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The Challenge of Missionaries and Cults
What is the Challenge of Missionaries and Cults? Let's find out in this post. Jews for Judaism is the only international, full-time counter-missionary, counter-cult, educational, outreach and counseling organization dedicated to countering the multi-million-dollar efforts of deceptive missionary and cult groups that target the Jewish community for conversion. Here, from the Jews for Judaism counter-missionary Handbook, The Response to Jewish Missionaries, is a look at the challenge facing the
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A Missionary’s Journey to Judaism
Even though I was raised in a Christian family, my life was transformed when I became a born-again Christian at age 15. While studying in Cape Town, South Africa at age 24, I realized the Jewish people needed to be “saved” and hear the “good news of Jesus.” Find out about a missionary's journey to Judaism in this article. I attended a local synagogue regularly for 6 months to learn about Judaism so I could be a more effective missionary to the Jews. I kept my true intentions a secret until Jews
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The Ego and the Soul
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself." - Galileo Jewish tradition teaches that we were created as sparks of God, "in the image of God," body and soul. God put his image on earth, in the form of human beings. One way to identify with the concept of the “image of God” is through a simple metaphor. Let us find out more about the ego and the soul in this post. Visualize a movie projector and a screen. When turned on, the light projects brightly onto the
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Shared Values - The Noahide Laws
The Torah is considered a blueprint for the life of all humankind. When the Torah was given at Sinai and explicated by Moses over the next forty years, it resulted in a system of laws that, according to the traditional count, has 613 commandments for Jews, and seven for non-Jews. It may appear at first glance that the gap between Jewish and non-Jewish observance is enormous. But if we look a little more closely, we will see that it is not so great as it first appears. The Seven Noachide Laws ar
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Commitment
As far as slogans go the Oakland Raider NFL franchise had it right. They marketed their team to the world with the catchphrase “Commitment to Excellence.” By and large, the Al Davis owned club of the 70’s and 80’s lived up to that motto. Of course, “Commitment to Excellence” is a concept not restricted to professional sports, it is a mantra one should intone while setting out to accomplishing anything in life. In Jewish living it is an imperative. For starters, commitment means loyal devotion t
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Making a Spiritual Connection
Conventional Jewish thinking defines the "religious person” as the man who puts on tefillin (frontlets), keeps kosher, and fasts on all the fast days. But he doesn't meditate or reflect on his inner life, nor does he become involved in the community to do acts of chesed (kindness). Others will admire the "spiritual person” who is involved in deep thought, reads and goes to inspiring lectures, and studies mysticism, but doesn't keep many of the specific physical commandments. Still others think
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