Jewish Voices
Perspectives from Jewish scholars and teachers — Though these perspectives are not from followers of Yeshua they are essential for understanding the world Yeshua inhabited and the people he came from.
Podcasts
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (May his memory be a blessing)
Rabbi Sacks was one of the most articulate Jewish voices of the last century — a philosopher, theologian, and public intellectual whose Torah commentary combined deep learning with remarkable warmth and clarity. This podcast continues his Covenant and Conversation series, releasing his weekly Torah portion reflections in audio form.
You do not need to be Jewish or Messianic to benefit from this podcast. You need to want to understand the Torah the way it was meant to be read — from inside the tradition that produced it. Sitting with Rabbi Sacks for even a few episodes will change how you read scripture.
Who this is for: Anyone who wants to understand the Jewish mind and heart behind the text. An essential starting point for Jewish visitors. A perspective-shifting resource for Christians and Messianics who have only ever read Torah through a church lens.
Start here: Any Covenant and Conversation episode on the Torah portion you're currently studying. The episodes on Chayei Sarah and Toldot in particular are outstanding.
A Book Like No Other
Rabbi David Fohrman — Aleph Beta
A Book Like No Other is a chance to learn alongside Aleph Beta founder and lead scholar Rabbi David Fohrman — a master close reader of Torah — as he embarks on his most far-reaching explorations. Each season is a standalone journey into a different Torah text. The only goal: reading the Torah carefully, on its own terms, and following wherever that leads.
Rabbi Fohrman is not Messianic. He does not reference Yeshua. This podcast belongs in your Jewish Voices section for exactly that reason — it shows you Torah read from deep inside the tradition, with the kind of careful attention that makes anyone who loves scripture better at reading it. Sitting with this podcast will change how you encounter the text before you bring your own tradition's lens to it.
Listeners across faith traditions consistently note that the teaching brings clarity to biblical texts in ways that resonate regardless of background. That's the point. A table that only serves one kind of food isn't much of a table.
Best for: Anyone who wants to hear Torah read by someone who loves it deeply and reads it seriously — without a Messianic or Christian interpretive overlay. Especially valuable for Messianic believers who want to understand how Jewish scholars read the text they share.
Start here: The Exodus season on manna, bitter herbs, and the Passover meal. Among the most beautiful Torah teaching available in audio form.
Messianic Voices
Teaching and community from within Messianic Judaism — the movement, the theology, the lived experience.
Messiah Podcast
First Fruits of Zion — FFOZ
FFOZ has been one of the most serious Messianic Jewish educational organizations for decades — producing Torah Club curriculum, Messiah Magazine, and some of the most careful scholarship on the relationship between Yeshua, Torah, and the Gentile believer. Their podcast carries that same depth into audio form.
This is not surface-level content. FFOZ takes positions on difficult questions — Gentile identity, Torah observance, bilateral ecclesiology — and defends them with real scholarship. You will not agree with every conclusion. You will think more carefully because of the conversations.
Who this is for: Messianics looking for depth and theological grounding. Christians who are ready to move beyond "Jesus and the Jewish background" and into the harder questions about what Torah means for followers of Yeshua today.
Start here: Episode 83 — Food, Faith and Freedom with Hope Egan, for an accessible personal story. Episode 91 — Is Sabbath Just for Jews? with Aaron and Rachel Eby, for one of the best treatments of the Shabbat question available anywhere.
On The Other Hand Podcast
Messianic Jewish Alliance of America — MJAA
The MJAA is one of the oldest and largest Messianic Jewish organizations in the world, and On The Other Hand is their podcast voice — warm, community-focused, and spanning a wide range of Messianic life. Topics range from the story behind the Tree of Life Bible translation to singleness and marriage in Messianic community, to Holocaust remembrance and Jewish outreach.
What this podcast does well is show the texture of Messianic Jewish life rather than just the theology of it. It is less academic than Messiah Podcast and more relational — conversations with leaders, rebbetzins, rabbis, and educators about what it actually looks like to live this way.
Who this is for: Messianics looking for community voice and connection. Christians curious about what Messianic Jewish life looks and feels like from the inside. A particularly good entry point for women — several episodes center on female leaders and lived experience within Messianic community.
