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Are jews choosen people ? - By Rabbi Gershon Steinberg-Caudill By Rabbi Gershon Winkler Regarding the question about the Jews claiming to be the chosen people, and how that has led to antisemitism: my feeling is that we never claimed to the world to be the chosen people. We claimed it to ourselves, no less and no more than did the Celts claim that they were the chosen ones, or the Hopi Indians, or the Lakota Sioux or the Egyptians, or the Greeks. It is not our fault that Christianity TOOK our personal diary from us and published it all over the world. It is the early Church in its claim to be the only true religion that used our scriptures to prove this by quoting about how we were chosen by God, so that by replacing us, they became automatically the NEWLY chosen ones. But we Jews never publicized to the world that God had chosen us over any other. On the contrary, throughout the Tenakh we were reminded again and again that we are not THE chosen people, but A chosen people, meaning a people chosen amongst many others. Here are a few examples from the Tenakh, the private diary of the Jewish people: "In that day shall Israel be third alongside Egypt and Assyria, as a blessing on earth; for God will bless them, saying: 'Blessed be my people Egypt, my handiwork Assyria, and my inheritance Israel'" (Isaiah 19:24). "Are you not just like the Children of the Ethiopians unto me, O Children of Israel? Did I not bring out Israel from the Land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caf'tor, and Aram from Kir?" (Amos 9:7). From the Talmud: "It is written, 'There never again arose among the Israelites a prophet as great as Moses' (Deuteronomy 34:10) --among the Israelites there never again arose a prophet as great as Moses, but amongst other peoples, it is certainly probable!" (Midrash Bamid'bar Rabbah 14:19). Martin Buber put it this way: "As a historical people, Israel enjoys no precedence over any other. Like Israel, the other peoples were all wanderers and settlers; they came 'up' from a land of want and servitude into their present homeland. The one God, the Redeemer and Leader of the peoples, strode before all of them upon their way -- even the hostile neighboring peoples -- protecting them by His might. He guided their steps, gave them power, let them 'inherit' the soil of a people that had been ruined by its sins and abandoned by history." (From "Martin Buber On the Bible", edited by N. Glatzer [Schocken Books, 1982], p. 80). I believe that we believe that God does not discriminate between one people and another. That God loves the Palestinians as much as [God loves] the Israelis. Sort of like a mother who writes six letters to her six children, and in each letter she writes "You are my favorite. I love you more than anything in the world!" This is why we never went out missionizing to people. We believed every-one had their own divine revelation and each their path is sacred as long as they don't use it to destroy others. A tzadik (righteous person), the Talmud teaches, is not someone who is a holy Jew, but someone of ANY faith or [ANY] people who is righteous by their actions. A tzadik is not determined by belief or religious affiliation but by how they live their life. So, no we are not any more chosen than the aboriginals of Australia. We are equally chosen. And when we say "asher bachar ba'nu mee'kol ha'ameem" (who chose in us from all the nations) we mean that we thank God for choosing us, too, from among all the other nations, meaning from among all those other peoples who were chosen long before we were. Of course the average traditional Jew will think about this differently. I believe that is because we have as a people been persecuted for so long that our religious teachers kept impressing upon us how precious we were to God in order to lift up our downtrodden spirits. A people oppressed for close to two thousand years needs to hear that they are important, chosen, the highest of the high. But theologically it is totally incorrect. We are different than most, yes. But we are not more important to God than most. God likes us because we are funny. We gave the world more comedians than anyone else. We are not hated because we claim to be chosen. We are hated because of the venom spread against us by the New Testament story of the Jews calling for the crucifixion of Jesus, which has been proven again and again as historically and theologically fictitious, but it is already a poison well-entrenched in every-one influenced by the Church, whether Christian or not, which is practically the entire world today. I think another factor of this chosen people problem is not anything we say or said to the world as much as what the world assumes we say about ourselves or think about ourselves, because the world sees us as uncompromising, tenaciously clinging to our peculiar and often politically-incorrect ways, even when those ways clash with the rest of the world. We have always been different, and always refused to conform to the religious and cultural ways of those who have conquered us, whether Babylonian, Greek, Roman, Christian, etc. which led them to assume that we thought ourselves special. Why don't the Jews give in? They couldn't understand it. Everyone else who was conquered adopted the conqueror's ways. Everyone but the Jews. Which may naturally lead people to think that we think we are too special, chosen by God or the gods. Our crime was our stubborn refusal to compromise our beliefs and our ways, and so we chose death more often than any other conquered people, rather than conform or convert. Our crime was not our claim to be chosen. Our crime was our claim to the right to believe as we wished. And for that we have paid dearly.

Who wrote the Bible and Torah ?

Arnon Katz writes I asked the Rabbi, who is the right religion who follow God's will? And he said to me offcours Jewdisem that what is written in the bible, the world of God, so I went to the priset and asked him the same question and he told me offcours it's Christianity, it's all written in the books the old and new testimony, these are the words of God, the Jews fail to fulfill his wishes, them I went to the Imam and asked him and he said not Jewdisem and not Christianity, only Islam as said in the Quran by God's true prophet. Then I asked myself who is right, they all refer to books who was written thousands years ago... and claim all the other are wrong... And I got a very simple answer but also very deep one: Who ever call for sects and separate his false representative of God's will, and doese who call for unity and finding of the common ground are the true messanger of God's will. Because God is only pure love and his only will is unity. No he'll no haven only unity, it's our choice.

