Jewish catholic views

[Friedlander79]

My dads side is jewish my moms side is catholic. I became catholic five years ago.
my fiance is jewish his uncle is a messianic jewish rabbi they are jewish that believe in new testament but they follow Jesus customs and says alot of christian traditions were started by Gentiles I know the new testament has stuff for Jews and Gentiles as the Church was getting started.
celerating both Jewish and Catholic holidays is great for me. I love Passover a Hanukkah Yom Kippur and Rosh Hoshona. And then I love Easter and Christmas and Lent. Passover I understand Eucharist even better as last supper was passover. I dont understand why as Catholics if we follow a Jewish man, Jesus why we are following Jewish holidays too .i know our catholic bible has hanukka story in maccabbes unlike the protestant Bible
i know we are new covenant.
why isnt our weddings like jewish ones. Messianics Jews are restoring Jewishness of the Gosple… During mass we do read the Old Testament too. and new testament as do Christians but even in new testament people are still observing jewish holy days. Celebrating both as i have begun feels even more complete for me I read about messianic and hebrew catholics. I am always learning as I have Aspergers this is interesting. Why dont we keep kosher i tried matzo ball soup cooked latkas and all kind of yummy Jewish food. I know it is apart of my family as well. I know these are lots of questions. I do have aspergers so im learning.

 

[George_Stegmeir]

Be very careful in dealing with Messianic Jews. They are not based in Judiaism. They are base on Evangelic Protestantism, no matter what they tell you and they are more of a sect than a religious denomination. Their Christian observances are more made up than are based on any historical tradition or data and their Jewish observances are based on Rabbinical Judiaism, which was not developed until over 100 years after 70 A.D. when the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed and the Jews were enslaved and forcibly driven out of the Palestine by the Romans.
I said be very careful in dealing with them because they will use every trick in the book to gain converts, especially a Christian who is half Jewish and especcially someone with potential family ties to them.
Remember, the truth lies in Catholicism, not a modern day sect whose sole claim to fame is an attempt to turn back the clock…
I am not qualified to answer your questions about Jewish religious observances and why Catholics do not observe them. However, as for Jewish-American cuisine, it is actually a mish-mash of Eastern European cooking and dates mainly from the 19th Century (1800’s).
There is an old joke amongst Polish immigrants that American Jewish cooking is nothing but Polish cooking without the pork. Where do you think most American Jews came from?
The answer is Poland or territories in Eastern Europe that were predominantly ethnically Polish! I doubt seriously that Jews before the disporata knew what a matzoh ball or gefilte fish was!
If you are sincerely interested in your fathers heritage, go to any good public or University library and research the Jewish history after 70 AD and the development of Rabbinical Judiaism.

 

[phil19034]

My dads side is jewish my moms side is catholic. I became catholic five years ago.
my fiance is jewish his uncle is a messianic jewish rabbi they are jewish that believe in new testament but they follow Jesus customs and says alot of christian traditions were started by Gentiles I know the new testament has stuff for Jews and Gentiles as the Church was getting started.
celerating both Jewish and Catholic holidays is great for me. I love Passover a Hanukkah Yom Kippur and Rosh Hoshona. And then I love Easter and Christmas and Lent. Passover I understand Eucharist even better as last supper was passover. I dont understand why as Catholics if we follow a Jewish man, Jesus why we are following Jewish holidays too .i know our catholic bible has hanukka story in maccabbes unlike the protestant Bible
i know we are new covenant.
why isnt our weddings like jewish ones. Messianics Jews are restoring Jewishness of the Gosple… During mass we do read the Old Testament too. and new testament as do Christians but even in new testament people are still observing jewish holy days. Celebrating both as i have begun feels even more complete for me I read about messianic and hebrew catholics. I am always learning as I have Aspergers this is interesting. Why dont we keep kosher i tried matzo ball soup cooked latkas and all kind of yummy Jewish food. I know it is apart of my family as well. I know these are lots of questions. I do have aspergers so im learning.

I suggest you check out www.hebrewcatholic.net. The Archbishop of St Louis and Patrich of Jeuruslium keep an eye on them. They are Catholics of Jewish descent and Catholics interested in our Jewish past.

Regarding the Kosher Law, Jesus threw out the law, saying that nothing God made is unclean. I read once that Jews focused too much on the laws that were not as important to Jesus / God and didn’t focus enough on the ones Jesus / God cared the most about.