What Jews have written about Jesus of Nazareth.
1) “As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene.”
Albert Einstein. Nobel Prize winner in physics, Prof. Princeton University.
He is just one of many Jews that have been awarded the Nobel Prize in their field of expertise. Jews constitute around 0.2% of the world’s population but have been awarded 22% to date of all Nobel Prizes within the 6 nominated categories of human endeavour and expertise.
Go to https://jewishjournal.com/ for further illuminating information. The Lord God promised Israel fame and fortune but also to discipline and then scatter His chosen nation if they did not obey Him. But He will regather them all back to Eretz Yisrael as His ‘Chosen People’ and that time draws ever nearer. Yeshua HaMashiach will return as promised to reign and rule on the Earth. It is written!
2) “Perhaps, too, in this enlightened age, as his mind expands, and he takes a comprehensive view of this period of progress, the pupil of Moses may ask himself, whether all the Princes of the House of David have done so much for the Jews as that Prince who was crucified on Calvary.”
Benjamin Disraeli. A former Prime Minister of Great Britain.
[Golgotha is where Yeshua HaMashiach ve Sar Shalom (The Prince of Peace) was crucified outside the city of Yerushalayim, then entombed only to rise from the dead three days later as He said He would. It is testified to and then written as being true by His talmidim – disciples and hundreds of witnesses at the time.]
3) “I couldn’t help writing on Jesus. Since I first met Him, He has held my mind and heart … I floundered a bit at first, I was seeking that something for which so many of us search … that surety, that faith, that spiritual content in my living which would bring me peace and through which I might bring some peace to others. I found it in the Nazarene. Everything He ever said or did has value for us today and that is something you can say of no other man, alive or dead. He became the Light of the World. Why shouldn’t I, a Jew, be proud of it.”
Sholem Asch. Yiddish novelist and author.
Yochanan (John) in his Gospel (Good News) account states that Yeshua said,
“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” John 8:12.
4) “Jesus is a genuine Jewish personality, all his struggles and works, his bearing and feeling, his speech and silence, bear the stamp of a Jewish style, the mark of Jewish idealism, of the best that was and is in Judaism. He was a Jew among Jews …”
Rabbi Leo Baeck. For many years the religious leader of German Jewry.
5) “Jesus has become the most popular, the most studied, the most influential
figure in the history of mankind … No sensible Jew can be indifferent to the fact that a Jew should have had such a tremendous part in the religious education and direction of the human race … Who can compute all that Jesus has meant to humanity? The love he has inspired and the solace he has given, the good he has engendered, the hope and joy he has kindled, all that is unequalled in human history …
The Jew cannot help glorying in what Jesus has meant to the world, nor can he help hoping that Jesus may yet serve as a bond between Jew and Christian, once his teaching is better known and the bane of misunderstanding at last is removed from his words and his ideal.”
Rabbi Hyman Enelow.
Past president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and author.
6) “It is a peculiar manifestation of our exile psychology that we permitted and even aided in, the deletion of New Testament Messianism, that meaningful offshoot of our spiritual history. It was in a Jewish land, that this spiritual revolution was kindled; and Jews were those who had spread it all over the land.
We must overcome the superstitious fear which we harbour about the Messianic
movement of Jesus and we must place the movement where it belongs, namely, in the spiritual history of Judaism.”
Martin Buber.
Author and former professor at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
7) “Jesus was utterly true to the Torah, as I myself hope to be. I even suspect that Jesus was even more true to the Torah than I, an orthodox Jew.”
Dr. Pinchas Lapide. Orthodox Scholar.
8) “Neither Christian protest nor Jewish lamentation can annul the fact that Jesus was a Jew, a Hebrew of the Hebrews. In that day when history shall be written in the light of truth, the people of Israel will be known not as Christ killers but as Christ bearers, not as God slayers but as the God bringers to the world.” (Omein ve amen – so be it).
Rabbi S. S. Wise. Zionist leader. Founder of the Jewish Institute of Religion.
The Gospel and the Talmud.
