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Got Rabbi?
Is pornography a sin? Is it okay to eat meat? You can search Scripture, climb Mt. Sinai or….visit AskMoses.com. (You’ve got to go there just to see the fun, modern Moses logo.)
For a decade, AskMoses.com has been answering questions like these to a growing worldwide audience. Rabbinic scholars from the Orthodox Jewish Chabad movement dispense the free advice online 24 hours a day, six days a week (they don’t work on the Sabbath).
Last month, they announced a milestone: AskMoses has surpassed 1 million online chat sessions since it was launched by Chabad of California. The queries are fielded by rabbis and knowledgeable women in the United States, Argentina, Israel, Russia and elsewhere…
People of all stripes turn to the website, accounting for 350 to 400 live chats a day, Loschak said. A voluntary online survey has shown that 30% of AskMoses users are not Jewish. Among their questions: Why don’t Jews believe in Jesus as the messiah? Answer: Jesus did not fulfill the promises of the messiah, as described by the prophets, of bringing world peace and global monotheism.
Sometimes, people in crisis turn to AskMoses, like the pregnant teenager who asked the rabbis whether she should tell her parents. Find out what they said here.
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Why can’t Jews eat cheeseburgers?
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That dietary restriction is one Dr Laura has the hardest struggle with.
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“Answer: Jesus did not fulfill the promises of the messiah, as described by the prophets, of bringing world peace and global monotheism.”
Ya think . . .
In Matthew 10:34-36 Jesus says:
34 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
35 “For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.
36 “And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.”
But in the Jews defense, timing is everything and keeping it all straight to understand how it comes together in the Bible is difficult. And since there was a bit of a disconnect from their side to God, it’s not surprising they didn’t add it up correctly back then.
But now, I have to wonder.
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Did Adam have a belly button?
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I love Rond’s notion that Christians understand the Jewish scriptures better than the Jews do. You really don’t get much more presumptuous than that.
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#5 Steve G
” You really don’t get much more presumptuous than that.”
We don’t but you do all the time.
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The Rabbi said he would have to look up the answer to my question offline. I was surprised he would go to the trouble. I used to go to another Jewish site that was also very interesting.
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If I have a question about the Mishnah or the Talmud, I’ll ask a Rabbi.
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You can’t put meat and dairy together, Sawgunner. It’s not kosher.
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Now now, Mr. Buckles.
Mr. G, it’s not that we think we understand Scripture better, it’s that it’s more clearly understood with Christ’s words added to it.
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My wife and I were in the Jewish quarter in Paris to eat at the famous Goldenbergs deli. The food was great. She kept getting mad when ever I would order meat with daiy, which I did several times and then complain to her that I couldn’t understand why peole loved the place so much when they couldn’t get a order right and refused to bring bring me what I ordered
Who knew? My Jewiah relatives all ate cheese bergers and ribs.
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OT: I don’t think any Jew would agree with you.
It really is an interesting phenomenon. When a Jew says a passage in the Old Testament doesn’t really mean what the standard Christian interpretation says it does, the usual Christian response is to say just what I said: “We understand it better than you do.”
(Isaiah is fertile ground for examples of this.)
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You’re probably right, Mr. G. (”I don’t think any Jew would agree with you.”) Could you define ‘usual Christian’, so that I may claim that I am not one or dispell a stereotype as necessary?
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The Jews of the time didn’t really appreciate Jesus’ interpretation of Isaiah either. But I always appreciate hearing the Jewish point of view of scripture.
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I didn’t say anything about a “usual Christian.” I was talking about the response to the objection.
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Sawgunner,
The prohibition against cheeseburgers comes from the law saying that you should not boil a kid in its mother’s milk. Therefore, Jews don’t put dairy with meat so that they don’t cook an animal with its mother’s milk.
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Opinionated Teen: For an example, look at Rond’s #3 in this thread.
The Jews had a very clear idea of what the Messiah would be and do, based on a couple of thousand years of experience, prophetic words, what they believed to be revelation from God and a long-established tradition.
Jesus didn’t really fit the expectation, which is why most Jews did not believe he was the Messiah. To Christians, that only means the Jews, despite those thousands of years of developing their beliefs and traditions, had it all wrong.
Or as Rond put it, “it’s not surprising they didn’t add it up correctly back then.”
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Americans have forgotten the Constitution after a couple hundred years. Your thousands of years of experience argument doesn’t have much merit.
Of course Jews didn’t expect a peacemaker. (lol, almost typed pacemaker) They were ruled by the Romans. They wanted a warrior king.
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Your Constitution argument holds no merit at all. Religious ideas passed down through both oral tradition and writings, in a pre-technological culture where scholarship was valued, don’t just get tossed aside lightly.
Jesus didn’t fit the Jewish idea of what the Messiah would be. It is interesting to note that he never did catch on among the Jews. His earliest followers were Jewish, of course, but the vast majority of Jews didn’t come along. Only when the evangelists spread their ideas of Greece and Rome — cultures that were not influenced by the Jewish idea of Messiah — did Christianity really start to spread.
Of course that provoked some bitter words in the New Testament about how the Jews rejected the capstone and all, but it seems reasonable to ask why, if Jesus is so obviously the messiah, almost none of the Jews who actually knew him and lived in his time could see it.
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I don’t know, Mr. G. I really don’t know. For the same reason you don’t see it, I guess. Maybe, deep down inside, you don’t want to believe it, because you know you’d be accountable.
Just spitballing, here.
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Just spitballing, here.
Obviously.
Funny how often that’s the answer, though … no matter how reasonable, well-supported or plausible the objection, the “real” reason is “you just don’t want to admit it because then you’re accountable.”
Try actually considering what I’m saying, rather than just assuming I’m looking for excuses.
Or is that too much to ask?
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Or is that too much to ask?
Apparently it is. Oh well.
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