Article #703
Subject: Simon Stout's reply to my prayer questions
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 6/26/2018 11:06:22 AM
Message: Hi, friends, this is Andrew Harrell talking with you. I was recently in Israel and interested in
finding there where the Messianic Jews who followed on after Joseph Rabinowitz worship. Is it
anywhere in Jerusalem? I went to Christ Church at the joppa gate and they didn't know. He was a friend
of my great grandfather Adoniram Gordan. I am a Christian zionist Jew
I have a website and email address at http://www.ourprayergroup.blogspot.com and
http://www.yhwhschofchrist.org andrewharrell@yhwhschofchrist.org. I have to go now. Thanks for your
help in advance.
God Bless
Dear Andrew,
Thank you for writing to us at Jews for Jesus. I'm Simon from our offices in Tel Aviv, Israel.
There are quite a number of Messianic Congregations throughout the country, though I'm not sure
which ones have been directly influenced by the teachings of Joseph Rabinowitz. As the Messianic
Body in Israel was only a handful of people during his lifetime, and has now grown to nearly 10,000 – it
is possible that we have all been influenced by his teachings.
I do know that one of our staff members wrote a short article about him 20 years ago:
https://jewsforjesus.org/blog/joseph-rabinowitz-and-the-messianic-movement-the-herzl-of-jewish-
christianity/
Many Blessings in Messiah,
Simon Stout
Executive Assistant
Jews for Jesus Israel
simon.stout@jewsforjesus.org
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Article #704
Subject: my prayerful reply to Simon's helpful reply
Author: Andrew W. Harrell
Posted: 6/26/2018 11:07:21 AM
Dear Long Time Prayer Friend Simon,
Thanks for your very helpful reply to my question about any living legacy of Joseph Rabinowitz
in Jews for Jesus Prayer Services. I have been to several Orthodox Saturday Sabbath Torah services
and noted that the Torah is carried up to the Bimah in the center by attendees. I even did it myself in a
Messianic service on Simhas Torah in a Northern VA congregation in 1983 I think. I also noted that the
Name of God YHWH is not used in the prayer verses but Adonai or H'Shem or Yod Yod.
Have you considered using YHWH Adonai in the Amidah prayer requests as Joseph Rabinowitz did to
indicate that you believe that for some of us the Messiah, Jesus has already come?
Also, you might want to carry both the New Testament and the Torah up to Bimah in order to read both
Testaments in the service. I know in some Messianic Jewish books on the Torah study, John Parson's "A
Year Through the Torah" for instance both testaments are studied and read.
You could also ask people to come forward like like in a Baptist Church and accept Christ in the service.
In my opinion you could be more like "Jesus for the Jews", like I AM, if you did this.
Blessings in Christ,
Andrew W.
Dr. Andrew W. Harrell
YHWH School of Christianity