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- “Who is a Jew?” is one of those big questions without a clear-cut answer. But throughout history, defining someone as Jewish or not has come with high stakes - as high as the difference between life and death. To some Jews, their Jewish identity is their entire world; others don’t even think about it. So, who gets to decide whether someone else is a Jew and what does Jewish identity even mean?
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00:00 Intro
00:49 What ties Jews together?
01:10 Rabbi David Wolpe: Jews are "a religious family"
02:10 Sovereign nations as deciders of Jewish identity
02:26 The Israeli Law of Return and Hitler's definition of who is a Jew
03:49 Importance of the definition of who is a Jew
04:10 Not taking Jewish identity for granted
05:47 Outro
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David Ben-Gurion Israel's first Prime Minister was once asked, "Who is a Jew?" His answer was, "Anyone who says they are." Explaining that Jews suffered so much thru history that anyone willing to share that burden ought be considered Jewish
Ben Gurion's opinion on this matter is preposterous. It has no foundation in Jewish law.
@@yehoshuacirt8645 Jewish history is more complex than we give it credit for. But if your criterion is correct, then by the standard of the hebrew law (the law of the books of moses) then hardly 2% of the population of even 1% is Jewish.
@@dilectusfilius3633 If even that much. I've read that generally 0.5% of the world population.
@@yehoshuacirt8645 well there it is then, people of no direct relationship genetically or intellectually to the biblical Israelites you can call themselves Jewish and the world will believe it. That explains the current state of what once was Israel some 2,000 years ago and what now is a revived herbrew speaking branch of Europe and America.
@@dilectusfilius3633 The Nation of Israel live. Truth and imperic fact. Deal with that according to your psychological makeup.
I'm not Jewish, but I am moved by how you guys define identity. "The greatest happiness in life is to be that which one is", just amazing.
@Jack Mehoff Shocker bro. You'd sound like a Nazi. Is that what you wanted to hear?
@Jack Mehoff Bro your name is Jack Mehoff but it should be Hugh Jass
@@alexburke2287 he had a legit point and you’re too stupid to reply with anything but insults. So they can call themselves “the chosen people” but he’s not allowed to be proud of his heritage.
@@bradleyknowell1625 Not a big fan of the Bible I take it
@@alexburke2287 i don’t read books written by pedophiles
Although I am not Jewish, I love learning about your faith and culture. Great videos.
Egypt is referred to as the house of bondage hints forth I will bring the into Egypt again with ships and they wouldn't see their land again so if that's not true then I don't know what to tell ya playa 😂😂😂😂 you wonder who covered the face of the judges... White people with white Jesus 🤣🤣 you should read more it's good for you.
Oh yeah we walked out of Egypt why would you need a ship the next time 😂😂😂 y'all got it coming
Same with me.
Today the 02nd of February is NOT only the day that we mark the beginning of "Black History Month" it's also the day that Spain and Portugal (Iberian Penisula aka Al-Andalus) marks the day of the beginning of the RECONQUISTA (Reconquest aka the revenge).....
I’m trying to find out if I’m a christian (prolly catholic) or a Jew.
I’m Iranian and i recently took a DNA test. Turns out im 30% mizrahi jewish even though i’m not religiously jewish. It appears my great grandparents had to convert to islam by force out of fear. This is a big turn in my life haha
Who told you out of fear? Most convert by choice. How can you even force someone to convert? That’s absurd
@@harlowida convert or die! What a ridiculous statement. Guess u never heard of The Crusades or Jihad. You should educate yourself on history and Christianity and Islam before u make another foolish statement and remove all doubt about your intelligence. Smh
Your all converts
@@harlowida They force you by threatening you with violence. During the Armenian Genocide women and children were forced into Islamization.
Welcome back...
I was raised as a catholic but doing my dna I found I am ashkenazi on my mothers side and sephardic on my fathers side no one knew after we did our dna test I didn’t realise until after the dna test then I had a look at our family tree several generations back
Come to temple. Reacquaint yourself with our shared history, brother.
@@hroman5 Can i join you guys? I dont know nothing about my blood tough
My grandmother on my mother's side was Jewish. We grew up celebrating Chanukah and Passover until she passed away. My mother self identifies as a Jew and just grew up that way. I feel nothing but affection for that side of my heritage and family, as I only have sweet memories of it growing up. My grandmother always wanted us to be proud of being Jews. Yet I always felt kind of weird claiming Jewish identity in my adult life. I'm not involved in the community and I've never been to temple (I'm not a religious person). I often wonder sometimes if other Jews would think of me or accept me as a Jew?
You're culturally Jewish but less ethnically. You're welcome at any Synagogue
You are Jewish. I encourage you to attend some community events, and bring your family too. Reconnect to your roots
Avraham HaIvri (Abraham the Hebrew, something like "from the other side" or "the one who crossed") was called so because he stood alone for truth against the world; he didn't need a community card to do so.
@@PodcastCentral333 Wrong. This person is ethnically Jewish, less religiously.
@@Lagolop your correct if your mother was Jewish your Jewish.
Thanks This was very informative, just found out I was Jewish through my mothers lineage, our great great grandmother was bought to America as a slave and was not allowed to practice but she passed down her faith and story like kunta kings in roots and now I am learning more about my heritage.
It is highly unlikely that a black slave was Jewish, they were not Jewish in Africa and Jews were not black or from Africa.
@@rachelsamuel3328 right, Jews were white and from Europe
There are/were def Jews from Africa. Ethiopia we all know but from other areas as well. There are various Jewish communities. If one of them was involved in tribal war, who says it's not possible that there were those sold off to America.
@@rachelsamuel3328 I don’t understand how Jews were not black…semites are originally from Chaldea and brown skin and Judaism itself is not a race but the original hebrews were of a specific race. So I don’t if your simply trolling or not knowledgeable on the subject matter and will go with the latter to say your simply not educated.
Judaism is an ethnoreligion, and skin color has nothing to do with being ethnically Jewish. We have to constantly say this because people like you refuse to do a freaking Google search.@@Queennyla16
I absolutely loved this video. I am a jew, and I have always felt pressured to conform to the Judaism that non-jews put onto me -- I was attacked for all kinds of things; from playing soccer games on Saturdays to having a Catholic father. I appreciate you "giving me permission" to be Jewish and unapologetically so.
Just know my brother that Jesus is the Messiah
@jaycefiene9566 oh don't bother us! Why is it that when we are happy you pour acid over us? Shame!
Does a UA-cam channel or people tell you what being Jewish is or does the Torah tell you what being Jewish is?
Your content is so well conceived and delivered, thank you!!!
You do know that the real Jews are black scattered into all nations into slavery don't you ? Deuteronomy 28-68 read the curses of the covenant this is how you identity the true children of Israel scattered into all nations into slavery captivity and Jesus is black just as his people Revelation 1:1415 Daniel7:9
He's not a Jew at all sir read this book Shlomo sand book the invention of the Jewish people ish means something like not the real thing here's another book by Arthur koestlers the 13th tribe keep in mind their only 12 tribes.of Israel and they are of color
Torah and the Jews are one.
Torah law has always been the deciding factor to determine ones status as a Jew.
Failure to uphold of these laws is choosing to live in denial of the Torah’s truth.
