| rdfs:comment | - Most Jews consider the idea of Jesus being God, or part of a Trinity, or a mediator to God, as heresy.(Emunoth ve-Deoth, II:5) Most Jews also do not consider Jesus to be the Messiah primarily because they do not believe him to have fulfilled the Messianic prophecies of the Tanakh, nor embodied the personal qualifications of the Messiah. The Mishneh Torah (an authoritative work of non-Biblical Jewish law) states:
- Judaism's view of Jesus is a very peripheral one. Jews have traditionally seen Jesus as one of a number of false messiahs who have appeared throughout history. Jesus is viewed as having been the most influential, and consequently the most damaging of all false messiahs. However, since the messiah does not take center stage in Judaism, the total rejection of Jesus as either messiah or deity in Judaism has never been a central issue for Judaism.
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| abstract | - Most Jews consider the idea of Jesus being God, or part of a Trinity, or a mediator to God, as heresy.(Emunoth ve-Deoth, II:5) Most Jews also do not consider Jesus to be the Messiah primarily because they do not believe him to have fulfilled the Messianic prophecies of the Tanakh, nor embodied the personal qualifications of the Messiah. The Mishneh Torah (an authoritative work of non-Biblical Jewish law) states: Even Jesus the Nazarene who imagined that he would be Messiah and was killed by the court, was already prophesied by Daniel. So that it was said, “And the members of the outlaws of your nation would be carried to make a (prophetic) vision stand. And they stumbled” (Daniel 11.14). Because, is there a greater stumbling-block than this one? So that all of the prophets spoke that the Messiah redeems Israel, and saves them, and gathers their banished ones, and strengthens their commandmends. And this one caused (nations) to destroy Israel by sword, and to scatter their remnant, and to humiliate them, and to exchange the Torah, and to make the majority of the world err to serve a divinity besides God. However, the thoughts of the Creator of the world – there is no force in a human to attain them because our ways are not God's ways, and our thoughts not God's thoughts. And all these things of Jesus the Nazarene, and of (Muhammad) the Ishmaelite who stood after him – there is no (purpose) but to straighten out the way for the King Messiah, and to restore all the world to serve God together. So that it is said, “Because then I will turn toward the nations (giving them) a clear lip, to call all of them in the name of God and to serve God (shoulder to shoulder as) one shoulder.” (Zephaniah 3.9). Look how all the world already becomes full of the things of the Messiah, and the things of the Torah, and the things of the commandments! And these things spread among the far islands and among the many nations uncircumcized of heart. (Hilkhot Melakhim 11:10–12.) According to the most widely held Jewish tradition, there were no more prophets after 420 BC, Malachi being the last prophet, who lived centuries before Jesus. Most Jews believe that Jesus did not fulfill the requirements set by the Torah to prove that he was a prophet. They believe that even if Jesus had produced such a sign, many Jews state that no prophet or dreamer can contradict the laws already stated in the Torah, despite clear indications in the New Testament that there were no contradictions. (Deuteronomy 13:1-5)
- Judaism's view of Jesus is a very peripheral one. Jews have traditionally seen Jesus as one of a number of false messiahs who have appeared throughout history. Jesus is viewed as having been the most influential, and consequently the most damaging of all false messiahs. However, since the messiah does not take center stage in Judaism, the total rejection of Jesus as either messiah or deity in Judaism has never been a central issue for Judaism. Judaism has never accepted any of the claimed fulfillments of prophecy that Christianity attributes to Jesus. Judaism also forbids the worship of a person as a form of idolatry, since the central belief of Judaism is the absolute unity and singularity of God. Jewish eschatology holds that the coming of the Messiah will be associated with a specific series of events that have not yet occurred, including the return of Jews to their homeland and the rebuilding of The Temple, an era of peace and understanding during which "the knowledge of God" fills the earth, and since Judaism holds that none of these events occurred during the lifetime of Jesus, he is not a candidate for messiah.
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