Why Did Jewish Megastar Matisyahu Shave His Head & Beard?
- Posted on December 14, 2011 at 8:25am by
Billy Hallowell
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Questions are arising after reggae superstar Matisyahu Miller (known only by his first name by fans) has indicated that he’s on a new religious path. The Jewish singer, who resides in New York City, hasn’t yet divulged what his amended observance will involve. But based on his comments so far, there’s no evidence he has any intention of leaving the Jewish faith behind.
News of the somewhat shocking development came after Matisyahu shaved his beard and face and posted pictures of himself on Twitter. Here’s one of the images:
The images posted to the social media platform show a face that has yet to be seen in its bare form by fans. In a note posted on his web site, the Jewish singer discussed his decision, saying that he once felt the need to abide by religious rules so he wouldn’t “fall apart.” But now, he says, “I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission.” Here’s more:
Sorry folks, all you get is me…no alias. When I started becoming religious 10 years ago it was a very natural and organic process. It was my choice. My journey to discover my roots and explore Jewish spirituality—not through books but through real life. At a certain point I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity…to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth.
Despite his clean-shaven face, the singer says he’s still going to synagogue every day. While Matisyahu’s fans may be looking for more answers, they may need to wait a bit, as his spokeswoman says that he isn’t giving any interviews. There‘s no telling what this will mean for the talented singer’s career.
Here’s the last tweet as of writing this article that was sent from his account:
Matisyahu was a musical curiosity who became a mainstream star after his 2004 debut, “Shake Off The Dust … Arise.” He sported the bushy beard, flat-brimmed black hat, black pants and white shirt worn by Hasidic men. Below, watch his video for the song, “One Day”:
His biggest single, “King Without a Crown,” was a crossover hit.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Comments (96)
PIL
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 8:21pmI don’t like him. 1. Reggae is black Jamaican music and white people have no business singing that garbage. 2. Jews have no business wearing beards, it looks stereotypical. 3. What kind of name is Matiyahashu?. 4. Who cares if he goes to temple everyday? It means nothing.
Sorry folks, I’m politically incorrect, don’t take it personally, you have the freedom to do whatever you want and I have to freedom to criticize it.
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aaron11
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 8:41pmMusic isn’t owned by anyone. A gift from God. Nobody has the right to claim it as only for one race of people…. Stop putting yourself in a box.
Report Post »inesv
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:00pmPil, If you see the FACE of the Living GOD you will discover that HE is a GOD of Love and Variety. It is fine that you do not like Matisyahu, he will not care anyway. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but to say that Matisyahu (hebrew name for Matthew) has no business singing reggae music because he is white is a ignorant comment, that is fine because you have the right to be ignorant. Jews wore beards in the ancient times as did many other nations. It is a cultural and even the Nazarene would not cut their hair as commanded by GOD eg Samson. To say that Jews should not wear beards is so stupid………how many other races wear beards? how about country folk? western folk? arabs?any man who wants to wear a beard has the right to do so. This has nothing to do with polically correctness, because I am politically incorrect also but I know that all people are different and I do respect others. I may not like all music such as rap or rock but I don’t say that a white person has no place in playing rap, that is just plain dumb on my part.
Report Post »bsumbdy
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:11pmWOW! Really? So Narrow Minded, and well, racist. So using your logic only the Black half of Bob Marley can sing Reggae? Not his white half. Are only white people allowed to sing rock? Jimmy Hendricks? People like you still exist? Am I allowed to listen to Jazz, or only Country because I am white. I could go on but its no use.
Report Post »Hezqiyahu
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:08am“Jews have no business wearing beards, it looks stereotypical”
You’re not politically incorrect, you are a stereotypical ignoramus. EVERY Jew in the “Old” Testament (the only part I care about) had a beard.
Sorry. Don’t take it personally.
Report Post »StevoMiami
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 8:48ambuddy, what do you think of his music? I think it is very unique and cool sounding. Who gives a flying shhh what you think about the rest, hes a musical artist, period. Its one thing to not be pc, its another thing to be a racist.
Report Post »Hawk1775
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:28pmYou’re not being politically incorrect, just ignorant
Report Post »DoubbleDecker
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 2:49amwow my “brother is a jew you should grow up we don,t alaway‘s get along but you should grow up this is AMERICA THANKS BECAUSE WE HAVENT TALKED FOR A FEW MONTHS BUT I KNOW GOD IS WORKING THROUGH YOU YOU and i’m going to call him because of your intolorance
Report Post »FoxholeAtheist
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:14amEven I like his music. I don’t care what he looks like. He has a wonderful voice and his music is uplifting. If I can see past our religious differences to enjoy him, surely you can see past skin color.
