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What Is Judaism? – Rabbi David Wolpe

Alex O'Connor | February 23, 2026



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David Wolpe is an American rabbi, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School. He was named the most influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek in 2012.

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0:00 What is Judaism?
7:44 How To Become a Jew
16:11 Are Jews the Chosen People?
21:01 Old Testament Atrocities
36:07 How Should We Read the Hebrew Bible?
39:45 The Book of Job
43:27 How is Suffering Explained in Judaism?
48:02 Does Judaism Have an Afterlife?
54:50 How Do You Explain Jesus?
1:01:40 Circumcision
1:07:29 Christopher Hitchens
1:18:58 Outro

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  1. @Nexusquo

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

    Also, the delusion needed to claim Jihadism with Hitchens says everything. Extremism NEVER starts for no reason. Israel CREATED the extremism. Any legitimate even small amount of research into Israel will show that it is nothing but colonialism and genocide.

  2. @Nexusquo

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

    Most of his arguments are ways of painting it in a favorable light when in reality it’s used in elitist ways to justify atrocities. By so loosely defining Judaism you can get to a point where a bunch of rich European atheist colonialists are able to commit genocide and it’s justified and you’re antisemitic if you have an issue with it.

    Judaism also does not predate the west. Western civilization began in Mesopotamia. Also when he says “survived to this day” the only sense in which that is true is in a mostly European colonialist way so far as beliefs. The “people” who became Jews were Canaanites. The people who were promised the land in a “people’s” sense are the descendants of those people. They just mostly converted to Islam thousands of years later and are currently being killed by the European “Jews”.

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying Jews are inherently bad. However, you can’t separate them from what’s being done in their name the same as the atrocities committed in the name of Christianity.

  3. @annbathan7232

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

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    c. Isaiah 38:13
    💕I have considered until morning—
    Like a lion,
    So He breaks all my bones;
    From day until night You make an end of me.

    'Like a lion' that is ferocious could destroy body using their sharp incisors and canine teeth. Those lions teeth could pierced the flesh as implied by the verse.

    d. Ezekiel 22:25
    💕 The conspiracy of her prophets in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured people; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in her midst.

    Like a lion, they can devoured  people tearing and killing the prey.Those lions teeth could pierced the flesh as implied by the verse.

    Now in Psalm 22:17, David already expressed how the Arm of the Lord will die in referenced to his previous verses explained above: "LIKE A LION" is devouring his prey using his canine teeth in tearing the flesh of his prey is used as a comparison for piercing the flesh in accordance to the way of his thinking manifested on his previous Psalms.

    So when David said 'like a lion,' even without the continuing phrase like tearing the prey or devouring it or with mouth opened wide, it is already implied that it meant  "piercing of the flesh" and to be more specifically as what David wanted to relay is " piercing my hands and my feet, " in relation to Psalm 22:17.

    This gives importance to

    1. Zechariah 12:9 when a powerful God return to earth but then reflecting the ONE WHO HAD BEEN PIERCED in Zechariah 12:10 reflecting the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53 that cause salvation for eternity.

    2. Hosea 6:1 when the the verses says that the Lord had been torn (since the present tense of torn is tear) in its literal sense. This confirmed that the Lord who will rule in the end had been suffered, died, and had been resurrected from his first coming.

    Hosea 6:1
    💕Come, and let us return to the LORD;
    For He has TORN, but He will heal us;
    He has STRICKEN, but He will bind us up

    M.  As reiterated: You said that you only want God' s opinion.

    God will never ever give you an opinion, neither had given opinion ever since the world began neither to the ends of the world; for God is ALL KNOWING; he already knew the end from the beginning; he even already knew what you are going to say even before you were born. Opinion is not applicable to Him.

    God PROCLAIMS OR  DECLARES everything whether in the past, present or future or even before the foundation of the world, and having opinion is NOT an option to Him but is actually diminished of any kind of opinion.

    Isaiah 44: 7
    💕And who can PROCLAIM as I DO?
    Then let him DECLARE it and set it in order for Me,
    Since I APPOINTED the ancient people.
    And the things that are COMING and SHALL COME,
    Let them show these to them.

    Everything is finished as end is seen in the beginning, there is no single opinion for God. Opinion is only for MAN.

    Is this simple truth that God always know what he is doing and never given an opinion is hard to accept? How can you accept the more complicated things even supported by the Scripture? Will pride of man matters more than the simple truth of God?

    N. The issues of Psalms 110. Whether it is a song of David or songs to David, the verses are still for the Messiah who came from the descendants of David.

    1. "Sit at my right hand" is sitting at the right hand of the throne of Father in heaven.

    Exodus 15:6
    💕Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.

