What Makes Someone Jewish? | University Students Challenge Rabbi

[@carlascy17]

Wise words! I loved listening to him, so knowledgeable and peaceful

[@wingsusanna4671]

Many of us lost our Jewish identity not because our grandparents freely gave up thier religion but because of the fragmentation and upheaval caused by the Holocaust in Europe. Their communities and families were torn apart and they assimilated out of fear in the countries they ended up in. Now, in the succeeding generations (probably the third and fourth generation Holocaust survivors) we have the freedom to discover Judaism anew. People didn't give up their religion on purpose. It's complex. Unfortunately, the rise of antisemitism is again making it difficult for ensuing generations to pick up where their grandparents left off. We need to have courage and be steadfast.

[@Raj.Ariyan-so7rq]

very informative video ❤thanks

[@equineassistedtherapy]

Shalom from Brisbane Australia

[@gonefishing167]

Thank you, very interesting 🙏🙏👵🇦🇺

[@morrismburu7460]

Shalom from kenya

[@pabarrett]

I am Jewish because I converted, I understand your definition by Mother, but Jew haters use the Nurenburg rule, 1 grandparent.

[@kathybjorn1001]

So would a 2 year weekly lessons for about 2 years before marriage, learning all the prayers and Kaddish with an Orthodox Rabbi and a Ketkubah and going to the mikvah saying the prayers and dunking three times considered a kosher or rightful conversion. I was married for 20 years, belonged to a conservative synagogue and raised my kids Jewish. My ex then went a little crazy from his family's predjudice and some psychiatrists and the Temple and community kicked me out and excluded me for any honest reason, but rather based on my unfaithful exes lies. I never considered myself anything but Jewish and followed the traditions to the best of my ability but I was slandered across the coutry and lied about and called a Nazi, im Danish and Irish and English Quaker, Scottch and minimally German through a great grandfather I never met because he died. And raised protestant as my family goes back. A European mut. Yet my ex told my kids I was a natzi one day and I was mortified. He spread around to everyone I identified as Irish and Danish and was protestant with a minimal protestant indoctrination. HE told his family, or they told him I was a Catholic and German??? Crazy and that's what the whole community ostracized me as, severed my relationship with my kids I stayed home with for 17 years raising them Jewish, Hebrew school, bar and bat Mitzvah of my kids yet because of my estranged father I was ostracized across the country after our divorce because of his affairs and pampered inability to never grow up! So I felt unacceptable and haven't practiced Judiasm or any other religion since. So what do I recognize myself as. I feel like an estranged Jew.

[@TheWBWoman]

You're Jewish. Your ex, his family, and your former community sinned by not embracing a convert and that will be up to Hashem to judge them for that sin. Torah clearly states that Jews must welcome and treat sincere converts well. This Rabbi would probably say you are not Jewish because you didn't convert using one of the Rabbis that he believes is authorized to convert people however he is wrong. You cleaved yourself to the Jewish people sincerely and raised your children to be Jewish - Hashem accepts you despite the petty power plays that different sects of the Jewish faith have with not recognizing other Rabbis in other sects' authority to convert. You might find more welcome at a Reform Temple? Some Reform Temples are welcoming and some are not so have to look around. In the end Hashem is the one who judges if you're Jewish so do as many mitzvahs as you can.

[@ElizabethDMadison]

I have a lot of love and respect for Judaism and your story sounds slightly like Ruth, but yes if you are a Baptized Christian, you can't become unbaptized, it is a permanent mark on your soul. If you were Baptized in the Catholic Church then you are a Catholic Christian (even if your religious education was protestant). I know Catholics and other Christians who are Jewish by female-line ancestry and are VERY PROUD Jews and they are devout Catholics. So being Christian does not remotely mean you would not love Jews and Judaism. If you were Baptized in the Catholic Church and your Jewish marriage did not have a dispensation from the Church then under Catholic canon law your marriage outside the Church was not valid and you can approach your local diocese for a simple paperwork process for declaration of nullity.

[@kathybjorn1001]

@ElizabethDMadison I was never baptized in any church. I went to the Mikvah if I'm saying that right with 3 high rabbis and the Rabbi that taught me the Hebrew alphabet and the kaddish and blessings, history and the culture. I had to memorize something in Hebre while I dunked 3 times. It was something similar to a baptisn but it was over 40 years ago so I forget what it was called.

[@kathybjorn1001]

@ElizabethDMadison I wasn't Catholic. I was Protestant on both sides of my family but they didn't practice when I was young and never baptized in either religion! My oldest brother was the only one in my family to be baptized and I'd hardly call him Christian. More like a jerk.

[@kathybjorn1001]

@ElizabethDMadison You totally mis under stood my situation.

[@alicejones3668]

Jewish people G-d sees as a family. Yet individually as a person.

[@equineassistedtherapy]

Sadly the messianic jews are outcasted. I personally know some. Or if he marries a Jiskha

[@Nimco-u3d]

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[@jeronimotamayolopera4834]

DÓNDE ESTÁ MI PELEA?

[@RstesotTv]

Jewish… Technically is from Judah. Not Abraham.

[@carlascy17]

Judah was a descendant of Abraham, all his descendants are still descendants of Abraham. Most of the tribes were lost

[@RstesotTv]

@ There were no Jews until after Judah…. Hebrews…. Abraham ended up truly being tbe Father of Many Nation’s. Joseph was not a Jew. Judah sold him. I hope this time the Pharisee folks remember…. Israel is made up of all 12 Tribes. Not today. Maybe someday soon. The 3 Major Religions come from Abraham.

[@ash7604yaman]

Ismeal was also a son of prophet Abraham so the decendents of ismeal are more than Jews as almighty sovereign LORD one unseen set conditions for those that obey Allah's prophets and 124,000 prophets were sent to all mankind as humanbeings are decendents the first prophet Adam we are the children of Adam who and from prophet who lived many centuries prophet Noor (Noah) 72 poor families entered the Ship the floods came and destroyed evil doers on God's earth they as prophet Noah warned the people repent from your wicked ways as people were corrupt as in today's day and age .Jews are scattered all over the earth but muslims are also blessed long as they follow the teaching of prophet Muhammad pbuh and his progeny Koran and Ahlulbayt as prophet issah ( jesus) said another prophet will come and lead you to all truth and dont make him angry the spirit Gabriel is with him he is the comforter. Jews have to obey Allah's massangers. 👳‍♂️👳‍♀️👮🏿‍♀️👮‍♀️👮‍♂️🕋🕌👩‍👧‍👦🦜☻😁🤴🤴🤴🤴🤴🤴🤴🤴🤴🤴🤴🤴

[@zeroonetime]

Yahweh, Creation, Evolution and Entropy 010 defines primordial Judaism. Yesh meAiin, X Nihilo. Everyone I.S..(Information System). From 0 we come to 0 we go in between vastness of NOTHINGNESS Timing the Infinite.