Report Post »PIL
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:26pmWow, I love it how pissed off people get with my politically incorrect comments, how they call me intolerant. Tell me, do I call you intolerant when you make fun of Rosie O’Donnel for being fat or for being a lesbian? The whole point of being politically incorrect is that you are free to speak your mind. So, if I see a Jew with an ugly beard, a funny name, performing music I can’t stand, I can laugh at him just like you can laugh at Barney Frank (don’t care about his sexuality but hate his lisp and his politics). Oh, and don’t call me racist, do you see me calling you “homophobic” whenever you oppose same-sex marriage or some BS like that? Of course not! I know what a racist is, a racist believes in the superiority of his race and the inferiority of other races. I hate people based on ideology and whether or not they annoy me. That’s why I like Herman Cain (who is blacker than Obama) and hate Obama. Sorry boys, I tell it like I see it, if I see poop, I call it poop.
http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com
Report Post »FoxholeAtheist
Posted on December 20, 2011 at 7:24pm“Reggae is black Jamaican music and white people have no business singing that garbage.”
Yes, that is a racist comment. I call it like I see it. Yes, you are a racist.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 7:49pmNever try to convince people by telling them they are wrong in their beliefs. Try love, kindness, and living what you believe so they can see the example. When I see the arguements here I wonder if any of you understand the gospel-it’s chief tenent is LOVE. We are brothers and sisters , children of a living God, we are the light in the darkness. Please, no hatred on this blog (I wish!), let’s try to lighten the world. I have not heard this young man’s music-I look forward to hearing what he has to sing.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 6:32pmwe can understand also his spiritual Need to actually SEE himself as G-d made him, esp if he has been bearded for years. no fears, he’s still Jewish.
Report Post »TNT_Party
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 5:45pmPeople were confusing him as one of the OWS protesters so he pulled out the Gillette.
Report Post »Agreed he has good music and when I found out who the guy was on the other end of the speaker it was the same for me as when I saw Stevie Ray Vaughn for the first time. The appearance didn’t seem to match the voice.
mzk1
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:31amI’m sure he used an electric razor. Jewish law prohibits using a straight razor, as we intepret Leviticus.
Report Post »OneofMany
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 5:24pmI mean Isaiah 53 . IN light of history, it is crystal clear WHO Isaiah is speaking of. The ultimate truth.
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 7:52pmPersecution of Jews by Christians:
Initial persecution of Jews was along religious lines. Persecution would cease if the person converted to Christianity.
306: The church Synod of Elvira banned marriages, sexual intercourse and community contacts between Christians and Jews. 3,4
315: Constantine published the Edict of Milan which extended religious tolerance to Christians. Jews lost many rights with this edict. They were no longer permitted to live in Jerusalem, or to proselytize.
325: The Council of Nicea decided to separate the celebration of Easter from the Jewish Passover. They stated: “For it is unbecoming beyond measure that on this holiest of festivals we should follow the customs of the Jews. Henceforth let us have nothing in common with this odious people…We ought not, therefore, to have anything in common with the Jews…our worship follows a…more convenient course…we desire dearest brethren, to separate ourselves from the detestable company of the Jews…How, then, could we follow these Jews, who are almost certainly blinded.”
337: Christian Emperor Constantius created a law which made the marriage of a Jewish man to a Christian punishable by death.
339: Converting to Judaism became a criminal offense.
343-381: The Laodicean Synod approved Cannon XXXVIII: “It is not lawful [for Christians] to receive unleavened bread from the Jews, nor to be partakers of their impiety.” 5
367 – 376: St. Hilary of Poitiers referred to J
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 7:52pm1205: Pope Innocent III wrote to the archbishops of Sens and Paris that “the Jews, by their own guilt, are consigned to perpetual servitude because they crucified the Lord…As slaves rejected by God, in whose death they wickedly conspire, they shall by the effect of this very action, recognize themselves as the slaves of those whom Christ’s death set free…”
1215: The Fourth Lateran Council approved canon laws requiring that “Jews and Muslims shall wear a special dress.” They also had to wear a badge in the form of a ring. This was to enable them to be easily distinguished from Christians. This practice later spread to other countries.
1227: The Synod of Narbonne required Jews to wear an oval badge. This requirement was reinstalled during the 1930′s by Hitler, who changed the oval badge to a Star of David.
1229: The Spanish inquisition starts. Later, in 1252, Pope Innocent IV authorizes the use of torture by the Inquisitors.
