How do Orthodox Jews view those who adhere to Reform Judaism?
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wow so sad.\n\nI grew up in as a Reform Jew. I left when I was 17 because I did not find it to be authentic Judaism. My heart crys when I read the other answers. I have yet to meet a Orthodox Jew that dose not truly care about his Reform brethren. They might disagree what is Judaism but they truly care about every Jew. \n\nfor the life of me I dont where the that idea came from. I am actually having trouble finish this because it really bothers me that Jews would actually think that other Jews would look down on them just because how they practice their faith. \n\n-I have to stop this or I will cry
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Jews believe in God, the same God that christians worship, the God of Abraham, the God of Moses, etc.  They believe in sin and in forgiveness.  The day of atonement is the day to seek forgiveness for sins.
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It is generally held the Nephillim were the offspring of evil kings and princes who raped the common women and took young girls from their families for wives. This is the most established and accepted view held by Orthodox Judaism.\n\nA minority opinion and one held by a lot of Christians is the Sons of Heaven or God were fallen angles who copulated with human women and created a species of giants, the last of which was Og, King of Bahsan.
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I am older, my children are grown, but I still would not want to be involved with someone who is not Jewish.  I want someone to go to Jewish classes and discussion groups with.  I want someone to can relate to how I feel about my people and my faith.\n\nI guess I even go one stop farther--------I would prefer a Sephardi or Mizrahi Jew (one from the Mediterranean or the Mid-east).  I relate better to them than I do to an Ashkenazi Jew (from Europe).
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There are several different branches of Judaism, including Reform, Conservative, Orthadox, Ultra-Orthadox and Reconstructionist. There will be many differences between each of those, especially in terms of adherence to the 613 mitzvot (commandments), but I'll try to hit the points of agreement:\n\n1. A belief in one diety\n2. A common identity rooted in the stories of the Torah (Old Testament)\n3. A code of ethics known as mitzvot that came from G-d\n4. The belief that G-d gave makind the Torah, in which the guidelines for living an upright lift\n\nA famous story says that a well-known Rabbi known as Hillel was asked your very question by a Roman. In fact, the Roman said that he would only follow a religion that could be explained while the teacher stood on one foot. So, lifting one foot, Hillel said, "What is hateful to you, do not do to others. The rest is commentary. Go and study."
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I'm not quite sure I understand the question.  As a Jew I am not anti-Christianity. (not even sure what anti-Christianity would mean).  I believe differently than Christians, but I can respectfully agree to disagree. I also disagree with Muslim beliefs.  In fact I even disagree with some Jewish people's beliefs!  (such as reform, reconstructionists, etc.)  \nIn short I'm not anti anybody except evil people like Hitler, Bin Laden, and so on, (if you could even call them people)...
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Most orthodox jews would oppose an intermariage. We jews loose more numbers to intermarriage than to any act of violence. That is because on a statistical basis, a child of an intermariage is much more likely to become part of the majority religion.. (such as christianity) thus no more future jews. That being said, no one would be killed, or threatend, no honour killings, and most likely the families would work it out. Many jewish communities and synagoges are reaching out to intermarried couples in order to have more jewish community, and in the intermarried couples home a more "jewish" presence.
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It's ironic that so many anti-Semites consider themselves good Christians, isn't it. Thanks for a brilliant post.
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As you are probably aware Chabad has customs that are different from other sects (Breslov for example). This is one of those areas. Similarly, their understanding of what it means to "dwell" in a Sukkah, the practice of Peyos, and the use of techelies in the tsitsis.  All these are matters where Chabad and Breslov have gone in different directions. And unless the community as a whole begins practice the custom differently, you will not see any change occuring. (If then).  If the practice of the Rebbe was to do (whatever) in this particular way, then the entire movement will keep doing it in that way.