Start here: How the Tree of Life Bible Was Born — the story of a translation project that began with Messianic mothers wanting a Bible their children could understand and identity with. Where Was God? with Dr. Michael Rydelnik — a son of Holocaust survivors offering a Messianic perspective on the hardest question in Jewish history.
Shalom Macon: Messianic Jewish Teachings Podcast
Rabbi Damian Eisner and Derek Limbaugh — Shalom Macon, Georgia
Shalom Macon is a Messianic congregation in Macon, Georgia, gathering Jewish and Gentile believers around Yeshua in his Jewish context every Shabbat. Their podcast releases teachings from their services — and the quality of those teachings is worth your time wherever you are.
Rabbi Damian Eisner's ongoing series on atonement is one of the most careful and honest engagements with what sacrifice actually means in the Hebrew Bible — questioning whether popular Christian ideas about penal substitution fully account for the story and logic of scripture. This is not comfortable listening. It is the kind of listening that makes your faith more honest.
Derek Limbaugh's teaching on Jacob and Esau, Rome and Jerusalem, and the rectification of Edom is ambitious and prophetically serious. Take it with discernment — but take it.
Who this is for: Messianics and theologically curious Christians who want teaching that takes the Jewish context of atonement seriously and isn't afraid to ask whether the tradition has fully understood what it inherited.
Start here: Grace Is Misunderstood — the opening episode of the atonement series with Rabbi Eisner. From Rome to Jerusalem by Derek Limbaugh for a sweeping theological and historical perspective on Esau, Jacob, and the church.
Two Messianic Jews Podcast
Two Messianic Jewish believers in conversation
Exactly what it says — two Jewish followers of Yeshua thinking through theology, identity, and community together. The conversations are direct, sometimes pointed, and consistently focused on questions that matter in the Messianic world: Gentile identity, liturgy and its importance, combating replacement theology, and what it means to carry a Jewish testimony of Yeshua's faithfulness.
The episode on eight reasons Gentiles matter in God's kingdom is one of the clearest articulations of why Ahava Culture's Echad theology matters — that God's design for his kingdom is Israel and all the nations worshiping together, and that losing sight of Gentile distinctness is its own form of theological error.
Who this is for: Messianics who want honest peer conversation rather than top-down teaching. Gentile believers who want to understand their identity within the Messianic movement without either erasing their distinctness or overclaiming Jewish identity.
Start here: Eight Reasons Why Gentiles Matter in God's Kingdom — directly relevant to understanding your place in the story. Why is Liturgy Important for Messianic Jews? with Rabbi Eric Lakatos — a conversation about how prayer forms identity and why Hebrew liturgy matters for Messianic community.
Jonathan Cahn Podcast
Jonathan Cahn — Hope of the World
Jonathan Cahn is one of the most widely recognized Messianic Jewish voices in the world — a rabbi, author, and teacher whose books including The Harbinger, The Mystery of the Shemitah, and The Return of the Gods have introduced millions of people to the prophetic patterns woven through scripture and into history. His podcast carries that same prophetic and Messianic voice into weekly teaching.
A note on framing: Jonathan Cahn's work sits at the intersection of Messianic faith, biblical prophecy, and current events — and his approach is more prophetic and charismatic in tone than some other voices on this page. His Israel-affirmation and his love of Yeshua and Torah are genuine and consistent. Engage with his prophetic interpretations as one voice in the conversation rather than a final word.
Best for: Christians and Messianics already comfortable with prophetic ministry who want a Messianic Jewish voice bringing that lens to scripture and current events. A bridge for charismatic believers finding their way toward Messianic faith.
Start here: Any teaching on the biblical feasts — Cahn is at his best connecting the appointed times to Yeshua's life, death, and return in ways that are accessible and moving.
Hebraic Scholarship
Academic and contextual study of scripture in its original setting. Rigorous, accessible, cross-denominational.
The Biblical Mind Podcast
Dru Johnson — Center for Hebraic Thought
The Center for Hebraic Thought exists to recover what happens when you read scripture the way its authors thought — not through Greek philosophical categories imported by later tradition, but through the Hebraic patterns of thought, practice, and embodied life that shaped every word of the Bible.