    Psalm 98:1 Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have worked salvation for him.

    As right hand is glorious in power and his holy ARM have worked salvation for him,
    SITTING on the Lord's right hand is sitting in power and glorious place in Father's throne.

    2. "You are a priest forever" is not applicable for David for David had died and he being a priest in the order of Melchizedek had ended when he died and when his body decayed and his soul had remain in Sheol.

    But the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53 had lived after he had been cut off, and then interceeds for the people as the Scripture had declared by Isaiah.

    3. Psalms 110: 5-7 is the verses for the powerful God you had been waiting for written in the verses and explanations above.

  4. @annbathan7232

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

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    prophecy or at the completion of the last remaining 1 week then after is a new beginning together with the Messiah.

    But then the salvation of this powerful God who will come RESOUNDS  the one who had been PIERCED signifying the ONENESS to the Arm of the Lord in  Isaiah 53 to a POWERFUL God who will destroy all evil signifyng the SEED OF THE WOMAN  in Genesis 3:15 who will CRUSH THE HEAD of the adversary 

    CRUSHING the HEAD of the serpent is already the total destruction of all evil. Who can totally destroy all evil? Can literal men do that? NO! It is only God, the powerful and the Mighty God of Jacob is ABLE AND CAPABLE AND PROPHECIED AND PREDESTINED to destroy all evil and all its works.

    But then remember, this is the prophecy for the SEED OF THE WOMAN meaning this powerful  God will be born from the womb and be a man. And this seed of the woman who became man is the only one capable of destruction of all adversary by " crushing its head" as the prophecy foretold.. And this destruction of all evil and all its works is seen done by the powerful God like Isaiah 59, or in Zechariah 12.

    I. No one can be sent from the beginning unless He is God. No one can bruise God unless he is sent to be lower in physical prowess than God, so the God who came from the WOMB is DECREED to destroy the devil BY the Arm of the Lord that had been prepared a 'body' even lower than the angels.

    For the goal of the seed of the woman is:  In the body of a man, the Son of God is destined to destroy all serpent's works by crushing its head with regards to Genesis 3:15; saving and teaching us all that though man  may be weak, but we are subjected to hope, to be free from weakness and corruption, having an eternal life. As Jesus Christ defeated death in Isaiah 53, God destined us also to defeat death through the ONE who subjected us into HOPE calling us children of God. What more reward we could ask more than living forever with God?

    Romans 8:20-21
    💕For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of HIM who SUBJECTED it IN HOPE that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.

    That is why he is called the FIRSTBORN among many brothers for the pivot point is the RESURRECTION and the change of the natural body to heavenly body.

    And FROM the line of Judah, the Seed had that been promised to come forth, a Ruler who came out from the womb from the descendants of Judah who is from the EVERLASTING.

    Micah 5:2
    💕“But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah,
    Though you are little among the thousands
      of Judah,
    Yet out of you shall come forth to Me
    The One to be Ruler in Israel,
    Whose goings forth are from of OLD,
      From EVERLASTING.”

    The Scripture had said that the saviour, who is God sent to be born from the womb, would be born in Bethlehem from the line of Judah.

    Remember, it is ONLY GOD who came from of OLD, FROM EVERLASTING, and there is NO MAN who had existed from everlasting.

    Example of verses signifying God that when the Scripture says whose going forth are from of old or from everlasting is the same with the mention of 'Ancient of Days; for there is no man who came from everlasting, but only God

    1. Daniel 7:9
    💕“I watched till thrones were put in place,
    And the Ancient of Days was seated;
      His garment was white as snow,
    And the hair of His head was like pure wool.His throne was a fiery flame,
      Its wheels a burning fire;

    It is also in Bethlehem where Jesus had been born.

    Matthew 2:1-2
    💕 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem,  saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to  worship him.”

    Jesus  Christ, our Lord Yeshua, who had been born in Bethlehem is the same with the One who will rule in Micah 5:2 that had been born in Bethlehem is the same to the "seed of the woman" born from the womb that had been prophecied to destroy all evil is the same with the powerful Lord in Zechariah 12:9 that thru his coming is the remembrance of the One who been PIERCED is the same with the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53 where the forgiveness of sins, healing of wound, reconcilation to God and gaining of life thru resurrection are written. He is the same Lord who was there from the beginning sent by Father and his Spirit in Isaiah 48:16.

    That is why the salvation always started from the death and resurrection of the Arm of the Lord Yeshua in Isaiah 53 reflecting the seed of the woman who came from womb. Even when this powerful Messiah return in the end, salvation comes back to the one who had been PIERCED; and Without the belief of the one who had been pierced, they will never be saved. This Messiah will always reflect the life of Jesus Christ as the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53 and the Lord who will come back in clouds.