Everyone’s soul has a purpose- choosing to assume a Jewish identity without following the clear guidelines of the Torah on the matter would be a disservice to oneself and society -to live as someone who you are not makes for a very conflicted life.
Hello. I have two questions for you :
- Can a Christian/atheist gentile convert to Judaism ?
- Is the Old Testament as important as the Torah for the Jewish people ?
Thanks for your time, and good wishes for the new year.
Please show me where in the Torah it says one can assume the “Jewish” identity. Moses gave the laws to the Israelites not some random people at the foot of mount sinai who claimed to be of the bloodline of Jacob/Israel.
Furthermore there are 12 tribes not 1. To be called a Jew just means from the Judah so where are the other 11 tribes?
Also why do those calling themselves Jews follow the Talmud & Kabbalah and act like neither exist within their community?
And why do they allow the biggest gay festival in the world to take place on holy land?
Answer: they are not the true Israelites they are converts that Herod an Edomite converted. They do not fit the curse laid out in the book of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy 28:68 is a big give away to who they really are and psalms 83 tells you who hide them.
@@hiswillbedone642 A Jew is a from the Southern Kingdom of Judea, not a Judahite., in the Tanakh it explains that Mordechai, Esther's uncle was a Jew (Judean) even though he was of the tribe of Benjamin,
Nowhere is Judah the definition of a Jew!
@@hiswillbedone642 Most Jews have little to do with Kabbala. The Talmud Sssss (there are two different Talmuds) are the Oral law written down after the destuction of the Temple, as well as commentaries of the Tanakh by Sages and Rabbis throughout the Ages. It is not a Holy Book as such, but an addendum of the Bible.
Well done! My blessing is for you to see great growth in your channel.
As a child in Amrrica I always knew not to talk about my Jewish background. On two occasions when it was brought up I actually had to leave the situation because my life was in danger. They would hear jew and the conversation would just be one sided and get weirder and more twisted. Since I was a child, u had to run from these situations. There's a thing in our society where hating jews is acceptable to the point where you feel you can lecture kids who aren't yours on how they're evil for just being born. Slso. You get beat up a lot in school for being jewish. The tension seems highest between certain black people and conspiracy theorists.
Yes it can be extremely complicated, especially once you start moving around in the world. The understanding of who is Jewish is different from place to place, and you can't simply announce your identity independently of what most people around you recognize about you.
I was born in the USSR. My great-grandparents and grandparents lived in Jewish shtetls and spoke Yiddish. About half of them were religious, and half were only marginally observant or not observant at all. My parents were not observant at all, but could understand a fair amount of Yiddish and could speak it a little, but not enough to have an actual conversation. I could not speak it at all and knew just a few catchy phrases, and knew almost nothing about any of the Jewish practices, except for excluding pork, which I chose to observe (I didn't know anyone else around me who observed this). My parents and I had Soviet passports that indicated we were Jewish. We were recognized by the state of Israel to immigrate there, but chose to immigrate to USA instead. In the U.S., nobody cares about my old Soviet passport - that country doesn't even exist anymore (which is probably a good thing). So, if I didn't observe any Jewish holidays or rituals, and called myself an atheist from ex-USSR, would I be Jew in the U.S.? Some would say yes, based on matrilineal descent, but many would say - no. If I go back to Lithuania (the area of the ex-USSR I grew up in) and live there, I would definitely be called Jewish by almost everyone (even though I speak and write fluent Lithuanian), and would experience anti-semitism at least occasionally, although it has changed a lot for the better in the past few decades. So seems like I'm Jewish in the U.S. if I say so; I'm definitely Jewish in Lithuania and other East-European countries, no matter what I say; and I'm Jewish in Israel if I produce my birth certificate from the old USSR. Pretty darn complicated.
Years after I came to the U.S. I decided to reclaim my Jewish heritage the best way I could, learned a fair bit of Hebrew, and incorporated a number of Jewish practices in my regular life. It's an ongoing quest.
You're Lithuanian and chose to learn Hebrew instead of Lithuanian Yiddish? You disappoint me Ramsay.
@@Meirstein I considered learning Yiddish, but decided against it. Who would I speak it to? Only certain Ultra-Orthodox communities have preserved it. Hebrew I can speak to millions of Jews in Israel and worldwide.
@@markrcca5329
Yiddish is written in Hebrew.
Since your mother was Jewish, you're Jewish everywhere. That's all you need to know .
God decides who is a Jew not man
@@davidschalit907 umm not exactly. In Israel, I'm not Jewish until I produce my mother's and maternal grandmothers original birth certificates. Although these days, they might take a DNA test as evidence - in that case I'd be OK, 97% Ashkenazi :) In the U.S., if I didn't observe anything and called myself an atheist, I would not be Jewish to the majority of people here. They wouldn't care what my DNA is or who my mother was.
True, Yiddish is written in Hebrew - but at least 70% of it is old German words. About 20-30% is actual Hebrew words, just pronounced a little differently.
There's a very big argument over who's considered jewish and although it's hard to hear the answer is simple, according to the JEWISH law a jewish person is a person who was born to a jewish mother, or a person who converted to judaism according to the jewish law.
For many people it is hard to hear because you can have cases of jewish people who are only jewish because they have one great great grandmother from their mother's side who was jewish, and that makes them a 100 percent jewish according to the jewish law even though in nazy germany they would probably be considered not jewish, but on the other hand you can have a person who's jewish from all sides except of one non jewish great grandmother and according to the jewish law he's not jewish.
And that's why it's very hard for the country of Israel to not accept such a person and that's what got all the controversy.
My family is Ashkenazi. They immigranted from Germany in several waves from about 1888 to 1921. It's amazing how people identify themselves and others. Sadly, this is also frequently scary.
ASHKENAZI ARE STRAIGHT UP GENTILES DESCENDENTS OF GOMER, THE FATHER OF ALL GERMANIC TRIBES, GOMER IS THE SON OF JAPHETH, NOAH'S SECOND SON, WHOM IS THE FATHER OF ALL EUROPEAN TRIBES..
GENESIS 10 VS 1-5.
READ SLOWLY WHAT, THE TRUE HEBREW YISRAELITE MESSIAH YAHUSHUA CALLED YOUR , YIDDISH SPEAKING, SKIDDISH IMPOSTER JEWS..
REVELATION 2-:VS 8-15
ROMANS 9 VS 6
ONE MORE PROPHECY CONCERNING THE RETURN OF YAHUSHUA IN THE CLOUDS ABOVE THE EARTH.
HE SAID PRIOR TO HIS RETURN, JERUSALEM WOULD NOT BE UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE TRUE HEBREW YISRAELITES, BUT IN FACT WOULD BE UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE GENTLES 😱
READ IT SLOWLY FOLKS, CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP FOLKS 😱
LUKE 21 VS 24 😈
JERUSALEM IS UNDER THE CONTROL OF ASHKENAZI/ EDOMITES WHICH EXPLAIN THEIR,HOME MADE LANGUAGE CALLED YIDDISH WHICH SOUNDS QUITE SKIDDISH IF YOU ASK ME 😱 MOST OF THE PEOPLE IN THE REGION DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE THESE ABOMINABLE PEOPLE CALLING THEMSELVES ASHKENAZI IMPOSTER JEWS ARE TALKING ABOUT..
