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Post by Sora on Aug 25, 2015 13:45:22 GMT -6
Welcome to the Tenak Talk Forum. We're eager to get to know you, but we can't do that until you've introduced yourself. Tell us a little bit about who you are, and what your motivations are for joining this community.
There are two ways to introduce yourself here. Either reply to this thread, or start a brand new thread in this section.
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Kevin
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Post by Kevin on Aug 31, 2015 17:26:13 GMT -6
Hi, my name is Kevin. I'm in my late twenties. I have come to know Hashem by listening to Wils show Tenak Talk, Tovia Singer, Michael Skobac, and radio show host Dennis Prager. By listening to them, I have come to know the truth. My relationship to Hashem is a lot better now and easier, and isn't based off fear like it was when I was a Christian. I find that to be very relieving.
As far as I know I'm not Jewish, but would possibly like to convert sometime in the future.
Right now, I am still on my path to learning about the creator everyday, and it's awesome!
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Post by Sora on Aug 31, 2015 17:41:59 GMT -6
Welcome to the forum! Nice to meet you.
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Kevin
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Post by Kevin on Aug 31, 2015 17:54:55 GMT -6
Thank you! You too!
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Tseruyah
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...But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep...
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Post by Tseruyah on Aug 31, 2015 18:07:57 GMT -6
Is this where I introduce myself? Shalom and Hello to the friends and family here! Tseruyah is my Hebrew name (pronounced Ze-ROO-yah) and I go by this on Facebook. I live in Wisconsin, USA and was born and raised in Green Bay. (You may have heard of the Green Bay Packers football team, but GB is also famous for toilet paper manufacturing.) I administrate the all-Jewish Facebook group TORAH TALMUD ZOHAR TANAK, and teach middle school-aged Sunday School at our shul, where I am active in Sisterhood and various committees. It is a pleasure to learn from so many wonderful people from around the world and soak up the wisdom and insight we hear coming from TenakTalk. Thanks for including me!
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papabear
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Post by papabear on Sept 16, 2015 4:57:27 GMT -6
Hello! I am so happy to see this forum materialize!
My name is Eric Bryan (Papa Bear is a nickname I have had for about 20 years), and I use my real name of FB...for those of you that discovered this place on there. I am a Noahide/Ger, married, 4 kids, live in Michigan, and love Israel.
In my former life I was a Xtian who attended an Eastern Orthodox Church (Serbian). If anyone still stuck there needs a hand, I may offer a unique perspective that can help.
Shalom, and thank you for making this place!
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Barry
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Post by Barry on Oct 3, 2015 21:05:41 GMT -6
Hello , My name is Barry ,..I grew up in a house where one of my parents was a Jew, the other xtian. It made for some interesting times,..because YES they did argue about religion ! I participated in the "church" for many years,..but the more I researched and discussed the "Judaic roots" of the church, .. it all starts to fall apart. I live in what is known here in NY as the "Borscht Belt"...and currently wrestling with the lies I was told my whole life about Jsus, and trying to reconnect with my personal Jewish roots,.. sadly from my parents generation until not too long ago we were "children of assimilation" , and not accepted by either side. For one side we were never Jewish enough and the other we were never Xtian enough . Please be patient with me , and thank you very much for this forum !!! Barry
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Grandpa Johnny
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Post by Grandpa Johnny on Nov 8, 2015 20:58:11 GMT -6
Hello. May G-d bless all here. My name is Johnny. I'm married to a wonderful woman and I have been reading about Judaism and the Noahide way for awhile now. I think HaShem is calling me to follow him as a Noahide. I was an evangelical, then I became a Catholic, so I do understand that a conversion can be a seismic event in one's life. (Yes, I went from being an evangelical to being a Catholic; the opposite way of many Christians...reading Church history will do that! LOL)
One day I stumbled onto a talk by Rabbi Singer on the nature of Satan, and frankly, it blew my mind. That's what got me reading and listening to his lectures. (Thank you, HaShem!) From there, I've listened to many lectures by him and others as well. My wife has her own spiritual path, so I cannot convert to Judaism. When I found that out, I was saddened, but later on I discovered the Noahide way, and I realize that there really is a place for me in his Kingdom.
The following verse is a great comfort to me:
So said the Lord of Hosts: In those days, when ten men of all the languages of the nations shall take hold of the skirt of a Jewish man, saying, "Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you." Zechariah 8:23
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wayne2015
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Post by wayne2015 on Dec 9, 2015 0:44:51 GMT -6
Hello everyone. My name is Wayne, mid 40's and I am a 'baby' in the Noahide faith having walked this path of the Noahide for about 6 months now. I have yet to appear in front of a Beth Dein though. Erm...does that make me a Noahide even though I haven't appeared in front of a Beth Dein yet? Though I am South African, I live in China and have been doing so for about 14 years. I was raised as a pentecostal/Charismaniac Xtian only to throw the entire Bible out 6 months ago after noticing some discrepancies and then purchasing a Tanakh Scroll edition. It has been a long, hard and a lonely walk but I have already learnt so much. Thanks for setting up this forum for all of us. Shalom.