    J.  In Isaiah 48:16, there are three persons mentioned living from the beginning: The Lord God, the one that was sent, and His Spirit.

    Isaiah 48:16
    💕Come near to Me, hear this:
    I have not spoken in secret from the
       beginning;
    From the time that it was, I was there.
    And now the Lord God and His Spirit
       Have sent Me.”

    From the verse, there is called the 'sender' and one who had been 'sent.'

    The Lord God is the Father. The one that was sent is the Arm of the Lord that was involved on the creation. His Spirit is the the Spirit of God.  They are different persona but are called ONE.

    And Yeshua is very vocal in claiming that He was sent by Father in heaven.

    John 12:49-50
    💕For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the FATHER WHO SENT ME  has himself GIVEN ME a commandment—what to say and what to speak. And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I say, therefore, I say as the Father has told me.”

    The Arm of the Lord and the Spirit of God are PART of Father Almighty, and are one of God for simple reasoning that it is Father' s OWN arm and his Spirit.

    Example, if you cook food, and use your arm and hands in the cutting and mixing food. After u prepared the food, if someone would asked, " who cooked the food?" Of course u would say, " I cooked the food." You would not say , "My arm and hand cooked the food."

    That is why the Arm of the Lord and the Spirit of God are PART of God and of God or belong to God, and thus called the " The Holy ONE of Israel."

    You can NEVER nullify the existence of the one that was sent in the Isaiah 48:16 claiming living in the beginning, for if you try you would also nullify the existence of the Spirit and the Sender, who is the Father in heaven; for it is not the Spirit neither the Father( Lord God) who had been sent but is the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53 called Yeshua.

    K. The issue of the " ALMAH" in Isaiah 7:14.

    For even if the Jews or Judaism DISAGREE that "almah" is a young virgin, they still CANNOT confirm if almah or young lady in  Isaiah 7:14 is a young virgin or not for their disagreement is only to oppose the Christian's belief.

    For the truth is that they CANNOT 100% proclaim that almah on that verse is not a virgin, and cannot confirm the truthfulness of their own belief for the Scripture declared also that Rebecca in Genesis 24 who is a virgin is said to be an "almah" by the Scripture. They assume that it is possibly 50% virgin or 50% not virgin.

    But God is good by giving the word " sign." It was actually an instruction to look for a sign in the verse.

    As reiterated, sign will always be extraordinary. If you want to reason out that sign is just an ordinary event like Israel is a sign . As Israel even in the Old Testament with a very few number of people and with limited capability then, with numerous number of enemies attack and invasion, if without God, then Israel will be destroyed then and now. It is extraodinary that Israel lived today.

    Judaism wanted to insinuate that the young woman on the verse is probably not virgin to oppose the Christian belief. But then the undenying truth that  ANY woman having sexual intercourse is COMMON and REGULAR to BEAR a child and will NEVER BE CONSIDERED as a 'sign.' So if the belief of Judaism that almah on that verse is not a virgin then it is common for that alma to bear a child thus that young woman will never be considered  to be a "sign" to look out for.

    But instead as with a young woman (young VIRGIN) having or bearing a child is EXTRAORDINARY and highly CONSIDERABLE for the word "SIGN. " So even the word virgin is not written on the verse, but rather it is IMPLIED. Almah on that verse is still considered a young virgin bearing a child to look out for a sign. 

    L. The issue of Psalm 22:17 whether the interpretation: is it pierced or is like a lion my hands and my feet?

    If we are going to trace back verses with like a lion or as a lion

    a. Psalm 22:14 
    💕They open wide their mouth against me, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

    What is ravening? Ravening is like a ferocious animal hunting for prey.

    What have they used? Mouth, and inside the mouth are sharp teeth that could tear the flesh of the prey. Those lions teeth could pierced the flesh as implied by the verse.

    b. Psalm 17:12
    💕As a lion is eager to tear his prey,
    And like a young lion lurking in secret places.

    This verse directly proclaiming that as a lion he can tear his prey. Those lion's teeth could pierced the flesh as implied by the verse.

  5. @annbathan7232

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

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    been nailed in excruciating pain on hands and feet.

    But through this suffering and shedding of blood caused him to "sprinkle" many nations. When the Scripture said "sprinkle' it had something to do with cleansing like hyssop used for sprinkling and cleansing agent symbolizing the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53:5.

    "He had CLEANSED us from our iniquities and had HEALED our wounds," the blood of the Arm of the Lord  that had been shed on the cross sprinkled to many cleansed us from our sins.

    It is clear that it is the Arm of the Lord who provided the salvation of men from their iniquity

    Isaiah 53:5
    💕But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought .us peace was on him,and by his wounds we are healed.