Dru Johnson hosts conversations with scholars, archaeologists, and theologians across a remarkable range of topics — forgiveness in the Hebrew Bible, Leviticus read by a butcher, the ark of the covenant, women in redemption history, and the state of Hebraic studies in 2026. The episodes are intellectually serious without being inaccessible.
Who this is for: Christians and Messianics who want academic rigor alongside their faith. People who have sensed that something important has been filtered out of how they were taught to read scripture and want to find it again.
Start here: The episode on Leviticus with Phil Bray — a butcher who fell in love with Leviticus — is the most surprising and delightful entry point. The Forgiveness in the Hebrew Bible episode with Joshua Berman will permanently change how you think about apology and reconciliation.
BEMA Podcast
Marty Solomon and Brent Billings
BEMA takes the rabbi-disciple model of learning seriously — walking through scripture the way a first-century Jewish student might have encountered it, with Marty Solomon as a teacher who has spent decades studying in the Jewish tradition and Brent Billings as the voice asking the questions most listeners are thinking.
This podcast is formative in a way that most Bible teaching is not. It does not just give you information — it retrains how you read. Many people describe their time with BEMA as one of the most significant shifts in their relationship with scripture.
Who this is for: Christians who are new to Hebrew context and want a grounded, story-shaped entry point. People who have felt that the Bible was flattened into propositions and want to recover its narrative depth. This is one of the best starting points we know of for someone just beginning this journey.
Start here: Begin at the beginning of the series — BEMA is designed to be listened to sequentially. The early episodes on Genesis will immediately show you why this approach is different.
Haverim Community Monthly Messages
JC Studies — Tom Guilliams, James Whitman, and the Dwight Pryor legacy
Dwight Pryor founded JC Studies — The Center for Judaic-Christian Studies — over thirty years ago with a passion to help followers of Yeshua know God more intimately by grasping his Word more fully through its Hebraic context. The Haverim Community podcast carries that legacy forward with monthly teachings from Tom Guilliams, James Whitman, and recordings from Pryor's own archive.
Haverim in modern Hebrew means friends — but in Yeshua's day it carried a deeper relational and missional component. He calls his disciples haverim in John 15:15. JC Studies uses that word deliberately: these are companions responding to his call, becoming intimately involved in his Kingdom vision. JC Studies
The teaching here is careful, warm, and consistently grounded in the actual linguistic and cultural world of first-century Yeshua. This is not radical or provocative — it is steady, trustworthy scholarship made accessible for discipleship. Tom Guilliams teaches like a gifted tour guide, taking you into the world of Israel two thousand years ago to show you details that are seldom seen but add depth and significant meaning to understanding scripture. Apple Podcasts
Best for: Christians who want trusted, accessible Hebraic scholarship from a community that has been doing this work seriously for decades. A quieter resource than some on this list — but one of the most reliable.
Start here: Any of the Book of Acts series with Tom Guilliams — it reads Acts as a document of the early Jewish Yeshua movement and opens the book up completely.
The Apocalyptic Gospel Podcast
Bill Scofield, John Harrigan, and Josh Hawkins
The Apocalyptic Gospel Podcast explores the Gospel as a first-century Jew would have understood it — mining the Torah, biblical prophets, and Second Temple writings for the origin and development of ideas about the Gospel, the Kingdom of God, and the Day of the Lord. Spotify
What makes this podcast distinctive is its use of Second Temple literature — the writings produced between the end of the Old Testament and the beginning of the New. Most believers never encounter this material, yet it was the intellectual and theological air that Yeshua, Paul, and the disciples breathed. Understanding it changes how you read the Gospels and the apostolic letters at a fundamental level.
The hosts consistently demonstrate that Yeshua was not introducing a new kingdom ethic but reading within and from his own tradition — which is exactly what Ahava Culture believes and what this podcast helps illuminate.
Best for: Christians and Messianics who want to understand what the Gospel actually meant to its first hearers — and why recovering that meaning matters for how we read and live it today.
