg supported himself by selling Bibles and tracts. He quickly became proficient in Portuguese and held open-air services teaching the people choruses and gospel hymns.

The open-air meetings seemed to reach many people, so Dr. Ginsburg continued them, though his life was often threatened and he was forced to obtain government protection until more peaceable times prevailed.

As his work developed, a theology class was organized for the training and teaching of new Believers, followed by a day school that was named “Colegio Americano Baptista.” It was very successful and well attended. Later, Rio College and Seminary was established, about which Ginsburg said, “Today whole communities rejoice in the God-given freedom of the Gospel.”

Solomon Ginsburg died in 1927 still dreaming of further conquests for his Messiah. It was said of him, “His going has made Brazil poorer, and it is no exaggeration to say that no man among us will be so missed by both the missionaries and native Christians as Solomon Ginsburg.

He was decidedly the greatest allaround missionary that ever worked in Brazil of any denomination, and will live in the hearts of those whose path he crossed during his noble ministry.”

Excerpted from Famous Hebrew Christians © 1979, Baker Book House, by Dr. Jacob Gartenhaus, founder of the International Board of Jewish Missions, Hixson, TN.

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and took a meal, breaking my fast, feeling altogether a new creature.8

(Continued from page 13) States to tell his people about the Messiah just a short time before he met Leopold Cohn.

Rabbi Cohn visited Hermann Warszawaik, who gave him a copy of the Brit Hadashah— the New Testament. After reading the New Testament, Rabbi Cohn came to the conclusion that Jesus of Nazareth was the promised Messiah of Israel.

He writes about his decision to receive Yeshua as his Messiah, I renewed my studies and began to see the truth more plainly, as the sufferings of the Messiah were revealed to me. The 53rd chapter of Isaiah was a most wonderful revelation, but what of it? How can I love that hated one? How could I take his name upon my lips since he is the crucified one and since his followers in every generation and in every country hated my people, robbed my brothers of all that was good and fair, killed, tortured and degraded them? How could I, a true Jew, join myself to such a band of the enemies of my own flesh and blood? But, a still small voice seemed to whisper in my heart, “If he is the one of whom the Scriptures write, then you must love Him. No matter what others do in His name, you must do as He teaches.”

Upon completing his education in Scotland, Rabbi Cohn travelled back to the United States to reach his own people in New York City, planting himself in the growing Jewish community in a little Dutch settlement called Brooklyn!

He founded the Brownsville Mission to the Jews and his team conducted Bible studies and street meetings, fed the poor, and established job-training courses, citizenship and English classes and even a free medical clinic.

Cohn opened another center in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, eventually renaming the ministry, The Williamsburg Mission to the Jews, then The American Board of Missions to the Jews and now, Chosen People Ministries. A beautiful facility9 was purchased to serve as a center for the work in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The rabbi passed into the presence of the Lord in 1932.

But, perhaps the high note of Rabbi Cohn’s life came when his dear wife Rose, raised as well in a Hassidic Jewish home, came to faith in Yeshua the Messiah.

Commenting on Rose’s coming to faith in the Messiah, Dr. Harold A. Sevener offers these comments,

And finally Cohn writes, I was awestruck and fell upon my face exclaiming with all my heart, “My Lord, my Messiah, Yeshua, Thou art the One in whom Israel is to be glorified. Thou art surely the One who has reconciled my people to God. From this day, I will serve Thee.” At that moment, a flood of light came into my mind and a stream of love to the Lord Jesus into my heart, and straightaway I went

“Rose could see that what Leopold had told her about his faith was true and that the faith he had in the Messiah was making him more Jewish than ever. She discovered she was falling in love once again with the Jewish rabbi she had married and also falling in love with his Messiah, Yeshua.”10 He concludes the story,

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“In her little home in Brooklyn,

although confronted daily by evidence of the suffering and persecution to which her husband and children were being subjected because of their faith in Yeshua, Rose realized she could no longer straddle the fence; she needed to make a decision about this Messiah, Yeshua. In the quietness of her bedroom, she prayed and accepted Yeshua as her Messiah and Savior. The Cohn family was now united in faith. They were now united in their efforts and devotion to the task God had given to them.11 And I would add, little did they know that what God had started in Brooklyn would continue for more than a century and be used to reach thousands upon thousands of Jewish People with the love of God through the Messiah Yeshua.

1. http://www.ukraine.com/forums/86744-post2.html 2. The founder of the mission was born in 1862 in Berezna, Hungary. According to his autobiographical account, which has become the accepted history for his mission, he spent his early years studying with the Hasidic rabbi, Zalman Leib Teitelbaum. He then pursued his studies at the prestigious non-Hasidic Hatam Sofer’s Yeshiva in Presburg, currently Bratislava, the Slovak capital. According to his account, he was ordained as a rabbi when he was eighteen. Ariel, Yaakov Shalom (September 13, 2000). Evangelizing the Chosen People: Missions to the Jews in America, 1880 - 2000. H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series 3. Harold A. Sevener A Rabbi’s Vision: A Century of Proclaiming Messiah p.8 4. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ frankj.html 5. Leopold Cohn, The Modern Missionary to an Ancient People, (Brooklyn, New York: American Board of Missions to the Jews, now Chosen People Ministries, 1908), p.16-17 6. IBID 7. Which had started in 1869 and was used in part as a mission station by the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church.

