Ephraim7 wrote:
Do the names Yeshua or Yeshu actually exist in Hebrew or is this something made up by messianics in order to "Hebrew-ize" their god-man?
Yes, both exist.  The name יֵשׁוּעַ (yeSHU'a) appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name of various individuals on 28 occasions, and once as the name of a town in the Judean desert.  The name יֵשׁוּ (YEshu) appears in the Babylonian Talmud on 9 occasions, in 7 of which it actually appears in the specific phrase יֵשׁוּ הַנּוֹצְרִי (YEshu ha'notzRI), "Jesus the Nazarean".  Also, any good Hebrew dictionary will have the name יֵשׁוּ for the claimed founder of Christianity.

UriYosef

Our raison d'être:

WHOSOEVER DESTROYS A SINGLE SOUL OF ISRAEL, SCRIPTURE IMPUTES [GUILT] TO HIM AS THOUGH HE HAD DESTROYED A COMPLETE WORLD; AND WHOSOEVER PRESERVES A SINGLE SOUL OF ISRAEL, SCRIPTURE ASCRIBES [MERIT] TO HIM AS THOUGH HE HAD PRESERVED A COMPLETE WORLD. (Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Sanhedrin, 37a)

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The battle against spiritual terrorism is being won, one soul at a time!!!
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