Friday I (Shosh) was on my way home from a visit with a Jewish Believer when I noticed two Ultra Religious young men working the corner of Lexington and 50th Street. I stopped to see what they were doing and this is what I heard, "Are you Jewish?" "Are you Jewish?" they asked every man who passed. One man replied, "Do I look Jewish?" I wanted to get a photo of them interacting with the public so I grabbed my camera and tried to be discreet. Well that didn't work. They struck a pose.
We all smiled and they continued to ask the men passing by if they were Jewish. I just couldn't get myself to leave the corner so continued to take photos. Then the young man (on the right) approached me, "are you Jewish"" "Yes, I am" I replied. "I am Jewish, and I believe Jesus is the promised Messiah of our People". "Who do you think Jesus is?" I asked. He replied, " A Jew". "You are correct, and he met the criteria outlined in the Tenach (Hebrew Scriptures) which describes the Messiah". Our conversation lasted about 15 minutes. I asked him if he was familiar with Psalm 22. He wasn't. He told me I needed to study the oral law and Ram Baam (a Rabbi of great influence in Orthodox Judaism) to understand Messiah. I told him everything I needed to know about G-d I could learn from the Hebrew Scriptures. It was a great conversation. I will not recount all the details. I did challenge him to think for himself. I said, "you believe all you have been taught by men". If you study the Hebrews Scriptures and ask G-d to teach you the truth about Messiah, he will " Please pray this young man will consider real truth.
These men were asking Jewish men to "lay tefillin". If you want know more about that check out this link:
http://www.Why Jewish men lay tefillin
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