Why do Christians reject the Talmud?

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Interesting, the site says this topic will close in a day, I wonder why?
 
Actually, I’m a widower who’s engaged to a beautiful and wonderful Filipina.

Thank you for your kind words. I have difficulty understanding your answer on the Gigulim; respectfully, it seems very tenuous support to the concept.

However, it is an interesting concept. My favorite Kabbalistic concept is the ten Sephirot.

Another question I have; if I may; How do most Jews see Jesus?
 
As others have posted, we don’t reject Judaism. We accept Judaism , and its fulfillment, which is found in Christ.
 
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Thank you too! Yes, the support is weak, but it’s something, I guess. I am also proud if your new engagement! Mazal Tov!

And yes, the ten Sephirot is also interesting.

So, again, this is only my perspective, most Jews that I know view Jesus as a good teacher who did what he had too in the fight against Rome. Personally, I don’t view him as the Messiah but as a person who COULD HAVE BEEN, and should have been, had we not failed him. How did we fail him? No one gave him much support, and hence, he sadly died. I know that Catholics have a very different understanding of Jesus, and it’s all very interesting stuff.

One last thing, there are many who are anti-Semitic and they will try and convince you that the Talmud Bavli speaks ill of Jesus. For once and for all, none of it is true. The Jesus of the Talmud lived a hundred years apart, he had different followers and a very different life, he even died differently. Therefore, the Talmud has nothing to say on the Jesus of the Gospel. If anything, the rabbis viewed Christians has fellow human beings who should be respected for their beliefs as long as everyone lives in harmony. It was R. Menahem Meiri who coined the concept of shittuf in the 13th century, it basically teaches that Christianity isn’t a form of idol worship since it worships Jesus in “association” with G-d, and basically, that mean that Christians aren’t pagans and therefore, as long as they lead good lives and do the right thing, have a place in heaven and the world to come.
 
Thank you, Rabbi. Wow; so Jesus isn’t maligned by the Jewish majority? Awesome. 🤔 I like this. So, Christians are accepted as Righteous Gentiles? My next question is: Why wasn’t Jesus accepted by the majority of Jews as the Messiah? The New Testament says that the Sanhedrin egged the crowd on the crucify Jesus. As an Orthodox rabbi; what’s your view on the Hasidic Jews? They fascinate me.
 
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The Judaism of today isn’t the same as the Judaism that was present in Christ’s time. Many Jews accepted Christ. The ones who didnt formed their own Judaism which rejects Christianity. The Jews of today are the descendants of the Pharisees of christ’s time.

I don’t think it’s fair to say that we reject Judaism. We just reject modern Judaism and the Judaism which rejects us
 
Rabbi said:
“…From my mother’s womb, I emerged naked, and I will return there naked…”

So this is interesting, what does he mean? Perhaps he is again reincarnated? Who can tell for sure.
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Could he mean his return will be to the “womb” of the earth, from which all mankind came, and to which we all must return?
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The second source comes from Kohelet (Ecclesiastics), K’tuvim. It says:

דּ֤וֹר הֹלֵךְ֙ וְד֣וֹר בָּ֔א וְהָאָ֖רֶץ לְעוֹלָ֥ם עֹמָֽדֶת

In English, that means, “A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth endures forever.”
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We experienced that ourselves in 2016. My mother (the last in her generation) passed away 2 months before our granddaughter was born.
 
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Why Christians reject Judaism -

Followers of Judaism believe that Jesus was not the Messiah. While Christians believe Jesus is the Messiah.
 
Hate is a strong word.

Catholics should love the Jewish religion–especially as it was practiced by Jesus and Mary.

I love this past weekends Gospel reading about the Jewish Wedding at Cana and the explanation that Mary asked Jesus to do something about the wine b/c he showed up at the party with all his friends (disciples)–obviously they were putting a dent in the wine.

Jesus is the fulfillment of the Kingdom. Jesus is the Kingdom. The Kingdom is Divinity and Humanity combined–a reversal of what Adam and Eve’s sin effect on mankind.
 
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I think that Catholicism is the fulfillment of Judaism and I believe that we should embrace Jews and Judaism.
 
The problem in the Gospel that many relate to Judaism is the mishaps that occurred during Jesus’s public ministry as accounted by the Gospel.

These mishaps include the Jewish Authorities’ plural actions against Jesus. These were violations of their own law.

Today, there are scoundrels who continue such actions (jew and non-jew), but they do so without proper authority (from the bottom up)…. Secret Societies, etc…
 
Removal of liberty without finding facts, allowance of hearing the accused, etc…

AKA Prejudice.
 
Correct. Which happen to be well accounted for in the NT–THE MOST PRINTED BOOK IN THE WORLD.
 
And as Saint Pope John Paul II made clear, although there is a “New” Covenent in Christ, God has not abandoned His “Old” Covenent, and thus has not abandoned the Jews. There shouldn’t be rejection of Judaism, in fact one of the Popes (Benedict? John Paul II? I forget who) specifically spoke out against proselytizing and seeking to convert Jews.
 
Christianity doesn’t reject Judaism, it expands on it. If it rejected it, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob would not be the same God that Christians recognize and pray to. It is the same God.

It is also quite a privilege for this forum to have @Rabbi with a perspective as your own
 
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Never heard that one.

Isn’t that what the Apostles did after Pentecost–convert Jews?
 
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