I am reading a book right now by Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg--it's called, Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus. It has been really interesting to read about Jewish culture and the rabbinic traditions during the time Jesus walked the earth. Even only two chapters into it, it has helped me see Jesus' ministry and teachings within the context of Jewish life, and has opened my eyes to see the significance in words, or gestures, or actions that I had only analyzed from a Western/Christian perspective. This excerpt doesn't really speak to the book's theme concerning the Jewishness of Jesus, but I thought it was such a beautiful analogy I had to post it!
Imagine for a moment that you possess the sheet music of the most beautiful piano concerto ever written, but you have never heard the whole piece perfectly performed. Then one day, you meet the composer's son, who is himself a great pianist. This man knows his father's music by heart. As he sits down to play with the orchestra, the music is so achingly beautiful that you begin to weep. At last. you are hearing the most magnificent concerto in the world being played exactly as the composer intended. This is a rough analogy of what Jesus has done for us, not merely telling us but showing us what human beings, created in God's image, were meant to become.
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