8. To An Ancient People, p.23-24 9. http://www.chosenpeople.com/main/images/stories/ sidebar/rustic-building.jpg 10. Harold A. Sevener A Rabbi’s Vision: A Century of Proclaiming Messiah p. 25-26.

11. IBID

MITCH GLASER (Ph.D., Fuller Theological Seminary, M.Div., Talbot Theological Seminary) serves as president of Chosen People Ministries with his wife, Zhava, who is their director of publications. Together they work to share Jesus with Jewish People, not only in New York City, but around the world. They are co-authors of The Fall Feasts of Israel. The Glasers reside in Brooklyn, New York with their two daughters.

(Continued from page 17) of shalom/peace because the God of Israel is the creator of such blessing (Matthew 5:9).

In addition to these universal values, Yeshua had much to say about some values that are of special significance to the Jewish People.

In Judaism, the concept of Tikkun Olam (repairing the world) is one of the highest priorities. We are taught that the world, as good as it might be at times, is in a fallen state. Part of our calling as Jews is to assist in repairing some of the problems of humanity. No wonder that it is often Jewish People who are highly involved in a wide variety of humanitarian aid and benevolence projects. After all, it’s a mitzvah (good deed or commandment). I am sure that many of us from a Jewish background feel a strong connection to Yeshua as we consider His values.

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The Gospels record His ministry to the Jewish crowds where He brought healing and fed the hungry multitudes. He brought words of comfort to the grieving and hope to those who had lost all hope.

Yeshua’s message went beyond this present age on planet earth but it was inclusive of the heartfelt values of Tikkun Olam. His life and teaching actually tied heaven and earth together as He said: Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven (Matthew 5:16).

One of the most important values within the Jewish community is the love for the Torah (five books of Moses). In my estimation, it is highly unfortunate that some Christian theologies either devalue or completely do away with this part of the Bible. I realize that not every part of the Torah relates to Christians,

as the New Testament itself teaches.

But sadly this can confuse some of us on the Jewish side into thinking that Yeshua and the New Testament obliterate the Torah for Jewish People. This is contrary to what Yeshua Himself clearly taught when he said: “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law [Torah] or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them” (Matthew 5:17).

It seems clear that most Jews are not going to consider a Messiah who does away with the Torah. But many of us can appreciate a Messiah who will give us a deeper understanding of the Torah through the lens of the New Covenant. Despite some of this confusion, many Jews resonate with the direct teachings of Yeshua. As we read His words we find ourselves captivated by the spiritual depth and yet simple clarity of His Torah values.

Many of us who are Messianic Jews have found that He has the words of life which are perfectly consistent with a Jewish understanding of the whole of Scripture. For these reasons a number of Jews from every generation have taken note of the Rabbi from Nazareth. I feel blessed to live in a day when more and more people are taking a fresh look at this most famous Jew of history.

Barney Kasdan is Rabbi of Kehilat Ariel Messianic Synagogue in San Diego, California. He is the past President of the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations (UMJC) and is author of the popular books God’s Appointed Times, God’s Appointed Customs, and his latest, a 400-page commentary called Matthew Presents Yeshua, King Messiah (all

by Messianic Jewish Publications). Rabbi Barney and his wife, Liz, reside in San Diego and have four grown children.

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teaching in his Yeshiva, prior to his death, and even prior to his death note!

watching the movie, the Mohlers were Once Zev Porat got his hands on determined to get the materials into the book and the movie, he found a Israel. Within a couple of weeks, Mr. powerful and amazing witnessing Mohler had arranged to go to Israel tool he could use in his passionate with his wife, Tami, and take boxes of ministry of convincing Jews that the books and movies. Not only did Yeshua is Messiah. He actually they do so, but also they were able to showed the movie to a large group of get some into the hands of the Israeli Kaduri’s students. Zev says that there Bible Society, various Messianic are now a total of ten Kaduri students Jewish leaders, and into the hands of that are believers.

Zev Porat, founder and director of

Messiah of Israel Ministries.

Zev recently sent us a video showing an Orthodox Jew coming to Yeshua as Zev Porat was born into an orthodox Messiah. Zev had used the Scriptures Jewish family in an orthodox town and the book about Kaduri to lead in Israel. His father, both of his the man to the Lord! Zev says he has grandfathers, and both of his greatled several more Jews to Messiah as grandfathers were rabbis. One of his well – but they are afraid to appear great-grandfathers knew Yitzhak on camera because of the intense Kaduri. persecution they and their families

might endure.

Zev became a believer in Yeshua some years ago when he studied the While many Jews are upset that the Scriptures himself – comparing the book and the movie have reopened Old Testament prophecies to the the story, and others, even some in the life of Yeshua. As a result, much of Christian community, are attempting his family and many of his friends to throw a cloud of skepticism over disowned him. Zev is featured in the the story – the account is true. A book and the movie because he posted number of Kaduri’s own students several YouTube videos of himself attest to its authenticity, further interviewing Kaduri students, after punctuated by their outspoken faith the rabbi’s death. These students were in Yeshua as Messiah. testifying that they had come to Yeshua as Messiah as a result of Kaduri’s But, think about it… why should it

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be so hard for the world to believe that, if we really are living in the Last Days, Yeshua might reveal Himself to Israel’s most venerated rabbi to,

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one more time, reach the original Covenant People with the truth of the Gospel message? It should not be hard to believe this at all. This is just like something God would do! May I remind you of a rabbi named Saul?

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