No one is "blinded". As much as I think Messianics have a lot to inform others, you guys need to get off your high horse. Not only that, but this whole premise is an insult to divine providence. It's the same thing Protestants and all of their offspring have been doing for 500 years. "Everyone was mistaken for 1500 years..You're all blind. BUT I've unlocked the truth after all of this time." Charismatics do the same thing. Where they claim "latter rain" of the Holy Spirit, and the entire church has been in the dark ages or something.
Now back to the text. There's multiple meanings from the Jewish perspective there, and it's not merely the Word as Torah. It's hard to escape all of the Temple references right in the beginning of John, so it's not merely about Torah (nor were Jews ever against the concept of using "Word" or Logos to begin with. A lot of neoplatonic teachings cropped up in Jewish circles after Plotinus, who also used "Logos". Not to mention how much this influenced Kabbalah. Nor were Jews resistant to Greek thought after that either. A lot of Maimonedes' thought is built on Aristotle). This idea of a Jewish resistance to the NT because of linguistics is bunk. It's their own stupid fault, because they also followed many pagan Gentiles over the years. Yet you would defend them as if it's everyone else's fault. No, it's their own fault for not accepting Jesus. No one else's. They'd rather follow pagans than him.
Ummm... back to the Temple bit. "The Word Became Flesh and made his dwelling among us" is literally "made his tabernacle" among us. Then after that, John the Baptist calls him the Lamb of God. All throughout John, Jesus is Torah, High Priest, Temple, and Lamb all in one. No one is blind to this. And you're not building the body up when you talk as if your brothers are blind. It's just insulting.
