Can't you find any contemporary ones? Almost all the above converted more than 100 years ago.
Rabbi Simcha Pearlmutter
http://www.sa-hebroots.com/testimony_rab...mutter.php
alive and well, living in the desert of Israel, Orthodox Jew, believes in Yeshua, Messiah.
I read he died in 1999.
nice guy, seems to have a lot to say about the LORD and his,(Rabbi Pearlmutter's) appointment to represent the people of the LORD.
He doesn't appear to believe in Jesus as the messiah, though.
Can't you find any contemporary ones? Almost all the above converted more than 100 years ago.
Rabbi Simcha Pearlmutter
http://www.sa-hebroots.com/testimony_rab...mutter.php
alive and well, living in the desert of Israel, Orthodox Jew, believes in Yeshua, Messiah.
nice guy, seems to have a lot to say about the LORD and his,(Rabbi Pearlmutter's) appointment to represent the people of the LORD.
bye for now,
kimberly
Actually, not alive and well in the desert:
He was a secular Jew from Miami. From an 1990 JPost article:
His neighbours want him out of the Arava. His community lost its official status years ago, and most of his followers have long since packed and abandoned him. Seven of his nine children have dropped the dream of building a new community in the desert. Most of them do not even maintain contact with him.
And yes, Pearlmutter once had two wives simultaneously, the mothers of his nine children. He does not like to talk about that part of his past, but news stories have attributed to him the view that Jewish law permits men to have more than one wife after they have returned to their own land. . .
(Where he lives is) s a desolate expanse of rock-strewn desert sand. A few decaying cinder-block buildings coexist with a handful of standard-issue caravans that are commonly used for temporary housing in new settlements. . . .
Twenty-four years after he made aliya, Simha Pearlmutter still lives in a caravan. If the authorities get their way however, he won't even have that much. It seems that everybody - from the Arava regional Council and the Israel Lands Administration to the Jewish Agency and the Water Commission - wants to get rid of Simcha Pearlmutter . . .
AS FAR AS the overwhelming majority of Jews are concerned, these are nothing more than the rantings of a crackpot. Religious Jews believe he poses a serious threat to the Jewish faith, while their secular compatriots just laugh at his seemingly crazy ideas. . .
By Carl Schrag, Week for the Jerusalem Post, April 21, 1990
I read he died in 1999.
He doesn't appear to believe in Jesus as the messiah, though.
Yes, he did pass away in 1999.....it's important to note that
he was never a rabbi, but was a secular Jew from Florida
who became a Christian.
Time to get back on track, here a few that I know of
* Rabbi Isaac Lichtenstein, Orthodox rabbi from Hungary: "I will remain among my own nation. I love Messiah, I believe in the New Covenant, but I am not drawn to join Christendom. Just as the prophet Jeremiah...chose to remain and lament among the ruins of the holy city with the despised remnant of his own people, so I will remain among my own brethren, as a watchman from within and to plead with them to behold Yeshua the true glory of Israel."
* Rabbi Dr. T. Tirschtiegel of Breslau: "Thou dear brother Yeshua, also my brother and my Savior who has at last led me to your Salvation."
* Rabbi Max Wertheimer, D. D. (Reform): "In Messiah I have found my only abiding comfort for every sorrow."
* Rabbi Rudolf Hermann Gurland, from Vilna: "Yeshua haMashiach is a living, mighty Savior. He can protect me; if he does not, I am willing to suffer, and to die for him."
* Rabbi Asher Levy (ordained orthodox in Romania; later served in Belgium and Hungary): "I want to confirm that my heart does not condemn me for my new belief, because I feel that I am still a Jew and shall always be a Jew. I have not renounced our inheritance of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Like Paul I can say, 'Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? So am I.'"
* Rabbi Chil Slostowski: "At first I was no more than a secret believer. In my inward being I knew that Yeshua was the Messiah of Israel and my personal Redeemer but I continued nonetheless to fulfill my tasks and duties as rabbi. Two months I lived like this...At last I realized that I could no longer live a double life...I had to confess the messiah publically - whatever the consequences might be."
* Rabbi Leopold Cohn, D.D.; Rabbi Charles Freshman; Rabbi George Benedict; Rabbi Ephraim Ben Joseph Eliakim; Rabbi Henry Bregman, and many, many more could be added to this list....
We've all seen this list before, and either refuted that they were
Orthodox rabbis, or have been unable to find any information on
them at all other than at messianic sites.
As mentioned previously, most are from the late 19th/early 20th
century and it's hard to get info on them. That's why contemporary
examples are much better, such as the list given here of ministers/
priests/pastors that have converted to Judaism.
Acts 6
7 So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.
I read he died in 1999.
Hi Rabbi Yisroel ben Avrohom;
I would be more than happy to exclude all sources that have died prior to 1999 on your list, too, ok?
bye for now,
kimberly
I read he died in 1999.
Hi Rabbi Yisroel ben Avrohom;
I would be more than happy to exclude all sources that have died prior to 1999 on your list, too, ok?
bye for now,
kimberly
How about those that have converted in the past 50 years who are still alive and have some sort of backup such as an article or internet site?
Actually it doesn't matter. People will believe what they want to believe. I just think the numbers are far more stronger for bible educated xtians who have left xtianity or converted as compared to uneducated Jews who have converted. The numbers are very few if any for true "Orthodox" rabbi's ( ones who have a Yeshiva degree) who have converted as well.
Remember what Hosea said. "It is for the lack of knowledge that my people perish". Knowledge in the Hebrew bible is Torah.
Yes, he did pass away in 1999.....it's important to note that
he was never a rabbi, but was a secular Jew from Florida
who became a Christian.
What has to happen to be a Rabbi, Sheitl Queen?
What has to happen to be a Rabbi, Sheitl Queen?
One has to receive rabbinical ordination (smicha) after having
spent years studying in a yeshiva and passing
extensive examinations.
Remember there were only 13,000 out of the whole of Israel who did not bow their knee to Ba'al. And there was only 1 righteous man - if there can be a righteous man - in the whole city of Sodom.
These points about X people converting to Xianity or Y converting back to the traditions of men (rabbinic Judaism), in the end, as noted in the above replies, hold no water. It is not the numbers that count, but the truth.