1236: Pope Gregory ordered that church leaders in England, France, Portugal and Spain confiscate Jewish books on the first Saturday of Lent. 1
1259: A “synod of the archdiocese in Mainz ordered Jews to wear yellow badges.” 1
1261: Duke Henry III of Brabant, Belgium, stated in his will that “Jews…must be expelled from Brabant and totally annihilated so that not a single one remains, except those who are willing to trade, like all other tradesmen, without money-lending and usury.” 2
1267: The Synod of Vienna
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 7:53pm1806: A French Jesuit Priest, Abbe Barruel, had written a treatise blaming the Masonic Order for the French Revolution. He later issued a letter alleging that Jews, not the Masons were the guilty party. This triggered a belief in an international Jewish conspiracy in Germany, Poland and some other European countries later in the 19th century.
1819: During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many European Jews lobbied their governments for emancipation. They sought citizenship as well as the same rights and treatment as were enjoyed by non-Jews. This appears to have provoked sporadic anti-semites to engage in anti-Jewish violence. The rioters cried “Hep! Hep!.” The origin(s) of this cry are not clear. Jews and their property were attacked first in Wuerzburg, Germany during 1819-AUG. The rioting spread across Germany and eventually reached as far as Denmark and Poland. 17
1840: A rumor spread in Syria that some Jews were responsible for the ritual killing of a Roman Catholic monk and his servant. As a result of horrendous treatment, some local Jews confessed to a crime that they did not commit. This “Damascus Affair” spurred early Zionist writers like Hess to promote the Zionist cause. 17 More details.
1846 – 1878: Pope Pius IX restored all of the previous restrictions against the Jews within the Vatican state. All Jews under Papal control were confined to Rome’s ghetto – the last one in Europe until the Nazi era restored the church’s practice. On 2000-
Report Post »ZengaPA65
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 8:00pmYou mean that history?
Read the rest yourself.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/jud_pers2.htm
Want to see all the history of what Christians have done to each other and native peoples?
Report Post »OklahomaMike
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:43pm@Zengapa65: There’s no doubt that Christianity and Christians have been guilty of terrible religious intolerance over the ages (after initially being the victims of it). But people deserve to be judged as they are now. There has been, perhaps, no religious group in history, while enjoying a period of dominance, that has been as tolerant as post-WWII American Christians.
I say this as an agnostic and non-Christian: American Christians (especially Protestants) nowadays deserve praise for their remarkable tolerance.
And how many religions (or nations) will you find that have not been intolerant at some point? Certaintly not Islam, as the headlines indicate every day…and ancient Judaism was officially intolerant, too–actually by explicit command of the Bible. And today’s pacifists in every land likely had fierce warriors and despots as ancestors. One obvious example: The USA was a slave-holding nation for a long time. Does it make any sense to accuse current Americans of holding slaves, and to ignore the generosity and freedom-supporting actions of contemporary America?
In my view, we need to see social reality for what it is now, and not sling insults and accusations based on people‘s ancestors’ deeds.
Having said that, I think people of all religions, including Christians, should be humble and recognize that their religion can be–and likely has–been used to kill and oppress people. No religion or people has been consistently saintly.
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:40am@ZENAPA65 This is a small sampling. It didn’t start with the Christians; they picked it up from the Roman and Greek pagans, who may have picked it up from a well-known Egyptian alternative version of the Exodus. (Yes, it started with Pharoh.) HEP means Jerusalem is Destroyed. The Damascus Blood Libel was started by the French ambassador, who suggested it to the Moslems.
That being said, I would rather live in a religious Christian country than a secular one. The greatest murderers of all time had Darwin as their prophet. (I am not referring to evolution per se, but to those who make a religion out of it.)
Report Post »OneofMany
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 5:21pmIf you’re Jewish (religion) and you want the ultimate truth, read Psalm 53 . They tell you they don’t understand it, but in light of history it is crystal clear.
Report Post »OklahomaMike
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 12:55pmIt seems to me that a little humility might get closer to the truth: The chapter you cite includes, in its third verse, an example of extreme, all-or-nothing thinking that has never been true of any people. It says: “Everyone has turned away, all have become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
Even among the Germans of WWII era, or the Soviets in the bad old days, or the current Palestineans or Iranians or North Koreans–there have been, and are, thousands of people who do some good. Do you know personally even 10 individuals of any ethnicity or religion and truly believe you can confidently say that none of them ever does any good? Now imagine if you knew the millions of every people. Is it even conceivable that such an absolutist negative statement would be true?
So that verse doesn’t seem to be accurate or responsible or fair no matter what its intended target or objects of criticism. Therefore, a little humility is probably in order, instead of confidently citing that chapter as supposedly proving or foreseeing anything.