    F. And the Savior called the Messiah that had been cut off is confirmed in

    Daniel 9:26
    💕26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.

    1. " Has been cut off, but not for himself" signifies a sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins in comparison to the sacrificial offerings of animals in the law of Moses; at the same time, the word Messiah means a saviour or deliverer.

    There is only one Messiah that had been cut off, but not for himself. He is the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53. And his death and resurrection is already finished that is why the threescore and two weeks prophecy had already been finished. And there is only "one week remaining" to complete the "70 weeks prophecy" to:

    Daniel 9:24 
    💕“Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

    a. 70 weeks is same as 70 years for in original Hebrew the term " week" is Shabuim or Shabua  means 7 years.)

    b. 70 years is given to Israel to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.

    The end of this 70 years is seen in Isaiah 59 when the Messiah that had been "cut off", resurrected and ascended had come back to fulfill the prophecy for the decreed done for Israel.

    That is why the Messiah that had been cut off signified by Isaiah 53 after "threescore and two weeks" from where the initial 7 weeks had already been completed, is the SAME with Messiah that will rebuild and restore Jerusalem.

    c.  As coincided with Daniel 9:24 is:

    Isaiah 59:17-20
    💕17 For He put on RIGHTEOUSNESS as a breastplate, And a helmet of SALVATION on His head;He put on the garments of VENGEANCE for clothing,
    And was clad with zeal as a cloak.
    18 According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, FURY to His adversaries, RECOMPENSE to His enemies;
    The coastlands He will fully repay.
    19 So shall they fear The name of the Lord from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun; When the enemy comes in like a FLOOD, the Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.20 “The REDEEMER will come to Zion, And TO THOSE WHO TURN FROM TRANSGRESSION in Jacob,” Says the Lord

    d. All these verses from Isaiah 59:17-20 is the same with Romans 11: 27 that had been summarized only into  one verse

    Roman 11:27
    💕“The Deliverer will come out of Zion,
    And He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; For this is My covenant with them,
    When I take away their sins.”

    Roman 11:27 had the same understanding with Isaiah 59:17-20. The apostle Paul ONLY SUMMARIZES the verses written by the prophet Isaiah and prophet Daniel. It is the same with same significance and with same understanding.

    And this event is the end of 70 years decreed for Israel written in Daniel 9.

    2. There is difference of the word  "Messiah the prince" that had been cut off, and the "prince to come" in verse 26 of Daniel 9.

    🌻The "prince" called Messiah as indicated in verse 25 to 26 that had been cut off had already come by the confirmation of the word " AFTER threescore and two weeks shall the Messiah be cut off but not for Himself. "

    Daniel 9:25 
    💕Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
    26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself

    7 weeks + 60 ( threescore) weeks + 2 weeks= 69 weeks ( as in original Hebrew the term " week" is Shabuim or Shabua  means 7 years . And this prophecy of Messiah been cut off  is already finished in our Lord Yeshua death and resurrection.

    🌻The other "prince" to come mentioned also is different from the Messiah that had come and had been cut off for the salvation of others. For this prince to come will DESTROY the city and the sanctuary which is OPPOSITE to the previous prophecy that the prince Messiah will BUILD the city Jerusalem revealed in verse 25 of Daniel 9.

    It means that the prince Messiah that had been cut off will return to BUILD the city of Jerusalem to fulfill the prophecy in Daniel 9:25 is highly DIFFERENT  to the prince to come that will DESTROY Jerusalem.

    3. Daniel 9:26 is a succession of events.

    🌻. The "Messiah the prince"  called Christ  atone for iniquities of men. And the time required to finish transgressions is until the completion of 70 weeks prophecy.

    🌻. While the prince to come called "Anti-Christ" will destroy the city and the sanctuary for the consummation of 1 week that is remaining to finish the 70 week prophecy.

    Daniel 9:27 
    💕And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.

    And this abomination of desolation had been explained and prophecied also by Jesus Christ in MATTHEW 24. Read book of Matthew 24.

    Matthee 24:21-24
    💕For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be. 22 And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short. 23 Then if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. 24 For false christs and false prophets will arise and perform great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. 

    The prophecied "one week of the prince to come" including the abomination of desolation will be performed by the Anti-Christ.

    At the end of the prophecied "one week," the Messiah who had been cut off in verse 26 will RETURN appearing in heaven that is confirmed in verse 25  " to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince ." 

    This confirmed that the Messiah had been prophecied to die or been cut off, but then will live as confirmed in Isaiah 53, and thus will return to fulfill the prophecy in Daniel 9:25.