ASHKENAZI IS A RELATIVE OF, MAGOG 😱
GENESIS 10 VS 1-5 .
IM A TRUE BORN AGAIN HEBREW YISRAELITE,WE WOKE NOW..
WE UNDERSTAND WHO YOUR HOME MADE JESUS CHRIST SUPER STAR IS TOO
WE UNDERSTAND,YOU PEOPLE HAVE , REMOVE THE TRUE HEBREW YISRAELITE NAME YAHUWAH AND YAHUSHUA'S HOLY NAME FROM THE ORIGINAL HEBREW SCRIPTURE MORE THAN 16500 TIMES,THUS FULFILLING PROPHECY
PSALMS 83 VS 1-18
ROMANS 1 VS 17-32
ASHKENAZI ARE IMPOSTER JEWS.
AND ANCIENT GREEK IMPOSTER JEWS ARE CALLED , PHARISEES AND SADDUCEES..
THE JEWS YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT, ASHKENAZI WERE NEVER JEWS .
ASHKENAZI WERE ,HAND IN GLOVE WITH ESAU'S DESCENDENTS ACCORDING TO PROPHECY..IN THE LAST DAYS BEFORE THE TRUE HEBREW YISRAELITE MESSIAH YAHUSHUA'S RETURN,
ESAU'S DESCENDENTS AND THEIR ZIONIST LED, NATO, EU, ALLIANCE WOULD BE UNCOVERED.
JEREMIAH 49 VS 10
OBADIAH VS 1-18
GENESIS 27: VS 37-43
THESE PEOPLE HAVE TURNED JERUSALEM AND TEL AVIV INTO A SODDOM AND GOMORRAH, GAY MARRIAGE, TRANSGENDER, HOMOSEXUAL, LBGTQ QUEER HEADQUARTERS OF THE WORLD 🌎🌍🌏
AIN'T NO WAY IN HELL CAN YOU ASSOCIATE, ASHKENAZI IMPOSTER JEWS WITH , TRUE HEBREW YISRAELITES WHI HAVE, ABORIGINAL DNA SEMITIC BLOODLINE..
אני יודע מי אני. אתה לא יודע מי אני. תלמד להקשיב@@conveybtw3629
My dad was a secular jew most Jewish people do not concider me jewish and most Christian comcider me a jew if they knew my dad was I was jewish enough to experience anti semitism but yet was not welcome by the jewish community so I just didnt offer that info for the first 35 years of my life now maybe I have a moses complex i dont follow jewish laws i was raised roman catholic but do see my self as ethnically having Jewish roots and i like the ancient history of jews and that i am a part of that and in some strange way my christian side helped me related and understand Judaism better
Yeah, there is tremendous intolerance by many Jews. I am a Jew by both parents but many religious people are full of hatred and intolerance and want to harass Jewish men as they think they have the "right" to do this. It is terrible. I have been victim of it.
I'm in the same situation except the catholic part, I've always wondered if I'm considered jewish, at all? the answer seems to vary depending who I ask.
People are strange. The guy said that if you had a single Grandparent who was Jewish it stoked an interest with the Nazi state. That logic alone should be enough for anyone with a sense of common decency.
I am also Jewish and none religious , my grandfathers and grandfathers side were Jews on my mom side who converted to Catholicism , not my grandfather though . My fathers father side was also Jewish and not practicing Judaism . I have come to realize over the years that the religious and reform Jews don’t consider folks like us Jews , however they have nothing to say , you are either Jewish in your heart and soul or not regardless of what some say . My soul is very Jewish and very close to the Jews which I have discovered over the years .
@@thedude9941 If your mother was Jewish--then you are. And if not, you're not. And it's fine.
IVE BEEN ASKING THIS QUESTION SINCE LIKE THE FIFTH GRADE!
My Dad is Ashkenazic but my Mother is Filipino and Czech. Someone once told me that even though my Dad is Jew i am not cause my Mom isn't Jew
If your mother is a Jew you are a full Jew. if your mother is not a Jew it doesn't matter what your father is you are not a Jew. There are no half Jew.
@@BruceWayne-th8gv so if King Davids grandmother was Ruth how did he become a Jew?
@@shannonhondo260 she converted. Anyone can convert to Judaism and then they are a regular jew (assuming it was a good conversation.)
@@shannonhondo260 according to the Holy Bible & the Torah, all lineage is passed through the father! Everyone on earth today are descendants of the sons of Noah, the Hebrews began with Abraham/Israel and his 12 sons in Egypt! King David was a Jew because he was from the tribe of Judah, and he was a Hebrew because his father was a Hebrew! The mother has nothing to do with who a person is.
@@PaulNewfield-PasadenaCAU-wb4xg yeah thats what i was thinking too.
We found out 2 years before my maternal grandfather passed he was Jewish. He just casually mentioned it in conversation. And my maternal grandmother was Lipan Apache. Now tribes are being linked to Jews/Israel. So I could possibly be fully Jewish by DNA on my maternal side and I have always had a heart for the Jewish people and culture. I have been keeping Shabbat simply because I feel led to do so.
Be careful with the Native American tribe thing being linked to Israelite tribes. The only people who push that type of stuff are black Hebrew Israelites and other anti semites as a way to push the false conspiracy theory that the Jews of today aren’t the real Jews. Native American tribes aren’t Israelite tribes.
you are not jewish
@@jamesstevenson7725 How do you get to decide? Did you actually watch the video about the complicated aspects of saying who is and who isn't? If the poster had a maternal grandfather who was Jewish, that counts in Israel! In many Progressive American Jewish communities, if the poster showed up and said, "I just found out my grandfather was Jewish and I want to be part of the Jewish people" I think they would not be told to go away because they are "not Jewish."
@@SupaBloom Not everyone would push an anti-semite agenda when speaking the truth. The truth is that the children of Israel were scattered. Many at different times. There are many cultural aspects of the island peoples and Native Americans that would lead a man to consider the possibilities.
@Eti Camaroff Dna? 14000 years. Wow, you really know how to pick bad sources.
as always great videos!
Judaism is an ethnoreligion. It doesn’t seek out converts like Christianity or Islam, but it doesn’t require membership by birth like Mandaeans or Samaritans, either. It’s in between. That’s why there is some diversity in Judaism as it has slowly spread around the world, but not as much as in other religions that have spread faster.
It is not complicated defining who is a Jew. We have a code given by our ancestors which tells us who is a Jew. Someone either needs to have a Jewish mother or have a proper conversion.
ok then what is a jewish mother bc in that sense anyone’s mother who isnt actually jew can be jew-ISH therefore anyone can be jew-ISH. so define what it means to be a jew. not what government officials tell you who is qualified to be considered as jewish in order to migrate to another country.
@Eti Camaroff what is a jewish mother
@@nevermindmine A Jewish mother is one recognized by others to be a jew, that she herself had a Jewish mother.
@@shainazion4073 that doesn’t define anything. define who is jewish without using the term jew
@Red %1000
4:53 It IS easy. The answer is if you have a mother that was Jewish or converted in a kosher manner with Orthodox rabbis.
The Marranos in Philippines are already inclined now in Philippine culture. It's hard to find the lineage linkage, and of these Marranos mestizos are most lived in Visayas. Now, the Spanish government want to Marranos to go back in Spain. I don't think if my family is the last Marranos in Philippines. The culture is also died.
Marranos (meaning swine) is a derogatory term for the conversos.
I attended several classes at a Reconstructionist Jewish University. This was some of the best spent time.
In the act of searching and surviving we find who we are. The mind, the body and the Reglion.
I am Jewish, but a lot of other Jewish people do not consider me Jewish because my mother was not Jewish, only my father was Jewish.
The Torah considers you Jewish.
That's the most important thing.
My parents met a very kind Jewish family,
Became very good friends.
Loved them kindly .
We loved the Gabors..✡🕎
Syntaxically, a Jew is anyone who descends from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
It can be added to these people as well, through conversion (which is still hindered by Orthodoxy).
And we must not forget that there are the 10 lost tribes that will make up the great Israel of the Biblical promise.
It's ingenuous to say Orthodoxy hinders conversion. Can I declare myself a doctor or lawyer simply because I feel like one?
Orthodox Judaism insists that Judaism is binding on Jews, and conversion to Judaism is invalid without accepting that binding nature of Judaism.
Other cultural movements that have attached Judaism to their name, define Judaism as nonbinding, thus no elements of conversion can be binding. Ergo, these "conversions" are nothing more than declarations of self-identification with Judaism, and have as little absolute value or meaning.
There are no lost tribes, that is not a Jewish construct. We are not lost; we know who and where we are (well there are some that don't now their roots). Historically, ALL the tribes coalesced with Judah hence we are Jews.
@@Lagolop prove that using scripture please because that is total lies. The book of revelations mentions 12 gates each have the names of the tribe TWELVE tribes on them.
@@zevspitz8925 it is a bloodline a heritage not a religion or a profession that can just be given away to another. It is handed down through the father and ordained by TMH himself. what you are saying amounts to a snake waking up one day and saying I want to identify as an lion because I feel like one. Is that really plausible?
@@hiswillbedone642 Judaism is less about what is "plausible" to our limited mortal minds -- particularly since what is "plausible" to one person is likely "implausible" to another -- than about performing the Creator's Will, revealed to the Jewish people at Mount Sinai. Part of that revelation is that while tribal affiliation -- and related statuses such as royalty or priesthood -- are passed down from the father, Jewishness itself is only passed down through the mother, or via sincere conversion according to the halachic requirements.
I am also not Jewish and to the best of my knowledge have absolutely no Hebrew heritage. However l watched the English actor Stephen Fry explain the invention of the game of Chess. It's on UA-cam, he mentions the family of man and who is related to who and the fact that nobody really knows what happened say 500 or 1000 years ago with people's ancestors. I have a yearning to become Jewish though.
I believe Fry IS Jewish.
I identify myself with the story, the fate and the struggles of the beautiful Jewish people...I believe that Humanistic Jews recognize me as Jewish. The fact that I might be considered Jewish gives a pretty clear idea of how difficult Is to answer this question.
I'm not Jewish but my dad was. Saying that the one Grandparent rule makes you Jewish and the critics say: "That makes Hitler the one who decides who is Jew enough." Then going by Matrilineal determination is then letting the Romans determine who is Jewish enough. I grew up thinking that I was British / Irish and German. Till I took a DNA test and found out that my German dad was a Jew and that Dad's Grandparents came from Romania and Moldavia. He was adopted and raised as a German American. His Jewish Family lived right down the road and were good family friends. I would convert but the whole Jesus thing might just get in the way.
Matrilineal descent was never determined by the Romans (How did they even get into this conversation?) This is a Biblical precept, as expounded by Rabbinic sources much earlier than even Romulus and Remus (mythologically) founded Rome.
@@momfrombrooklyn You are right Deuteronomy 7:3-4. I stand corrected.
@pebear
If you go by what you cited, then it means that your lineage is passed down through your father.
Somehow, rabbis came up with the idea that it's the exact opposite. And yes, the Romans and being in dispora more broadly played a major role in determining this.
Remember when that Russiah Jewish woman in Israel got her wedding protested because the orthodox considered it an “interfaith” wedding? Russian Jews still aren’t recognized in many ways, especially when they lack documents. Also the whole Barkan winery thing
That's so sad they suffered so much in history too,
@@furiosa1203 Suffering doesn't make you Jewish...
Those people calling themselves Jews are converts their not of the bloodline of Jacob.
@Eti Camaroff
Romans 11:1
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
If there is no longer a bloodline then you are going to need to explain the twelve gates mentioned in revelations and why each has one of the twelve tribes of Israel on it. Also explain
Hebrews 8
8For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
What you are technically saying is TMH done away with his people yet Paul said god forbid and confirmed which tribe he was from and TMH makes a new covenant with the Israelites you say no longer exist. So either you are lying or TMH & paul are 🤔
@Eti Camaroff
Numbers 1:18
And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their 👉🏾fathers👈🏾
So the ancient Israelites say it comes through their fathers but you and those people say it comes through their mothers whose lying?
@Sure Enough I think they deleted all their comments 🤔 I wonder why 😂
Geneticists have proven that less than 1% of Jews per generation are from converts. Modern Jews still have 50% of Canaanite DNA, that is only from Canaan/Israel. What exactly did they convert from to have Israeli DNA?
There is No bloodline. Jews married other tribes, Canaanites, Moabites, Philistines, Egyptians, Midionites, Arameans, Assyrians and others. Only if Israelites married other Israelites could there be a bloodline.
The bottom line, is not how we may view ourselves, it has nothing to do with “identity”. The very source of all thing “Jewish” is the Torah, which defines a Jew is someone either born to a Jewish mother or who converted according to a halachically respected /Torah observant Jewish Court
This is very helpful. It's nice to know this people group is in my background though I, myself, cannot be considered Jewish by any sane measure.
I"m Christian with a Jewish father, son of holocaust survivors, and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, and very connected to my Jewish roots, my fiance happens to also be Jewish as well. For me, I identify, too both my heritages of the Christian and of the Jewishiness
But you are not a Jew, seeing that your mother was not a Jew. It's a black or white thing.
@@yehoshuacirt8645 Hitler would have considered me a Jew. And I have Jewish blood and Jewish ancestry, and my dad is Jewish. To an antisemite, they don't care which side of me is Jewish. I still got called the K-word. So by Jewish law no because my mom isn't Jewish but to me I'm very close with my Jewish heritage. Again and to those that dislike Jews the fact my father is Jewish is enough for them.
@@ScenariosOfDrea Hitler and the rest do NOT decide who is a Jew. The Halacha stipulates a Jew is one who came from a Jewish mother or who was properly converted. No half no part Jewish. And you are already good and loved without being Jewish.
@@yehoshuacirt8645 Hitler would kill anyone with a Jewish parent or Jewish grandparent regardless which side was Jewish. I get what your saying by Jewish law I"m not considered Jewish. That still does not change the fact how connected I'm to my Jewish roots or the fact I've faced anti-semitism for having Jewish heritage.
As someone that has a Jewish father, and Jewish fiance, I know that Hitler considered anyone with a Jewish parent or grandparent Jewish. I get that what your saying that based on Jewish law I'm not Jewish. That still does not change the fact how connected I'm to my Jewish roots and my Jewish side.
I have a weird situation where I am latino-American, who practiced Christianity since I was 16 years old by my own will, but many people KEEP assuming I am Jewish. Even some Jews thought I was Jewish until I tell them I am Christian. Recently I encountered a real Neo-Nazi online who saw my videos and immediately called me a "Sephardic Jew phenotype". And he was calling me all kinds of Anti-Semitic slurs that no one ever did. I realized if there was another Holocaust, that Neo-Nazi would paint me as a Jew no matter how many times I told him I wasn't. I could tell he really believed I was Jewish. There is nothing Jewish in my home except the Bible.
But the Interesting thing is, when I first read and practiced the Bible, I fell in love with the scriptures and the faith. And these scriptures are what? That's right: JEWISH. Even the new testament and Jesus Christ is Jewish. I kept telling the Neo-Nazi that I wasn't Jewish. But after the argument, when I thought about what my spiritual beliefs are, I realized ALL OF THEM come from Jewish beliefs. Even Christianity is a form of Jewishness as weird as that may sound to most people. The real truth is, both the Old AND New testament were written and taught by Jews. And I started to realize that I think I may be SPIRITUALLY Jewish. More than anything else. Because I also defend Israel as a Zionist too. I think reading the Bible converted my spirit into a Jewish spirit.
What's also interesting is that I am Puerto Rican American, which means my family originates from Spain. Which also means I am probably genetically related to Sephardi-Jews. But because of the Spanish inquisition there is no way to definitively prove this. No one in my family has ever identified as a Jew. And if my ancestors once we're Jews, that probably ended in the 1500s with the Spanish inquisition. But sometimes I feel that my spiritual beliefs are telling people I am Jewish. Perhaps I actually am in the spirit. I don't even know anymore. But I also find myself trying to learn Hebrew. This was an interesting video. The Jewish identity has been so fragmented since the diaspora and is trying to put itself back together little by little.
Loved this. My experience as a Jew has been refreshing and has filled a void that had been empty for too long. We're a motley crew, with mixed marriages and complicated relationships with Christians, but we continue to encourage those searching for God and meaning in this life to worship with us. For that, and more, I am eternally grateful. Not Jewish and like to argue, LOL, visit a temple! You may decide it's to your liking as we kind of love to debate.
I am from the Dominican Republic, My parents are 100% Dominican and their parents after them Haitian and Spanish..... DNA results came back with mostly West African, American Indian and some Spain/Portugal but then there was Ashkenazi. Where were like WTF? Lol
Yeah I got Jewish aswell. We are gods ppl, I think we come from the tribe of Judah.
I’m also Dominican
I found out that we are Jewish on both sides, didn't know it till one day my sister, said as i was sitting at the table , oh by the way, did you know our grandma was Jewish? I said, no, I didn't, so i started looking and sure enough, we are on both sides.
I wish this was longer. But glad too see it anyway.
I AM A JEW,MUSLIM, HINDU,CHRISTIAN,BUDDHIST,HUMAN,BROTHER,DAD,UNCLE MATHEMATICIAN,ETC.,RESEARCHER,LIVING MAN,DEAD MAN; AT THE VERY END,IT IS ALL IN VAIN.😅🕍🕌⛪️
I'm 100% I'm 100% Ashkenazi Father's side from Father's side from Lithuania motherside from Ukraine And some of my Grandfather maternal People are from Egypt Whatever it is I don't care what anyone says I believe that I am Jewish by that
And many blood jewish descendants don't even know they are. Thanks inquisition and Spaish crown.
Yes do to mass conversations of Sephardic jews, thanks to DNA I was able to learn more about this history. From the Natufians of PPNB to the Peki'in Cave / Peqi'in Cave to the Black Lemba Jews of South Africa to the Sephardic Israelites to Haile Selassie's claims to the house of David my DNA Y chromosome haplogroup T is even found among European Jews, most importantly my love and fear for YHWH and desire to live Torah is what decides that I'm a Jew/ Israelite not what my grandparents classified as. Shalom
@@HOWMUSICTV ☝
@@HOWMUSICTV absolutely no one can erased our blood and soul.
We can tell Israelites world wide by the curses in Deuteronomy 28. Most are not the religion of so called Judaism.
@@lobsterbalelegesse9919 💔
This is a simple question with a simple answer. The Jewish law, הלכה, defines a Jew as one who has been born from a Jewish mother or has been converted in accordance to Jewish law. Authentic Jewish law, what the Americans call orthodox Jewish law. It is no more complicated than that.
It's actually sound complicated if there beliefs on the afterlife is skewed and unqueally yoked. Especially there beliefs of there not being a Hell.
@@brittanyhayes1043 Hey, what's that have to do with the price of tea in China? Besides being detached from the what I wrote, your conclusion displays complete ignorance of our beliefs.
@@yehoshuacirt8645 Complete ignorance? Really? Do you not have the different beliefs within Judism ( 1. Your are Jewish through birth. 2 you are Jewish through your mom. 3. Your can be Jewish or inherited a Jewish spirit etc.)
The other is its prejudice when it comes to marriage dealing with non Jews and the offspring of the union ( meaning according to some Jews the children wouldn't tnit be considered Jewish because in of the parents is non -Jewish even if they are recent converts.) If I am so ignorant why is this not a form of ignorance 🤔? You are infact unequally yoked becuse you are not unified in one faith.
@@yehoshuacirt8645 Also I never said anything about China's tea. You also don't have a a comment about tea that I can see.
Hi, I am Jew and my Jewish identity is strong than ever in the past weeks.
I am Israeli and I live in Israel from birth. Also my parents and my maternal grandmother too.
My nation is on its most horrifying and mourning days since many many years. Please pray for us fellow Israeli Jewish and un Jewish friends 😢
The Ashkenazi, whose origins go back to the Khazars of the Caucasus, have the right to convert to Judaism, but they do not have the right to kill and displace the indigenous inhabitants of Palestine.
Hi @mahmoudaltanashi7412 - here's a video we made debunking the antisemitic conspiracy theory you shared: ua-cam.com/video/cw0G9COpeMY/v-deo.html
And here's another one we think you'll like - "Did Israel Take Over Palestine?" ua-cam.com/video/0BasXaiHiiI/v-deo.html
@@mahmoudaltanashi7412
WRONG!! The Khazar hypothesis has been debunked by history, archeology, linguistics and science (DNA). The Jews have NO Khazar DNA, No Turkic or Turkish DNA.
ואתה לא מחליט מי אנחנו. נקודה@@mahmoudaltanashi7412
I’m Black, not Jewish but it seems to me that being Jewish is 1. Based in religion and 2. Rooted in common victimhood (as demonstrated at 2:11). This isn’t a slight just an observation. Being Black, this is one thing that I hate to see among the Black community- victimhood. One question that I cannot seem to get answered with someone getting offended is why do many Jewish people get offended by people saying that they are in positions of power across many industries? This is an honest question, that I hope someone can answer. Do Jewish people actually see things differently? Is power offensive in the Jewish community? I wish there was a way to just have a conversation without being labeled antisemitic, this may resolve a lot of misunderstandings.
Would love to discuss this with you but I don't got the energy to type 😭😂
I am Jewish although I am not religious , I follow teachings of Kabbalah. I discovered my Jewish ancestry over time in my family on both sides of my parents . I always wandered why my father and his side and my mother and my mother’s side looked different than typical Eastern Europeans , we have jet black hair and olive skin color , dark eyes . It is confusing once one realizes that my ancestry is not just Eastern European or European . However I am proud to be Jewish and I have been drawn to Judaism for years
Here is a bit of information about Jewish phenotypes. A study was done and it showed that in countries where the local population is dark (for example Romania), the Jewish population tended to one fair skinned and blond. The opposite when the local population was fair. You can't really say a person is Jewish by their looks. The most varied ethnic group on the planet.
@@Lagolop you have not finished your sentence
Man can't decide ,. who's Israelites or not , it's a birth right given by God Almighty Yahweh! Man can decide , who's Jew but true Israelites and Jews , it's not the same! Ask God Almighty Yahweh , how he feels about Jews and Israelites ? You are going to be surprised !
Facts!
@@mikaelbenyhwh1981 take a DNA test west African
@thomas Barca, may I ask which company fid your DNA test? Most do not track Maternal line.
My grandad was a German Jew who left Germany sometime between 1935-1938. He escaped to the UK and married my Protestant grandmother. They didn't make my Dad, 2 uncles and an aunt become Jewish or Protestant My dad married my Roman Catholic and me and my bro were raised as Catholics. But I stopped going to church at 16 and I've always wondered "what if The Nazis had never been?" - I would almost certainly be German Jewish and probably still live in Germany but now I'm someone else because of Hitler and his fellow wankers. My great grandparents were supposed to be well known hatmakers and had between 4 - 6 hatmaking shops all over Germany but they were stolen by the Nazis. I want to learn more about Judaism and also find out more about our family history as we dont have much knowledge on where dad's side of the family comes from - just a few documents that we found a few years ago in my grandads Merchant Navy sailor's pouch. That was in the records at Kew Gardens and it even contained the dodgy pass that he escaped with (it says his place of birth was "Dessau, Poland" - but Dessau is 295 miles from the Polish border! XD
Thank you so much!! I don't rate it ten likes because it only allows for one.
4:51 Halacha is that exact science though
0:23 - definitely, as a non-jew who wanna be one I can understand 😁... but I think not at your means... it's a huge thing
You can convert to Join us in the Jewish life, If you swear to believe in the Torah and it's teachings
I am Jewish, I don't care if I'm a mixed. I mostly Jewish Sephardic and Ashkenazi. I'm also Black an European, Indian,Central Asian and Native American.
Is your mother Jewish? If so, you are a Jew. Otherwise, no.
@@yehoshuacirt8645 you don’t have to have a Jewish mother to be Jewish. It’s called conversion to Judaism.
@@christo-chaney Of course. But it has to be an authentic conversion.
@@yehoshuacirt8645 orthodox are not the only valid ones. Even though they insist so. Doesn’t make it true.
@@christo-chaney Let's be VERY clear on this matter: only authentic conversion according to Jewish law. Anything else is fraudulent. This leads to frustration and anger when for example, a reform or conservative "convert" is not accepted as a Jew for marriage. That is shameful when these people are misled into believing that they have somehow become Jews. So people, be aware of fraudulent "conversion" processes. (Anyway, there is no reason for a gentile to convert unless he is extremely set on it. If this is truly the case, he will get to his/her soul's destiny).
Judaism definitely carries in it richness and experiences, and one definitely needs to be responsible and be active and individual, not just communal, about his/her Judaism. At the same time being Jewish is not JUST an ideology one joins, and is definitely not decided SOLELY based on how one identifies him/herself. Those are important factors, but Judaism is at the same time a people and a religion. Therefore, the code Jews adhere to is the Torah, both Written and Oral Torahs given by G-D to Moses at Sinai, from which we know (as handed down from Moses through the generations all the way through to the Era of the Talmud and beyond) that Jewish definition is through being born to a Jewish mother or through converting according to Halacha. So ideology is important, because a convert would never begin a journey to convert unless they were inspired by the Jewish ideology. But to complete their conversion correctly, it needs to be done according to the parameters of the book of the Jews: The Torah. Also a Jew born to a Jewish mother needs to become inspired by Jewish ideology and the Torah to preserve his Jewish faith and abide by its Torah laws, marry Jewish and continue the Torah true legacy of his nation. Same goes for identity, a convert is usually motivated to convert because of feeling identity as a Jew, and a Jew born to a Jewish mother also needs to preserve and nurture his Jewish identity. That happens not JUST through eating Matzah Ball soup and visiting Masada, but mainly through the study of our rich Torah and the observance of its Mitzvot
Being a Jew biblically was always by the fathers bloodline meaning his forefathers
Please show where in the Torah it explains that.
Wrong, you’re confusing tribe with ethnicity 🤣 father’s line determines the tribe not ethnicity, stop lying to yourself dцmmy, bring a jew was always determined by mother’s line, since judaism started.
Truth is stranger than fiction. I dare not say any more.
How do I convert?
Don't.
Contact your nearest synagogue and set up an appointment with the rabbi to discuss it. Make sure it’s not a messianic congregation or something like “sacred name” “two house”“netzari” or what other mishugas they’re calling themselves this week.
Before I watch this video. Who decides who is a Christian, or a Muslim? Same. It's a religion and it has its own criteria. Maybe not even one, maybe different kinds of this religion have different criteria and then they can fight within themselves if they even agree on who belongs to themselves. It shouldn't be my problem. I'm not Jewish in anything even tho the Jews count me as one of them
Jewish is a ethnicity, Jews are a Nation. Not a religion.
@@user-jw6zw9gv8p No
@ it is
when it comes to "who is Muslim, Christian, or followers of Judaism", it's God who decides.
@@user-jw6zw9gv8p יהודים זה גם עדה וגם דת, בניגוד לאיסלם ולנצרות. זה התחיל מכך שהיה מדובר בעיקרון ברקע עדתי - כולנו ילדים של 3 אבות ו4 אמהות, אבל בהמשך הפך בנוסף גם לדת.
Shalom all I Love Jews
The Rabbinate in Israel desires which conversion is acceptable to move to Israel.
I'm Jewish and have never been treated better than in Israel. It was an amazing trip
I was raised Christian but recently found out I am Mizrahi on my moms side and decided to take part in Messianic Judaism, a form of Judaism that believes in Jesus. Sadly though the Law of Return doesn’t apply to me even though I take part in the same Jewish customs as everyone else
I lost my Jewish Identity as a child because I was severely abused by the conservative Jewish community in my city (a bit of the Orthodox too). That includes sex abuse to physical abuse and etc... I am 21 now, and have only started to rediscover it as of late. Never thought I would be here, jeez how things change.
A bit of the orthodox... what does that even mean. You don’t even sound Jewish lol
@@kimjongun5172 I was abused by the conservative sect, and a orthodox sect my family tried joining. What hell is your problem? I didn't get the message that you get to decide who is Jewish and who is not.
@@furiosa1203 You could have been abused by anyone, it does not have anything to do with Judaism. The words or language may be triggers for you at this point. It doesn't matter who abused you, but you should seek help for the PTSD of the Abuse itself,
I dont think you lose your Jewishness to Orthodox Judism because you were abused by the. I think you were just an a abusive situation in a Orthodox religion. There no way you can lose your Jewishness through that. The same with being a Christian if it was this bad.
When did some orthodox women start shaving their heads and wearing wigs and turbans ? Is there scripture that dictates that practice ?
Most religious women don't shave their hair but cover it. I for example am religious and the first time a heard/saw something like that was while watching "Unorthodox". But the Jewish Law dictates that every woman should cover her hair after marriage. The source is in the MIshnah Tractate Ktubot. We learn this from BaMidbar chaper 5 verse 18 "After he has made the woman stand before the LORD, the priest shall bare the woman’s head..." from here the woman was covering her hair before the priest uncovered it.
@@davidcohenboffa1666 Thank you for your response. Is that from a later book, not from the Torah ? I would guess the wigs are something rather new, probably since immigrating ?
@@davidcohenboffa1666
It is a question in Jewish law whether a woman has to cover her hair after marriage.
@@Odo55 As I wrote before it is not clearly written as a commandment in the Torah. By using technics of interpretation The Sages from the Talmud got this conclusion. But it is considered an obligation from the Torah since there is a source from the book of Numbers.
@@davidcohenboffa1666 Thank you for your response. Would you expect your wife to cover her hair ?
For me it is someone who can trace their lineage to Prophet Abraham PBUH without unbroken chain of transmission
So if you’re a Jew By Choice (Gone through the process, Mikveh and all) but don’t have a grandparent that’s Jewish, the you’re not considered Jewish in Israel?
The State of Israel recognized Orthodox conversions
As a classicly trained Orthodox Rabbi defining who is Jewish outside of Halachic parameters is a profound deviation with far-reaching effects on the integrity of the Jewish People. Multiple definitions of "Who is a Jew" creates confusion and unnecessary strain/tension.
Even so, your very thoughtful video emphasizes the need for sensitivity in engaging with other types of persons who identify as Jewish while remaining faithful to Halacha.
thank you
Rabbi, I was taught that the only way to be born Jewish was from a Jewish mother or 2 years of convert school? This was taught to me through my Jewish in-laws, whom I lived with and loved very much.
Thank you so much Dude!
If everyone is Jewish, then it tends to be nothing and devalues the term and promotes scorn upon those who might rightfully claim to be Jewish.
I know a fact , I was a student at American University and I know about activities led by A Jewish Leader and Jews from ✡️ and they leave this in that country because of Conflict with Israel as a state this country was a concern of Jewish and they left it because of political ideas against Israel as - state of Israel after two decades he could find that Judaism has have a different Big Questions not from Christianity ✝️ and not From Islam ☪️ but still Jewish Ideas are still a great Concern but if you politicize it you could find a conflict with Christianity ✝️ and Islam ☪️ truly and to share Big and Great sacred ideas from Jews is Great for peace and Finding friends that ever exist in harmony and peace !
Not Jewish but love these videos.
Ew.
Why are you here?
Because it’s fascinating to observe a culture that is based around greed & cowardice
Read ROMANS CH2 v28-28 .AJew is now Quote "But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God." end Quote.
I haven't haven't seen any jews whom have suffered like the black Jews of Africa an the ones who were scattered amongst the nations they even were some that own who enslaved an yet still to this day us still enslaved
Yes, but that is an opinion/definition of "Jew" found in the New Testament. The holy book of the Jews is only the Old Testament !
Do you not know how angry the good LORD can get? ,don't turn to the book of REVELATION but think of what happen to Uriah the Hittite. a Gentile, What was the end result? the total destruction of Physical Israel and Judah, how then HE
can keep the promise to David? JESUS takes on what JUDAH could not do , for the promise went through JUDAH, So therefore Jesus can say, I am the TRUE VINE,( YHWH is the TRUE ISRAEL) a name that was GIVEN to JACOB(JESUS) and a person " who was despised and rejected by men" NO read the whole chapter ISAIAH Ch53.All responsibility of authority lies with JESUS it will never be able to taken away.
But you do know that only Jewish law defines who is a Jew... not Christianity.
The Christian New Testament isn’t authoritative nor accepted by Jews.
I'm not Jewish, but my dad is and so is my maternal grandfather. I'm hoping to convert to judaism eventually.
you are jewish. don't let the old define you
@@jonathang789 I am part Ashkenazi Jewish, and it even showed up on my DNA test. My family hasn’t practiced the religion for generations but I’ve still got the blood in me. I even have a recent ancestor who was beheaded in the holocaust. Can I identify as Jewish?
Thanks very much for this report with full impartiality and facts!
A Jew used to be straightforward , if you were from the tribe of Judah of the Israelite tribal confederate that existed in the Levant , then your a Jew. However the modern Jewish people seem to be from all tribes and nations following the same supremacist, exclusionary way of life.
Not at all, at the time of the kingdom of Judah there were no Jews yet
@@Abilliph every body have their own tribe ...no need to exchange them for any reason by joining another . All tribes and nations are created by The Lord Almighty to get to know and help each other
@@Abilliph Your comment has been the clearest so far. Thank you.
All of us are Jews regardless of what tribe we descend from because all the Jewish/Hebrew tribes coalesced with Judah. ie we are ALL Jews :)
Jews are not Judahites but Judeans of the southern Kingdom.
PURE LIES, THE WORD JEW COMES FROM THE WORD JUDAH!!!!!!!
KJVA Bible. Jeremiah 14:2
[2]Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
NO, the word Jew, comes from the Southern Kingdom of Judea. They were not of one tribe, there were members of all 12 tribes there.
What does Judah being in mourning have to do with anything?
@@shainazion4073 What tribe was Christ from????
@@ahmawanyasharala95 I don't know of a Christ. Christ means annointed, Jesus was never annointed.
@@shainazion4073 😂😂😂
Generally speaking being "Jewish" or being a Jews is either through "blood or faith" , it's similar like becoming an American either through blood , naturalization. However, in America or other countries becoming a citizen of that country can simply be through immigration laws like through investment or providing a value.
My father, my grandparents, my great grandparents, my 2nd, 3rd, 4th 5th, 6th ..... great grandparents were all Jewish (both Ashkenazi and Sephardic) but I'm told that because my mother wasn't Jewish, I'm not Jewish. How crazy is this?
I understand that according to traditional Jewish law, Jewish status is determined on the basis of matrilineality. Prior to the Rabbinic period (70 - 500) there is however little trace of matrilineal descent. Prior to this period, a purely patrilineal descent, regardless of the identity of the mother, would appear to have been the norm.
Christ destroyed the line and it's whosoever believeth in him to them gave he power to become more than a jew but sons of God.
Uhmmm Anti Semitic
That's just like saying, Esau was done away with and or the laws of the Bible were also done away with. Fu^k outta here.
This is obnoxious
I love everything Jewish.
I love Israel.
I love Jerusalem.
Everything Jewish
even what do they do in Palestine?
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@@MU-dn6yq There is no such thing as "palestine".
If a fellow primate of mine is born in Canada we say they are Canadian. If a fellow primate of mine is born in Mexico we say they are Mexican. If a fellow primate is born in France we say they are French. Where do Jewish primates come from?
Judea!
O que é errado e fechar as portas da Sinagogas para quem tem tradição judaica como ele fazem com muitos brasileiros e errado ver os ashquenazes e sua história como definição de quem é judeu.
Estoy de acuerdo totalmente!!
I’m converting to Judaism
Do it orthodox or not at all(there is no other way to make it official)
Easy to say, difficult to become an Orthodox one, very difficult.
there is no religion called tribe of Judah.
@@lobsterbalelegesse9919 Kohannim first, next Levites, and then...
@@lobsterbalelegesse9919 that is because it is not a religion . It is a nation/people:the people of Israel/Judea.
Oh man the comments gonna be spicy 💀
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@@UNPACKED 😂🤣👌
So, because my grandfather was Jewish, his parents both being Jewish refugees from Poland, does that make me Jewish according to the legal definition from 1970?
No, it makes you a descendant of Jews. You need to have a Jewish mother or be a true convert to be a Jew.
Honest question..... Why are almost all the people in this video fair skinned?
Because majority of jews in the world look phenotypically similar, but not completely, to their host countries after living there for 2000 years.
Even so in Europe Ashkenazis, who had white skin, looked drastically different to non Jewish Europeans.
Did you see your boy Aubrey?
Everyone who’s Name is in The Lamb’s Book of Life is “A Spiritual Jew” !!!
And are Blessed from Time to Time To Worship GOD in Spirit and in Truth. Thank GOD for Yeshua; Who Has All Power in Heaven and Earth (The Church and Creatures of the World).
Who is also; The Power of GOD=The Gospel, The Wisdom of GOD, The Living Word of GOD, The Glory of GOD…Amen
Oy gevalt. No missionaries, pls
No such thing as a “spiritual Jew.” Christians are not Jews.
Like I'm spiritually Chinese.
Before the invention of letter J , what were they called?
I love jews
Amy asked for $15,000...
Ivo asked for $100...
Josh asked for $2Million...
Please read Shlomo Sands article or book on the issue
Shlomo Sanda writes fiction, what help would his books be??
Shlomo sands hates Jews so much he tried "renouncing" his officially 😭 it's like the Rachel dolezal of Jews
Israel was not “created” in 1948 it was recognized in 1948
Wym? Where was it in 1947?
Where was it in 1917 when there was 80000 jews in PALESTINE?
If your mother is Jewish you are Jewish by Biblical law.
Lol please show me that law 😂
@Hassan issack my man is this a joke there is no such thing as Peter 3:34,can you explain.I’m super confused.
Unless you're a Karaite.
How to disprove a religion: one wouldn’t be able to be a “full” member because of who their parents/grandparents are..
Being a Jew is NOT a Religion, it is Being a member of an ancient nation of people.
Did you skip Brit HaKadeshah or moshichi in the list?
Only if one defines them religiously
The “Brit HaKadashah” isn’t a Jewish text. No matter how many people want to give the Christian New Testament a fake Hebrew sounding title.
Who was it written by then?
@@TheUpphouse no one knows who wrote the 4 Gospel accounts and Acts, or even the Book of “Hebrews.” They we’re all written anonymously. The early Roman Catholic Church made claims of who wrote them but there is no evidence. Also the various anonymous authors of the Gospel accounts admit that none of them ever knew Jesus personally. They were only writing about what others told the, about him.
@@christo-chaney Well, before we pursue this red herring further, my point is that we are not talking about a text or corpus of texts, but a people--Jews-- who are of the Brit Hachadashah, the New Covenant.
The Jews are the chosen people of God..
True, but who are they?
@@bradhienzachary apparently the people chosen of God and various people who were exiled to Yemen Iran and Iraq etc I am not qualified to say who is and who isn't
@@jamiegrieve5875 Jews don’t know their own identity and the Arabs in the Middle East will say why are these white European Jews coming here!
Just as a comparison if the Aboriginal Australians went all over the world and returned to Australia after 1000 years and not one of them has black you would surely get doubts, criticism and opposition.
@@jamiegrieve5875 closer we become to the end times who is a true Jew will be revealed!
I believe the Jews would return to the land but the identity of just whom is a jew is not concrete.
I'm a Jew, but not halachicly
you can still chill with the tribe bro !!
@tamas whats your Y chromosome haplogroup?
@@MACNEWS144 I have no clue. My father is Jewish, and I consider myself a Jew. Not only I consider, but my family also, as I'm the most observant, even though my Father, who is a Holocaust survivor, went to Heder...
@@BankiTamas_Hu faith is more important then blood but for fun you can do a test with 23andme and see if your haplogroup E,J,T or R
@@MACNEWS144 no thx, I don't want to do DNA test. I didn't say I am observant, I said, the most observant. I doubt any god exists.. Neither one nor more, neither exist nor don't exist. I rather say I'm agnostic
The one thing that confuses me is they say Judaism is a race and religion but there's white black brown yellow Jewish ppl that's 4 different races there can you help me understand that because christians or Muslims or other religions don't say they are a religion and a race?
A nation. Not a race, a nation
@@atidfelixcastillo-najerala6891 I'm just going off if what I heard other Jewish ppl say and channels on UA-cam even vlad from vladtv says it how can Jewish people all around the world be a nation?
@@atidfelixcastillo-najerala6891 I wasn't asking this out of malice I just don't understand it
@@atidfelixcastillo-najerala6891 wow this platform deleted on of my replies the first one I'll try again how can a group of people all around the world be a nation? And I heard multiple ppl say this other channels say it even vlad from vladtv said it.... I don't know what was so wrong yt had to delete it
@@atidfelixcastillo-najerala6891 wow this platform deleted my first reply twice and when i say platform im not talking about this channel how can ppl who live all around the world be a nation and why do other ppl say it then even other channels and I'm not talking about non Jewish ppl or channels... what I just said does that deserve to get deleted yet it does
My wife is not Jewish though I am and we have brought our children up as such, albeit under progressive Judaism as opposed to orthodox Jewish practice. We observe all main festivals as well as Shabbat, of course. Despite that Orthodox Judaism will not acknowledge my children as Jewish. However the state of Israel will grant the right of aliyah to them through their Jewish parentage. Surely then Orthodox Jewry should stop delegitimising Jews born to the patrilineal line, if it’s good enough for Israel itself. This is not to say that the religious authority in Israel recognises them, but if the country does so should orthodoxy
I agree 100% and am in a similar situation. I find it ridiculous that a kid can make aliya if he has one Jewish parent yet cannot go on birthright!
@@Lagolop how can it be changed though?
@Eti Camaroff rather dismissive - can you offer a reasoned position instead?
@Eti Camaroff I don’t deny that intermarriage does pose a threat but an equal threat is being posed by those who is only observance is tribal and marry in yet do not live a meaningful Jewish life. I know many Jews like this who are culturally Jewish and nothing more. Window dressing with an ID card was not what was intended when we received the covenant on Sinai
@@Lagolop ummm yes you can go on birthright as long as you have one jewish parent. I did