Why I Started Studying Jewish Commentators to Understand Jesus
The deeper I went on my journey, the more I read, listened, and researched. I bought a reference Torah with commentary by a man ...
Year: 2025
Discovering the Talmud and Mishnah: When Traditions Raised New Questions
As we built deeper relationships at the synagogue, we began asking more questions. Now that we had friends we trusted, we felt comfortable asking ...
When Our Faith Began to Look Different to Others
As I began studying and researching more about the practices we were learning, my relationships outside the synagogue began to shift, especially with family ...
When God Reminded Me Who Worship Is Really For
After things began to settle, I became a little more accepting. I started going through my list of questions, researching and learning. I realized ...
Why Do Messianic Jews Do These Traditions? My Search for the “Why”
I definitely didn’t want to do things just to do them—like we had with the prayer shawl. I needed to know why. If I was going ...
Finding God in the Synagogue Kitchen: Lessons From Serving at Oneg
As time went on, we decided to get more involved and volunteer in some of the ministries at the synagogue. One of the biggest ...
Should Christian Women Wear Head Coverings? My Journey Through Scripture
One of the other things I began to wrestle with was head coverings. Many of the women at the Messianic synagogue wore them, not ...
The Unexplainable Covering: Discovering the Meaning of the Prayer Shawl (Tallit)
I suppose the questions only grew the more I attended. I didn’t always ask them out loud—honestly, I wasn’t sure if I was allowed to. I ...
Why Some Christians Follow the Biblical Clean and Unclean Food Laws
We continued attending the Messianic synagogue. The people were friendly, and after every Saturday service, they invited us to a lunch called Oneg. As ...
My First Visit to a Messianic Synagogue (A Christian’s Experience)
We got ready and went to the synagogue. Some of the men wore what I knew as yarmulkes (pronounced “YAH-muh-kah”), and some of the women had ...