Do Christians who consider themselves "Messianic Jews" keep Yom Kippur? Why?

You're asking a logical question with Biblical foundation.

Logic and the Bible are irrelevant for so-called 'Messianic Jews.'

My G-d that was a brilliant question which I have never really thought about before! I was told they do but now that you mention it......well, I know you can imagine where I am going with this.

Brilliant! Just brilliant! I can't wait for them all to show up

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And there I think you have the best answer to your question as jesus made the rock blah blah blah......they do fast on Yom Kippur...THE DAY OF ATONEMENT....but don't actually ask for ATONEMENT! OMG! I am laughing so hard right now people have literally turned in their chairs to looks at me.

@ jesusmadetherock-Seriuosly?! You are telling us to read all of Leviticus. You have no Jewish education do you? None...right? Otherwise you would know we read the Torah once a year. The entire Torah or do you not try to fake Simchat Torah as well?

You use a kj bible, don't you? That would explain the lack of knowledge.

WOW...the chutzpah of some people....WOW...I don't even have the words

They do keep Yom Kippur for some odd reason I really don't know if they fast or do what we Real Jews do on Yom Kippur, they try so hard to be jewish they wanna be jewish so badly but they include Jesus in everything. They aren't obligated to follow any of the holidays they aren't jews whatsoever. I don't know anything about Messianic jews they aren't jews but I don't know anything. All I know is Jesus Has nothing to do with Yom Kippur.

There is no way for them to keep yom kippur (not like kosher jesus does, he's a mummar, you shove that fuker in a hole and make sure he never gets out) because Jesus took away all our sacrifices..when you read the bible like a Pagan Christian Goy you'll never understand anything, hence the mickey mouse interpretations of the Torah, if Christians tell you they respect Yom Kippur - Jesus came down as salvation for nothing, because we weren;t able to fulfill God's commandments (that's what those idolaters say) So if we are fulfilling them it's because nothing has changed before, meanwhile, and after jesus...this guy is entirely useless to us...

My Jewish husband has relatives who are Messianics, and they observe all of the Jewish holidays, including Yom Kippur.

However, some Messianics may not. Most probably do, because they tend to insist on their Jewish identity, that they are NOT Christians. But there seem to be some disagreements from congregation to congregation.

Edit: Yeshua (which is what Messianics call Jesus, since they see him as fully Jewish) is NOT the "final atonement" in Messianic thought. Christians see him as the ultimate sacrifice, but even THEY believe that Christians must make atonement for their own sins, their own transgressions. That is certainly what Messianics believe.

Why on earth would you think that even Christians think they need not atone for their sins?

Let me explain this once more. Messianic believers do not (should not ) ever call themselves christians because that is an insult to the God of the Bible. Christians so-called are nothing more than pagans with a different name proclaiming to love God. By their actions they show the exact opposite (John 14:15). All Messianics follow Yeshua, not some greek deity named jesus that eats pork, celebrates pagan holidays and doesn't keep the commandments. All real believers in the Holy One of Israel will keep all the feasts, just as COMMANDED by Yah Himself. We are blessed when we do so. It's that simple.

What do you mean by "keep it"?

1) No Jewish person today "keeps' it." Not a single one! for then there would need be a day when they focus on a Cohen HaGadol who went into the Kadosh HaKodeshim (Holy of Hoiles) with blood to sprinkle. (Read Lev 16 all the way next time).

2) MJ's do indeed fast - but not for forgiveness. We do it as a way to identify with our people, to honor Torah forever, but not for atonement.

As a matter of fact - if you read all of the chapter of Leviticus 16 - it is NOT fasting (the traditional interpretation of afflicting ones soul) that causes atonement. It was the blood sacrifice listed earlier in that very chapter.

And Even your quote of the text says specifically "Atonement shall be made FOR YOU."

One person never, in Torah, makes atonement before God by oneself. The whole idea of a priestly system was based upon that! Wow. Basic stuff here. LOL.

If you read the entire chapter - it was the Cohen HaGadol who made atonement for Israel.

**And during the year, it was the Cohenim who made atonement for individuals.** In other words - it was always someone ELSE who made atonement for you.

You saved me the time of reprinting the verse here by stating that atonement in Lev 16 was made "for you..."

Perhaps you did not even know what you were quoting?

This is why so many believers much prefer to read Messianic Jewish authors. They know the text and context.

Some do, some don't. Depends on wether they follow the Torah or just Jesus.

I suspect you will get your best answer by asking your friends who members of that group.

Don't have any friends in the group? Then why on earth do you care? I'm just scratching my head here....