About 'Messianic Jews'
Elena Bartolini Lea De Angeli
E' possible that by visiting the Old City in Jerusalem near the Jaffa Gate, or by going to Ein Karem, you hear about communities 'Messianic Jews' in those places - and more - have their headquarters, or it may happen anyway to hear them named, not necessarily in reference to Jerusalem. But who are they? "Jewish Christians"? Or something else?
The phenomenon is not born in the Land of Israel but it comes with the 'alijiah, the "return" to the land of their fathers. The original context is to be found in the West in the movement Jesus-believing Jews (Jbj) that refers to Jewish believers in Jesus the first century. Not by chance trying to find a possible link with the primitive Jewish-Christian community of Jerusalem, an idea that strongly affirm in London during the International Hebrew Christian Conference of 1925, attended by delegates from 22 countries. It is in this context that, progressively and in various events, developing the current movement of Messianic Jews (Messianic Jews).
scholars of the phenomenon, however, identify as one of the most influential forerunners of this Joseph Rabinowitz, born into a Hasidic family in Russia, who came to faith in Jesus during a trip to Palestine in the summer of 1882. The originality of Rabinowtiz and the movement he founded ("Israel's new covenant") is stubborn insistence with which he said that his faith in Jesus had made him an ex-jew, even if he had decided to be baptized as a sign of belonging to the universal Church of Christ without becoming a member of a particular kind of Christian denomination and without abandoning his Jewish identity.
From the beginning marked by different currents, and variously influenced by the Haskalah, "emancipation" Jewish Messianic Jews to take shape more and more like those who have decided to believe in Jesus of Nazareth as the Son of God and Redeemer. The content of the expression "Son of God" there is no consistency: there are those who understand it only in human terms to the exclusion of the god, and there those who try to justify its divine origin by tracing it back to the Kabbalah - Jewish mysticism - or the concept of Shekhinah, 'presence of God ", thus excluding any reference to Christian symbols from Nicaea onwards. They are divided or not even allowing the Jewish oral tradition: there are those who recognize only the Torah (Pentateuch) in writing. Basically, however, observe the precepts and celebrate on Saturday, some groups also celebrated on Sunday with its own procedures is the main festival of Easter, Passover and as such "memorial" of Jesus Everything pending his return, so as "Messiah" has not yet concluded its work, which should make the "final messianic times" that awaits every jew.
The basic problem is how to show their identity in front of the Synagogue and the Church: for the moment relations are difficult, Rabbi - Orthodox and religious currents - not clearly see the phenomenon, and the various Christian denominations - the sometimes a group which tries to connect - have understandable difficulties to integrate into them. There still are those who believe that the Messianic Jews contribute significantly to reopen the debate on the end of the Judeo-Christian religion which in fact, the private Christian Church of the direct link with his Jewish roots.
http://www.bibbiablog.com/2010/04/11/a-proposito-di-% c2% abebrei messianic-% c2% bb /
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