I've always had a passion for the Jewish faith, it's history, it's practice, it's language, etc. I had a very good pastor once that would teach us the scriptures from a Jewish understanding. After all, Jesus was a Jew and spoke to the Jews. So it's important that we gentiles understand the Jewish faith. The scriptures can come alive for you if you read it in the context that the Jews understood it.
I listened to Oprah on OWN recently when she visited Hasidic Jewish women in Brooklyn NY to talk about their way of life. One of the women described what it meant to be Hasidic Jew and it was so profound and what I, as a Christian believe, that I wanted to share it here:
“God created one amazing world and we’re suppose to function within it. But we’re not merely human beings and trying to be spiritual, but we are really spiritual beings having human experiences. We have to be spiritual in a real physical surrounding. We have to choose the high road. We have tools to deal with grief, to deal with love, to deal with inter-personal relationships. We have to educate our children. But Judaism is not other, it is a Godly system that can and must make a difference in this world.”
We've missed it, like something someone says and it goes right over our head! We are spiritual beings having human experiences. Couldn't have said it any better.
John 4:24: "God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
