Post by mrsjacks on Sept 26, 2013 12:29:27 GMT -8
Hello, everyone! I'm Jenn and I'm a 32 year old wife and mother from Northwest Georgia. I am so new to all of this and I'm trying to learn as much as I can, so I will probably have a million questions
I accepted Yeshua as my Messiah in 2010. I am not, halachically speaking, Jewish. My mother is not Jewish, in fact, I have to dig back to my maternal grandfather's side back to the 1940s and earlier to find any Jewish lineage. I do come from a line of Polish Jews on his side of the family. Beyond that, I was not raised in any sort of religious upbringing. We had a family Bible and said a generic grace before dinner, but we didn't start going to church until I was in high school.
I stumbled upon observance back in 2012 when I felt led to cover my hair. I found a lot of tichel tying videos on YouTube made by Jewish women and wore tichels until I started being confused as a cancer patient. Not wanting to garner false sympathy or give a confusing impression to others, I started wearing charity veils until people started thinking I was Amish.
Just in the last year I have started to question conventional, Catholic church influenced Christianity. Not the fundamentals of our faith, such as immersion as an outward sign of obedience, believing in Yeshua as the ultimate Sacrifice for our sin, that the Bible is the inspired Word of YHWH, etc., but things like Sunday "sabbath", observing Christmas and Easter along with all of the trappings of Pagan symbolism, and always claiming Christians have total freedom to do as they please, that we have no rules because "Jesus nailed the law to the cross".
Something about G-d letting us twist in the wind with no rules or standards to live by and letting the antisemitic roots of the early Christian church dictate how we honor Him seemed amiss. I had heard of Messianic Judaism, but I always thought you had to be born Jewish and then accept Yeshua as the Messiah or that it was the same as "Jews for Jesus". Imagine my delight when I discovered neither was true!
I'm slowly getting into this. I have a lifetime of secularism and Churchianity ingrained in my mind, so I'm slowly learning about Shabbat, the feasts, Hebrew, the mitzvot. It's a lot to take in, but I'm eager to learn.
I accepted Yeshua as my Messiah in 2010. I am not, halachically speaking, Jewish. My mother is not Jewish, in fact, I have to dig back to my maternal grandfather's side back to the 1940s and earlier to find any Jewish lineage. I do come from a line of Polish Jews on his side of the family. Beyond that, I was not raised in any sort of religious upbringing. We had a family Bible and said a generic grace before dinner, but we didn't start going to church until I was in high school.
I stumbled upon observance back in 2012 when I felt led to cover my hair. I found a lot of tichel tying videos on YouTube made by Jewish women and wore tichels until I started being confused as a cancer patient. Not wanting to garner false sympathy or give a confusing impression to others, I started wearing charity veils until people started thinking I was Amish.
Just in the last year I have started to question conventional, Catholic church influenced Christianity. Not the fundamentals of our faith, such as immersion as an outward sign of obedience, believing in Yeshua as the ultimate Sacrifice for our sin, that the Bible is the inspired Word of YHWH, etc., but things like Sunday "sabbath", observing Christmas and Easter along with all of the trappings of Pagan symbolism, and always claiming Christians have total freedom to do as they please, that we have no rules because "Jesus nailed the law to the cross".
Something about G-d letting us twist in the wind with no rules or standards to live by and letting the antisemitic roots of the early Christian church dictate how we honor Him seemed amiss. I had heard of Messianic Judaism, but I always thought you had to be born Jewish and then accept Yeshua as the Messiah or that it was the same as "Jews for Jesus". Imagine my delight when I discovered neither was true!
I'm slowly getting into this. I have a lifetime of secularism and Churchianity ingrained in my mind, so I'm slowly learning about Shabbat, the feasts, Hebrew, the mitzvot. It's a lot to take in, but I'm eager to learn.