There are many inspiring and noble passages in the Bible; I don‘t think that’s one of them.
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:46amOK. But you know it was not written in Enlsih, and your “translators” have played with it.
If you look at Issiah, and the context (continuation from Issiah 52), it is clear that the speakers are the Gentiles, and the Servant is the Jewish people, as they are called in other places in Issiah.
In other words, Issaih 53 describes the Christians and Moslems in the messianic era marveling at how the Jews survived the suffering they inflicted on them.
Report Post »Grace1798
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:38pmI support all Jewish persons to embrace their religion and belief in God and support the nation God gave to them. It has been a very sad thing to see Jewish persons in this country who are liberal and hate their own nation Israel. They actually even side with people who hate Israel and mean harm to Israel. I was born in USA but my heritage is Irish. I would never go against Ireland even though I was never born there. But Israel has so much more history and faith than Ireland ever had. If it were not for the Jewish Nation carrying God’s Teachings to the world, I’d be lost…………billions would be lost. I‘m so happy to see so many returning to their country and the God’s teachings! I am still disgusted with the Jewish persons who stand for Socialism and Marxism and Communism. The very same people who condemned, tortured and martyred their own forefathers in past history. What are they thinking?
Report Post »FToth84
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 4:31pmWow! This is very unexpected. I would definitely encourage everyone to see Matisyahu in concert
Report Post »robert
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 4:55pm“Why Did Jewish Megastar Matisyahu Shave His Head & Beard?”
Because he wanted to impress Jodi Foster.
Report Post »Eblaze44
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 5:00pmYou would never go against Ireland – and you wonder at Muslims who don’t want to go fight against Muslims – really strange that YOU can be a “dual” citizen – but others cannot.
Report Post »WatchingObama
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:22pmHis song, “Jerusalem” is good.
Live at Stubbs is my fave.
So I have a question: Matisyahu if you are not sporting the beard and garb anymore will we eventually be calling you Matthew? …just sayin’..
Love your music!
Report Post »Cause4Liberty
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:50pmI like His original version of ‘king without a crown’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtw_auJITlg
I like what Merle Haggard has to say about our country’s current condition.
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abbygirl1994
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:09pmWhy?? To get attention!
Report Post »GeneTracy
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:28pmOr maybe it itched?
Report Post »Postolic
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 7:34pmYou ever hear of a Nazarite vow? Not a city, a vow.
Report Post »mzk1
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 3:48amNazarite vows are not done today because they require the Temple to finish.
Report Post »NealPatrick
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:08pmDon’t know who this guy is or why I should care that he shaved.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 6:04pmYou live under a rock?
Report Post »Okie from Muskogee
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:02pmMatisyahu – you’re the arrow, he’s the bow, he’ll shoot you forth and you will go! Your voyage has just begun. I wish you well.
Cause what I’m fighting for is worth far more than silver and gold, what I’m fighting for is a chance to unite the past.
Jerusalem if I forget you let my right hand forget what it’s suppose to do!
Report Post »brookd007
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 1:48pmThis guy makes great music. Very uplifting and positive, unlike a lot of music today. He has super creative lyrics with a reggae sound. I‘m a conservative Christian woman who’s pushing 40 and think his music is awesome and so do my kids, even the teenager. Personally, I think what he does with his hair and beard is no one else’s business. I just hope he keeps making music. It would be a shame for his talent to be wasted. If you haven’t checked out his music, you should.
Report Post »Johnny916
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:54pmI would like Christians to understand Judaism: http://www.outreachjudaism.org/
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:32pmI studdied a year with an Orthodox Rabbi, in his own home.
I had been a Christian, even a Musician and opened every Major Festival East of the Rockies in 1987.
I can say 4 things:
I. The foundation of Judaism-Christianity is that G-D personally wrote (at least) the TORAH. The fact that G-D personally wrote something for Mankind.
II. A fundamental tennent of both is that a believer must believe in the Moshiach (Messiah),
III. A fundamental tennent of both is that in Judaism one must believe that his name is Yeshuah ben Yosef (trans. Eng. Joshua son of Joseph; gk. JESUS son of Jospeh)
IV. It is so interesting how throughout Torah, Prophets, and Writings (even the Furnace story of young Avram in the Furnace as taught from the Talmud) that there are so may events that show Moshiach has always been, and has always been with them. Even Job says that “I know my Savior lives”.
This young man has learned something. The law is the teacher that contrains us, disciplines our flesh, but it cannot ever be Faith, nor a root tennent of Faith. Actions are only an evidence of things unseen in the Heart (like Newt).
