The Rabbi studied Torah and came to the conclusion that Jesus fulfilled the prophecies, the same conclusion as the rest of us that are gifted with faith and the Holy Spirit. God bless Torah Jews
1000 silverlings wrote:
“The Rabbi studied Torah and came to the conclusion that Jesus fulfilled the prophecies, the same conclusion as the rest of us that are gifted with faith and the Holy Spirit. God bless Torah Jews.”
Again, this would be wonderful news, if true. But again, I ask, where is there any indication of this, other than Rav Kaduri’s last note, which contained the sentence, “Yarim ha-’am weyochiach shedvaro wetorato ‘omdim,” the first letter of whose words spell, “yhoshu’a”? According to all reports I’ve read, he didn’t claim to have learned such from the Torah, but from having seen in a vision one he identified to his closest disciples as the Messiah.
Had he written instead of a bare and acronymic “yhoshu’a,” the plain words “yeshu shel natsrat,” or something similar, there would have been no doubt whatever. But he didn’t. And so I doubt that any of the 300,000 who attended his funeral now think that they buried a disciple of Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah. His son and grandson certainly do not now so think.
I think that’s likely true.
However, I’m skeptical he would have left a coded message
UNLESS JESUS HAD VISITED HIM PERSONALLY a la the Apostle Paul.
SCRIPTURE SAYS THOSE WHO SEEK GOD WHOLEHEARTEDLY
SHALL
FIND HIM.