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I read the portion of the "book" and didnt get too far without being stuck by the errors and dissembling. Take this gem for example:

A real, kosher Torah scroll is the Word of God written on lambskin, impales on two shafts of wood (the rollers) which are called the Aytz Chaim (the Tree of Life), wearing a breastplate like the High Priest, robed in glory (the scroll cover, which protects it), and wearing one or more kingly crowns. Who is Yeshua? He is the Word of God in the skin of a Lamb, nailed to two pieces of wood which are to us a Tree of Life, now serving as our High Priest, robed in glory, and wearing many crowns on His head as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Yeshua is the Living Torah.

First of all, Torah scrolls can be written on any kosher animal but usually cow, goat or deer are used. You use the word "lamb" to give the false appearance of Jesus. Then you use the word "impales on two shafts of wood", again, sounds like Jesus huh? The scroll is sewn in three places to the woods. Then you call the rollers, atzei chaim, "the tree of life", once more sounding like Jesus. Atzei chaim means trees of life plural.

Then you proceed the the usual. Jesus is a lamb; no he was a human. Metaphors dont count. He is a high priest; no he is not of the correct tribe. And Melchizedek did have a genealogy, so that won't work either. Yeshua is a living Torah; no man is a living Torah. The messianic metaphors know no bounds. I think you should at least be honest in your book.

Shalom

Blasater . . . I know it's annoying and infuriating. But listen to me . . . nothing you say matters to these people. They "know" Yushqa is the messiah because their Protestant bible has a "new testament" in it, and that's all there is to it. If it's in the Protestant bible, it's the "word of G-d."

You and I can point out a zillion inanities, but so long as their bibles have a "new testament" which they accept implicitly "the bible" will always authorize chr*stianity to these people.

You won't agree with me, but I regard the struggling with the Torah that these people do to be a positive step. Unfortunately, only a miracle will take them all the way.

In Protestantism the bible is self-authorizing. If it's between those two covers and has the Thomas Nelson or Zondervan trademark, then it's "the word of G-d."

PS: Don't get me wrong, your 100% on target with the way language is twisted. They learned such things from their Catholic and Orthodox ancestors. ::Sigh::

Please have a happy and sweet new year.

Shalom, blaster. I'm discussing connecting symbolic threads here that someone who is familiar with the New Testament's descriptions of Yeshua would get. One of those descriptions/titles is "The Lamb of God." Another is "The Word of God." Again, I'm obviously not writing the book as an apologetic work to convert Jews--Michael L. Brown is far more competent than me in that arena.

I appreciate that you took the effort to try to read it, but to put it simply, you are not the book's target audience.

Shalom and L'shannah Tova.