Start here: Season 1, Episode 1 — the hosts introduce their framework and the question that drives the whole project. The episode on the Great Commission in its Jewish apocalyptic context is one of the most paradigm-shifting in the catalog.
Bridge Builders
Jewish-Christian dialogue — organizations and voices working to build honest relationship and understanding across the divide.
Bridge Builders Forum Podcast
Ryan Lambert
Bridge Builders Forum exists to help Jews and Christians understand their faith, the Bible, and each other — and Ryan Lambert pursues that goal with a level of intellectual honesty and genuine relationship that is rare in this space. His conversations span Jewish scholars, Christian theologians, Messianic teachers, and everyone in between — always asking the harder questions rather than settling for easy answers.
The Forum's content on Paul as a Jewish figure, on Chabad, on antisemitism in media, and on the Olive Tree Affirmations challenging replacement theology represents some of the most useful and accessible material available for building real understanding across the Jewish-Christian divide. This is not interfaith dialogue that avoids the difficult questions. It is the difficult questions, asked in friendship.
Who this is for: All three of our audiences — and particularly anyone who wants to understand the relationship between Jewish and Christian faith from both sides of the table. Jewish visitors will find their perspective taken seriously here in a way that is unusual for a faith-based resource. Christians will find their assumptions gently and thoroughly examined.
Start here: The episode with Lois Tverberg on Reading Jesus in His Jewish World is one of the most accessible and beautiful entry points in the catalog. The Paul Was Not A Christian episode with Pamela Eisenbaum is the most paradigm-shifting.
Bible Fiber Podcast
Shelley Neese — The Jerusalem Connection
Shelley Neese is president of The Jerusalem Connection, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to educate and activate Christian support for Israel and the Jewish people. Bible Fiber goes through the prophetic books chapter by chapter — the twelve Minor Prophets, two reformers in Ezra and Nehemiah, and one priest in exile in Ezekiel — encountering the textures and shades of the biblical tapestry as it goes.
What makes this podcast worth your time is what it covers. You won't find another podcast so committed to teaching the parts of the Bible that get the least attention while also constantly calling for prayers for the modern state of Israel. The Minor Prophets, Ezra, Nehemiah, Ezekiel — these are the books most believers have never sat with seriously. Shelley Neese makes them accessible, grounded, and alive — reading them as documents about real people in real history with real implications for how we understand Israel today.
Shelley studied in Israel for three years, receiving her Master of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies from Ben Gurion University, and is now pursuing a Master of Arts in Biblical History and Archaeology. That academic grounding shows in the quality of the teaching without making it inaccessible. Buzzsprout
Best for: Christians and Messianics who want to understand the prophetic books in their historical and cultural context, and who want teaching that connects ancient Israel to the living nation today. Particularly valuable for those whose engagement with Israel has been more devotional than historical.
Start here: Begin with Hosea — the first minor prophet and the one that sets the emotional and theological tone for everything that follows. Shelley's treatment of God's covenant love for a wayward people is both scholarly and moving.
We have learned from this podcast. We do not represent The Jerusalem Connection and they do not represent us.
Pod for Israel
One for Israel — Biblical insights from the land
One for Israel is an Israeli Messianic ministry producing evangelism, discipleship, and teaching from within the land itself — and their podcast carries that ground-level perspective into conversations about scripture, prophecy, Israel's story, and the covenant that holds it together.
What distinguishes Pod for Israel is the viewpoint. This is not American Messianic theology looking at Israel from a distance. This is Israelis who follow Yeshua reading their own story in their own land, with the weight of both biblical prophecy and current geopolitical reality present in every episode. The episodes on Passover, Purim, and the covenant of love in Season One of Why Israel? are beautiful and accessible.
Who this is for: Christians and Messianics who want to understand Israel not just as a theological concept but as a living community with a living story. Particularly valuable for those whose Israel-affirmation has been more political than biblical — these episodes ground it in covenant and text.
Start here: Why Israel? Episode One — The Covenant of Love. A grounded, scripture-rooted answer to why Israel matters told from inside the land. The Missing Piece in Your Passover Seder — a concise and moving episode on what the Passover story has been waiting to reveal.
We have learned from this podcast. We do not represent The Jerusalem Connection and they do not represent us.