When we compare and contrast the teachings of Yeshua HaMashiach from the Brit HaDashah (The New Testament) and the Talmudic sayings of some of the Rabbinate we find some very interesting teachings that are word for word or very similar. But we should not be surprised as His teachings had spread far and wide within Yisrael and beyond. Indeed, they have been read by billions everywhere!
So let us look at 9 teachings of Yeshua the Messiah recorded in the Gospel (Good News) of Mattiyahu (Matthew) a talmidim (disciple) of Yeshua in the 1st Century (written in 60 A.D./C.E.) and then those of 9 Rabbi’s from the 2nd – 4th Century.
Our point is to show that the wisdom of Yeshua had a direct effect in the minds of many in Yisrael regarding His message of eternal life and how to lead our life in any century! We can stand before Elohim because of His atoning work. Amen.
This is why so many Jews believed what Adonai Yeshua sincerely stated – “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, yet he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die.” The Gospel of Yochanan (John) 11:25-26. Brit HaDashah/The New Testament.
This is the promise of eternal life for Jews or Gentiles who believe and trust the Moshiach/Messiah.
“I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me.” Yochanan/John 14:6.
“I say to you, unless one is born again (spiritually) he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Yochanan/John 3:3.
There is no Temple, no Priesthood, the old has gone and the new has come for Jews and Gentiles alike. Millions upon millions have believed His statements and will have eternal life through His royal blood atonement for He is our scapegoat our kaporah. He paid for our sins for all who believe and then rose from the dead to prove His Messiahship and authority over death. Yeshua then met with His disciples and women who had followed Him, on 12 separate occasions before ascending into Heaven.
Markon (Mark 16:1-20).
“Blessed are the merciful. For they shall obtain mercy.” Mattiyahu (Matthew 5:7.)
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs isthe kingdom of heaven.”
Mattiyahu (Matthew 5:10.)
“But let your ‘Yes be Yes’ and your ‘no,no.’ For whatever is more than these is from the evil one.” (Matthew) 5:37.)
“Therefore, do not worry, saying,”‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shallwe drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ Mattihayhu (Matthew 6:31.)
“For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged and with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.” Mattiyahu (Matthew 7:2.)
“And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but do not consider the beam in your own eye.” Mattiyahu (Matthew 7:3.)
Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest truly is plentiful but the labourers are few. Therefore, praythe Lord of the harvest to send outlabourers into His harvest.” Mattiyahu (Matthew 9:37-38.)
“Freely you have received, freely give.” Mattiyahu (Matthew 10:8.)
“Whoever exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” Mattiyahu (Matthew 23:12.)
“He who is merciful to others, shall receive mercy from Heaven.” R. Gamaliel Beribbi. 3rd Century A.D./C.E. Shabbath 151b.
“Be rather of the persecuted than of the persecutors.” persecutors.” Rabbi Abbahu. 279=310 A.D./C.E.Baba Kamma 93a.
“Let your yes be yes and your no be no.” R. Abaye. 4th Century. Baba Metzia 49a.
“Whoever has a piece of bread in his basket and says, ‘What shall I eat tomorrow?” Belongs only to them whoare little in faith.” Rabbi Eliezer. Died 117 A.D./C.E. Sotah 48b.
“The measure which one measures will be measured out to him.” Rabbi Meir. Talmud Sanhedrin 100a. We need to note that Rabbi Meir was not even born when Yeshua taught this in circa 28 A.D./C.E.
“Do they say, take the splinter out of your eye, he will retort. ‘Remove the beam out of your own eye.’ Rabbi Johanan bar Napha 199-279A.D./C.E. Baba Bathra 15b.
“The day is short and the work is much, and the workmen are indolent but the reward is much, and the Master of the House is insistent.” Rabbi Tarfon. 120 A.D./C.E. Aboth 2:15.
“Just as I teach gratuitously, so you should teach gratuitously.” R. Judah. 299 A.D./C.E. Bekeroth 29a.
“He who humbles himself for the Torah in this world is magnified in the next and he who makes himself a servant to the Torah in this world becomes free in the next.” R. Jeremiah. Died 250 A.D./C.E. Baba Metzia 85b.