So the man continues to be observant, but knows that there is no actual power in it, for if it was so we could gain Heaven by our own actions and without the gift of Mochach (something Job rejected). That would mean Faith (seeking to know G-D as HIMself) is not necessary.
Go Brother Go! Look back only to see what the Potter started you as, giv
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 1:08pmPlease allow me to preface by stating that I studied at the University of Judaism in CA;
Report Post »“A fundamental tennent of both is that a believer must believe in the Moshiach (Messiah),”
This is a belief that is within the sect of Judaism, it does not represent the writtings of the Torah in any way. Perhaps it’s within the Midrash (Rabbi interpretations or stories), but definately not in the Torah.
Also the Mashiach (Hebrew) in Judaism is very much human and nowhere does it mention the Mashiach as being the son of God, but one who receives the enlightenment of Hashem.
” A fundamental tennent of both is that in Judaism one must believe that his name is Yeshuah ben Yosef (trans. Eng. Joshua son of Joseph; gk. JESUS son of Jospeh)”
The Jesus celebrated as the son of God in Christianity is of no connection to the Mashiach.
Which Talmud did you reference? The Yerushalami or the Balvi?
mrsalvage2
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:19pm@ This Individual – respectfully, the Orthodox Rabbi that I studdied with would like you not necessarily agree with my Conclusion.
As for belief in Moshiach, it is one of the 13 tennants of Orthodoxy as he trained me, it also contians the statement of his Title.
Talmud? I believe it was Balvi, it is known as the most supereb of the two according to my research 20 years ago.
I must agree with you that the Jesus of the Modernist Christians and Chrstianity has absolutely nothing to do with the Moshiach of Torah.
I know you will not agree with me on the conclusion of what I will say, while I beleive that you and I are much closer than you might want to see, but I will say that which is THE WORD of HASHEM (all of it) speaks for itself and is more powerful than my mere words.
HIS WORD is omnipotent, the foundation of the Recvolution. Praise be to HIM alone.
Today, I dangle on an event in March at a Bible Camp, I felt HIS HOLY SPIRIT as fire in every bone of my body (not flesh) as many sought HIM and revival. But why me? One who has not sought this? An outsider who has felt to be the only soul awake and seeing the madness of the world.
I have no words to give the world. I have no example to show. But my bones were on fire and it was what those in the church all wanted, so I pulled an inverse Elisha, and begged G-D to give them a double portion, the church erupted. The fire was stil so intense so I begged for a quintuple portion be given, the roof then rai
Report Post »str8blues
Posted on December 15, 2011 at 5:28am@This_Individual As you educated all of us as to the way Christians preach and explain to us how militant we are in pushing our views. Take a look back at this blog and see how many posts you have made PUSHING YOUR BELIEFS. Perhaps getting the log out of your own eye before you pick splinters out of other people’s eye……..is in order. You’ve written a damn book
Report Post »TEARS FOR AMERICA
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:04pmI hope this young man finds his way to truth, like many of our youth, they search for peace but will not find it except in Jesus Christ.
Report Post »brian8793
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:08pmOh brother. Save it for your sermon on Sunday.
Report Post »briandbrian
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:17pmSeriously, shut up
Report Post »c.rozycki
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:23pm@TEARS FOR AMERICA… AMEN! Christ is the only true God and way to salvation.
Report Post »c.rozycki
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:24pm@brian and brian… lots of hatred. May you open your heart to Christ and accept His love for you.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:45pmIt’s time for America to wake up and realize that we have religious militancy iis growing in our own back yard.
Report Post »TEARS is not accepting Matisyahu‘s right to practice his own beleifs and follow his God’s word (which is ironically the same God which the Christian religion claims to stem from). This mindset (which coincides with the teachings of Pastor Francis Bellamy, a self professed “Christian socialist” ) only creates fear and hate for our fellow Americans who wish only to have the freedom to enjoy the religion of their choice. This is nothing but militant socialism NOT Christianity.
Remixer
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:52pmI got no issues with Christians but dont preach to anyone… Lets not forget Christians have killed million in the name of Christ. Keep the god and love crap to yourself.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 1:17pmREMIXER- “I got no issues with Christians but dont preach to anyone… Lets not forget Christians have killed million in the name of Christ. Keep the god and love crap to yourself.”
To be fair, we cannot call the militant socialists within a religion the name of that religion.
Report Post »Simply because of the fact that the vast majority within a religion that has been usurped by the twisted socialist paradigm does not wish harm on others of different faiths.
