FAQS

What is involved in converting to Judaism?	CLICK HERE
Why do you spell G-d's name with a hyphen?	Orthodox Jews are very careful to not spell out G-d's name when translated. If I were to spell it out, and you were to print it and then throw it into the garbage, we would both be guilty of disrespect to G-d's name. When writing in Hebrew in holy Scriptures, we are especially careful. When a Torah scroll (which for example contains G-d's name in Hebrew) is no longer fit to be used, we do not throw it away, we bury it. The burial place for unusable Jewish Scriptures is called a G'nizah. The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls was nothing more than the discovery of a G'nizah.
Can A Jew Believe in Jesus and Still Be Jewish?	Most Jews would never consider believing in Christianity for a variety of reasons, including a strong feeling against abandoning their Jewishness and their people. Missionaries recognize this and try to convince Jews that believing in Jesus does not mean you stop being a Jew. They emphasize that Jesus and his disciples were Jews to make it seem a very Jewish thing to do. In one sense, they have a point. According to Jewish law, if you are born a Jew, you will die a Jew. There is nothing you can do to convert out of the faith. In reality the claim of the Missionaries is absurd. You can also be a mass-murderer and still be a Jew. That does not mean you are doing what Hashem wants. Or you can be a fool and be Jewish. Yet, just being Jewish does not make your foolishness kosher.
Is It True That Jesus Fulfilled Over 300 Prophesies From The Old Testament?	They claim that their belief in Jesus is based upon Old Testament prophecies, and that he is clearly the one that the Jewish people have been longing for as their Messiah. The truth is that Jesus fulfilled none of the messianic prophecies in the Jewish Bible. Their case is made by manipulating Jewish verses through mistranslation, taking them out of context, or even making them up. Out of the supposed hundreds of verses that they claim as proof, they typically only cite about a dozen or so, while ignoring numerous other verses from Jewish Scriptures that clearly contradict their beliefs.
Isn't Messianic Judaism just another branch of Judaism?	They will claim that just as there are Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist branches of Judaism, Messianic Judaism is just another branch. They feel that they should be accepted as a legitimate form of Judaism, since they claim to believe in G-d, the Bible and the Jewish Messiah. There is no issue that the Jewish people have agreed upon more in the last 2000 years than the rejection of Jesus as our Messiah, and the very notion of a son of G-d. Even Jews who disagree sharply about other issues in Judaism agree that belief in Jesus is inconsistent with basic Judaism. As a nation, we have always rejected Jesus because of what we knew about him and about our Scriptures, not out of ignorance. Let us show you why.
How Do Jews Get Atonement For Sins If There Are No Temple Sacrifices?	For an answer to this question see our Article entitled "Is A Blood Sacrifice Required For Atonement? CLICK HERE