How do Jews see Jesus Christ?

Answer 1

The literal answer to this question is that Jews don't see HaShem as HaShem is without form.

Judaism teaches that HaShem is indivisible and without form, He isn't a person and therefore doesn't have the emotions of a person, nor does He make mistakes.

Answer 2

Some Community Answers

1) Even though Jesus was Jewish, the Jews considered him "a false prophet".

2) Jesus to Jews was not even a prophet and Jews do not believe in Jesus. In other words, Jesus plays absolutely no role in Judaism.

3( To the Jews, Jesus was the start of another religion, and had/has no relevance within Judaism.

Answer 3

Actually, we don't. We simply assert that there is one eternal God who in some way created the Universe. During the Middle Ages, scholars attempted now and again to describe God, but Maimonides determined that about all we could do is say what God wasn't-- that God wasn't a physical being, for example.

Rather than attempting to describe God, we try to figure out what God wants us to do, how God wants us to conduct our lives.

Answer 4

By living within the commandments given at mount Sinai. The word "prayer" in Hebrew is not Prayer, but "hope", the question then is "hope for what". the second part of the so called prayer that a Jew prays with is a word called "KA'VANAH" which comes from the root word "Ka'ven" meaning parallel, then they say " hope to be parallel to what?" answer "The Creator's heavenly wishes". They experience that in everyday life and on a continuous basis. Its like being with a parent that you Love and depend on, yet you do fear, if you get on the wrong side of it, yet you know that if you say I'm sorry, things will be good again. Its a "child", and a "parent" relationship.

Answer 5

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 him 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.

Rather, you might prefer to ask "What does Judaism notbelieve about Jesus." And the answer is that we do not believe that he is or was anything other than a regular human being.

(See: What do Jews believe God is like?)

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.

Here is a related topic:
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 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.

Answer 6

In Judaism, Jesus was a regular human being who lived in olden times, and is not part of Jewish religious belief.

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 him 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.

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.

Here is a related topic:
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 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.

Answer 7

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:

• The Messiah will reign over Earth as an actual Righteous King on Earth (Jeremiah 23:5-6)
  
• The Messiah or God will rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem and make the services operate properly (Ezekiel 37:26-28) (Obviously, if the Temple in Jerusalem was already built, only the latter part would apply.)
  
• All Jews, living or dead, will be gathered back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6)
• The Messiah's ascendance to power will usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. As it says: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall man learn war anymore." (Isaiah 2:4)
• Because of the righteousness of the Messiah universal knowledge of the God of Israel will spread across the world, which will unite humanity as one. As it says: "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 have direct paternal lineage from King David via Solomon and Rehoboam (Genesis 49:10 and Isaiah 11:1)
• Foreigners will help rebuild Israel and help serve it (Isaiah 60:10)
• The Natural Order will be abrogated, with a cessation of all predation and violence within the animal kingdom (Isaiah 11:6-8) and with the sun never setting (Isaiah 60:19-20)
  
• The Messiah will lead the Jewish people to full Torah observance. Any person who comes in an effort to abrogate laws, alter laws, or add new laws is clearly not the Messiah, but a false prophet. (Deut. 13:1-4)
• The Dead will rise from their graves and resume life among the living (Isaiah 26:19)
• Death shall be abolished for eternal life (Daniel 12:2)

Answer 8

Almost 1000 years ago, a great rabbi, Moses ben Maimon (known by the Latinized name Maimonides) said that we cannot make any positive statements about God. We can say what God is not, but not what God is, because anything we could imagine about what God is is, by definition, utterly inadequate. So, to this day, we say that God is not finite, God is not corporeal (that is, does not have a body), God is not constrained.

Jews also quote the 13 attributes of God given in Exodus 34,6-7: It's not exactly clear how to count the attributes, but here's one list: Compassion before sin, compassion for the sinner, mighty, merciful, gracious, slow to anger, benificent, truthful, kind, forgiving iniquity, forgiving transgression, forgiving sin, and pardoning.