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What are some common elements in the Primal Narratives of Judaism, Christianity and Islam? In other words, what are the points of agreement upon which there would be little or no argument?

First, they all believe in the Lordship of the one and only God (monotheism in the lordship of God). Second, They all agree on the high status of Abraham (pbuh). Abraham was a prophet or man of God, the forefathers of all the proceeding prophets, and the forefathers of the Jews and the Arabs.

The same point cannot be said about Jesus (pbuh) and Muhammad (pbuh); that both have a high status in all three religions. judaism believes that Marry the mother of Jesus committed adultery thus making Jesus (pbuh) a bastard (Allah for bids us from saying such things). Christians take Muhammad (pbuh) as a liar, as the Quran contains direct refutations towards the lordship or ’sonship’ of Jesus (pbuh) (Quran 5:75).

Just some additional informations from the Muslim’s prespective:

It is only Islam that has taken its position as a middle ground between Judaism and Christianity to accept and respect all the prophets and to worship the one and only God and not to associate Him in worship with other deities and resort back to the religion of Ibrahim (Quran 16:123). The Quran says that Ibrahim was not a Jew nor a Christian (how could he be? he lived before the tribe of Judah and before the Christ). rather he was a ‘Muslim’ (in the sense of the literal meaning of the word: one who submits himself to God alone) (Quran 3:67).

*pbuh: peace be upon him (the prayer of the muslims upon mentioning the names of the prophets.

Not sure of any of these questions about Judaism. Would appreciate some help.

>>Who were the early rabbis? How did they influence Judaism?

>> How did the Jews in the Middle Ages relate to Christians? to Muslims?

>> What forms of observance did judaism take in 19th and 20th century America?

>>How important is Israel in the life of Judaism worldwide?

I’ve starred it. I don’t have energy to answer right now, but if you leave it open a couple days…I’ll come back. Also, hoping other jewish folks who are in my contact list will spot it.

On #4 Israel – very important. After all the unsafety for Jews in the world, having a homeland of our own again is vital, stunning, a complete surprise. Many Jews feel something very powerful when they go to Israel. For some Jews it’s being in a place with majority Jews where we aren’t tip toeing to the majority is an incredible feeling. For some it’s a religious connection & very deeply felt. Actually for most people — it’s both.

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#1 Before there were Rabbi’s there were sages, teachers. They did a lot of studying of Tanakh to determine how to interpret it. Later after the Temple was destroyed, the then Rabbis wrote down the oral information kept from before to create our Talmud. It had more Torah stories kept only orally, plus all the history of the Temple time period & wisdoms of interpretations.
Some names will be on this site: http://www.jewfaq.org
Look for Hillel.

#2 I’m not sure what’s which time period. For a while the Jews lived peacefully under the Muslims. When the Chrisitans started up with the inquision it was horrible. During the crusades, Jews locally were also often targeted as easier to get than the muslims in the middle east. In between they ranged in different areas from bearly tolerated to welcome for a little while to subjugated. This site has good resources: http://www.virtualjewishlibrary.org
As does the http://www.adl.org The picture mostly isn’t pretty. I found documents on the first one about a POPE’s decree that Jews be forced into ghettos & made to wear a distinguishing yellow cloth.

#3 Not sure what they mean. Do they mean the movements that existed which were Reform, Conservative & Orthodox. Do they mean specific types of observances that were followed? Wouldn’t be much different than current Judaism which that first link is about.

Hope that helped!

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I think many underestimate the rate at which people are converting to Judaism. Christians convert to judaism all the time.

No Buddhism is becoming the biggest religion of all as the Chinese govt has opened the doors to the population reclaiming its heritage. The Chinese govt has declared the country to be between 82 and 91 % Buddhist — that’s over 1 billion people. Add the 1 billion Hindus who see Buddha as God and the fact that there are 500 m more Buddhists worldwide, Buddha has close to 2.5 billion followers which is more than Allah and Jesus. Thank the heavens for this.

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So this is for my religion class.. I don’t know too much between the two religion.
How would you criticize Buddhism from the perspective of Judaism? How might someone practicing judaism criticize Buddhism by arguing that Buddhism is not a religion?

They were ‘Religions’ that were created way after the fact of the ancient Hebrew belief and worship of God Yahweh of the Israelites. Judaism is not the same as the belief of Moses and the Israelites.

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This question is NOT for debating purposes, but rather something I’m quite curious about.

You can’t get there using Christianity/Islam, because if the Christian God/Islam is real, then Jews should follow either of them. So hmmm?

Also are Jews divided on conversion to judaism regardless of race?

Gentile have a share in the world to come by living a life of righteousness (7 Noahide laws). It’s a bit more difficult for Jews because we have 613 commandments to uphold.

Divided on conversion regardless of race??? I have no idea what this means.

All converts are welcome.

We are not a race and we do not discriminate by race.

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Even otherwise respectable writers and journals sometimes permit themselves such pronouncements as that “the Jews and Arabs are both Semites.” If this statement has any meaning at all, it is that Hebrew and Arabic are both Semitic languages!

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Is it all to do with politics and power at various times in the past 2000 years? I mean, every society needs to something to believe in, right? It hardly seems to matter if Christianity, judaism or Islam are right or wrong just so long as they serve to control the plebs, right?

Do you actually expect a serious answer when you begin your question with such a smug assertion?

Your ignorance is astounding. Go back to class little boy.