It means being cut off from family, from community, from everything they’ve ever known.

Don’t take that lightly.

Don’t be glib about it.

But also don’t give up because there are Jewish people out there right now who are searching, who are reading Isaiah 53 and Psalm 22 and Daniel 9 and wondering, who are feeling that same emptiness I felt, that sense that something is missing.

And they need to know that what’s missing is Yeshua, their Messiah, their savior of their king.

One day, and I believe this with all my heart, one day all Israel will recognize him.

The blindness will be lifted.

The veil will be removed, and we will mourn for the one we pierced, and we will rejoice in the one who saved us.

Until that day, I will keep telling my story.

I will keep teaching about the prophecies.

I will keep pointing both Jews and Gentiles to the truth that set me free.

My name is Michael.

I was a rabbi for 23 years.

I spent 47 years of my life devoted to Judaism, to Torah, to the traditions of my fathers.

And then I found the Messiah.

His name is Yeshua, Jesus of Nazareth.

He is the son of God, the lamb who takes away the sins of the world, the king who will reign forever.

He is alive.

He is real.

and he is waiting for you with open arms.

Whether you’re Jewish or Gentile, a religious or secular, sure of your faith or full of doubts, he’s waiting for you.

Come to him.

Ask him if he’s real.

Read the prophecies.

Read the Gospels.

Don’t take my word for it or anyone else’s word for it.

Search the scriptures for yourself.

And if you do with an honest heart, I believe you’ll find the same thing I found.

The truth.

And the truth will set you free.

This is my testimony.

This is my story.

And I share it with you in the hope that it will bring you closer to the one true God who loved us enough to become one of us, to die for us, and to rise again so that we might live.

May the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God who revealed himself in Yeshua, the Messiah, bless you and keep you.

May he make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you.

May he turn his face toward you and give you peace.

Amen.

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