Religion & Beliefs

Mashiach Now: I Am the Messiah (and so are You)

When my younger sister, Grace, took up Israeli dancing a few years ago, I was thrilled. What could be better than the blending of Jewish culture with exercise and socializing? She initially encountered and took her first lessons during a … Read More

By / August 28, 2007
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When my younger sister, Grace, took up Israeli dancing a few years ago, I was thrilled. What could be better than the blending of Jewish culture with exercise and socializing? She initially encountered and took her first lessons during a summer session at BCI, and upon returning home, immediately began dancing two nights a week with David Dassa and a motley Jew crew. Her new friends had names like Orly and Lior, and if I'm not mistaken, there were a handful of Sara(h)s and Rachels and even an Ezra. Grace regularly demonstrated her newly learned moves to me, dancing to burned CDs of her favorite songs in our shared living room. "Yemenite left and pivot turn together," she'd chant as she danced, still something of a novice. One day, in the course of a conversation about the latest goings on with her "dance" friends, she mentioned that a girl she'd become especially friendly with–one of the Sarahs–had said something befuddling while the two were shooting hoops. For the past few months, they'd been attending Friday Night Live together. Now Sarah wanted to know where else my sister attended services.

"At our family temple," Grace had replied. "Temple Israel of Hollywood. What about you?"

Sarah had clammed up, slightly, and then brought herself to say, "Ahavat Zion. It's a Messianic shul. You should come with me, sometime."

"Oh," said Grace, because she didn't know what else to do.

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  • Yaakov

    I'm confused. Jesus violated various Torah laws. If he did not change the law, then he was willful sinner. How does that help show he was the Messiah? Certainly his followers understood Jesus to be saying Halacha was no longer binding. You say Jesus is the Torah. What does that mean? Can you speak in Jewish terms? I thought Jesus was a man?

  • Yaakov

    "It seems to me that conceptually, Jesus was no more dangerous a messianic candidate than Bar Kokhba or Schneerson"

     Bar Kohkba and Schneerson did not suggest dispensing with Halakah, unlike what Jesus and Sabbatei Tzvi reportedly said.

    You may be interested in reading the book, Why the Jews Rejected Jesus" by Klinghoffer.  

  • rickyukon

    Bloody brilliant sugar pop!  This is what I have believed for most of my life.

    And yes, I do piss on the Messiah. I used to say that I would punch the Messiah in the nose, but old age made that seem a bit violent, and I have often had fantasies of my wife pissing on me, so therefore …

    In the end, this dumb-ass love of the Moshiach gives Jews a reason to be lazy fuckers, to continue to pollute the air and water and not stop the people that pollute the air and water. As long as there is a Moshiach there will be idiots mainlining sugar and killing their lives in front of the television set … just waiting for him.

    I'm not too tight with G-d, but I have a pretty good feeling that He would not want all of us to dirty everything up and spend our lives in front of the hypnotube, and singing heartfelt songs on Friday night waiting for some fairy tale of Messiah.

    G-d gave me urine, and with that urine I piss on the Messiah. And then with the urine that drips off of the Messiah, I will collect it all, and run it through reverse osmosis so that it can be used to irrigate crops and grow food and put food in people's bellies and help stop thirst and starvation.

  • ultramagnetic

    Soccer, if you think this post advocates sitting on one's laurels and/or doing nothing, you're wrong.  In fact, Helen's advocating quite the opposite.  Give it another read.