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[[Image:Olive tree.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The olive tree has long been used as a symbol in Messianic Judaism: "''Thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them''" (Romans 11:17)]]

[[Image:Olive tree.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The olive tree has long been used as a symbol in Messianic Judaism: "''Thou, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them''" (Romans 11:17)]]

'''Messianic Judaism''' is a religious movement which:<ref>Robinson, B. [http://www.religioustolerance.org/mess_jud.htm ''Messianic Judaism''] Religious Tolerance. Accessed 21 February 2008</ref><ref>''There is no '''contemporary''' founder or leader and no single group or individual speaks for all Messianics. However, most Messianics would generally accept these points.''</ref>

'''Messianic Judaism''' is a religious movement which

 

*regards its members to be committed [[Jew]]s.

[[Yeshua]] of Nazareth ([[Jesus Christ]]) is the [[Messiah]] spoken of in the [[Tanakh]] ([[Old Testament]]).<ref>Robinson, B. [http://www.religioustolerance.org/mess_jud.htm ''Messianic Judaism''] Religious Tolerance. Accessed 21 February 2008</ref><ref>''There is no '''contemporary''' founder or leader and no single group or individual speaks for all Messianics. However, most Messianics would generally accept these points.''</ref> The sharpest point of disagreement is that Messianic Judaism regards its members to be committed [[Jew]]s, while many prominent and outspoken mainstream Jews regard the Messianics as having converted to Christianity and thus become non-Jews.

*believes that it is following the practices and beliefs of the very early church that sprang up from [[the Disciples]] teachings on [[Pentecost]].

 

Messianic Jews differ from traditional [[Judaism]] over their beliefs about the Messiah. Traditional Judaism still awaits the coming of the Messiah and does not agree that He arrived in the form of Jesus.

==Makeup and Worship==

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