Now that is Courage !! Attention Please.................Previously, I shared a post with the picture of Pope and a verse from the Bible accusing the Pope for not speaking loudly for Gaza...well, emotions were very high and Now I realized that such post was not a good thing...same message could have been delivered in a different manner...I consider it my moral and ethical duty to submit my apology to all the readers of this post...I have deleted this post...Whether I agree with the strategy of Pope or not...one must respect the religious leadership of all faith..this is how we spread peace and love and solve the problems as a team..."Join hands for a good cause" [2-Corinthians 8:7, Holy Quran 5:48] Your Brother in Humanity. @Naeem Mushtaq

My friend Arnon Katz who is from Israel wants to Discuss this, can you discuss it with him ? Rehan, can you please ask your expert for interpretation to this phrases from the Quran: the Qur'an says that God gave the Land of Israel to the Jews ! It [the Qur'an] "is a guide for the righteous, who have faith in the unseen and are steadfast in prayer" [Qur'an: Sura 2, "The Cow", verse 2] It [the Qur'an] is "a confirmation of previous scriptures" (i.e., the Bible) [Qur'an: Sura 12, "Joseph", verse 112] "We [Muslims] believe in that which was revealed to us [the Qur'an] and that which was revealed to you [the Torah]. Our God and your God is one. To Him we surrender ourselves". [Qur'an: Sura 29, "The Spider", verse 47] "Enter, My People, the Holy Land which Allah has assigned for you. Do not turn back, or you shall be ruined". [Qur'an: Sura 5, "The Table, verse 21] "We [Allah] settled the Israelites in a blessed land and provided them with good things". [Qur'an: Sura 10, "Jonah", verse 93] "Pharoah sought to scare them [the Jews] out of the land [of Israel]: but We [Allah] drowned him, together with all who were with him. Then We said to the Israelites: 'Dwell in this land. When the promise of the hereafter comes to be fulfilled, We shall assemble you all together [in the Land of Israel in the End of Days]". [Qur'an: Sura 17, "The Night Journey", verse 103] "it was Our [Allah's] will to favour those who were oppressed [the Jews] and to make them leaders of mankind, to bestow on them a noble heritage and to give them power in the land [of Israel]: and to inflict on Pharoah, Haman, and their army, the very scourge dreaded by their victims". [Qur'an: Sura 28, "The Story", verses 5-6] "We [Allah] gave the persecuted people [the Jews] dominion over the eastern and western lands which We had blessed [the east and west banks of the Jordan River]. Thus your Lord's gracious word was fulfilled for the Israelites, because they had endured with fortitude; and We destroyed the edifices and towers of Pharoah and his people". [Qur'an: Sura 7, "The Heights", verse 137] "To Moses We gave the Scriptures, a perfect code for the righteous, with precepts about all things, and a guide and a blessing, so that his people might believe in the ultimate meeting with their Lord". [Qur'an: Sura 6, "Cattle", verse 155] "tell of Our servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: men of might and vision whom We made pure with the thought of the hereafter. They shall dwell with Us among the righteous whom We have chosen". [Qur'an: Sura 38, "Sad", verse 46] "Glory be to Him [Allah] who made His servants [Muhammed and El Burak] go by night from the Sacred Temple [of Mecca] to the farther Temple [of Jerusalem], whose surroundings We have blessed, that We might show him some of Our signs. He [Allah] alone hears all and observes all. We [Allah] gave Moses the Scriptures and made them a guide for the Israelites, saying, 'Take no other guardian than Myself. You are the descendants of those whom We carried in the Ark with Noah. He was a truly thankful servant'". [Qur'an: Sura 17, "The Night Journey", verses 1-3] "We gave the Scriptures to the Israelites and bestowed on them wisdom and prophethood. We provided them with good things and exalted them above the nations". [Qur'an: Sura 45, "Kneeling", verses 16-17] "There is guidance, and there is light, in the Torah which We [Allah] have revealed. By it the prophets who surrendered themselves to Allah judged the Jews, and so did the rabbis and the divines; they gave judgement according to Allah's scriptures which had been committed to their keeping and to which they were witnesses". [Qur'an: Sura 5, "The Table", verses 44-45]

The best way to be fully informed is as the Bible say " Love your enemy" I would say, FRIEND on Facebook people who you think are your enemy . Rehan Allahwala

There is supposedly a story in Bible about creation of Languages, any one has details of it ?

Technology is a tool, it's how you use it ! The amazing Randall Chase is going to read the bible on his Facebook live and finish it in a year, you can do the same with your friends about your holy book in english or your own language to Engage people and learn the scriptures together ! This is wonderful !

He teaches now bible via Facebook live ! What will you teach ?