All your life you have heard of Jesus, the Gentile God. People must be mashuganah to think that guy with the halo on his head would be the Jewish Messiah. Right? Maybe the people that paint pictures of him with that halo over his head also see him as the Gentile God. The fact is his real name is Yeshua and he was, is, and will be Jewish. There are Jewish people and Gentiles that just don’t read the New Testament with their eyes and brains instead of their preconceived ideas and emotions. The New Testament was written about Yeshua, mostly by Jews for Jews. Lets look at a few things through Jewish eyes and a real Yiddisha Kup!

When Yeshua is read about in the New Testament without any prior bias of any kind, he emerges as the Jewish Messiah who conforms to the principal religious practices of his nation, Israel and the Jewish people. This conflicts with the intense dislike and misinterpretation of some of the early non-Jewish believers about Yeshua’s original message.

Yeshua was continually associated with synagogues, the focal points of Jewish worship and teaching.

Yeshua was a familiar person in Jewish circles and many sought his teaching.

Yeshua was highly admired also as a Jewish healer and exorcist.

Yeshua appears as a man,who in obedience to the Torah, takes a pilgrimage to the feast of Pesach.

On one visit to the Temple, Yeshua saw the unholy atmosphere in the merchant’s area and it provoked his anger.

It is mentioned that for a time Yeshua taught daily in the Temple.

At one synagogue Yeshua was chosen to read the Torah and to do the commentary on the portion he read.

The "Last Supper" was a Pesach seder.

Not only did Yeshua do the Torah, but Yeshua wore evidences of being Torah observant. There is one account where a women touched the fringe of his tallis.

As did all Jewish men of Israel and the Diaspora, Yeshua paid the Temple tax which was for the upkeep of the Temple.

Yeshua also confirmed his attitude toward the Torah by instructing others to observe it, as when Yeshua sent the healed leper to the Temple priests to be examined by them and declared clean.