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I'm not a Messianic Jew (not jewish at all), but I think this is a false delineation -- Christianity and Messianic Jews agree on the divinity and purpose of Christ.\n\nIt's just that Judiasm is not just a "religion" but also a culture -- and a very rich one at that.\n\nBy becoming "Christian," Messianic Jews run the risk of rejection from the mainstream Jewish culture, but they still want to preserve the rich heritage that belongs to them -- and since they were brought up in that Jewish heritage, they have an approach and background to God that a non-Jewish Christian does not have. \n\nThey have some really interesting insight that the mainstream Christian church does not have. (After all, Jesus was Jewish and grew up in a Jewish culture, and the Old and New Testaments are best understood from that angle -- whereas modern Christians have very little understanding of the Jewish context of Jesus' life.)\n\nIt's probably FAR too simple to view them as a "denomination;" but I am saying that it's not really that Messianic Jews and Christians differ in basic belief about Jesus, but rather in how their faith is practiced and what knowledge and history they bring to the table.
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Well, I guess it would all depend.\n\nIslam was founded after Christianity, so that religion actually has a firm, somewhat uniform stance on Jesus. He is honored as a prophet.\n\nChristianity is younger than Judaism and could be considered almost a kind of Jewish heresy because it is, in part, based on Jewish scripture and claims to be the plan of the Jewish G-d for the salvation of the world through the prophesied Messiah. \n\nMany horrible things have been done to Jews in the name of Christ, so a really negative opinion of him is not uncommon and is certainly understandable. There are Jews who see Jesus as a good man and teacher whose followers made false claims about after his death. There are Jews who believe anything in between those two extremes or even that there never was such a person.\n\nSo I guess between the two, Judaism could be thought to be more insulting, but that is only on a purely theoretical basis. In reality, views vary wildly. Actions even more so.
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Although Judaism accepts converts from any race or people, nevertheless, most Jews today are not converts nor descendants of converts.\nThat being the case, most Jews are, in fact, Semetic thus may have a "semetic look".\n\nAs to someone's reference to the Khazars: that was a speculation by a historian in the book "The Thirteenth Tribe" by William Kunstler  (sp?) in that today's Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of converts from the Khazar tribe. Mainstream historians discount this.\n\nThus, this is what I will acknowledge. Jews are both part of a religion (whether they observe Judaism or not) and ethnicity. Judaism itself is a religion.
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Messianic ""Jewish"" congregations of course welcome visitors. No, a person does not have to be born a Jew to join a messianic congregation. \n\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 familiar to their targets.\n\nRemember that these messianic congregations need member$hip, and so they also target those Christians who want to know more about the ""Jewish roots"" of Christianity as well, so you will be very welcomed.
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Unlike Christians, we Jews do not believe in eternal damnation.  We believe all moral people go to heaven, regardless of their religious beliefs.
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By living a good and moral life. Jews actually believe it is easier for non-Jews to get in. Don't no of any other religion that views people not of their faith in the same light.
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Orthodox Jews accept the Talmuds and the oral Torah as authoritative for doctrine. They believe that rabbis have the authority to interpret the Torah according to majority rule. Some of them believe that Jesus was a good teacher. Most believe he was a heretic. \n\nMessianic Judaism is a branch of Christianity, which was a branch of Judaism at one time. Messianic Jews come in at least a million different flavors, but here are the major themes:\n1) Jews who have accepted Jesus (aka Yeshua) as the Messiah promised in the Torah.\n2) Gentile Christians who have adopted Jewish traditions, usually in an attempt to get closer to the Hebraic roots of the Christian faith. Sometimes--very rarely in my experience--they do so in an attempt to convert Jews to Christianity.\n3) They do not usually accept the Talmuds and the oral Torah as any more authoritative than any other Bible commentary.\n4) They do not usually accept the authority of rabbis to interpret the Torah.\n\n\n(Anyone who knows anything about 1st century Jewish traditions, please answer my question on partial days! Thanks!)
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WWJD?  Just because it is modern America probably wouldn't change anything.\nLuke 4:16  And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read.\n\nYou would still find him going to synagogue on Sabbath -- so he would probably never cross paths with the modern Christians.\n\nPlease, don't insult modern religious Jews who are all descendants of the Pharisees by misusing the title as you have done.