    Matthew 24:29-31 
    💕“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken. 30 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the SON OF MAN, and then all the tribes of the earth will MOURN, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. 31 And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

    G. You question the Messiah as being a son of man because of this verse

    Numbers 23:19
    💕19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

    The Messiah is really not a natural man that he should lie, but He is God born from the womb to be a man for the purpose of salvation. That is why in Isaiah 53, He is specifically declared no sins in actions nor in words

    Isaiah 53: 9
    💕..though he had done no violence,
        nor was any deceit in his mouth.

    The Messiah is really not a man but a God born to be a man. He is different from you and from all created man.

    H. The appearing of the Son of Man (Messiah Yeshua) in clouds will result to the "MOURNING OF ALL TRIBES OF THE EARTH". This mourning coincides to the coming of the majestic, glorious and powerful Messiah ( Messiah Yeshua) seen in

    Zechariah 12:9 -11
    💕It shall be in that day that I will seek to DESTROY all the nations that come AGAINST Jerusalem.10 “And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look ON ME WHOM THEY PIERCED. Yes, they will MOURN for Him as one mourns for his only son,  and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn. 11 In that day there shall be a GREAT MOURNING  in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

    This salvation of a powerful God will happen at the end of the 7O weeks

  6. @annbathan7232

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

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    who had been prophecied to destroy the devil and all his works.

    b. They can BOTH be termed " Israel" for both came from the descendants of Jacob but they CANNOT be both termed "Messiah" for salvation belongs to the Lord ( Psalm 3:8)

    God is God and He hates sin. Man is man and they cannot save themselves from death for man is only a creation and those who sin needs to be judged for sin is the sting of death . It is only from the MERCY of God that man lives. So you as created people of Israel, should not uplift yourselves against your God for the number one identity you have is ' "transgressors" and  only forgiven by God (believers).' Humble yourselves from the righteousness coming from God             (Isaiah 53).

    Isaiah 48:8
    💕Surely you did not hear, Surely you did not know; Surely from long ago your ear was not opened. For I knew that you would deal very treacherously, And were called a transgressor from the womb.

    All created Israel is disqualified for the works of the Messiah in Isaiah 53 for all man sinned. The Arm of the Lord, the Messiah had NO SIN testified by

    1. Isaiah 53: 9
    💕though he had done no violence,nor was any deceit in his mouth.)
    2. Daniel 9:26
    💕And after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself
    3. Isaiah 53:8
    💕For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.
    4. Deuteronomy 32:4
    💕“The Rock, His work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and WITHOUT INIQUITY, just and upright is he

    That is why in the whole chapter of Isaiah 42, there is a segragation of verses between the servant Messiah and the created servants. Verses from Isaiah 42: 1- 9 is for the servant Messiah  manifested by

    1. He established justice in the earth;
    2. Had given as a covenant to the people
    3. Had given as a light to the Gentiles
    4. To open blind eyes,
    5. To bring out prisoners from the prison

    On the other hand, these verses are for created servants of the Lord

    Isaiah 42:18-20
    💕“Hear, you deaf;
    And look, you blind, that you may see.
     Who is blind but My servant,
    Or deaf as My messenger whom I send?
    Who is blind as he who is perfect,
    And blind as the Lord’s servant?
    Seeing many things, but you do not observe;Opening the ears, but he does not hear.”

    The identity of both servants are DIFFERENT AND REMARKABLE. One good example is the Messiah will come to open the blind eyes; while the servant people are the blind ones as written.

    C. You had reasoned out that the Messiah had sinned because he offered a sin offering for himself as seen in

    Ezekiel 45:22
    💕And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.

    🍃It is wrong understanding. It is NOT the Messiah who is the prince that sinned but is DAVID is the prince that the verse is referring to

    Ezekiel 34:24
    💕And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant DAVID a PRINCE among them; I the LORD have spoken it.

    D. You asked who is the speaker of Isaiah 53, and you reasoned out the kings or rulers of the nations are the speaker of Isaiah 53 because of this verse:

    Isaiah 52:15
    💕so shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.

    🍃With due respect, it is also a wrong understanding.

    1. How the kings spoken if their mouth is SHUT?  Speak when your mouth is shut, can you?

    2. The kings of the nations are Gentiles, how can they knew about sin offering or the Law of Moses, the offerings and sacrifices? It is only the Jews and the Lord at that time knew the implication of the sin offering to the forgiveness of sins.

    3. "And kings will SHUT THEIR MOUTHS because of him."

    It only means that there will be an appointed time that kings will see and understand what the Arm of the Lord had done thru Jesus Christ, the Arm of the Lord.

    4. The kings on the verse are only bound to "had been told" and "had been heard." They are not bound to tell or speak what they do not know neither are familiar to the things of the Jews. They are the receiver and not the speaker. The kings of the nation had no idea of the history Isaiah 53 and who is talking about like WHERE the Arm of the Lord had come from as stated

    Isaiah 53:2
    💕He grew up before him like a TENDER SHOOT, and like a root out of dry ground.