DirtyDeeds
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:24pmThe was a Christian campus group at my university, I couldn’t stand them and stopped hanging out with them. They said the same things you say. I cannot believe that salvation isn’t extended to the Jews. I mean the first half of the bible was all their doing, Jesus and his family and friends were Jewish. Making careless comments like yours can put Christians and Jews at odds, believe the way you want to, but don’t disparage another man for his religion especially when his God is our Father too.
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:49pm@This – here I don’t necessarily agree with you.
I thought Tears was positive to the individual, encouraging, and believes that there is a specific direction and outcome that is already known.
Unfortunately, I must agree with you about the vagueness of such conclusions. Specifically, which JESUS? The Historical one, or the Moderist one?
If Rabbi Steinsaltz’s foot notes from Exodus are correct, and HASHEM’s name is not only “I AM” but also “I WILL BE”, then, in light of the indictment of HIM by Satan, what is there to restrain HIM from being not just our provider, but also our Savior Redeemer.
HE is our Father. HE cannot be inept to save us?
So, please let me know if that is an assault.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 3:55pmMR. “So, please let me know if that is an assault.”
No. Not at all. Your religion commands you to spread the gospel, but not enforce it. I personally don’t mind folks sharing their interpretation of their diety with me, as long as it‘s done in a civil manner and does not become a heated argument over who has the correct interpretation of Hashem’s word. Because his word went through the human filter (as my simple self calls it), we cannot attempt (or dare) to enforce his word as we are not omnicient, as He is. Have a Merry Christmas my fellow American.
Report Post »nobighero
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:47amNot really sure why some of you are bashing this guy and/or his beliefs. Have you not listened to his music? I havent until a week ago and I think it is fantastic. I can’t take it out of my cd player. So positive and uplifting.
Report Post »DirtyDeeds
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:27pmYes his music is. I listen to the Live at Stubbs albums on the way to work. Also I like his collaboration with P.O.D in the song “Roots in Stereo.”
Report Post »Mister July
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:46am3 words: Jews for Jesus
Report Post »Johnny916
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:57amNo thanks! Jews for Judaism. Reasons why Jews do not believe Jesus is the Messiah or G-d.
Report Post »brian8793
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:08pmJews for atheism.
Report Post »briandbrian
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:18pmTwo words: shut up.
Just accept great music without the reflexive need to preach. Why does that have to be so many Christian’s first response? And I am a believer.
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Posted on December 14, 2011 at 1:23pmJews for Jesus are not Jews. The Shas/Midrashi is not the word of Hashem. It’s the interpretation of the Torah by man. Hashem has already laid down his law for his people. May he forgive this polytheist for mentioning his name.
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Posted on December 14, 2011 at 1:27pmBRIAN, because these aren’t true Christians like yourself, they come from the Francis Bellamy school of militant socialism. Have a Merry Christmas.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:44amI’m guessing, of cause, but perhaps he just got tired of the beard. He looks like a holocaust victim, though. He needs a good woman to fatten him up.
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Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:41amDon’t know the guy personally, but his music is catchy and uplifting. I purchased two of his albums and by far the best one was: “Live at Stubbs” which is ironic because Stubb’s is a bbq joint in Austin. And no, I don’t know if he ate anything while he was there (Kosher joke for you without a sense of humor).
As a person who loves good beats and flowing lyrics, I hear all sorts of bad words and messages in other artist’s lyrics (but ignore it so I can enjoy the flow of the music). BUT, with Matisyahu, I would have 10+ people jamming (most songs sound like Reggae) on my boat to Matisyahu with uplifting stories from the bible (Old Testament) and lessons learned from long ago. The best thing is no one really knew (at first) or cared once they realized the guy is very religious! PRETTY COOL!
Report Post »ephraimtheox
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:35amLove Matisyahu! … Wonder what’s up? I‘m sure a few people aren’t happy with his new look
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:22amWatch the video, notice the socialist propaganda art, listen to his solutions on his other work, and you’ll find your answer. Socialism has infiltrated not only the republican and democrat parties, but many of our country’s religions as well.
Report Post »c.rozycki
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:27pmVery true. Many of our younger Christian brothers aren’t taught what they should be. There are no Sunday Schoolings and only religious emotion. Time to get the face back in the book (the Bible) and the mind back on God!
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Posted on December 14, 2011 at 1:48pm“Very true. Many of our younger Christian brothers aren’t taught what they should be”
Report Post »I would respectfully request that your Christian brothers and sisters find their enlightenment from their God, ’cause He is the true teacher. Man is corruptable and can only provide the information that is already there.
