“… several years after my Bat Mitzvah, I started to ask myself deeper questions: What is the real purpose of our human existence? What really happens when we die? And God, why do YOU feel so far away? I felt like I received a fantastic introduction to God, but I was still, somehow, craving more: I wanted a close, intimate, relationship with him that I didn’t have yet. This makes sense, as before the Messiah came, God had not outlined how the Jews, nor humanity, could have a personal relationship with him.

“The message the cardinal conveyed changed my life forever: Jesus Christ loves us so scandalously that he happily paid for all of humanity’s sins by his ultimate sacrifice on the cross. That was the true mission of the Messiah prophesied in the Scriptures. This beautiful forgiveness extends to any transgression we could ever imagine committing and wipes it away forever every time we repent and apologize to God. After being made aware of this, my soul was lit on fire, and I would never be the same…

“By entering the Catholic Church, I did not stop being Jewish … I became more Jewish than ever, because I became a Jew who is following the Jewish Messiah, rather than a Jew who refuses, essentially, to follow the Jewish Messiah and is stuck in pre-Messianic Judaism. In fact, my understanding of the relationship is that the Catholic Church is post-Messianic Judaism, and Judaism is pre-Messianic Catholicism, that they are one and the same — the plan for salvation.

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