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Rabbi Jason Sobel was raised in a Jewish home in New Jersey. As he grew up, on the outside he seemed to be thriving- working in a large recording studio in New York City with rappers and rock stars. Yet he was on a quest for something more. \u201cI looked at their life, and I said, ‘There has to be something more than this.\u2019 And I began a spiritual journey. I was going to the synagogue and studying with my traditional rabbi. And I started studying martial arts and Eastern philosophy,\u201d he told Crosswalk Headlines<\/em><\/a>. His search led to what Sobel calls a \u201ccrazy spiritual experience\u201d while meditating. \u201cMy soul began to leave my body. Next thing I know, I was up in Heaven and standing before this King,\u201d he said. He knew the King was Jesus.<\/p>\n

It was an encounter that changed his life. \u201cNext thing I knew, I was back in my body, shaking under the power of Heaven, running around, going, ‘I’m called to serve Him.’ My mom’s like, ‘You’re called to serve who? We’re Jewish, for goodness sake,\u2019\u201d he said. So began his journey into what is known as \u201cMessianic Judaism<\/a>.\u201d Messianic Judaism believes in \u201cmaintaining a Biblically Jewish expression of their faith.\u201d This may include such things as \u201cworshiping in Hebrew, following Mosaic Law, dancing as King David did before the Lord, and keeping Biblical holidays such as Pesach, Sukkot, or Shavuot.\u201d<\/p>\n

After attending a Messianic service at the invitation of a friend, he was given his first-ever copy of a New Testament. \u201cI took it home, read it, and realized [Jesus] was the one who Moses and the Prophets spoke of,\u201d he said. Rabbi Sobel\u2019s conversion has led to him to be ordained in the Messianic faith and to start Fusion<\/a>. It\u2019s a ministry that seeks to connect Christians and Messianic Jews worldwide. He has also written a number of books<\/a>, including Signs and Secrets of the Messiah<\/em> and a book with Kathie Lee Gifford, The Rock, the Road, and the Rabbi.<\/em> He has also found himself as a spiritual advisor on the popular show, \u201cThe Chosen.\u201d \u201cI come from a conservative, Bible-believing background,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m a strong evangelical who believes that the Bible is God\u2019s Word. So we start with that as our primary source of truth and inspiration, and we don\u2019t change it,\u201d he said<\/a> of his approach to faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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