Christian Friends of Israel - Rabbi Yaakov Youlus
Rabbi Yaakov Youlus

Rabbi Yaakov Youlus

Getting to Know You
A Jewish Hand Extended

First I wish to say I am a teacher. My specialty is Biblical Hebrew – a lifetime of work. One day I was reading where the Tanach says 10 Gentiles will take the sleeve of a Jew and say:

“We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you” (Zechariah 8:23).

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MEETING REAL CHRISTIANS

One day I walked down a certain street in Jerusalem and a sign on a building caught my attention: CHRISTIAN FRIENDS OF ISRAEL. I wondered, “Christians? Friends of Israel? I didn’t know we had any!” I was living in the past history of Christianity toward my people. I decided to be courageous and knock on the door. It was a very small place with a few people in the main room and I introduced myself. After getting to know Ray and Sharon Sanders, I ended up working together with them for more than 18 years. I saw for the first time in my life, REAL CHRISTIANS, who were willing to put their lives on the line daily to bring a blessing to my people.

BUILDING BETTER RELATIONS

At present CFI is still my daily “vitamin” which I take every morning early when I arrive. I have decided that the knowledge I have gained through a lifetime of studying God’s Word, the Torah and Biblical Hebrew does not belong to me alone, but I must share it with my Christian friends. The motive for all of this is that I feel I have a mission to decrease the tension and negative relationships Jews and Christians have had in the past and to try to start a new page in Jewish-Christian understanding and cooperation. It is all about getting to know each other. To do this, I need your help so that together we can fulfill the words of the prophet, “And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills, and all nations shall flow unto it” (Isaiah 2:24).

TECHNOLOGY BRINGS US TOGETHER

My grandchildren and CFI have taught me how to use the Internet and I share with Christian study groups every week. I like to use SKYPE to build what I call “mushrooms” in America and Australia. This way we can conduct “Bible classes” where we can see each other and discuss the translation of a word in THE WORD. I also utilize e-mail to answer questions and to stay in touch with my “students” from around the world. I believe that God brought me to CFI-Jerusalem and to the world to help heal the historical relationship between Christians and Jews and bring us together to build a better future, especially when today we are both confronted with the Islamic world. I would like to end this by reminding us of the famous quotation, “Together we stand, divided we fall.”

Please feel free to email me at: yaakov.youlus@gmail.com. Maybe we can arrange a time to meet one another on SKYPE and build “mushroom” Bible conversations.

Rabbi Yaakov Youlus



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