conversion

This is part 8 of the 11 part series on the writer's journey back to Judaism. For the other parts, read this. We seemed to do the impossible.  We brought together people from every kind of church background and of a couple of messianic Jews, people who were Jews by birth into one united community.  I taught beginners’ Hebrew and we began to wear that tzitzit, tassels.  Everyone, even the girls, were encouraged to wear them.  Without the rabbinical understanding to glean from, we took everything

This is part 9 of the 11 part series on the writer's journey back to Judaism. For the other parts, read this. My husband was on his own journey out of the wilderness. He was googling something odd about his family just for fun.  Most of his family were Polish, but some of them claimed to be Hispanic, not a usual mix:)  To his surprise, his family name showed up on a Sephardic Jewish name list. What? Could his family be Jewish too, we wondered with excitement? We ordered one of those new, fangl

This is part 10 of the 11 part series on the writer's journey back to Judaism. For the other parts, read this. The grand search had begun! My husband and I were on a Torah journey of discovery.  Who truly was the real Messiah?  We read books that compared the Torah verses and the NT.  Did they really agree as we had been taught and taught others? We had many obstacles to leaving the faith.  We had been taught, unlike others in mainstream Christianity, that “Yeshua,” and yes even Paul the “apos

This is the last part of the 11 part series on the writer’s journey back to Judaism. For the other parts, read this. Home at last . . . I called up the closest full synagogue to me.  That was over two hours away and in another state!  I left a long message about how I was a Jew who wanted to come home and we waited.  Holding my breath at the sound of the phone ringing, my heart beat with extra fervency. It is was the rabbi of a local Chabad house on the line!  Yes, he would meet with us right