“There are no Sunday Schoolings and only religious emotion.” There are plenty of Chruches in my area (Southern California) providing bible study on Sundays as I am sure that it is common practice in many other states. I take issue with those who interpret their religion into an excuse to proslytize instead of teaching that every individual has a right to follow the belief of their choice. I understand that Christian doctrine wishes you to spread the word, but sharing Jesus’ word and proslytizing are two very different things. The latter lends itself to collectivist thought, which in turn leads to socialism.
Time to get the face back in the book (the Bible) and the mind back on God!”
mrsalvage2
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:40pm@This – As I supected, you are GUILTY of being like me!
I see from this thread we are very close in our vision of what is about us.
Yes, the Progressives control both Parties. They are the Liberl and Conservative Socialist Parties as the John Birch Society used to expose.
Yes, per J. Gresham Machen’s 1922 Thesis, most Christianity is actualy Protestant Liberalism, and has little to do with the Historical Yeshua of the Bible, and has nothing to to with the HOLY SPIRIT of HASHEM, but is naked emotionalism and self-justification.
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Posted on December 14, 2011 at 3:04pmSocialism as we have seen, whether the Bar Kochba Rebellon, or the Bolshevik, or Chavez, Obama, etc, all ends very bloodily and badly.
It is not hard for there to be a similarity between naked socialism and the Messianic Belief in a Man, Party, State, or Religion.
As long a Man believes that he is a ‘redeemable’ part of the solution by his actions alone, he is lost.
So the vid could be about awaiting life under the Moshiach, or it could be about life under the Messianic State.
It is certainly a challenge to communicate a spiritual ideal with materialistic/corporeal elements.
The day must come first that we decide who we will testify to the Universe for; HASHEM who is love, or Satan who peddled illusions of happiness, power, and actual Chaos.
But how is it that we are able to approach the throne?
Report Post »Atlasdrugged
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:14amReligious extremism of any variety is toxic and delusional. This includes Hasidism, militant Islamism, or even Evangelical Christianity.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:25amVery much agreed.
Report Post »Mister July
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:54am@Atlas: Don’t be a tool. If you believe Billy Graham is just as Osama Bin Laden, you need your head examined.
Report Post »illferris
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:54amPlease explain what you mean by Evangelical Christianity being extremist? You mean us Bible preachers? That is what Evangelical Christianity is — those who believe and preach what is written in the Bible. How is that “extreme”? The Bible says to evangelize specifically. 2 Corinthians 5:20 says we the elect, are His ambassadors and that God makes His appeal through us. Do you believe the words written in the Bible to be true?
Report Post »brian8793
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:10pmAll religion and faiths are extreme. Anybody who believes in God, and calls OTHER people extreme(for whatever belief they may hold) need to get their head examined because they’re bats#!t crazy.
Report Post »Mister July
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:30pm@Brian: Karl Marx called… He wants his ideological hatred of religion back…
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:03pmILL- “those who believe and preach what is written in the Bible.”
Report Post »Preaching is fine, but when it turns into telling others that they are wrong for what they believe, instead of sharing “the word” and letting the individual decide of his/her own free will, that is a step toward militancy.
When someone comes to my door wishing to share the gospel with me, and I respectfully decline only to have the pastor of the Church come by and verbally assault me for not being Christian, that would be militancy. I’m not ignorant enough to condemn all of Christianity for the socialist ideals of an individual, but it is there and by many of the posts on religious issues here, it is growing.
tzion
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:13pmAtlas
Report Post »The only Jewish group I would call extremists is the Haredim. This is a small subset of Jews who oppose the State of Israel, don’t use most forms of technology, and are liable to stone you if you walk through their neighborhood not dressed modestly. Hasidim may have some extremist groups, but they aren’t extremist as a whole by a long shot.
mrsalvage2
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:32pm@This – Once learning of what really happened to Chrstianity at the hands of the Modernists by reading the 1922 Princeton Theological Review article of J. Gresham Machen, it is simple to understand your position, as well as Atlas’ regarding Evangelicalism.
I dropped m Abortion Protest sign when EvChr Dr. James Dobson said that 60% of Abortions were being perforemed on Evangelicals. So logic commanded that I was protessting at the wrong place.
Diseased thought takes on all kinds of forms. Only HIS WORD can clean us up, only HIS HOLY SPIRIT can bring HIS WORD to penetrate out Pseudo Intellectualism and Self-Justification.
Since HE is the only one that is HOLY, we cannot make ourselves as HIM. It is HIS work to begin and finish. It is for us to pause and hear, to see our iniquity (active and passive), that HE can make us to be clean and appear before HIS Throen and the remaining Angels, as a witness to indict Lucifer who accused HIM as evil, and testify to HIS perfect goodness.
