In Judaism, Jesus was a regular human being who lived in olden times, and is not part of Jewish religious belief.
According to our tradition, the vast majority of the Jews at the time didn't hear of him. No one (even any of them who did hear of Jesus) - would have given any consideration to what was and is considered unacceptable for us. The few who came in contact with Jesus soon lost interest, and the early Christians felt the need to turn to non-Jewish centers of population in order to gain adherents, while the Jews remained Jews.
The unlearned class of the Amei-haaretz (ignoramuses) was a small fringe of society, but even they would and did lay down their lives in order not to change anything of the Torah.
The Jewish requirements of the messiah have not yet been fulfilled. They are:
* Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28).
* Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6).
* Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred and oppression. "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more" (Isaiah 2:4).
* Spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. "God will be King over all the world. On that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9).
* The messiah must be descended on his father's side from King David (Genesis 49:10 and Isaiah 11:1).
* The messiah will lead the Jewish people to full Torah-observance. The Torah states that all of its mitzvot (commands) remain binding forever.
As a charismatic, knowledgeable teacher. He seemed to be a rabbi. I would add that they would still consider him to be a scoundrel a blasphemer Comment on the previous line: If he was a rabbi it seems that he would not be a blasphemer.
how do Jews perceive Jews?
Some Jews perceive him as being the Mesiah.
Some Jews wanted him crucified allegedly for heresy and calling himself the Mesiah.
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Jews view Jesus as a regular human being. Any Jew who accepts Jesus as Messiah or savior has thereby gone over to Christianity.
Concerning Jesus
Jesus was a heretical Rabbi who was just one more failed Messianic Candidate and not even an important one as far as most Rabbis are concerned. Ever since Zerubbabel in 530 B.C.E., Judaism has had roughly 15 different individuals who claimed or were claimed by other Jews to be the Messiah. The latest one of these candidates died as recently as 1992 (Menachem Mendel Shneersohn). These claimants to being the Messiah had their claims tested against the relevant Old Testament requirements to be a Messiah (see below) and were found to have not been the Messiah. Additionally, numerous Christian claims about Jesus being the Messiah due to his partial divinity, dying for sin, being born of a virgin, and so on have no validity in the Jewish system of requirements, even in the time of Zerubbabel, the first Messianic Candidate who lived nearly five centuries before Jesus.
Oftentimes, in order to placate the sensibilities of Christians or Muslims in their vicinity, Jews will argue that Jesus was a Prophet. There is no basis to make such a claim within Judaism and the last accepted prophet in Judaism was Malachi, who died in the 300s B.C.E.
Old Testament Requirements of a Messiah
According to Judaism, there are several relevant prophecies such as:
Judaism says very little about Jesus. According to our tradition, the vast majority of the Jews at the time didn't hear of him. The Torah-sages (Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, Rabbi Yonatan ben Uziel, Chanina ben Dosa, Bava ben Buta, Shimon ben Hillel, Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Akiva, and hundreds of others) were active at that time and their yeshivot (Torah-academies) were flourishing. Their tens of thousands of disciples and hundreds of thousands of sympathizers were active in the Jewish world in that generation; they were the leaders and the forefront of Judaism. As Josephus (Antiquities book 18) writes, "the cities give great attestations to them." The great majority of Jews loved their sages and their Torah.
The unlearned class of the Amei-haaretz (ignoramuses) was a small fringe of society, but even they would and did lay down their lives in order not to violate anything of the Torah. As one ancient historian famously wrote:
Hecateus declares again, "what regard we [Jews] have for our laws; and we resolve to endure anything rather than transgress them." And he adds: "They [Jews] may be stripped on this account, and have torments inflicted upon them, and be brought to the most terrible kinds of death, but they meet these tortures after an extraordinary manner, beyond all other people, and will not renounce the religion of their forefathers."
No one (even any of them who did hear of Jesus) - would have given any consideration to what was and is considered unacceptable for us.
The few who came in contact with Jesus soon lost interest, and the early Christians felt the need to turn to non-Jewish centers of population in order to gain adherents, while the Jews remained Jews.
In Judaism, Jesus was a regular human being who lived in olden times, and is not part of Jewish religious belief.
