Maybe since you're Muslim you can explain the Muslim obsession with Ezra. We don't have any such obsession. While respected and certainly an important historical figure, he wasn't even a prophet according to the Jewish canon (although there is a book in the Tanakh named after him).
The Islamic exegetes have stated that there existed an area of Jews in Yemen who seen Ezra as son of God. Hirschberg says in Encyclopaedia Judaica: H Z Hirschberg proposed yet yet another assumption, based on the words of Ibn Hazm, extremely, that the 'righteous who stay in Yemen believed that 'Uzayr replaced into extremely the son of Allah.' in accordance to distinctive Muslim components, there have been some Yemenite Jews who had converted to Islam who believed that Ezra replaced into the messiah. For Muhammad, Ezra, the apostle (!) of messiah, might desire to be seen indoors an identical gentle because of the actuality the Christian stated Jesus, the messiah, the son of Allah.[4] Quran stated a variety of of Jews--no longer Jews in particular. everyone know that the unitarian Christians do no longer think of in Trinity. they seem a small team in spite of the undeniable reality that.
Npe. that has never been a Jewish belief. the only place you will find some that accusation being made is in the Koran. Can we provide proof? How can we prove a negative? Such a beleif is not found in any Jewish writings so it cannot be pointed out. If you want to claim that jews do believe that, wy don't you quote your proof?
quran doesnt say all jews did or they r doing it ,
its talking about some jews in the past ,
and as i read the dead sea scrolls have chapter maybe called son of god , wich means even jews ( in the past ) did have some similar believes with the christianity when they said jesus is son of god ,
and quran was never wrong and if its not yet proven it will be proven some day , as most of the evrses that was proven , people always deny it but when its proved they say oh maybe muhammed know it from who ever , i wonder how muhammed could collect all these correct facts and scientific facts wich has no mistakes in it
No, we do not believe this and I can't show you from Torah because he is NOT there. Ezra is not "the son of G-d" just as jesus is not "the son of G-d".
Absolutely NOT! As is said in all prayers, three times daily, שמעתי ישראל, ה 'אלוהינו, ה' אחד. The English translation means that all of Israel - the Nation of Jewish people, not the country - proclaim and accept that there is ONE: Creator, Deity, Higher Power, Lord, G-D, All Powerful et cetera. ONE and ONLY ONE. All of the original writings in Hebrew, as appears in the Torah of today, clearly denies the existence of any "additional" gods, especially forbidding the worship of any human-in-the-flesh (or dead) as a god or emissary who intercedes on behalf of a person to G-D, the ONE. In the modern world of Judeo-Christian-Muslim, it is only the Christian path that teaches the idea of more-than-one in the insertion of a trinity consisting of G-D (the ONE) as the "Father;" Jesus, as the son of G-D (the ONE), who has a special power to intercede on behalf of humanity and his followers for salvation and the holy spirit, a mystical manifestation of god in the sense that this "spirit" or "ghost" is equally eternal, omniscient, omnipresent, has a will, and can speak to mankind. Muslim writings (the Quran) refer (incorrectly) to Jews as believers in a human god. Not true, only the teachings of Christianity involve a human god, called Jesus. As Islam expresses ONE, so do the Jews, for eons before the Muslims learned their spiritual path.
Most Muslims are not going to accept the reality because they've been indoctrinated to believe it is impossible for the Quran to have false claims within it. However it *is* a fallacious claim that was originally made apparently to inflame and insult the Jews of one particular region for refusing to convert to Islam.
Such a belief is antithetical to Judaism and is blasphemy in Judaism. Just as it remains antithetical to God's commandments in Torah of Judaism for any Jew to adopt the Christian NT replacement theology that Jesus is an incarnate manifestation of God, Jews have always known that God did not lie in the Torah when God said that God does not become a man. The prophets echoed this and noted no man becomes a god, either.
There is no historical evidence to support this myth created in the Quran's replacement theology. Because all humans are children of God, the notion put forth in this passage (at link below from the source in Islam, NOT Judaism) makes no sense to attribute to Jewish belief as it violates the Torah at the very core of the affirmation of faith of Israel.
Worship of or through a Jew is not a Jewish thing to do.
There exists NO evidence from any Jewish source that any Jews held this belief that violates the Jewish religion's tenets! It is absurd to attempt to debate this fact.
The fact is..NO sect of Judaism ever believed that Ezra was "the son of God" as that passage of Quran claims, period.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/eja00.htm < That is the source of the fallacy promoted in Islam that is so insulting to Jews and that perverts Jewish history. the notion of a literal offspring of God as a divine being is blasphemy to Judaism.
