Thank you for your post, but I really don’t feel comfortable discussing Jewish issues in the “Sacred Scripture” sub-forum of a Catholic DB. If you want to discuss this in the “Non-Catholic” sub-forum, I’ll be glad to contribute.
How could it be possible to answer the OP question without using any resources to prove that Jesus fulfilled the main purpose of being sent as the Messiah (savior) to Israel without using both NT and the Jewish Text. It was common knowledge about the about the Beth Din Hagadol. A high court (called the
beit din hagadol , “great house of law”) of 71 sages would convene in Jerusalem, on the TempleMount. Also, it is common knowledge when at the hour of 3:00 am when the verdict was sentenced - The Talmud teaches that the third hour is the hour of the rooster’s crow. The sixth hour is the time of the crow of the second rooster. Mark 14:72 says that before the cock crows twice. In the Greek and the Aramaic there is no article before the word
cock suggesting two different birds crowing. Thus, between 3:00 AM to 6:00 AM Peter denied Christ three times. Within that moment, as with the Exodus out of Egypt, the hour struck, and Jacob called his children out. Even to the point, like Laban - to Pharaoh, as they both sought after Jacob and his family. They are comparable. In Hebrew, say the word “essence of Jacob” and you find a familiarity in our heritage.
ConstantLearner, the non-catholic section has a post. The intent of that post is toward the understanding and the purpose of the cross. Even when one has to suffer, as Jesus did, as with Israel/Jacob (now) the returning of the brothers had all gathered around him. Again, in suffering - and knowing when God’s hand and power is within that suffering, everything turns into Joy. Again, noting a point from the article,
“Sometimes suffering makes an important good possible. If God eliminated that suffering, the corresponding good also would be eliminated. We could say that suffering . . . is present in order to unleash love in the human person, that unselfish gift of one’s “I” on behalf of other people, especially those who suffer. The world of human suffering unceasingly calls for, so to speak, another world: the world of human love; and in a certain sense man owes to suffering that unselfish love that stirs in his heart and actions. (SD 29)”
See Exodus 2:23-25, God heard their cry, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob. And God saw the children of Israel, and God knew.
Only when we trust in God’s plan and have belief! Faith in God means trust, not belief. Read Hebrews 11, "
1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
2 This is what the ancients were commended for." Each generation fulfilled the way for the promise to come forth and when the promise came, as within the Song of Mary - and, Zechariah’s Song.
Many blessings and Happy Birthday!