Book Suggestions

Details for observing the Jewish Festivals in a Messianic way around the dinner table are presented in
"Following Yeshua...Celebrating the Feasts of Adonai" by Pari Johnson
available on-line at Amazon.com.
If possible, I suggest ordering enough copies so everyone around your table can have their own book from which to read. Bulk rates available for orders 25 and over if ordered directly from Pari.

Read an Approbation Recommendation by Messianic Rabbi Herb Opalek for
"Following Yeshua...Celebrating the Feasts of Adonai ".

  • Jewish Study Bible by the Jewish Publication Society: valuable background information from a Jewish Perspective; a 'must' for serious Bible students
  • The Voice of the Lord, Messianic Jewish Daily Devotional by David J. Rudolph, Editor
  • Torah Rediscovered by Ariel and D'vorah Berkowitz
  • Our Father Abraham by Marvin Wilson
  • God's Appointed Times by Barney Kasdan
  • Take Hold by Ariel and D'vorah Berkowitz
  • The Jewish Book of Why & The Second Jewish Book of Why (2 book set) by Albert J. Kolatch
  • Praying with Fire by Rabbi Heshy Kleinman - a challenging 'read', with great insights into Jewish prayer
  • Rabbi Herb Opalek: Super-secessionism (Replacement Theology) and more

     

Websites of Interest

Study Helps:

Other Information:

  • Veterans Memorial Museum - Chehalis, WA. (Carl and Pari are volunteers.)
  • Family Tree DNA
    Why this Family Tree DNA website? It may help those of you who want to know if you are Jewish. After I checked out several DNA testing places, I decided on this one and sent in a sample. Being a woman, I can only check my mother's women's line.
    The results show no Jewish lines on my mother's mother's side. (1/30/09)

    As far as checking for Jewish connections the testing can only give hints about having Jewish ancestry by comparing your results with their database and looking for matches with people that come from the same Semitic background and/or who have declared that they have Jewish ancestry on that line.

    Here are 3 situations that you can run into when testing for Jewish ancestry:
    * You match only people who are also Jewish on their direct maternal line -- in other words the signature, or "motif," only matches with people who have a known Jewish ancestry. The answer in this case is pretty clear and obvious.
    * You match a motif that has both Jews and non Jews -- the answer is not clear and we can't guess whether your personal lineage is Jewish or not.
    * You match no one of known Jewish origins -the answer is also clear...that you likely do not have Jewish origins on this lineage.