What do Jews believe in help please?

Question

I am Muslim and I converted from Christianity. I am trying to find out about everyone's belief because I don't understand why Christians worship Jesus if he is a Jew and I don't know understand what Jews believe in!!! HELP!!!

Answer 1

Judaism came before Christianity and Islam, because are based on Judaism.  The Jews believed one day God would send down a messiah and the Christians believe Jesus was this messiah.  They believe basically what the Muslims and Christians believe only they only refer to the Torah(Old Testament) and not the New Testament or Qu'ran.  

Answer 2

god

Answer 3

We believe in one G-d. We believe we should follow 613 mitzvots the best we can. Mitzvots means commandments in hebrew. It consists of good and bad commandments. Something good is donating. a bad commandment is not to kill. I teach classes on Judaism and Hebrew at http://www.beitmidrashonline.webs.com

We have classes on Judaism and Hebrew and we are on the topic on who is a jew and what we believe. someone had the same question as you. But we dont worship Jesus because we believe why worship Jesus when we should worship G-d and G-d only. Because that starts going into a multi-g-d religion because if you worship Jesus the same level of G-d then that shouldnt happened. If you don't understand then just email me and i would be happy to let you know about Judaism more.

Answer 4

Here's a great website

Answer 5

You always convert from religions you don't even understand?

Jews believe in God, the Father. One person of the Holy Trinity, which is one God. Jesus is the Word made flesh, or God the Son, and he gave us the Holy Spirit.

We worship Jesus because he is God.

If you didn't know that, this is just silly.

Answer 6

I have very little to add to GivPerf, but some of it is:

The question itself is erroneous. Jews don't "believe" in anything, at least not in the sense of "I believe Jesus came to atone for my sins," etc. Judaism doesn't believe in fancy guesswork, only firm knowledge based on real fact. We don't "believe" to be saved, we must do what we know G-d told us to, namely, to learn his laws and do them, since that's the most pleasurable life possible. We must have faith in G-d, but that's not the same.

Imagine you break down on the highway in a bad neighborhood at 4 AM and all you have is your cell phone. You call up your friend who, after waking up, agrees to help you out. Do you believe that your friend exists? No, you know he exists. You have faith that he's going to help you out of your problem, but that has nothing to do with whether he exists or not! It's the same here- we know G-d exists, and we have faith that what he does is good, etc. but even that's based on knowledge, not blind faith. Like in the story above, you wouldn't pick a name out of the phonebook, you'd call your close friend whom you know you can rely on. So too, we have prior experience that G-d knows what's good for us, so we follow him.

And the main point- Judaism isn't a religion that's fascinated with the end times like Christianity and Islam are. Both of them are basically trying to accomplish and end-goal of bringing their Messiah back. Judaism isn't like that. In fact, it's hardly a religion, it's more like a life-style. It's not something you do on Saturday mornings before driving the kids to baseball practice- it's something you live and breathe every moment of your life. Whether in business or waking up, there are things you can- and cannot- do. Yes, we hope that one day the Messiah will come, and yes we pray for him, but that's not an end unto itself. When he comes we'll continue serving G-d, it'll just be much, much easier for us. But to define Judaism as the religion that "doesn't believe in Jesus or Mohammad" is inadequate.

Answer 7

Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew

^  It has a lot of information!!!

Answer 8

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. That means think if you would want that if you were in his situation, not from yours. The rest is commentary.

Answer 9

jews believe the same as christains up til the new testament comes into play they dont believe jesus died for anyone he was just a prophet from god

Answer 10

You've gotten so many incorrect answers here...

As a practicing Jew, I will try to help set you straight.

Jews believe in one God. No trinity, no son, no spirit. God is one and indivisible. To say He can be divided into three, that He would send an earthly form of Himself to eat and drink and die, is limiting His power. God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and any other omni-s that I can't think of right now.

We believe that God made a covenant with us - we keep His laws, delineated in the Torah, and He will take care of us. The laws were given to the Jews, and only they need to follow them. The other nations need to follow only 7 laws (mostly common sense - no adultery, no murder, set up courts of law, etc.), and the righteous of any nation do receive a portion in the afterlife, whatever that is.

The Tanakh is a collection of the Jews' holy books. It consists of three parts:

T = Torah

N = Nevi'im (Prophets)

Kh = Ketuvim (Writings)

The Torah is the law of God, given to all of the Jews at Mount Sinai through Moses, though all 3 million people there saw it happen. It consists of 5 books, the translations of which are Genesis - Deuteronomy.

The Prophets are inspired words of God, written by various sages and prophets (understandably, hence the name). They are from Joshua until the book of Twelve, ending with Malachi.

The Writings are prophecies that were not spoken directly to the people, but were given over in written form. These go from Psalms - Chronicles.

The Tanakh has been twisted and mistranslated from language to language, and if you're reading the English version, chances are you're not getting correct information.

If you want more info, you can email me.

EDIT: Okay, I see I missed out on the second part of your question - and you've gotten plenty wrong answers again.

Jews don't believe anything about Jesus! He is not relevant to our religion. He was just another young upstart claiming to be the Messiah. We've had hundreds of them throughout history, some more famous than others, but since none of them actually fulfilled the prophecies, none of them are considered the Messiah. The prophecies include rebuilding the destroyed Temple (which was still standing when Jesus was alive), restoring the Sanhedrin (which also was still active at that time), bringing world peace, etc.

We don't believe Jesus was the son of God or even a prophet. Prophecy had been removed from the world a good 300 years before Jesus was even born. We don't believe Christianity "completes" Judaism since Judaism is already a complete religion without it. God said not to add or subtract anything to any of His commandments, and Christianity tried to do that - to limit the commandments to only two, and it is completely against what God told us. If God would change His mind, He wouldn't be very much of a God, would He?

Answer 11

all 3 belief the old testament of the bible (or the same general version of events). at that point is where they all differ. christians believe jesus was the son of god but jews think he was just a profit and are still awaiting the coming of the lord(muslims actually believe in the virgin birth too). God promised abraham a son but when abraham couldn't get sarah pregnant she had him sleep with the maid servant. the maid servant became pregnant but soon after, sarah did as well. they kicked the maid servant out into the desert and she bore a son, (name escapes me), who is the father of the arab race. so if abraham had waited on God's promise, we would have no issues in the middle east b/c there would be no arab people. weird. anyhow, mohammed came as a profit and that's the muslim religion. i heard somewhere that mohammed's wife claimed that he was visited by the devil and not by God.

and jews are God's chosen people, because jesus was one of them.

Answer 12

Jews go by the Tanakh, which, I believe, is similar if not identical to the old testament which, apparently, was a lot better before King James messed it all up.

Answer 13

they believe that h**l is made for us  

Answer 14

when you find the answer to this i wanna know too :] lol