What is the Mishnah, and why should Messianic Jews care? Who wrote it? When was it written? Why was it written? What does it mean to us today? Join me as I get slightly controversial. Yes, the Mishnah is relevant.

S2 E17: Interview with Rabbi Joshua Brumbach on His Commentary on Jude

Jul 23rd, 2022 45m 19s

In this episode we interview Rabbi Joshua Brumbach on his recent commentary on the New Testament letter of Jude. Jude, or more properly Judah, was Yeshua’s brother. He is one of two of Yeshua’s brothers to write books that are now in the New Te

S2 E16: After the Wars

Jul 13th, 2022 55m 42s

In this episode, we are going to look at some of the people, movements, and events that followed the second (or third as I argue in a previous episode) Jewish revolt. We will ask:What kind of interaction did Messianic Jews with the larger Jewis

S1 E15: What They Said: Christian Writings and the Nascent Messianic Jewish Movement

Nov 13th, 2021 35m 50s

In this episode we look at attitudes and prejudices apparent in Christian writings mainly between the Second Jewish War and the Council of Nicaea. As we take a look at the key authors in particular, we will see a continued hardening of Christia

S1 E14: The Second Jewish War and the Birkat Haminim!

Jul 3rd, 2021 37m 42s

In this episode, we ask questions about the Second Jewish War, its "messiah" Bar Koziba, and its rabbi, Akiva.What made the revolt so inevitable?What made it such a milestone in Jewish, including Messianic Jewish, history?Did this war really ca

S1 E13: Ebionites, Nazarenes, and More

May 15th, 2021 35m 2s

In this episode we explore the lives and situations of Yeshua's Jewish followers in the period between the two great Jewish Wars, which ended in 70 and 135 CE respectively. We ask and answer:Where did Jewish disciples of Yeshua live?Did they i

S1 E12: Messianic Judaism and the First Jewish Revolt

Apr 1st, 2021 34m 19s

Don't mention the war!As Jews we have to mention the war. In this episode we take a look at the reasons for, and the inevitability of the First Jewish Revolt, given the inadequacies of Roman governance both in Judea and in Rome itself. We also

S1 E11: The First Messianic Jewish Establishment: From 45 to 67 CE

Feb 20th, 2021 46m 12s

In this longer episode, we explore the mostly unexplored, the presence of Jewish disciples of Yeshua around the Jewish world between the time when Jacob (James) the brother of John and the outbreak of the first Jewish revolt when the disciples

S1 E10: Torah from Zion: Passionate Proclamation

Jan 1st, 2021 30m 36s

We are now in the years 37–44 CE, after Stephen’s death and up to the beheading of Jacob (James), the Elder, the brother of John, one of the sons of Zebedee. In a few years, the new movement was becoming known not only in Jerusalem, but more an

S1 E9: Heady Days: Unexpected Growth

Dec 18th, 2020 23m 18s

The amazing events of Shavuot, with thousands immersed in Jerusalem’s mikva’ot as they acknowledged the Messiahship of Yeshua, attested to by the signs they were witnessing and the testimony of his resurrection, gave way to heady days for the e

S1 E8: From Inward to Outward: The Resurrection of a Movement

Nov 21st, 2020 30m 53s

Today we survey the pivotal days following Yeshua’s death that turned his followers from a defeated, introspective and scattered selection of individuals into an impassioned, outgoing and unified movement. Following the death of Yeshua, The mov

S1 E7: The Death of Yeshua: The Death of a Movement?

Nov 4th, 2020 29m 31s

Coming into the final days of Yeshua’s life, who was he? Who did he say he was? Who did people think he was? Did he die as a revolutionary? Did he die because he questioned the religious establishment? Was there something in his teaching that w

S1 E6: The Growth of a Movement: How Yeshua's Following Grew and Matured

Oct 16th, 2020 18m 33s

How did the movement Yeshua led begin, how did it grow? How did it mature? Even more importantly, what were the seeds for what the movement would become? We have to step aside from 2,000 years of Christian theologizing and thinking, and see him

S1 E5: Messiah in the Making: Stories of His Youth

Oct 2nd, 2020 18m 1s

In this episode we tell the untold story of Yeshua's youth - a thoroughly Jewish and somewhat devout one. We also look at some interesting aspects of that. His toddlerhood in Alexandria, his youth in Nazareth, and his fascinating interaction wi

S1 E4: An Innocuous Dawn: "0" BCE

Sep 26th, 2020 18m

What was the world like for normal people, and for Yeshua's family in the year that he was born? What were they thinking and what were their politics? This episode will tell the story of life for Miriam and Joseph in the year Messiah was born.

S1 E3: Texts and Stories: What They Said About Messiah

Sep 18th, 2020 26m 35s

In the year Yeshua was born, what were people saying about Messiah? What were they learning about him? What were they reading, and what were their hopes and what were their stories?Amidst all the complexity of Jewish life in Israel, religious a

S1 E2: The Days of Yeshua: The Religious Map of His World

Sep 11th, 2020 26m

What were the days of Yeshua like? What were the religious thoughts and movements of his day? As we come to grips with the world that Messianic Judaism was brought into, we take a look at the political and social movements of his day and how th

S1 E1: From Ezra to the Essenes: The Cradle of Messianic Judaism

Sep 5th, 2020 12m 52s

What were the beginnings of Messianic Judaism? This episode begins the story with the Persian King Cyrus' decree sending 42,600 exiles back to Jerusalem and continues to show how events following Ezra's arrival in Jerusalem created the social a

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