Jews for Jesus Los Angeles

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We pray that your Shabbat is restful and filled with life-giving activities. Shabbat shalom!

Each of us have such unique backgrounds, and in regard to relationships, these differing backgrounds can often create tension. Check out the latest podcast episode from @jewishgentilecouples and hear real stories of Jewish-Gentile couples in their journey in finding spiritual harmony with each other.

Check out this video based on the weekly Parsha. Dm us if you have questions or would like to connect further.

We remember. While most of us may not have personal memory of the suffering and murder of our people, the pain is still very felt and experienced in our lives today. We remember. Yom Hashoah.

Have you considered following Jesus? While it might not seem like a very Jewish thing, following Jesus is way more Jewish than we often see at first glance. Visit us from 9am-3pm today and tomorrow for some coffee and chats about Yeshua! Have immediate questions? Just DM us or chat with us live on our website!

Throughout the week we operate a coffee shop and art gallery in Westwood. If you’re interested in what it means to be Jewish and follow Jesus, or you’re looking to get connected with other Jewish believers, come visit us! We’re open Tuesday - Thursday from 9am - 4pm. Come visit!

Today, we can continue to find refuge in Jesus. If you’re in need of someone to talk to or if you have prayer requests, we are ALWAYS available to chat with you on our website - anytime of the day! In addition, you can stop by our café and talk to a barista or even set-up a socially-distanced in-person meeting with at the outside seating area of the café!

Repost @jewsforjesus - Regardless of what happens in the world today, we can take comfort in the words of the Hebrew Scriptures, Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure" (Psalm 147:5). No matter who's in office, God is still on the throne.

If you have questions about what it means to be Jewish and also believe in Jesus as the messiah, we’d love to connect with you! This idea was weird to us at first too. Come talk to one of our Baristas during the week or you can chat with us ANYTIME on our website!

Why We Can’t Afford to be Bad at Discussing Mental Health Anymore - As depression and anxiety increase across the world in the wake of COVID-19, spiritual communities need to be challenged to look at the stigma they've established around the subject of mental health. LINK IN BIO TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE.

In difficult times we often find a tendency to isolate ourselves, but friends and family couldn’t be more important! Jesus draws us to be in relationship with others. If you’re finding it hard in this season to connect, reach out! We’d love to talk with you about all things Jewish and Jesus! Ways to connect:... 1. Dm Us! 2. Visit our café @upsidedown_la 3. Live chat with us ANYTIME of the day or night at website in link in bio. See more

UPDATE Our café is now open Tuesday - Thursday from 9am - 4pm! Have questions about faith in Jesus? Ask a barista!

Day 10 // Ten Days of Awe Yom Kippur ends with the blowing of a single, long blast of the shofar (ram’s horn), called the tekiah gadolah (great blast). In it we can hear the proclamation of God’s sovereignty and kingship. But if we listen more closely, unguardedly, we can hear a personal summon. For Jewish people, we hear the reminder that God chose us to be his people and we are to keep his commandments. And yet all are invited to obey something much greater than what we c...an accomplish by just being our best or trying our hardest. We are called to listen to what God is inviting us to: Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me (Revelation 3:20). We do not need to wait until next year’s tekiah gadolah. God is always waiting for us to make things right with him. Don’t let the noise of your own life drown out his invitation to open the door of your heart to him. See more

Day 9 // Ten Days of Awe Have an easy fast we wish each other this sentiment as Yom Kippur is upon us. Depriving oneself of food on Yom Kippur affords us a space in which to contemplate the welfare of one’s soul, unimpeded by earthly distractions. Intense prayer is a connection to God, whether in a synagogue or by a quiet body of water. But how can prayer and fasting afford us the assurance that our sins are forgiven, if God requires that without the shedding of blood, ...there is no forgiveness of sin? Even our most heartfelt and sincere confessions pale in the light of God’s requirement, and yet he will not turn us away. His provision for our forgiveness was made over 2000 years ago in the sacrifice of a perfect lamb, Yeshua the Messiah. Take his offer now, on this most holiest of days in the Jewish calendar, or at any time you are ready. See more

DAY 8 // Ten Days of Awe Chagall’s painting The Sacrifice of Isaac (1966) presents that moment when Abraham’s faith was most deeply tested, for which father would really sacrifice his only son? God remembered both Abraham and Isaac and the promise He had made to bring a great nation of people through Isaac, by providing instead a lamb in the thicket. God remembered the father and son for life in much the same manner that we ask God to inscribe us in his Book of Life dur...ing the High Holidays. Can we know for certain that God has remembered us? Yes, if we accept the sacrifice he made for us in his son Yeshua. True life is to be found in him. In him was life, and the life was the light of men (John 1:4).

Day 7 // Ten Days of Awe What does Jonah have to do with Yom Kippur or the whale, for that matter? The biblical story of Jonah is read and studied in the afternoon before the end of Yom Kippur. Through Jonah’s disobedience in not going tell the Ninevites that they’d better repent, Jonah ends up in the belly of a whale. Perhaps there’s an analogy here: by not doing what God wants, we forfeit a full life and are in danger of drowning in our own sins. And when Nineveh eventually does repent, Jonah finds himself upset under a plant that grows up over him to offer shade, but then quickly wilts and dies. A further analogy, perhaps. When we won’t forgive those who sin against us, or accept the fact of their turning away from sin, we become susceptible to sin-burn.

DAY 6 During The Ten Days of Awe we appeal to God as judge and king. He is visualized as being seated at a table with a large book, containing many pages. Each of us has our own page on which are noted the good deeds we have done in the past year. In a sense, our lives are weighed on a just scale. God considers what we’ve done, good and bad, and then decides who shall live and who shall die.

10 Days Of Awe (Day 5) Here the artist Arthur Syzk in 1948 painted in a medieval illuminated manuscript-type of style to depict Rosh Hashana in the synagogue. From young to old, all are engaged on this most holy of days to return to the knowledge of the One God who created Heaven and Earth.

Rosh Hashana invites us to renew our commitment to God and crown Him as our King hence, the round challah is reminiscent of a crown. Right now many of us are more concerned with the person who will win the upcoming election than we are with giving God his rightful place in our lives. What would it look like for you to allow God the one who gave you life to be the ruler of your life? If we want to understand the kingdom of God and live in peace in the midst of earthly kingdoms, we should start with an understanding that the God of the Bible is King, Emperor, and Lord (Jason Hood, God is King ,No Matter What CT, 11.7.16).