Yeshua Explored
August 2021
Mishpocha
There’s no place like home
There’s an interesting definition of mishpocha in the urban dictionary on the web; an entire family that is very lucky because of their home. It is right to zero in on the home environment, but luck? Luck doesn’t come into it, it is very much a God-thing, but, for the Jews, it was bought at a price. The next few paragraphs are adapted from a more extensive treatment in How the Church Lost the Way.
Jewish life through the ages has been bittersweet. The bitterness has been from without, the sweetness from within. Their communities have always lived in a precarious state, never accepted by the Christian world that surrounded them. Yet once the outside world had been shut out, life for ordinary Jews within their own communities had been a million times more meaningful, wholesome and joyful than that of their Christian neighbours. How ironic was that?
