Question regarding Judaism?
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It is not in the Torah because the Torah is just the first five books of Moses, the Law.  The bible or TaNaCh is made of the Torah, Writings, and the Prophets.  Isaiah is in the book of the Prophets.  The Torah is a piece of the Jewish Bible.
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Glad to know you're interested in Judaism!  The Jewish religion is actually quite similar to the Muslim religion in some basic tenets.\n\nJudaism has many different branches, and as study and debate are important parts of our tradition, Jews worship in many different ways.\n\nSome of the central tenets of Judaism are the Ten Commandments:\n1. I am God your Lord, who brought you out of Egypt, from the place of slavery. Do not have any other gods before Me. \n\n2. Do not represent [such] gods by any carved statue or picture of anything in the heaven above, on the earth below, or in the water below the land. Do not bow down to [such gods] or worship them. I am God your Lord, a God who demands exclusive worship. Where My enemies are concerned, I keep in mind the sin of the fathers for [their] descendants, to the third and fourth [generation]. But for those who love Me and keep My commandments, I show love for thousands [of generations]. \n\n3. Do not take the name of God your Lord in vain. God will not allow the one who takes His name in vain to go unpunished. \n\n4. Remember the Sabbath to keep it holy. You can work during the six weekdays and do all your tasks. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to God your Lord. Do not do anything that constitutes work. [This includes] you, your son, your daughter, your slave, your maid, your animal, and the foreigner in your gates. It was during the six weekdays that God made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. God therefore blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. \n\n5. Honor your father and mother. You will then live long on the land that God your Lord is giving you. \n\n6. Do not commit murder. \n\n7. Do not commit adultery. \n\n8. Do not steal. \n\n9. Do not testify as a false witness against your neighbor. \n\n10. Do not be envious of your neighbor's house. Do not be envious of your neighbor's wife, his slave, his maid, his ox, his donkey, or anything else that is your neighbor's. \n\nHere's something else from the Wikipedia article below that you might find useful:\n\n"Over the centuries, a number of clear formulations of Jewish principles of faith have appeared, many with common elements, and though they differ with respect to certain details, they demonstrate a wide variety of tolerance for varying theological perspectives. Of these, the one most widely considered authoritative is Maimonides' thirteen principles of faith:\n\n*God is one - strict unitarian monotheism, in which the eternal creator of the universe is the source of morality. \n\n*God is all powerful (omnipotent), as well as all knowing (omniscient), and the different names of God are ways to express different aspects of God's presence in the world \n \n*God is non-physical, non-corporeal, and eternal. All statements in the Hebrew Bible and in rabbinic literature which use anthropomorphism are held to be linguistic conceits or metaphors, as it would otherwise be impossible to talk about God. \n\n*One may offer prayer to God alone — any belief in an intermediary between man and God, either necessary or optional, has traditionally been considered heretical. \n\n*The Hebrew Bible, and much of the beliefs described in the Mishnah and Talmud, are held to be the product of divine revelation. How revelation works, and what precisely one means when one says that a book is "divine", has always been a matter of some dispute. Different understandings of this subject exist among Jews.\n \n*The words of the prophets are true. \n\n*Moses was the chief of all prophets. \n\n*The Torah (five books of Moses) is the primary text of Judaism. \n\n*God will reward those who observe His commandments, and punish those who violate them. \n\n*God chose the Jewish people to be in a unique covenant with Him (see also: Jews as a chosen people). \n\n*There will be a moshiach (Jewish Messiah), or perhaps a messianic era. \n\n*The soul is pure at birth, and
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see, the whole points of Judaism (or a big part of it) is the fact that it is the exact same thing as it was hundreds of years ago.  it NEVER changed.  the proof is that the thousands of Jews that were at the giving of the torah and it would be hard to convince all those thousands of people, as witnesses, to change it suddenly.  but if you mean how it looked like etc., dont ask me.  hope this helps..8)
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Read the book Judaism for dummies which is written by a rabbi and peer reviewed. My local rabbi bulka wrote a book called religion from A to Z whch was meant to be generic but had jewish slant.\n\nIm not jewish but doies not prevent me from respecting other faiths..