    Where is this tender shoot had come from? This is answerable by:

    Isaiah 11:1
    💕A SHOOT will come up from the STUMP OF JESSE; from his roots a BRANCH will bear fruit.

    The kings of many nations who are Gentiles had no idea about the Arm of the Lord that had come from the ROOT OF JESSE. They cannot speak what they have not known. But they can be told and heard of Isaiah 53.

    The speaker of Isaiah 53 is explained in the whole chapter of 1 PETER 1: Father in heaven and the prophets as manifested in 1 Peter 1:12. Read the whole chapter of it.

    a. The speaker of verse 1 to 10 of Isaiah 53 are the prophets. These are narration marks by  personal pronouns like "our pain, our suffering, our transgressions, our iniquities, we all like sheep had gone astray, we are healed, that brought us peace.."

    The speaker uses pronouns that includes him or them as a sinner that needs to be saved. These are the prophets that humbled themselves before the Lord they had prophecied yet they have not yet seen. And the prophets are referring to the Arm of the Lord who did not sin and is the saviour that removed the iniquities of them all.

    This had been confirmed in

    1 Peter 1:10-12

    💕10 Of which salvation the PROPHETS have enquired and SEARCHED diligently, who prophesied of the GRACE that should come unto you:
    11 Searching what, or what manner of time the SPIRIT OF CHRIST which was IN THEM did signify, when it testified BEFOREHAND the SUFFERINGS of Christ, and the glory that should follow.
    12 UNTO WHOM IT WAS REVEALED, that not unto themselves, but UNTO US they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

    VERSE 12 is talking about and is referring to Isaiah 53:1. The apostles confirmed that the PROPHET is the speaker of Isaiah 53.

    b. While in verse 11 and 12 of Isaiah 53, the speaker is the Father in heaven. This is confirmed by 1 Peter 1: 2-9 as Father, by his mercy,  is the giver of Grace ( the Arm of the Lord thru Yeshua)

    1 Peter 1: 3 
    💕Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

    At the same time, it is Father in heaven who is the giver of rewards.

    Jeremiah 51:19
    💕The Portion of Jacob is not like them,
    For He is the Maker of all things;
    And Israel is the tribe of His inheritance.
    The Lord of hosts is His name.

    Israel is the tribe of our Lord's inheritance. As inheritance is something that is given by the owner, who can give an inheritance to our Lord Yeshua? Only Father in heaven has the sole authority to give Jacob as the Lord' s inheritance for Father owns everything. With regards to monotheism theology, No one could ever reason out with this for NO ONE could ever give an inheritance to Father neither Father gave an inheritance for himself. Father owns everything. Father did not need inheritance , but only the GIVER of inheritance, and gave Jacob as the inheritance of the Lord  Yeshua

    c. John 16:15 
      💕All things that the Father has are Mine. 
    Therefore I said that He will take of Mine
    and declare it to you.

    And what belongs to Father, belongs to Jesus Christ. So if Father had children on earth, they also belong to Jesus Christ.4

    At the same time, the portion of Israel is our Lord Yeshua. It is vice versa. We are Jesus' reward, and Jesus is our reward. At the same time, we became fellow heir with Christ

    Romans 8:17
    💕“and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may be glorified with Him.”  

    Everything the world could give is nothing compared to the inheritance we have in Jesus Christ. Our time on earth is just a little while, but our time together with Yeshua is eternal.

    E. The suffering servant In Isaiah 52: 13-15 is SINGULAR with the characteristic of
    "his appearance was so disfigured beyond that of any human being and his form marred beyond human likeness—

    This is the suffering of the Arm of the Lord.

    I believed that when Jesus had been SCOURGED and had been put on a crown of thorns on his head, nailed on both hands and feet, body' s whipped and flogged, his body had been covered by his own blood.

    Scourging is savagingly whipping or lashing with cords that cause deeper wounds and laceration of the flesh. They even struck Jesus on the head with a reed. What more of him when he was crucified? What color of him on the cross consequenced by numerous flogging and

  7. @annbathan7232

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

    🌻1/5
    With due respect. Let me share with you comments from "Rabbi Tovia Singer Debates Pastor Michael Williams in Jerusalem: Is Jesus the Promised Jewish Messiah?" By Singer(Judaism)

    A. You had said that there is no evidence of the prophecy of resurrection of the Messiah in the Torah or  Old Testament.

    🍃Well, there are written evidences of the Messiah's PROPHECY OF RESURRECTION as seen in:

    Hosea 6:1-3
    💕1Come, and let us return to the Lord;
    For He has torn, but He will heal us;
    He has stricken, but He will bind us up
    2 After TWO DAYS He will revive us;
    On the THIRD DAY He will raise us up,
    That we may live in His sight.
    3 Let us know, Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord. His going forth is established as the morning; He will come to us like the rain, Like the latter and  former rain to the earth.

