I like the name Yasha .. I believe that was his given birth name by the angel
It means savior
Every time someone called his name they said “savior, son of david” only in Hebrew
"Yasha" doesn't mean anything in Hebrew. And that wasn't the name which Gabriel said to give Him.
You are free, of course, to believe anything, we all are. I am free to believe that I am Napoleon Bonaparte, but belief doesn't make something true. We should seek to conform our beliefs to truth. As Christians that means orientating our belief to the revealed truth of God which is given in and through Christ; but more generally it also means that our beliefs should conform to objective facts. For example, I may believe that the earth is flat, but it is a matter of objective truth and fact that the earth is, in fact, an oblate spheroid orbiting a star--our sun, while spinning on its axis. If one proposition is true and the other is not true surely it is preferable to believe that which is true rather than to believe that which isn't true.
It is, therefore, preferable to believe in the truth than to believe in things which are not true. You may very well believe that "Yasha" is a name, and it's the name which was given to the Messiah. But it wasn't. That's not a matter of feeling or opinion, but a matter of objective fact. The name, as recorded in the original Greek texts which make up all of the New Testament, is Ἰησοῦς (pronounced as Iesous). And this Greek construction was the standard way which the Hebrew name יְהוֹשֻׁעַ and יֵשׁוּעַ, pronounced Yehoshua and Yeshua respectively was written.
How do we know that is the pronunciation of those two forms of that name? In the Middle Ages a group of Hebrew scholars and scribes created a system for pronunciation to aid readers. As written Hebrew lacked vowel characters, the Hebrew writing system being an abjad (a consonant-only writing system). While Hebrew had ceased to be a common language among the Jews following the Babylonian Captivity and the return from Exile, having been replaced with Aramaic, Hebrew remained an important language--the language of the Temple, the language of religious texts, the language of scholars and scribes. And it was these same scholars and scribes who kept the Hebrew language alive even following the destruction of the Jewish Temple in AD 70. They kept it alive in the liturgies of the synagogue, they kept it alive in prayers, they kept it alive through schools of learning. And so those scholars and scribes, specifically those known as the Masoretes, created vowel markers, called Niqqud in Hebrew. A system of dots and dashes which point to the correct vowel sounds to be made when speaking and reading Hebrew out loud.
Notice the first letter in the Hebrew name (both forms), it is the letter Yod, and underneath it we see in the first form two vertical dots under the letter, this is known as a Shvah, and in the second form of the name there are two horizontal dots, that is a Tsere. Both the Shvah and Tsere indicate a vowel sound that is most similar to the English vowel 'e' as in "m
en" or "b
ed". So the initial sound of both forms of the name is "Ye".
There can't be a "Ya" sound here, that's simply not how it works. There is nothing to suggest it or indicate it. Even if one wanted to argue that the Niqqud are wrong, there's no alternative source of information to work with.
But even ignoring the Niqqud for the moment, we can look at all the non-Hebrew evidence we have. For example we have the Aramaic form of the name, all the preserved Aramaic forms have a "Ye" sound such as Yeshuu and Isho.. We also have the evidence right there in the Septuagint and also in the New Testament. It is always written with an Iota followed by an Eta. The Greek is not I
asous but I
esous.
That means that the Aramaic and Greek evidence supports the Masoretic pronunciation.
All available linguistic evidence, the very nature of the Hebrew language itself, its preservation in Aramaic and Greek, all of the evidence does not allow for a pronunciation such as "Yasha", it's an impossible conclusion.
You are, of course, free to believe what you want; but let's recall my point earlier. Shouldn't we strive to conform our beliefs to truth? Shouldn't truth inform and shape our beliefs? Shouldn't we strive toward truth in everything?
Believe what you want. But what you believe is not in agreement with what is objectively and factually true. One cannot force a round earth to become flat simply by wishing it to be so; and neither can one make the Messiah's name "Yasha" just by believing it to be so--because it wasn't. Nobody called Him that. Ever.
Yehoshua, Yeshua, Yeshu, Isho, Iesous, Iesus, Jesus: these all mean "YHWH saves" or "YHWH is salvation". But "Yasha" doesn't mean
anything.
-CryptoLUtheran