Judaism Elitist Religion?

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The Jews are the Chosen People. They chosen to be a light unto the nations. It’s a unique responsibility, not a position of privilege. As Christians, we believe that Jesus is the light unto the nations.
Matthew 28:19-20

19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And
behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.
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I work with a secular Jewish woman whose father was Orthodox. She said some Orthodox can be very closed minded. Some Orthodox don’t think that Jewish converts are “real” Jews no matter how sincere their conversion is. There aren’t a lot of Jewish people like that but they are there.
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Orthodox Jews do believe that converts are “real” Jews. It is a great sin to insult converts or even draw attention to them.

But Orthodoxy requires a person to undergo an Orthodox conversion.

The Catholic Church has the same rules. Although I was a baptized Christian, I went through months of classes before I could receive the sacraments of reconciliation, confirmation, and communion.

I hope that helps.
 
I will say that I don’t entirely blame the OP’s former friend for being super-wary. There are a number of folks I know, including one of my sisters, that have smashed the Jewish faith together with a rather strange form of Protestant Christianity. Said sister now refers to herself as a Christian Jew and has some rather hot takes on any number of things, most specifically Genesis.

It’s odd. Very odd.

That being said, sounds like the dude went a bit overboard.
 
Haven’t read earlier posts but weren’t the apostles and early Christians, even Gentile Christians super annoying to Jews. Isn’t the name of Jesus in any Messianic light a stumbling block to unbelieving Jews period?
 
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Yes and no. Don’t know a lot about him. but another lyric comes to mind, “So alone” ( Doors LA Woman) to describe him or the vibe I get from him or that song maybe. Or maybe Riders on the Storm…perhaps that is the flavor I get from your post.

Been there done that also, but is quite contrary to the new life in Christ. You appreciate the heat because of the cold, the water because of the thirst, the food because of the hunger. You never forget what you were, what you came out of, what you felt. Yet I have to be careful not to indulge myself with old things, ( lest I turn into a pillar of salt?), for even past darkness can seem like an old mesmerizing friend. There is a good reason to be admonished to be presently in the spirit and not the flesh, in the downpayment of better things to come.
 
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Yes, I ramble on ( Led Zeplin…can’t escape powerful wordly songs of my lost youth). I partly enjoy those songs, even Cohen’s Everybody Knows. I should explain however that deep within me lurks a battle of what we call the old man and new man, before Christ after Christ. I feel guilty enjoying songs that I know come from the vanity of everything under the sun, for I have tasted better things above the sun (heaven), as Ecclesiastes drives home. I suppose it is like a reformed alcoholic where bars remind him of the old soothing yet ensnaring nature of the spirits (liquor). So to with some music for me.

It most definitely is a paradigm. Like there seems to be always two ways, the right way way and the wrong way, from the beginning, at the Garden. We are either sons of the devil or of the Promise ( spiritually speaking of course). Those that walked after God and those that did not. Those things below the sun and those above, those written in the book of life or those not.(Republicans or Democrats, for abortion against abortion, pro and anti slavery, Whigs or Tories, etc, etc all a reflection of the two spiritual kingdoms).

Everybody is a pied piper. Dylan had a lyric,

“You’re gonna have to serve somebody
It may be the devil or it may be the Lord”
 
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As a Jew who would like to convert to Catholicism, I need to say that Judaism is not elitist at all - but traditionally, it is forbidden to teach the Torah to pagans. Part of the rabbis teaches that Christians are pagans, but since Vatican I, most of them think differently. If your mate associated to what that called Ultra-Orthodox or Haredim, so he might be a disciple of one of these rabbis.

I am an Orthodox Jew, but as I told, I have some thoughts to convert because I have a weird hobby to learn other religions’ theology and scriptures and debate with their clergymen, but I am REALLY attracted to Catholicism and I do not know why.
 
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I am an Orthodox Jew
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Do all Orthodox Jews wear black because they are mourning the destruction of the Second Temple or only a subgroup of them? Are Orthodox Jews taught that the destruction of the Second Temple was punishment by God or not?
 
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