From the perspective of Rabbinic halakhah (religious tradition; also known as Oral Torah), Jesus of Nazareth is not only disqualified as the Messiah but branded a false prophet, one who sought to lead Israel astray. Stories and fables about Him — some grotesque, others satirical — were told in rabbinic …
Jewish Apologetics
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Jesus was a Jew from the tribe of Judah who lived, worshiped, taught, and died in the heart of Israel. Calling Him “anti-Semitic” only works if “anti-Semitic” now means “a Jewish prophet who confronted corrupt leaders the way Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Elijah did.” That’s the whole point: His sharpest words …
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Inquisition, Crusades & Pogroms … In the Name of Jesus?
by Dr. Eitan Bar 6 minutes readThe Crusades, pogroms, the Inquisition, blood libels, expulsions, and the Holocaust — so much Jewish suffering has occurred under banners displaying the cross, in Jesus’s name, or by individuals identifying as “Christians.” How can such horrors possibly square with Yeshua? They don’t. These acts were not obedience to Yeshua but …
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Reading Moses Seeing Jesus: How Jesus Fulfills Moses
by Dr. Eitan Bar 5 minutes readThe LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own people; you shall heed such a prophet. (Deuteronomy 18:15) Jewish people often say, “We believe in Moses, not Jesus,” as if honoring one cancels the other. Scripture itself refuses that rivalry. Moses points …
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What Does it Mean that Jesus is “The Son of God”?
by Dr. Eitan Bar 8 minutes readAnd now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. He will be great, and will be called Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. He will reign over the …
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The True Meaning of “Messiah Son of Joseph”
by Dr. Eitan Bar 7 minutes readThe phrase “The deeds of the forefathers are a sign for the children” encapsulates a foundational principle in Jewish thought: that the lives and actions of the patriarchs serve as spiritual and historical templates for their descendants. This concept, though not stated verbatim in the Talmud, is deeply rooted in …
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The New Testament tells us that, according to the Old Testament prophecy, Jesus was born through a supernatural birth – his mother was a virgin. This is based on the verse Isaiah 7:14 where it says: “Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. ‘Behold, the virgin shall conceive …
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According to the prophecies in Old Testament, the Messiah must be a descendant of David. In the New Testament the apostle Paul starts his letter to the church in Rome: “Jesus the Messiah, our Lord, who was descended from David according to the flesh.” (Romans 1:3) In the past, nobody questioned that Jesus was a descendant of David, neither historians nor the Sages.This was because the …
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“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of …
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The Crucifixion Foretold by Zechariah 12
by Dr. Eitan Bar 5 minutes readWe are all very familiar with the famous icon of “the Crucified Jesus”, probably mostly recognized as the symbol of Christianity. But what if we told you that this image of the pierced Messiah is actually a biblical Jewish concept? And what if we told you that there is a …