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Post by jewishrecovery on Aug 8, 2016 11:11:48 GMT -6
B''H
Hi,
My name is Immanuel ben Avraham. I was born to a Jewish family but grew up in a non observant home. I went my whole life feeling there was something wrong with me. I had this deep pain inside that caused deep depression from as long as I could remember. During my college years some weird coincidences started to happen. I met a girl from Israel this lead me to living there for a few months. she was also secular but it was the first time i had ever really thought about being a Jew (even though I grew up in an orthodox neighborhood in south Florida) i never had any connection with it. When we broke up this lead to me joining the college Hillel group and eventually meeting my wife. Neither of us were particularly religious but she like to attend synagogue to on her father's yarzeit. Eventually I moved to a small town near Orlando and came into contact with a very charismatic and warm rabbi who had a background with the Lubavitchers and a deep love of drawing in secular people.
Eventually i got ill and had to have an operation. This lead to a prescription for pain killers and the first time in my life the darkness lifted and I felt great. Of course I ended up addicted to pain killers, and eventually started injecting them and then became addicted to heroin very badly because it was cheaper than the pills. I had a $150-200 a day heroin habit and expecting my first child.
I went to an outpatient rehab and met a guy who had lived through heroin and alcoholism and he told me I needed to ask G-d for help. For whatever reason I believed him , maybe because by this point I had tried everything else. The only G-d i ever knew about was the G-d of my fathers . For a time I considered maybe converting to JC because everyone i knew in 12 step programs was heavily christian there was no other jewish people in recovery that I met (eventually i met one but he is an atheist)
anyway I asked for help every morning and surprisingly I started to feel better. I decided i would try reciting the formal prayers and I was shocked to see how closely the siddur matches up with what they tell you in recovery/12-step you should be doing. Most people will say 12 step programs are christian based because Dr Bob and Bill W who invented A.A. were evangelicals. However this is not so, it actually more closely aligns with Judaism. Maybe it is becaue they based it off the principles in the book of James? I am not sure. However a very famous chassidic rabbi and addictionist R. Dr. Abraham Twerski Shlita said if he had come up with a program for addicts based on Torah it would look exactly like the 12 steps of AA.
Shortly after my rabbi gave me a set of tefilin and i started putting them on daily, i also started keeping more mitzvot and attending a Lubavitcher synagogue every morning. The more mitzvos i kept the better i felt. eventually through participation in AA/NA and connection to G-d through prayer and mitvos I no longer felt i was fighting a daily battle against the urge of using heroin. I greeted my daughter when she arrived sober and happy and doing well.
So I hope to be able to spread information on teshuva and also addiction support and recovery from a Jewish POV. I have had to sort of become my own expert in the subject because there is very little information. I came across this site due the problem of being the target of evangelists in the 12 step programs, while it is not officially allowed it frequently happens.
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Post by elochimjakub on Dec 16, 2016 20:08:23 GMT -6
Hello. My name is Nicholas Stephen Jakubowski and my profile username is ElochimJakub. I have a Polish background on my Fathers side. My last name I found out is Polish and Hebrew and its meaning is of or descendant of Jacob. I grew up as a catholic but recently I left the church to further follow the ways of the God of Israel. I live in California right now with my parents and am working on fixing my health. I Love Tenak Talk, the host and the Rabbis....you guys are awesome.
I joined this forum to express my interest in creation. I also really love being taught by the rabbis and lsitening to the Tenak Talk show.
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Post by ahavahworker on Aug 5, 2022 13:55:40 GMT -6
I'm just grateful the The One Creator gave me the opportunity to see the Truth!!
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Post by mentalpsychosis on Sept 18, 2022 21:37:28 GMT -6
Hello. I went through a great trauma from age 3 to age 5 which I never fully recovered from. Over time I forgave but I didn't heal. My parents' background is nonreligious, while my grandmother was Christian, a Sunday school teacher. For many years I believed that the trauma was a punishment from God because my parents didn't believe in God. No matter how awful and unbearable life has become for me, they are an unwavering, unbowable to even pray or admit there is a God. Because my grandmother was Christian, I myself dragged myself to many different denominations after she passed away, but they all felt dead to me and many had an air of false worship and anti-Semitism in some. Now, I am 45, with no family, no husband, no children and bitter. I wish I had a counselor or psychiatrist I could refer to. I believe that Christianity is a disease. I believe some of my mental issues come from Christianity. Not that it caused my problems, but hanging by thin threads of a blind faith which I should have seen through long ago has caused me to lose hope. I don't hate myself, but I hate my life so much I wish I wasn't alive. Where can I go from here? Is there a group I can join? Is there someone I can email for help?
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Post by albert18499 on Apr 13, 2023 9:11:07 GMT -6
Hi my name is Albert and I think about Scripture a lot, and I enjoy learning about the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I enjoy listening to the various rabbis on their You Tube videos and the Tanach talk program. Best Regards, Albert
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