How is the relationship between the Jews and the Samartians?

Answer 1

The Jews and samaratins had no dealings with each other, they the samaratins were outcasts Jews who married outsiders and worshiped idols.

Answer:

According to Jewish sources (2 Kings 17:24), after the Assyrians exiled the Israelite Ten Tribes, the Assyrian king brought non-Jews from Cutha, Babylonia and Syria (Hamat), and settled them in the depopulated area where the Ten Tribes had lived (Samaria). They were taught Judaism by one of the Jewish priests (2 Kings 17:27), and they were taught the Torah, which they wrote in the Old Hebrew script.

The Talmud relates how the Samaritans adopted some of the mitzvot (Torah-commands) but not others (Talmud, Berakhot 47b), how they denounced the Jews to Alexander in an unsuccessful attempt to get him to destroy the newly-built Second Temple (Talmud, Yoma 69a), and how they interfered with the declaring of Rosh Hodesh (the New Moon) (Talmud, Rosh Hashanah 22b). Our traditions relate how the Samaritans would waylay the Jews who tried to journey to the Holy Temple.

Answer 2

there was enmity between the people of Samaria and the Jews because the Jews conquered Samaria during the Maccabean. therefore they were despite by Jews and became outcasts.

Answer 3

Yes.

Answer 4

Nowdays, there are fewer than 1000 Samaritans while there are millions of Jews. Such a small miniority is no threat, and Jews generally ignore or are even supportive of Samaritans continuing their ancient traditions. Note that the Samaritan community is currently about half in the Palestinian territory and half in Israel, and they live reasonably freely on both sides of the divide. The relationship was more troublesome 2000 years ago, when the Samaritan community was much larger, although nobody knows the exact numbers. The central issue dividing Jews and Samaritans is that Samaritans believe that God sanctified Mount Gerizim (outside modern Nablus) as the holy site for sacrifices. Jews say the Temple Mount in Jerusalem was the holy site. This division may be a relic of the division between Judah and Israel before the Babylonian Exile, with the Samaritans being a remnant of the population of the northern kingdom of Israel that managed to hang onto their original homes through the invasions that destroyed that kingdom.