Conversations with Moshe Kempinski
In May, 2013, I spent a quiet afternoon with Moshe Kempinski at his shop in Jerusalem. We talked frankly about relationships between Jews and Christians in the early years. Then we discussed the complex issues that separate the two religions today.
These conversations are two men talking about how to understand each other and draw closer to the common desire to worship G-d.
Perhaps you will enjoy listening in.
Skip,
What a great conversation. I cried because it confirmed some things that God has been saying to me. Embrace the aloneness of your walk…embrace the wilderness. I am satisfied!
Sandy
Ah, but what I discovered in those conversations with Moshe is that I am not alone, and neither are any who are walking this path, even if we come from completely different places. Moshe is a wonderful man, sensitive to the struggle and open to real dialogue. That’s really what keeps me going. I find so much of my past world closed to any possibility of real change because of the rigidity of doctrine. How refreshing to find men and women who are willing to press on even when it brings remorse and serious revision.
Skip,
I to have listened to the conversation and as some of the others expressed, I to find myself alone having embraced a new understanding of relationship to the Father. A lot of this has come about since I stumbled upon your writings and now soak up all I can access or afford 🙂
I have a request; Would you find it possible to create a section of your web site to allow myself and others who find themselves longing for community to post messages. I would like to find if there are other readers of the material you publish who would like to get together (if any in my area) and discuss/relate in our need for fellowship. I would envision a posting of ones location (general at first) to explore the chance someone else is willing to Bless one another.
I have posted an idea to create a Hebrew roots type of group in my city, on craigslist (which seems so seedy) and had a few responses, and they all express this isolation we sense from our ‘Church’ community we once held dear. Your site my lend a notion of validity in that there is a dedicated population of believers that follow your writings.
Thanks!
A good suggestion. I will talk it over with Mark, the web master.
I too cried — but for the joy of the knowledge that I am not alone. But immediately after the second conversation ended, I started feeling alone again. Is that the longing for community that is built into us? Skip, did you write that three-paragraph letter yet? If/when you do, can we all have a copy? It is obvious from the first conversation that your heart’s cry is the same as most of us who read Today’s Word, and it would be wonderful to have your succinct expression of these principles if/when we get up the courage to approach a local Rabbi with them.
Truly wonderful, uplifting conversation/s! Moshe is very communicative and knowledgeable, very willing to share openly his wisdom and insights, as most Hebrews are. Moshe has read the Bible from beginning to end, wow, I can’t say that of most Christians! These conversations are a blessing indeed.
Yes, Donna, there is a yearning for community living and togetherness, definitely, and I am totally for it too. 🙂 There will be heaps of challenges though, as each walk out their trust in YHWH.
Thank you Skip for sharing these conversations with us, you reminded me of a family member who said some years back, he will not read the NT anymore. And I do know some Torah Believers who have gone into Judaism, for that reason, sadly.
Skip, Bob Gorelik’s Mom has passed on. Please convey our comfort and Shalom to him and his family.
Thank you, Shalom!
Wow!
That’s all I’ve got right now after listening to Skip’s conversation with Moshe Kempinski!
I’m going to listen to it all another two or three times, enjoy chewing on their words, and then try to make it my own.
Wow!
Absolutely loved this conversation but more importantly, I believe Abba is pleased! Thank you and bless you!!!
A little behind the times here as most of these comments are from 2013-14, but I just picked up this audio series and I must say it has both challenged me and confirmed a number of issues. The most predominant being in regards to prophecy. I appreciated Moshe’s statement in regards to hearing the footsteps of the Messiah, as related to a great contrast. Christian eschatology has the “end times” as being all bad, but even Daniel shows that during the time of the reign of , “the king of fierce countenance,” that there are those who work “mighty deeds”, and that the faulting which occurs on their part is only a purification. In the garden there was harmony, but a snake was allowed in, and the natural man overcame the one who honored God. The end is told from the beginning. Thank you for entering into a conversation that could have gone south in an instant, (not that I think that either one of you would have allowed that) and was fraught with the potential of misunderstanding. I’m glad that you decided to share this conversation with the rest of us, it is very relevant to the struggles we all are engaged in. Thanks again.