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Judaism is what Jews believe to be the word of G-d. Christianity is what Christian believe to be the word of God
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I suggest you guys try and ignore this mouthbreather.  He asks the same questions on Judaism over and over again, with slightly different (though consistently biased and misleading) wording. If you don't believe me, all I can say is that you can verify this for yourselves.  I sincerely doubt that he is here to learn anything, at least in this area (though I feel obliged to at least commend him on his appropriate choice of screenname).\n\nThis guy's online hobby is something called Jew-baiting.  So don't take the bait, as it were, by responding on his terms and lending legitimacy to his line of questioning (which is shallow and insensitive at best, or, more likely from what I've seen, deliberate bigotry).  He has a real problem with Jews.  I don't know if it stems from a negative personal experience with Jews, or if he was raised by klansmen, or what.  But he keeps asking these same questions, and when confronted with information that contradicts his assumptions, he becomes belligerent and disregards the new information anyway.\n\nI once explained to him that he was mistaken in his assertion that a Jew had to have "Jewish blood" because conversion has a history going back through biblical history, all the way to the first Hebrew himself.  This did not sway him in his irrational belief.  And if someone here were to point out that calling Judaism a "cult of ancestor worship" is inaccurate because\n\na) it's not considered a cult\n\nand\n\nb) worshipping anything other than G-d, one's ancestors included, is the most severe form of blasphemy according to Judaism\n\nI highly doubt this gentleman would be swayed on either point.  My advice is not to waste your time.  There are plenty of people on here asking questions about Judaism because they actually want to learn.  If you are qualified to answer, answer those people.  They'll actually benefit from it.
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Judaism is a religion, not a race.\n\nHowever, due to the persecution that has persisted since the time of slavery in Egypt, Jews tend to keep a fairly close community, so many physical traits have become prominent, making people think of them as a separate "race."
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Judaism is a religion based on a belief in One G-d.  Judaism's sacred texts are the Five Books of Moses, or the Pentateuch, which are the first five books of the Hebrew Bible (Christians call that the Old Testament.)\nJews and Muslims worship the same One G-d (ari - see the Rambam on this.)\nAbout 80% of the people of Israel are Jewish.  The Land of Israel is the Jewish People's holy land, and Jerusalem is the holiest city.\nJews may eat meat, but only certain animals.  The animals must be killed according to the laws of Shechita, very quickly and with a very sharp knife, so that the death is as quick and painless as possible.  Personally, I'm vegetarian.\nJews never say the name of G-d, but instead we talk about Hashem, which means "the name" - so that we don't use The Name, which is too holy.\nHope this helps :)
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It's no mystery.  The old testament covers Jewish morality.  Start with the ten commandments, for example.  You know Jewish morality already, you just don't realize it.
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islam,christianity and judaism
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I am not sure what you mean. WHILE one remains in one faith, one cannot ALSO become a Jew by converting to Judaism. So, if that is what you mean, you are right, while having other religions one cannot ALSO convert to Judaism. But if one gives up that faith, then one can convert to Judaism and become a Jew.\n\nBUT, if you mean that no one can convert to Judaism at all, then you are very wrong!
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Hi. I'm new here to Yahoo Answers. Just want to know if anyone here a observant jewish people .. hey rev franworth stop trying to convert me.. i love being jewish
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The Jewish concept of Messiah is one who brings freedom to the Jewish people and, usually also peace to the land of Israel. Moses, Cyrus the Persian, etc. were all Messiahs. \n\nIt's not an afterlife issue. Jews don't believe in Hell. Jews believe that dutiful following of G-d's Law results in a clear conscience at death, which results in ease in being in G-d's presence. Having a guilty conscience results in the person's spirit not being able to "face" G-d... it is the person, and not G-d, who defines one's afterlife experience. This is "deep," "subconscious" awareness of one's righteousness and/or sin, not some sort of "wish away the bad stuff" deal.  Why would you want the death of someone else (e.g. Jesus) on your soul? Having another human being "die" to take away the guilt of your own misdeeds makes no sense from the Jewish point of view. Actually any human sacrifice is clearly forbidden by the redemption of Issac. One does Mitzvah (prayer, charity, good works) to balance errors that you couldn't directly fix. If one is motivated by caring and good works, then the errors you make don't weigh too heavily on your soul, especially if you consciously seek to make things right. When the Temple existed, Temple sacrifice was a Mitzvah. It wasn't the actual food being sacrificed, but the willingness to give to the community through especially defined rules (an additional opportunity to follow Law), that cleansed the soul.\n\nWhen Jesus did not drive out the Romans and bring Israel into independence and peace, those Jews who were initially following him realized that he was not a Messiah.\n\nChristianity is actually Greco-Roman "dying god as bringer of life" cycle mythology tacked shakily onto Hebrew scripture so that Paul could start his own religous following with a Jew in the role of the dying spring god. When Rome took on Paul's concept in the 400's, they did so because they needed a religion based on submission to authority for their people, to try to hold a dying empire together.  To discourage people looking too closely at the actual concepts in the original Hebrew scripture and possibly converting fully to Judaism and away from Christianity, they modified scriptures and preached heavily to make Jews into evil servants of the ancient pagan gods (devils) in the minds of their followers, and only referred to Jewish scripture line by line, pulled out without historical and full-text (original text, not the modified stuff) context, to try to prove Jesus' divinity.
