March 04, 2018 6:30pm
1h 40m
Is Yeshua (Jesus) identified in the Old Testament? Judaism teaches the death of the righteous brings atonement to the world. According to the Zohar: "As long as Israel dwelt in the Holy Land, the rituals and the sacrifices they performed [in the Temple] removed all those diseases from the world; now the Messiah removes them form the children of the world (
2:212a). "Rabbi Hiyya Bar Abba said: "The sons Aaron [Nadab and Abihu] died the first day of Nisan. Why then does the Torah mention their death in conjunction with the Day of Atonement? . . . it is to teach that just as the Day of Atonement atones, so also the death of the righteous atones." (Leviticus Rabbah
20:12) Scriptures from Tanakh (the Old Testament) that reveal the death of the righteous atones: 2 Samuel
21:1-14; Numbers
8:19; Deut
24:16 (AJOJ - MB p. 295);
25:1-13; Numbers
35:25-28; Isaiah
53:4-6, 12 ‘On this day (i.e., Yom Kippur, Leviticus
16:30) on the mountain of the Lord, Isaac’s ashes shall be seen, heaped up and standing for atonement (Rashi, on Genesis
22:14)The Rabbis said: His name (Messiah’s name based on the context-emphasis mine) is the leper scholar as it is written, Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him a leper, smitten of God and afflicted (b. Sandhedrin 98b - refer to Isaiah
53:4 as talking about the Messiah) Scriptures from the Tanakh that prove the divinity of the Messiah: Genesis
3:15, 22; Genesis
11:6-7; Joshua
5:13-15; Exodus
3:2-6; Deuteronomy
6:4; Isaiah
7:14;
9:6;
11:1-3;
44:6;
48:16-17; Psalm
45:1-7; 1
10:1-4; Daniel
7:13-22; Proverbs
30:4; Zechariah
14:1-4 The Hebrew word used for "one" in Deuteronomy
6:4 is echad which means a composite unity. Rambam used yachid or yahid which means only one.