Those who would “assault” ou regarding this are either not following the HOLY SPIRIT’s instruction to communcate, or serve a false god of self-justification.
I know my Savior, the Moshiach, Lives!
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Posted on December 14, 2011 at 3:45pmMR.” Diseased thought takes on all kinds of forms. Only HIS WORD can clean us up, only HIS HOLY SPIRIT can bring HIS WORD to penetrate out Pseudo Intellectualism and Self-Justification.”
I am glad that you are receiving the enlightenment of your God (although in my opinion, and no offense intended, there is so much more he wishes you to understand without the written word), but the personal message which you are receiving is not a one-size-fits-all message.Your God’s “word” was never intended to be enforced by man, only to be presented by man.
” Lucifer who accused HIM as evil, and testify to HIS perfect goodness.”
Heylel (lucifer) is a description and not a being, meaning “bringer of light” or one who possesses knowledge. Later, it was used to describe Babylonian kings subsiquently changing the meaning to one who holds power. I would venture to say that the being Jesus met was one of the “lesser beings” described by Ahura Mazda in his message to Zarathustra.
Anyway, would you agree as fellow Americans that we should respect our neighbors’ beliefs and right to free will? As long as he/she does not interfere with your path, who would you (or I) be to proslytize or comdemn their path as being wrong? As it is up to someone most high to decide whether or not the individual followed the correct path, not a mortal, corruptable human being.
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 10:51am@This – The ONE TRUE GOD does fit all. That is HIS plan, that is is, (See: Isaiah Chapter 6)
HIS written WORD is actually everything. It actually contains everything and created everthing (See: John 1) The codes and paterns discovered in the Hebrew Torah actually testify to this fact all by itself. In latin: res ipsa loquitor.
When I studdied with the Orthodox Rabbi he determined to use the KJB with me although I did not have one, he said it was a good translation to which I asked for him to tell me of the errors and inaccuracies in it that made it merely good as opposed to being excellent and without error or misrepresentation (for what I was ultimately after was a book of actual truth that I could have and read to guide my life). The Rabbi said that there were none, it was an excellent work.
While the LAW (the TORAH) has absolute laws that require enforcement even to death, the New Terstament speaks of an age of Sovereign GRACE testified of in the Book of Hosea, the return of diaspora as well as HIS reach to the Pagans/Gentiles/Goyum. Still, Society must defend itself from evil.
I cannot say anything of Ahura Mazda, but I can say something of the work with the Rabbi, the KJB as the sorce of the founding faith of Watauga, the US, and Republic of Texas, as well as the Louis Segund and its Revolutuionary power in taking Haiti from a nation where the People actually made a contract with Lucufer and have lived demonically possesed for 100 years to now see HIM.
Report Post »threedoor
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:10amGreat song. I hope he keeps his faith strong. Perhapse even Crosses over.
Report Post »drago
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:08amSounds like another self hating American Jew, NOT to be confused with an Israeli Jew.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 11:31amYour typical Israeli Jew is secularist.
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:21pm@This – yeah the are Pagans.
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Posted on December 14, 2011 at 2:41pmMR. Define “pagan”. Is it the original latin definition meaning villager or “country bumkin”? One who believes in the existance or more than one God? Militancy within one’s religion must be exposed.
Report Post »mrsalvage2
Posted on December 16, 2011 at 11:11am@This – In Light of the New Testament explaining the Age of GRACE which none of us merit, militancy is not only uncalled for, but is antithetical. Clearly.
The Militancy of the Puritans had them persecuting, beating,exiling, and confiscating the property of Baptists even into 1806 for refusing to pay the Parsonage Tax of the Constitution of 1776, as it is the Puritans/Episco. who are the descendants of the Roman Church who has been the root of violent authoritaranism, but not the (true) Baptists.
The Militancy of the Church of England, Puritans, and Presbyterians caused and rallied forces in NC in the early 1770′s where Baptists were then not allowed to marry, gather for worship, hold schools, own land, and be in government. Their blood flowed while Gov. Tryon and his Militia went forth hanging and quartering them and seeking the Bond on the Head of Daniel Boone.
True believers already have experienced the force of militancy of institutions of man under the guise of Christianity. Thus the Independent Fundamental Separated Baptistis believe that the highest form of Governance is the Local Church and its Pastor.
Everything else is chaos and destructivness of Absolutism that endorses blood lust.
While I agree, I am willing to personally enforce Biblical Common Law upon people, not for what they believe, but adjudged by the fruits that have been yeilded from lives of that belief. So soon the time will be here, after Obomber declares Martial Law today,
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:56amLice ??
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