This One Question Led Him Away from Christianity & to Judaism

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I for the first time in my life, I felt I'm home. All the time and like I'm Christian and I have I have friends and this and that and I'm in the missionary home and like I'm at the highest level that you could be as a Christian and I feel there's something missing. I was in Israel and I don't speak really much Hebrew, just a few words and that. Felt I'm home for the first time. Very strange feeling. And I found some kind of peace like >> How does a Christian missionary who's preaching to the world to follow in the ways of Yasha, Jesus, end up becoming an As you can hear, I lost my voice and I literally sound like RFK. And I have a huge interview coming up next week. If you could let me know in the comments your best remedy to help me get my voice back, I'd greatly appreciate your advice. Okay, here we go. Rabbi Gershon Baraza, thank you so much for being here. >> Thank you. >> There's a lot to cover about your story. Can you take us back to when you were growing up? Where did you grow up? What was your childhood like? >> Well, so I was born in Barcelona in the north of Spain. A special region called Catalonia. Well, A special region called Catalonia. Well, I was born in that area actually I didn't grow up there. My parents when I was 5 years old, they moved to some beautiful islands off the coast of Africa that belong to Spain. They are the Canary Islands. And we moved to the main island called Tenerife. And there I grew up in an island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and um in general I I I had a happy infancy

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2. 6:17perhaps nowadays between 30 to 40,000 Jews. Mostly Madrid and Barcelona. Uh a little bit in…
3. 12:23So, I was already in my 20s, and I had to make a decision. Well, do…
4. 18:27And number two is I'm going to the Jews. I want to understand Judaism. I want…
5. 24:08why I don't see hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of Jews every year becoming Christians?…
6. 30:16Blinded? From the devil? I don't think so. Right? They're very good people among the Jews…
7. 36:22call him the the Jewish Marco Polo cuz he went around the Middle East, went to…
8. 43:04missionary in a synagogue. Missionary, by the way, all the I think it was a professor…
9. 49:08crumbling and >> Correct. >> you know, you're you you have to live your whole life…
10. 55:15know, I have to I have to do something more. Keeping kosher to certain level like…

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