11-04-2020, 02:24 PM
(11-02-2020, 07:50 PM)Jason Wrote:(11-02-2020, 03:44 AM)Ismq Wrote: I don't know very much about why the jews don't think that jesus is the messiah,so i'd like to know: why the jews do not consider jesus as the messiah?
You're in luck! I wrote a whole 18-page presentation on that very question several years ago. You can access it here: https://www.thehebrewcafe.com/articles/whynot.pdf
Shalom Jason, I just read your PDF. You are a very proficient writer. I do have a question. Do you believe in "symbols?" Does HaShem ever use one thing to represent another? After reading your PDF, I was moved to find this site where the teaching from the Midrash/(Some Rabbis) is that "Water actually stands for Torah." So "metaphorically" speaking, the Jewish mind can look at some physical things, and "see" something spiritual.
Here are a few more examples:
In Jeremiah 7:28-29 truth (faithfulness) has been cut off from their mouths, and HaShem tells them to cut off their hair.
Ezekiel 4:1-8 HaShem describes how Ezekiel will build a representation of the City of Jerusalem and lay a siege against it to show what "spiritually" will happen to Jerusalem. In verse three HaShem calls it a "sign" to the house of Israel. Ezekiel is also commanded to lay on his left side a number of days (390) to correspond to the number of years of the house of Israel's iniquity.
In the next chapter of Ezekiel, he is commanded to cut his hair and divide it into three parts. This becomes a symbol for those who have disobeyed and shows how three different punishments are executed upon the house of Israel.
So as you see Jason, there are many examples where HaShem uses symbols to represent something on a "spiritual" level. Would you not agree? And that is where I would ask you that IF water is a symbol or sign of Torah, and Torah is LIFE (Deut 30:15-20), what is LIVING WATER a symbol or sign of? Blessings in The Name, ImAHebrew.