    Verse 1 and 2 are verses also from Isaiah 53 and are referring to the Lord.

    🌱Verse 1
    If you look the meaning of  "Torn, " it says being ripped or pierced with a sharp implement. It can also means suffering.

    1. Who had been torn according to the verse?

    It is the LORD, but then through HIS suffering, He will heal us as said by the Scripture that prophecied it.

    2.Who had been stricken?

    It is the Lord who had been stricken, but He will bind us up as said by the Scripture that prophecied it. 

    3. Who can torn and stricken a majestic God and Lord? None, for all authority had been given to Him over all creation, unless there is a reason man cannot fathom.

    4. Can anyone torn and stricken a powerful Lord and Messiah as seen in the Scripture?

    YES, ONLY IF

    a. Yes, unless the God and Lord the  Israelites are waiting for is the promised 'seed of the woman' prophecied from the beginning who WILL DESTROY all kinds of evil or adversary in the end as testified in Genesis 3:15.

    b. Unless this Lord is the Arm of the Lord who had been REVEALED in Isaiah 53 that REMOVED our sins and iniquities.

    c. Unless this seed of the woman is the Arm of the Lord. 

    And these can only justify Hosea 6:1-3 where the Lord is torn and stricken as written.

    🌱Verse 2
    After two days He will revive us;
    On the third day He will raise us up,"

    This is a CONTINUOUS COUNTING OF THREE DAYS. After 2 days is a declaration of life while on the third day is a CONFIRMATION OF LIFE  by being RISEN UP. Count for yourselves.

    5. Where this belief of resurrection of the early Israelites came from?

    This belief came from their forefather "David."

    Psalm 16:10
    💕For You will not leave my soul in Sheol, Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.

    You= Father
    Holy One= Yeshua
    my soul= David

    And before a man can ever hope for his own resurrection, he must had first believed that the Lord  had resurrected first though suffered and died as revealead in Hosea 6:1-3, reflecting their forefather David' s belief of resurrection.

    a. "For You will not leave my soul in Sheol,"

    This is David declaring for himself that:
    🌻 his soul will not forever be in Sheol because of God.

    🌻 that David' s body DECAYED already,

    🌻 his SOUL will remain in Sheol UNLESS his Lord resurrected first and  then David will follow

    b. "Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption."

    🌻David declared that his Lord ( the Arm of the Lord) will die and be buried, but will NOT DECAY and thus lives again.

    🌻This is also a declaration that the Arm of the Lord' s body, though buried, will NOT experience being rotten, decayed nor being corrupted. And this means resurrected without corruption. This is prophecied for the Lord as David had said.

    🌻This is a proof that eventhough forefathers knew that the Lord will suffer and die but will live again, but then still He remained their Lord.

    🌻David is expecting of the Lord' s resurrection before he even get resurrected from the dead. This is where the succeeding generations after David' s time as stated in verse 2 of Hosea got their hope for their own resurrection: Messiah first before they got risen up.

    And the Lord resurrection already happened thru the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53 by the way of resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead in 3 days.
    And being risen up on the third day is the confirmation of resurrection from the dead of the Arm of the Lord in  Isaiah 53,  our Lord Yeshua , whom you must know and pursue knowledge.

    For He became the firstborn from the dead who lives.

    Isaiah 53:11
    💕AFTER he has suffered,
        he WILL SEE THE LIGHT of life and be satisfied;…

    Colossians 1:18
    💕And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the FIRSTBORN from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence.

    John 2:19
    💕Jesus answered and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in THREE DAYS I will raise it up.”

    When Jesus Christ had risen up from the dead on the THIRD day, anyone or everyone who BELIEVES  in Him had already resurrected with Him (it is only a matter of time), that when He conquered death, WE ALSO CONQUERED death THRU Him. What our Lord Yeshua had given us is life. This verse is the confirmation of Yeshua, our Lord Jesus Christ, being your and our saviour in Isaiah 53.

    This is also the belief of forefathers in Hosea 6:2 that though it is a prophecy they remain believing for themselves on that time as their forefather David had prophecied for the Lord and for themselves in Psalm 16:10.

    That is why Psalm 16:10 and Hosea 6: 1-3 coincides with each other declaring the resurrection of the Lord first before the believers got resurrected.

    This coincides with Isaiah 53, the Arm of the Lord who had been revealed as the suffering Messiah who saves and remove iniquities.

