Bs’d
This article is written by me, Eliyahu, and it is edited by my
teaching rabbi, Yitschak Goldstein. He went over it many
times, gave valuable advice, suggested additions, and is in
general the driving force behind this article.
I myself grew up in a Christian family in a non-English speaking
country in Western Europe, (all the English you see here is
school-book English, please keep that in mind when you encounter
mistakes) and I was raised in the Christian religion. I was taught by a Christian preacher, and
the very first thing he started out teaching me was: God is not
one. And he came with verses like “Let us make men”, and he
taught me the trinity. Me, not knowing any
better, having never heard of Deuteronomy 6:4; “Hear Israel, Y-H-W-H is our God, Y-H-W-H
is one!” just accepted that. I am still very angry about that
one.
I always had a strong interest in religion, and was delving into
it. This led me one day to pondering the
question: Why don’t the Jewish people recognize the New
Testament? I couldn’t understand
it. It was so obvious! Then I realized that I never investigated
the matter. But does anybody
investigate the fact that the sun will rise tomorrow? It is so obvious! It just couldn’t be
that all the Christian nations were wrong and a handful of Jews
were right!?
Then I decided to investigate the matter. Somewhere I had picked
up the fact that God is one, and I decided to concentrate on that
and on the messianic prophecies.
It took me three days, and then is was as clear as day: The Jews
are right and the Christians are wrong. Because of the big role religion had in
my life this was quite a shock. But, being young and
healthy, I recovered quickly and started working on my next
mission: converting to Judaism. This was definitely not easy, nor
is it supposed to be, but I made it in Israel. And that is where
I am still living now, and I am trying to do my job of being a
light unto the nations by bringing the Christian fallacy to the
attention of the world.
The main page: “Why don’t the Jewish people recognize the New
Testament” is like I said, edited by my teacher, an orthodox
rabbi. It has been scrutinized by an other
orthodox rabbi who is originally from America, he went over
content and checked it for grammatical errors. (unfortunately
there is no cure for my typo’s) It has also been read by my
Rosh Yeshiva, (head of a Talmud academy) and he endorsed it. My teacher showed it to his teacher, the
Rosh Yeshiva of one of the most high grade yeshiva’s in Israel,
in Bne Brak, and he declared that he was very happy with the
article.
So I think it is
safe to say that the main article reflects the view point of
orthodox Judaism.
The article “Why did the holocaust happen” has been proof
read by my teaching rabbi before I put it on the web, and no
changes whatsoever were necessary.
All the other links are not proof read by ordained rabbi’s, but
are my opinion, which is to the best of my knowledge rooted in
the orthodox Jewish tradition.
Eliyahu.