In recent times, Messianic Jews are increasingly choosing to live in accord with Jewish tradition. Some onlookers, conditioned to imagine that all tradition is dead tradition, disapprove of this trend. Others, from more tradition-honoring societies, such as Asian Christians, have no problem understanding that it is appropriate that Jews live in the time-honored ways handed down from their ancestors, hence, tradition.

Without a doubt, MJTI is a “tradition-friendly” institution. A moment’s thought reveals that God has used the Jewish traditional way of life as a means to preserve Jewish community continuity despite two millennia of dispersion interlaced with persecution and with pressures to assimilate, both overt and covert.

Each generation deals with tradition differently. In every Jewish family, and in every generation, there are those who carry the ball of tradition, those who pass it on to the next generation, those who drop the ball, and those who pick it up.