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    Waiting for Messiah
    Waiting for Messiah
    Waiting for Messiah
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    Waiting for Messiah

    By David Russell

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    Discover the Messiah in a different way with this collection of stories about Christ from a Messianic Jew point of view.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Russell
    Release dateSep 13, 2017
    ISBN9781370097517
    Waiting for Messiah
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    David Russell

    David Russell is a long-time member of the arts community in Vancouver. He has worked on stage and television, including performing as a company member with the Vancouver TheatreSports League for more than 15 years. Russell has written freelance for a number of publications, including Maclean's, Vancouver's Sun and Province, the award-winning online news site The Tyee, and others. He lives in Coquitlam, British Columbia.

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      Waiting for Messiah - David Russell

      Introduction

      Waiting for Messiah is a journey back in time before and during the earthly life of Christ Jesus, Messiah Yeshua, who is believed to have been born to Jewish parents over twenty centuries ago. The setting is the Holy Land.

      Each of these authors have imagined life in this time period for known Biblical figures who waited for Messiah. These people had an inner assurance the King of the Universe, who is called Hashem, would hear their heart cry and send the anointed One to free them from all that is unjust. This heart cry continues down through the centuries from ancient Yisrael to modern Indiana and everywhere in between.

      In this book, three Hebrew words are used for wait or waiting: damam, qava, and yachal. Collectively, their meanings include the actions of looking eagerly, hoping expectantly, trusting, binding together, and silent and being still.

      In these accounts:

      Shepherds wait through an extraordinary night like no other to discover the newborn Messiah;

      Magi come together to plan and execute a 1500-mile trip to find and meet the young Yeshua and his parents;

      An aging temple priest is filled with new hope on meeting Yeshua and his parents inside the temple;

      Two stone cutters quietly discuss what life may be like when a Messiah does arrive on the scene.

      I invite you to consider what oppressive, vexing unalterable exists for us that requires nothing short of Messianic intervention. Your answers may help identify with these persons and their wait for Messiah.

      Names and places have been changed from English to Hebrew renderings, according to the online versions of The Complete Jewish Bible or the Hebrew Names Version of the online World English Bible. A word list has been included in this book to aid readers with English-to-Hebrew words with short definitions provided.

      This style of using the Hebrew is chosen to show gratitude to the Jewish people for our faith heritage as non-Jewish professing believers. It also serves to remind us that an era existed during which outward customs differed considerably from the present.

      The desire for a deliverer from that beyond one's control is centuries old. Today, as then, the question we each answer is: Who is the Messiah for whom we wait?

      "For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience."

      - Alfred Edersheim, 1825-1889

      Word List

      Hebrew transliteration is used in this anthology for Biblical names and places. The stories are set in the time believed to encompass the early period of the common era. The reader is asked to begin a journey that considers the influence of the Holy Land on the Judeo-Christian faith heritage: has the Jewish faith heritage been altered through human practice down through the centuries?

      A limited English to Hebrew word list with short definitions follows as a reading aid.

      Avigayil: Abigail, story character, Setting the Stones

      Adonai: Lord God

      Avraham Avinu: Abraham our father

      Bar Mitzvah: Son of the commandments

      Bat Mitzvah: Daughter of the commandments

      Bavith: House, not home

      Beit-Lechem: Bethlehem, House of bread, believed to be birth place of Yeshua, Jesus

      Beit Midrash: House of study

      Berakhah: Blessing

      Calendar: Lunar/solar calendar whose months begin with each new moon

      Diaspora: Jewish people living outside nation of Israel

      Ef'od: A tunic, robe

      Ein Sheva: Location of the miracle involving the loaves and fish recorded in the Gospels

      Elisheva: Elizabeth, Mother of Yochanan, John, (See Luke 1).

      Eliyahu: Elijah the Prophet.

      Elokaynu: Substitute name for G-d.

      Erev: Evening, start of a new day on the Jewish calendar

      Galil: Refers to the lake of Galilee

      G-d: Used in Orthodox Jewish writings to represent the Holy One, blessed be he!

      Kefa: Peter, a disciple and apostle of Yeshua

      Miryam: Mary, earthly mother of Messiah Yeshua

      Miryam of Magdala: Mary of Magdalene, follower of Yeshua

      Mashiach: Messiah, Messiah Yeshua

      Matzah: Unleavened bread, cracker, eaten throughout the season of Passover

      Natzeret: Nazareth, hometown of Yeshua and his earthly family

      Niddah: Separation of husband and wife during menstrual period

      Ovad: Ovadiah, Obadiah, story character in Setting The Stones

      Patriarchs: Refers to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov, (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob)

      Pesach: Passover

      Shabbat: Sabbath

      Talmud: One of the central works of the Jewish people (See reformjudaism.org)

      Tanakh: The Jewish Bible, Old Testament

      Tehillim: Psalms

      Ya'akov: Jacob, also name for one of Yeshua's disciples.

      Yeshua: Jesus, HaMashiach, The Messiah

      Yirmeyahu: Jeremiah the Prophet

      Yesha'yahu: Isaiah the Prophet

      Yerushalayim: Jerusalem

      Yosef:

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