Isaiah 53

Isaiah 53:2-5, 10 HCSB

He grew up before Him like a young plant and like a root out of dry ground. He didn’t have an impressive form or majesty that we should look at Him, no appearance that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of suffering who knew what sickness was. He was like someone people turned away from; He was despised, and we didn’t value Him. Yet He Himself bore our sicknesses, and He carried our pains; but we in turn regarded Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But He was pierced because of our transgressions, crushed because of our iniquities; punishment for our peace was on Him, and we are healed by His wounds. Yet the Lord was pleased to crush Him severely. When You make Him a restitution offering, He will see His seed, He will prolong His days, and by His hand, the Lord ’s pleasure will be accomplished.

Those of us who are in Messiah Yeshua know without a doubt that this pasage has everything to do with one person, namely Messiah Yeshua, who is God over all. However in most non believing Jewish circles, they reject this notion, and claim it as a chapter to do with the Jewish people. Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchak), a prominent medieval rabbi, at the height of Christian persecution against the Jews, had this to say about these verses:
And he came up like a sapling before it: This people, before this greatness came to it, was a very humble people, and it came up by itself like a sapling of the saplings of the trees. and like a root: he came up from dry land. neither form: had he in the beginning, nor comeliness. and we saw him that he had no appearance. Now shall we desire him?: And when we saw him from the beginning without an appearance, how could we desire him? Now shall we desire him?: This is a question.
Despised and rejected by men: was he. So is the custom of this prophet: he mentions all Israel as one man, e.g., (44:2), “Fear not, My servant Jacob” ; (44:1) “And now, hearken, Jacob, My servant.” Here too (52:13), “Behold My servant shall prosper,” he said concerning the house of Jacob. יַשְׂכִּיל is an expression of prosperity. Comp. (I Sam. 18:14) “And David was successful (מַשְׂכִּיל) in all his ways.” and as one who hides his face from us: Because of their intense shame and humility, they were as one who hides his face from us, with their faces bound up in concealment, in order that we not see them, like a plagued man who hides his face and is afraid to look.
Indeed, he bore our illnesses: Heb. אָכֵן, an expression of ‘but’ in all places. But now we see that this came to him not because of his low state, but that he was chastised with pains so that all the nations be atoned for with Israel’s suffering. The illness that should rightfully have come upon us, he bore. yet we accounted him: We thought that he was hated by the Omnipresent, but he was not so, but he was pained because of our transgressions and crushed because of our iniquities.
Indeed, he bore our illnesses: Heb. אָכֵן, an expression of ‘but’ in all places. But now we see that this came to him not because of his low state, but that he was chastised with pains so that all the nations be atoned for with Israel’s suffering. The illness that should rightfully have come upon us, he bore. yet we accounted him: We thought that he was hated by the Omnipresent, but he was not so, but he was pained because of our transgressions and crushed because of our iniquities.
the chastisement of our welfare was upon him: The chastisement due to the welfare that we enjoyed, came upon him, for he was chastised so that there be peace for the entire world.
If his soul makes itself restitution, etc.: Said the Holy One, blessed be He, “I will see, if his soul will be given and delivered with My holiness to return it to Me as restitution for all that he betrayed Me, I will pay him his recompense, and he will see children, etc.” This word אָשָׁם is an expression of ransom that one gives to the one against when he sinned, amende in O.F., to free from faults, similar to the matter mentioned in the episode of the Philistines (I Sam. 6:3), “Do not send it away empty, but you shall send back with it a guilt offering (אָשָׁם).”
These words of Rashi, make the foundation of the most widely held, Jewish nationalistic view of this passage.
Rashi interpreted this way to combat Christian antisemitism, and this same way of thinking still remains. We see in this interpretation that the singularity of the serveant is quickly changed into a plurality. That this group will be exalted.
Persecution was, and still remains (in various forms, among a slite minority of those professing to know the Jewish Messiah, one such group that comes to mind is Westboro Baptist), and this is why Jews hold to this interpretatio, but another reason is that a need for a personal isn't on the radar of Jewish thought, some other common objections include Jesus is for the gentiles, and being a good Jew, is good enough.
Shalom Brooklyn seeks to endeavor to proclaim the good news to the Jewish community in a loving, respectful way. We will be using Isaiah 53 to not only to show why this nationalistic view cannot be the case, and why we need a personal saviour, and that this saviour is Yeshua.
Chosen People Ministries was founded by an orthodox rabbi, by the name of Leopold Cohn,who like all Jewish believers want to lovingly show why this cannot be the whole nation, but why this has to do with, one, namely Yeshua.  Please pray for me, and as God permits, I'll post updates.

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