There is no "THE" son of God. Worship of or through any human being is what made Judaism DISTINCT from all other religions at the time. The Torah forbade worship of a man as a god long before Mohammed introduced Islam to the world and the Quran came up with the false notion of Ezra’s role in Judaism. Scholars speculate that this accusation was done to INSULT a specific group of Jews...some Jews of Yemen who were not very friendly to Ezra by claiming they worshipped to or through him in the manner that Christians portray Jesus. Under the prophet Jeremiah 75,000 Jews, including priests and Levites, are said to have gone to Yemen; and when Ezra commanded the Jews to return to Jerusalem they disobeyed, whereupon he pronounced an everlasting ban upon them
Tradition states, however, that as a punishment for this hasty action Ezra was denied burial in Israel.
While Jews *outside* of the Yemenite community hold Ezra in high regard, he is not considered "the son of God" in any REMOTE resemblance to the manner that Christians view Jesus as a divine being.
The Jewish concept that all human beings who strive toward righteousness are called sons of God, metaphorically speaking, because we all contain the soul/breath of life given by God.
All humans are "children" of the Creator in Jewish belief. Even the dysfunctional ones that I wouldn't want to sit too close to at a family reunion.
It makes NO sense to attribute TO Jews a belief that violates the very thing that differentiated it from all other religions when it began (the concept that God is an incorporeal ONE) and laws that forbid worship of humans as deities.
Torah teaches that all humans are born with equal worth and equal capacity to directly connect to our Creator, it is what we do that determines if we live up to our potential.
"Ezra HaSofer" meaning Ezra the Scribe; a great leader of the Jewish People at the time of the building of the "Second Temple," in approximately year 516 B.C.E. He made many decrees preserving the way of life of the Torah among the Jewish People. He mounted a strong campaign against intermarriage among those who returned with him from Exile in Babylonia. In his greatness, he is compared to Moshe.
A Book of the Bible bears his name, and gives an historical account of his time. The word "Sofer," meaning "Scribe," actually meant more than the current meaning of the term "Sofer." It was the name given to the Scholarly Leaders of the People at that time in history.
EDIT: There is absolutely no truth that the Dead Sea Scrolls uncovered any long lost Jewish community that ever did such a thing. That's a lie. period. No Jewish community has EVER done so. The claim that "some" did it, and died out is only another lie to try to save face for the error in Quran. The fact remains that the charge in Quran was mistaken OR a willful attempt to INFLAME and ANGER Jews with insult.
No, there were a sect of jews who used to believe such which was revealed with the surfacing of the dead sea scrolls. But it's not as per the traditional orthodox beliefs to my understanding.
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There is no such thing in Jewish theology.
Maybe since you're Muslim you can explain the Muslim obsession with Ezra. We don't have any such obsession. While respected and certainly an important historical figure, he wasn't even a prophet according to the Jewish canon (although there is a book in the Tanakh named after him).
The Islamic exegetes have stated that there existed an area of Jews in Yemen who seen Ezra as son of God. Hirschberg says in Encyclopaedia Judaica: H Z Hirschberg proposed yet yet another assumption, based on the words of Ibn Hazm, extremely, that the 'righteous who stay in Yemen believed that 'Uzayr replaced into extremely the son of Allah.' in accordance to distinctive Muslim components, there have been some Yemenite Jews who had converted to Islam who believed that Ezra replaced into the messiah. For Muhammad, Ezra, the apostle (!) of messiah, might desire to be seen indoors an identical gentle because of the actuality the Christian stated Jesus, the messiah, the son of Allah.[4] Quran stated a variety of of Jews--no longer Jews in particular. everyone know that the unitarian Christians do no longer think of in Trinity. they seem a small team in spite of the undeniable reality that.
Npe. that has never been a Jewish belief. the only place you will find some that accusation being made is in the Koran. Can we provide proof? How can we prove a negative? Such a beleif is not found in any Jewish writings so it cannot be pointed out. If you want to claim that jews do believe that, wy don't you quote your proof?
quran doesnt say all jews did or they r doing it ,
its talking about some jews in the past ,
and as i read the dead sea scrolls have chapter maybe called son of god , wich means even jews ( in the past ) did have some similar believes with the christianity when they said jesus is son of god ,
and quran was never wrong and if its not yet proven it will be proven some day , as most of the evrses that was proven , people always deny it but when its proved they say oh maybe muhammed know it from who ever , i wonder how muhammed could collect all these correct facts and scientific facts wich has no mistakes in it
No, we do not believe this and I can't show you from Torah because he is NOT there. Ezra is not "the son of G-d" just as jesus is not "the son of G-d".