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Hi,\nAs a Jewish believer in Jesus, let me give you my perspective.  In a nutshell, most Jews aren't willing to consider Jesus to be the Messiah because (1) there has unfortunately been a lot of anti-Semitism carried out under the banner of the Church - one of the biggest reasons - (2) many Jewish people consider putting faith in Jesus to make them traitors to the Jewish people - going over to "them" instead of "us" - this is true regardless of whether someone is Orthodox or secular.  We're raised to think that if we become Christians / Messianic Jews / whatever term you like, we've stopped being Jewish.  Not true, but that's the sentiment in most of the Jewish community.\n\nAbout atoning for sin - well, most Jews today are no longer traditional and sin plays about as big a role as it does for anyone else in modern society - very little.  For those who recognize that they do need to atone for sin, in Judaism sacrifice has been replaced by repentance, charity, and fasting.\n\nHave you ever checked out www.jewsforjesus.org, you can find a lot of material there to help you understand.\n\nOh and by the way, about the prophets and the Messiah - the majority of Jewish people today would not consider it to be "God's Word".  The Orthodox (10%-20% of Jewish people) believe God gave an "Oral Law" alongside the Written Law and therefore the Bible (Written Law) needs to be interpreted in accordance with the rabbis (Oral Law).\n\nHope this helps,\nRich
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^Have you read the Talmud?  Have you studied it?  Can you understand it?  Do you know what it is?\n\nLet us not forget that the Old Testament is Jewish and the christians accept it in it's entirety.  Jews have to wait until Yom Kippur for forgiveness, even assuming your premis to be correct.  Cross-kissers can simply fess up at their convenience, mumble a few incantations and kiss a ring or a  statue to get theirs.  Protestants have to earn forgiveness, except for those sects who are doomed from birth (other than the select chosen ones.\nIf your question was intended to be anti-Semitic, it was a poor effort.  If it wasn't, learn a little about racism before you open your mouth because yours is blatant. \n\nAs for other racist books, try most anything put out by the monks in the Middle Ages.
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~Most~ Jews do not accept Jesus as the Messiah who comes twice. Scripture doesn't say He'll come twice; it doesn't say He comes once to do it all. It is undefined enough so God can share salvation with the gentiles, while the Jews are blinded (as marianne stated). That does not mean they are lost.\n\nThe question is better for discussing than answering.... \n\nThe first hurdle is that the mainstream Christian denominations are quite Judeophobic - so you get a biased response from most Christians.\n\nThe other major problem from Christians to answer this question is that they are hung-up on the name, "J-e-s-u-s." The Messiah who lived 2000 years ago was not known as "Jesus" - no one called Him that, no one referred to Him like that. Why? There is no "J" in Hebrew or Aramaic. "Jesus" is a Westernized creation. His name is Yeshua, which means "God saves," "salvation," or "savior" -- "She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Yeshua, [which means `ADONAI saves,'] because he will save his people from their sins." --Matthew 1:21 (The Complete Jewish Bible).\n\nAnother issue for most Christians is that God did not forsake Israel or the Israelites/Jews; God did not replace Israel with the "Christian Church." And probably most important, God has one plan of salvation for people - the faithful - His people. Abraham was deemed righteous (and saved) because of his faith - all of the OT patriarchs & faithful believers were saved by the Grace of God because they believed that God would send His Salvation ["Yeshua"] to save them. How are faithful believers saved today? By the Grace of God because they believe in Jesus, Yeshua, God's salvation. What's the difference? (That's a rhetorical question - tear the uninspired pages <i.e. "Old Testament" title page & "New Testament" title page> out of your Bibles - God never intended for there to be a separation in His Scripture - it is a man-made barrier to understanding Scripture, it is a man-made barrier to Truth, it is a man-made barrier to salvation.) There is no difference. The OT is the NT concealed; the NT is the OT revealed -- they are the SAME Gospel message!\n\nNow, back to the question: What about the Jews? Those who were faithful believers in God's salvation were saved in the OT; I believe that today they will be saved the same way - even if they don't use the word "Jesus" for God's salvation.\n\nIf you think "Jesus" is a ~magical~ name, check with your spiritual leader for clarification.\n\nPS- The "man-made barrier" is devil inspired - that's his job!