We may also note that according to our tradition, prophecy ceased about 340 years before the birth of Jesus; and public miracles stopped even earlier.
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The word "messiah" is the transliterated form of the Hebrew "moshiach." The word moshiach means "anointed." The title of moshiach was given to any person who was appropriately anointed with oil as part of their initiation to their service of God. We have had a number of meshichim (plural) in the form of kings and priests. There need be nothing supernatural about a moshiach.
This being said, there is a prophecy of a future moshiach. However, this is a relatively minor topic in Judaism and the Tanakh.
The Jewish requirements of the messiah have not yet been fulfilled. They are:
* Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28).
* Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6).
* Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred and oppression. "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more" (Isaiah 2:4).
* Spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. "God will be King over all the world. On that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9).
* The messiah must be descended on his father's side from King David (Genesis 49:10 and Isaiah 11:1).
* The messiah will lead the Jewish people to full Torah-observance. The Torah states that all of its mitzvot (commands) remain binding forever.
From the Jewish perspective, he may or may not have existed, but he was not a moshiach or God. At most, he would have been a false prophet. Like all humans, he is considered a child of God.
Judaism as a religion generally ignores Jesus. The Jewish teachings about God are quite definite: God is one (so there is no trinity) and God is entirely incorporeal (so there is no incarnation). Therefore, Judaism holds that Jesus cannot have been the incarnation of one person of a trinitarian deity. While some Jews argue that Jesus may not have existed, there is one passage in the Talmud (Avoda Zara 17a) that suggests that he might have been seen as a fairly typical Pharisee who went bad but who also issued some rulings on halachic (Jewish legal) questions that were both interesting and acceptable to the rabbis of the Talmud.
The Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.
Jesus has no status or role in Judaism. Messianic Jews are actually considered to be Christians, both by other Jews and by Christians. See also:Why didn't the Jews believe in Jesus?
The dividing point is what one's view is concerning Jesus.
He was considered by both of them as a rebel trying to overthrow the roman empire and the Jews with his teachings.
Messianic Jews usually have a trinitarian view of God that is similar to that of most evangelical Protestants. As such, their view of God to have a three-in-one nature, where Jesus is one of those three.This is very different from Judaism, where belief in an incarnate God is considered idolatrous.
Jews for Jesus was created in 1973.
Jesus plays no role in the life of Jews so we don't like or dislike him. It's a non-issue. Jews feel the same way about Jesus as they do about Buddha: just figure that is important to another faith.The question implies that the problem between the Jesus and the Jews is that the Jews did not like him. This is not the case. The issue between Jews and Jesus is that Jesus did not perform the requirements to be a Messiah and actively violated some aspects of Jewish Law.Individual Jews may like or dislike Jesus, but these are personal opinions and Judaism itself has no position on whether Jesus should be liked or not, only that if he existed, he was a failed Messianic Candidate (like Bar Kochba, Shabbetai Tzvi, and Menachem Mendel Shneersohn).For a historical view, see this page:What_does_Judaism_say_about_Jesus_christ
Jesus was not Jewish
Jewish people worship the same god as Christians do. Jews believe that the Messiah has not come to Earth yet; Christians believe that Jesus is the Messiah; and Muslims believe Mohammad is the prophet of Alah but was not a holy being. The Muslim understanding of Mohammad would be paralle to the Jewish view Jesus.
Jesus did not lead the Jews to freedom. The Romans went on to destroy the Holy Temple and expel the Jews from the land.
Jews believe in God.What about Jesus?In Judaism, Jesus was a regular human being who lived in olden times, and is not part of Jewish religious belief.See also the Related Links.Link: Why didn't the Jews believe in Jesus?Link: What do Jews believe about God?
Pilate had a board put on the cross , which said Jesus king of the Jews. This angered the Jews . And they wanted Pilate to write another board saying Jesus said I am the king of the Jews. And Pilate replied . What I have written I have written.AnswerMark 15:26, "The King of the Jews"Luke 23:38, "This is the King of the Jews"Matthew 27:37, "This is Jesus the King of the Jews"John 19:19, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews"