Question for Jews / Judaism / Zionism: What are the most holy books in your religion?

In Jerusalem, on the day of Pentecost, 120 JEWS were filled with the spirit of God like the prophets fulfilling Joel 2. As the word Christian was not invented at this time and there were ZERO Gentiles, this was a Jewish event. If you fast forward to Act 15, you will find there are ZERO Gentile leaders.

In fact, ALL Believers trace their spiritual heritage to these 120 and this event. As Jesus and all His disciples were Jewish, the Jewish scripture was fulfilled and the spirit of God that fills you filled the Jewish prophet, please tell me where scriptural Judaism was replaced by something else.

***What are the most holy books in your religion?*** You don't understand the definition of a Jew.

Read it for yourself, Judaism 101 says:

***Who is a Jew?

A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew or any person who has gone through the formal process of conversion to Judaism.*** (What does that mean?)

Clarification given:

***It is important to note that being a Jew has nothing to do with what you believe or what you do.***

And further clarification given:

***a person born to a Jewish mother who is an atheist and never practices the Jewish religion is still a Jew, even in the eyes of the ultra-Orthodox.*** http://www.jewfaq.org/whoisjew.htm

So, what book is holy to an atheist Jew?

Dr. Kaufman Kohler said at the Pittsburgh conference of Reform leaders,

***“We consider their [the Holy scripture’s] composition, their arrangements and their entire contents as the work of men, betraying in their conceptions of the world shortcomings of their age;

...“We must discard the idea as altogether foreign to us, that marriage with a Gentile is not legal."

...I do not for a moment hesitate to say it right here and in the face of the entire Jewish world that… circumcision is a barbarous cruelty which disfigures and disgraces our ancestral heirloom and our holy mission as priests among mankind. The rite is a national remnant of savage African life… Nor should children born of intermarriage be viewed any longer exclusively by the primitive national standard which determines the racial character of the child only by the blood of the mother… I can no longer accept the fanciful and twisted syllogisms of Talmudic law as binding for us… I think, if anywhere, here we ought to have the courage to emancipate ourselves from the thralldom of Rabbinical legality.

With few modifications, the conference unanimously adopted Dr. Kohler’s proposed Pittsburg Platform.

...The Platform swept away Jewish dietary laws because “they fail to impress the modern Jew.”

...A survey commissioned that year by the Central Conference of American [Reform] Rabbis, reported that “...ninety-percent classified their faith with terms like: “Agnostic;” “Atheist;” ***

http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/reformc...

So you understand, atheism is the religion of many Jews and Jews practice many different faiths of which Judaism is just one.

Hope this helps

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***So, if I understand correctly, "atheist Jews" are just as Jewish as anyone else, (Jewish?)***

I am quoting Judaism 101...so it isn't me. Read the first paragraph and see for yourself.

Also, notice that 90% of the Reform rabbis classify their faith as something other than Judaism. Again, I didn't conduct the survey. These were the result of the survey the Reform did. I just provided the link and the info.

But do these Jews practice Judaism?

What else do Jews practice...it just isn't scriptural Judaism. Even the Orthodox don't practice that. They believe the "age of the prophet" ended So while all the Jewish scriptures teach that HaShem speaks and acts, that is not what the Orthodox teach.

***You list a passage from the book of Acts as an authority. I could give you the New Testament authority (Rom. 11) of what is, or is not a Jew according to the NT; but as an atheist, could you receive it?***

Acts is part of scriptural Judaism...it is also Messianic Judaism...you would have to prove that a new religion was started and instead Judaism continued. Good luck with that because Ro 11 was written by a Jew who went back to Jerusalem

***26 The next day Paul took the men and purified himself along with them. Then he went to the temple to give notice of the date when the days of purification would end and the offering would be made for each of them. *** Paul had no problem being Jewish. He simply heard the spirit of God and responded in faith as all that hear words from the LORD. The Orthodox and Reform do not...but they are still Jews

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Ahab, for example, killed the prophets as a part of what Israel did. It was so serious that Elijah thought he was the only believer in ALL ISRAEL. Yet, there was no concern about the survival of oral Torah or how it made it through because it did not exist.

The Torah (Genesis - Deuteronomy) is the most Holy book of Judaism. Followed by the Neviim (Prophets) and the Ketuvim (Writings). Together they form the Tanakh or Old Testament. Not to say that the Neviim and the Ketuvim are less holy, but if you forced me to say one book that was the most holy it would be the Torah, because that is where the Jewish law comes from as well as our tradition. According to tradition it was also revealed to us on Mt. Sinai during the Exodus.

The Talmud is also holy, as it contains what is called the "Oral Torah" which was the rest of the laws of the Torah that were not written down, but passed down by oral tradition. Eventually they were written down so that they would not be forgotten.

The Jewish concept of "Chosen people" is often misconstrued. It does not mean that we are better than any other people, what it means is that we have been assigned to keep G-d and his ways. So it just means that we have a larger religious responsibility than other people, not that we are superior in any way.

THE PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION

http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/przion1.htm

The Babylonian Talmud

http://www.ultimatebiblereferencelibrary.com/Babyl...