8:27 AM
Gil Student
The following is from Nitzahon Yashan, translated by Dr. David Berger as The Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages, p. 60:
A certain apostate argued that the Hebrew verse, "Until Shilo comes and to him..." (ad ki yavo Shilo ve-lo [Gen. 49:10]) contains an acrostic for Jesus (Yeshu). The answer to this is in the very same verse, for the Hebrew verse, "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until Shilo comes and to him..." [lo yasur shevet mi-Yehudah u-mehokek mi-bein raglav ad ki yavo Shilo ve-lo] is an acrostic for the Hebrew phrase, "There is no blemish as evil as Jesus" [lo yesh mum ra ke-Yeshu].