Absolutely NOT! As is said in all prayers, three times daily, שמעתי ישראל, ה 'אלוהינו, ה' אחד. The English translation means that all of Israel - the Nation of Jewish people, not the country - proclaim and accept that there is ONE: Creator, Deity, Higher Power, Lord, G-D, All Powerful et cetera. ONE and ONLY ONE. All of the original writings in Hebrew, as appears in the Torah of today, clearly denies the existence of any "additional" gods, especially forbidding the worship of any human-in-the-flesh (or dead) as a god or emissary who intercedes on behalf of a person to G-D, the ONE. In the modern world of Judeo-Christian-Muslim, it is only the Christian path that teaches the idea of more-than-one in the insertion of a trinity consisting of G-D (the ONE) as the "Father;" Jesus, as the son of G-D (the ONE), who has a special power to intercede on behalf of humanity and his followers for salvation and the holy spirit, a mystical manifestation of god in the sense that this "spirit" or "ghost" is equally eternal, omniscient, omnipresent, has a will, and can speak to mankind. Muslim writings (the Quran) refer (incorrectly) to Jews as believers in a human god. Not true, only the teachings of Christianity involve a human god, called Jesus. As Islam expresses ONE, so do the Jews, for eons before the Muslims learned their spiritual path.
In Judaism, no one can be the son of G-d except in the metaphorical sense.
Most Muslims are not going to accept the reality because they've been indoctrinated to believe it is impossible for the Quran to have false claims within it. However it *is* a fallacious claim that was originally made apparently to inflame and insult the Jews of one particular region for refusing to convert to Islam.
Such a belief is antithetical to Judaism and is blasphemy in Judaism. Just as it remains antithetical to God's commandments in Torah of Judaism for any Jew to adopt the Christian NT replacement theology that Jesus is an incarnate manifestation of God, Jews have always known that God did not lie in the Torah when God said that God does not become a man. The prophets echoed this and noted no man becomes a god, either.
There is no historical evidence to support this myth created in the Quran's replacement theology. Because all humans are children of God, the notion put forth in this passage (at link below from the source in Islam, NOT Judaism) makes no sense to attribute to Jewish belief as it violates the Torah at the very core of the affirmation of faith of Israel.
Worship of or through a Jew is not a Jewish thing to do.
There exists NO evidence from any Jewish source that any Jews held this belief that violates the Jewish religion's tenets! It is absurd to attempt to debate this fact.
The fact is..NO sect of Judaism ever believed that Ezra was "the son of God" as that passage of Quran claims, period.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/isl/pro/eja00.htm < That is the source of the fallacy promoted in Islam that is so insulting to Jews and that perverts Jewish history. the notion of a literal offspring of God as a divine being is blasphemy to Judaism.
There is no "THE" son of God. Worship of or through any human being is what made Judaism DISTINCT from all other religions at the time. The Torah forbade worship of a man as a god long before Mohammed introduced Islam to the world and the Quran came up with the false notion of Ezra’s role in Judaism. Scholars speculate that this accusation was done to INSULT a specific group of Jews...some Jews of Yemen who were not very friendly to Ezra by claiming they worshipped to or through him in the manner that Christians portray Jesus. Under the prophet Jeremiah 75,000 Jews, including priests and Levites, are said to have gone to Yemen; and when Ezra commanded the Jews to return to Jerusalem they disobeyed, whereupon he pronounced an everlasting ban upon them
Tradition states, however, that as a punishment for this hasty action Ezra was denied burial in Israel.
While Jews *outside* of the Yemenite community hold Ezra in high regard, he is not considered "the son of God" in any REMOTE resemblance to the manner that Christians view Jesus as a divine being.
The Jewish concept that all human beings who strive toward righteousness are called sons of God, metaphorically speaking, because we all contain the soul/breath of life given by God.
All humans are "children" of the Creator in Jewish belief. Even the dysfunctional ones that I wouldn't want to sit too close to at a family reunion.
It makes NO sense to attribute TO Jews a belief that violates the very thing that differentiated it from all other religions when it began (the concept that God is an incorporeal ONE) and laws that forbid worship of humans as deities.
Torah teaches that all humans are born with equal worth and equal capacity to directly connect to our Creator, it is what we do that determines if we live up to our potential.
"Ezra HaSofer" meaning Ezra the Scribe; a great leader of the Jewish People at the time of the building of the "Second Temple," in approximately year 516 B.C.E. He made many decrees preserving the way of life of the Torah among the Jewish People. He mounted a strong campaign against intermarriage among those who returned with him from Exile in Babylonia. In his greatness, he is compared to Moshe.
A Book of the Bible bears his name, and gives an historical account of his time. The word "Sofer," meaning "Scribe," actually meant more than the current meaning of the term "Sofer." It was the name given to the Scholarly Leaders of the People at that time in history.
EDIT: There is absolutely no truth that the Dead Sea Scrolls uncovered any long lost Jewish community that ever did such a thing. That's a lie. period. No Jewish community has EVER done so. The claim that "some" did it, and died out is only another lie to try to save face for the error in Quran. The fact remains that the charge in Quran was mistaken OR a willful attempt to INFLAME and ANGER Jews with insult.
No, there were a sect of jews who used to believe such which was revealed with the surfacing of the dead sea scrolls. But it's not as per the traditional orthodox beliefs to my understanding.
A belief is nowhere even close to knowing!!! It is ones guess!!!