Why I Never Connected with Christianity, My Journey to Orthodox Judaism: Mrs Rachel Rose

About this episode

Rachel Rose shares her journey from a non-religious upbringing to discovering Orthodox Judaism and the challenges she faced along the way.

✨🎧 Listen to this and other episodes at www.joidenver.com/podcasts ✨ Welcome to Zero Percent, the podcast that explores the outsized impact of the Jewish people and stories of Jewish conversion! Join us as Rachel Rose shares her extraordinary journey from growing up in a non-religious family that explored different faiths to discovering Orthodox Judaism and realizing that her soul had always been Jewish. Growing up in a heavily Christian community in Colorado, Rachel tried to connect with Christianity through Bible study classes. Still, the Old Testament (Torah) resonated with her while the New Testament never quite made sense. What happens when someone spends years trying to understand Jesus as the Messiah but keeps thinking, "he didn't bring world peace - look around"? From her first transformative Shabbat dinner in San Francisco that sent "a jolt through her body" to navigating not one, but two Orthodox conversion processes, Rachel's spiritual journey is filled with courage, faith struggles, setbacks, and ultimately profound religious fulfillment. Hear how she found her husband Michael through their shared path to Orthodox Judaism, discovered the life-changing power of…

People in this episode

Host: Menachem Lehrfield

Guest: Rachel Rose

Topics covered

• Jewish conversion
• Orthodox Judaism
• spiritual journey
• Christianity
• Torah
• Shabbat observance

Keywords

• Jewish conversion
• Orthodox Judaism
• Christianity
• Torah
• Shabbat
• kosher
• faith struggles

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Beit Din

Places: Colorado, San Francisco

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