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YHWH_Christ
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Forgive me, I do not mean this to sound antisemitic in any way shape or form and I am the least antisemitic person you could ever meet. I was having a dialogue with an Orthodox Jewish friend I met not long ago, since I wanted to understand the Jewish religion better, which included a study of the Talmud and the various hermeneutic methods the Rabbis have developed in order to interpret the Torah. At first he fine with teaching me some things, but when I told him I was a Christian and that I had no desire to actually convert to Judaism, only that I wanted to better understand it in light of my faith, he began to treat me with contempt… I confronted him about this and he told me “I should have never taught you anything in the first place, you’re going to take our traditions and twist them, this is why a lot of Rabbis aren’t willing to accept converts in the first place because gentiles always misunderstand our faith and try to apply it to theirs.” I was taken aback, and I told him that I had no desire to “twist” the religious beliefs, only that I wanted to better understand Jewish traditions. He then told me it’s a disgrace that the Torah is apart of the Christian Bible because gentiles have corrupted the message of it and that I shouldn’t even be reading it. Well our friendship ended, which I feel bad about, and he just came off very… “elitist”, if that’s the right word. I get the feeling that this elitist attitude is prevalent throughout Judaism unfortunately. But once again, I have no desire to “twist” or “combine” Jewish religion with mine… it was simply an attempt to understand… Does anyone else get this feeling?
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