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""Jews" for Christ," also called, Messianic "Jews," are not Jews! \n\nMany people, Christians and some Jews as well, erroneously believe that just as one can be Black and Christian, just as one can be Oriental and Christian, one can also be Jewish and Christian. It is not true. The Jews are not a race. There is no genetic code passed from either mother or father to the child that makes that child a Jew. Even if all, or some, of the genetic code in a child could be proved to be of Jewish Origin, that would not make the child a Jew. Jewish law determines who is a Jew, and Jewish law is quite clear. If a person's mother is a Jew, and that person has not converted to another faith, then that person will be considered fully Jewish, so long as that person wishes to identify solely as a Jew. Although one cannot convert to become a member of a race, one who converts to Judaism does, indeed, become fully a Jew. Similarly, if one converts from Judaism to another faith, one is no longer a Jew.\n\nMessianic "Judaism" is a product of the successful missionizing campaign of such ministries as the "Jews" for Jesus, who try to make it look as though one can be a Jew and a Christian at the same time. BY definition, one who believes in Jesus as their savior is a Christian. One who accepts Jesus as anything other than a man who once lived, but died without doing anything the Real Messiah will do when he gets here (hence the reason for a Second Coming!), is a Christian and no longer a Jew.\n\nThe Orthodox Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, writing for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, for the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, the Orthodox Youth Group, in his book The Real Messiah, on page 21 wrote:\n\nThis brings us back to our original question: \nWhat can a Jew lose by embracing Christianity? \n\nThe answer is: Everything. \n\nChristianity negates the fundamentals of Jewish \nfaith, and one who accepts it rejects the very \nessence of Judaism. Even if he continues to keep \nall of the rituals, it is the same as if he \nabandoned Judaism completely. \n\nA Jew who accepts Christianity might call himself \na "Messianic 'Jew,'" but he is no longer a Jew. \nHe can no longer even be counted as part of a \nJewish Congregation.\n\nWe Jews define for ourselves who is and who is not a Jew, and not the Jewish wannabees, and the targets of this newest technique in missionizing Jews. \nAs a matter of fact, the majority of their members were not ever Jewish up until recently, and this is also true about their messianic ""rabbis."" Many of them change their names to something that sounds stereotypically Jewish, in order to better target those they want to convert to Christianity.\n\nAs the success of this newest technique in missionizing the less knowledgeable Jews increased, the percentage of membership of ex-Jews as members of their messianic congregations has also increased, now running about 50-50.\n\nIt is also interesting to note that a large number of people converting TO Judaism have come to real Judaism from having been exposed to Messianic ""Judaism."" \n\nWhat you should expect at a messianic congregation is that all references to Christian theology has been changed to make it sound more Jewish, and therefore more pallatable to their targets. They will only refer to Jesus as 'Yeshua' (which would not have been his name), they will say 'moshiach' instead of 'christ,' they will say 'synagogue' instead of 'church,' and on and on, in keeping with the techniques described in the book Understanding Church Growth by Donald MacGavran, who helped the idea of Indiginous Cultural Evangelism get started. \n\nThe services will sound very Jewish, usually a lot of (mispronounced) Hebrew, and prayers will have been changed to add the Christian theology of Jesus to them, again, to make the service more f