An Israeli law known as the Law of Return was passed into law in 1950, while the Holocaust was still fresh in everyone's memories. The Law entitles second generation Jews to Israeli citizenship (i.e. their father was a Jew). The law defines a Jew as "a person who was born of a Jewish mother or has become converted to Judaism and who is not a member of another religion." The Law is aimed at allowing Jews everywhere to return to their homeland of Israel, whether living in persecution and poverty or in security and prosperity.
To quote a Wikipedia article on the Law of Return:
"Originally, the Law of Return was restricted to Jews only. A 1970 amendment, however, stated that, 'The rights of a Jew under this Law and the rights of an oleh under the Nationality Law...are also vested in a child and a grandchild of a Jew, the spouse of a Jew, the spouse of a child of a Jew and the spouse of a grandchild of a Jew' (Law of Return)... ."
"Specifically excluded from the Law of Return are any 'person who has been a Jew and has voluntarily changed his religion.' The Supreme Court of Israel ruled in 1989 that Messianic Judaism constituted another religion, and that Jews who had become Messianic Jews were not therefore eligible for Aliyah. The government of Israel used this ruling to exclude anyone who was a Messianic Jew."
According to a news release yesterday from the Jerusalem Post, the Law of Return has now recently been applied to Messianic Jews! This means that Jews who believe that Yeshua (Jesus) is the Messiah can now be granted Israeli citizenship if their parents were Jews. This is a huge step in being able to take the Gospel into Israel!
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Hello,
You write: “person who was born of a Jewish mother or has become converted to Judaism and who is not a member of another religion."
By practising Torah non-selectively, just like the historical Ribi Jesus did, we make the world a better place to live in!
But are the Jews believing in the Christian Saviour practising Judaism is the question that will be answered in this post.
To realize that one can follow two polar-opposite masters — the authentic, historical, PRO-Torah 1st-century Ribi from Nazareth (the Messiah) and the 4th-century (post-135 C.E.), arch-antithesis ANTI-Torah apostasy developed by the Hellenists (namely the Sadducees and Roman pagans who conspired to kill Ribi Yәhoshua, displaced his original followers (the Netzarim) and redacted the NT); is a step in the correct direction!
So who then was the historical Jesus? His name was Ribi Yehoshua.
The research of world-recognized authorities (for example Barrie Wilson; www.barriewilson.com) in this area implies that Ribi Yehoshua was a Pharisee (a Torah-practising Jewish group - who according to 4Q MMT (a Scroll found in the Qumran-caves) practised both written and oral Torah. As the earliest church historians, most eminent modern university historians, our web site (www.netzarim.co.il) and our Khavruta (Distance Learning) texts confirm, the original teachings of Ribi Yehoshua were not only accepted by most of the Pharisaic Jewish community, he had hoards of Jewish students.
Ribi Yehoshua warned for false prophets who don’t produce good fruit = defined as don’t practise the commandments in Torah according to Halakhah (oral Torah; in an unbroken chain since Mosheh (Moses); commanded by Mosheh in Torah (the Hebrew words משפט (mishpat) and חק (khoq)); oral Torah is recorded Beit-Din (Jewish Court)-decisions of how Torah shall be applied.). See דברים (Devarim) (Deuteronomy) 13:1-6.
For the words “khoq” and “mishpat”; see www.netzarim.co.il ; the link to Glossaries at the first page.
The research of Scholars in leading universities, which implies that Ribi Yehoshua was a Pharisee, necessarily implies that if you want to follow him you need to practise his Torah-teachings.
So you need to start follow the historical Ribi Yehoshua – the Messiah – by practising Torah (including oral Torah)!
Finding the historical Jew, who was a Pharisee Ribi and following him brings you into Torah, which gives you a rich and meaningful life here on earth and great rewards in life after death (“heaven”)!
From Anders Branderud
Geir Toshav, Netzarim in Ra’anana in Israel (www.netzarim.co.il) who is followers of Ribi Yehoshua – the Messiah – in Orthodox Judaism
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