    6. Are the created Jews called the " Arm of the Lord?"

    a. NO, THEY ARE NOT, for all man sinned, but the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53 is SINLESS

    Isaiah 53:9
    💕..though he had done no violence,
        nor was any deceit in his mouth.

    7. Can the created Jews be called GLORIOUS Lord?

    NO, THEY CANNOT, for created Jews are only created man, but the seed of the woman is God born to be a man. It is DIFFERENT.

    The moment man had sinned, as all man sinned including the created Jews, they CANNOT claim the seed of the woman, for the seed of the woman is BOUND to destroy evil or the adversary and all its works by crushing the head of the serpent. When  man sinned, they are already defeated by Satan or the adversary NULLIFYING the Jew's belief prophecy of the seed of the woman for themselves.

    So the created Jews or Israelites will NEVER be the seed of the woman and thus can NEVER be the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53.

    B. "Servant" and the name "Israel" is ALSO applicable to the Messiah, the Arm of the Lord in Isaiah 53, who had been born from the tribe of Judah.

    Isaiah 44: 1-5
    💕“Yet hear now, O Jacob My servant,
    And Israel whom I have chosen.
      Thus says the Lord who made you
    And formed you from the womb, who will help you:
    ‘Fear not, O Jacob My servant;
    And you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
        For I will pour water on him who is thirsty,
    And floods on the DRY GROUND;
    I will pour My Spirit on your DESCENDANTS,
    And My blessing on your offspring;
       They will spring up among the grass
    Like willows by the watercourses.’
    5   One will say, ‘I am the Lord’s’;
    Another will call himself by the name of Jacob;
    Another will write with his hand, ‘The
       Lord’s,’
    And name himself by the name of Israel.

    In verse 5 says that ANYONE ( marked by one, another, himself)  from the descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob can call himself

    1. Iam the Lord's'
    2. By the name of Jacob
    3. The Lord's'
    4. By the name  of Israel.

    So the Arm of the Lord ( Yeshua) in Isaiah 53 who is God became man, the seed of the woman, from the line of Judah in Micah 5:2 is also capable to name himself by the name of 'Israel,' 'Jacob,' 'the Lord's' for the Arm of the Lord came from the descendants of Jacob from the tribe of Judah.

    The DIFFERENCE with the people is:
    The people NEEDS saving while Messiah is the SAVIOUR for salvation belongs to the Lord.

    Even before in the beginning, in times of Adam and Eve, they cannot even saved themselves from their sin. And as all man sin, then there is only one outcome for all man- that is death.

    a. They BOTH came from the womb. The difference is the Arm of the Lord is sent to be born from the womb to be the 'Son of Man,' (the Seed of the woman) but is God,

  8. @drf2073

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

    The rabbi has just stripped the soul from the one narrative that connects the jews together. Isn't that what the historical jews were all about, arrogance, over confidence and lack of faith in God, that ultimately God decided to abandon them. Judaism is an Abrahamic religion, a monotheistic religion. That is what the covenant is all about. Subsequent generations of israelites betrayed that covenant that Abraham had with God. The religious jews are stead fast with their religiosity. It's the atheist and zionists jews are the ones who are confused and trying to identify themselves as a family, a tribe. More likely a cult or mafia , like free masons, etc. Thanks, Alex for this very interesting interview.

  9. @maggie.liuzzi

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

    The closest metaphors to what Judaism is are:
    – a tribe
    – an extended family (which you can choose to join by converting) or perhaps
    – a nationality (which you can get citizenship of as a migrant by converting)
    (but without a literal family or a literal geographical country necessarily).

    Belief isn't central, what is central are your actions, your willingness to join a community/people, and your shared values and traditions.

  10. @maggie.liuzzi

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

    I think it's also important to contextualise that the Hebrew Bible wasn't meant to be spread/prozelitised with the whole world, nor it was meant to represent or teach about the whole world.

    It was the origin stories and the beginning of the civilization of the Jewish people, written by and for the Jewish people, and their relationship with God.

  11. @mar1683xyz

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

    1:06 But Hitchens continues: how can you hold a newborn baby and think ”I need to get my knife to perfect this”? Sad it got unsaid here: ”circumcision is not genital mutilation” bah…

  12. @onegodonemorality

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

    Chosen to spread "double standards of morality – let gentiles eat pork, let gentiles watch pornography, let gentiles involve in gambling.
    😂Chosen to be a priestly nation, whose prime ministers and founders many citizens are atheists 😂

  13. @VictorKing144

    February 23, 2026 at 5:46 am

    I, unlike the majority of comments here, think the Rabbi did an exceptionally weak job of explaining what Judaism was, let alone of trying to defend some of its positions.

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