Is Jesus a rabbi

Answer 1

Yes and except for converts still do not accept Jesus as Christ and are still looking for the first comming of the Messiah.

Jewish Answer

Some Jews will accept that Jesus was a Rabbi. Others see him only as a false prophet at the most. In truth, Jesus plays absolutely no role in Judaism.

Please note that the Christian concept of messiah does not exist anywhere in Judaism. There is also no such thing as a first or second coming in Judaism, that is a creation of Christianity.

Answer 2

No but the word means Teacher, literally "My Great One" in Hebrew and he was teaching.

No. He was the son of a carpenter. There is nothing in the New Testament to indicate Jesus had a formal education.

Another answer:

Well... Jesus was a "Jew"... and people called Him "Rabbi":

"...They said unto Him, RABBI, (which is to say, being interpreted, Master,) where dwellest thou?" (John 1:38 KJV)

"Nathaneal answered and saith unto Him, RABBI, thou art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel." (verse 49)

"...Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews... said unto Him, RABBI, WE KNOW THAT THOU ART A TEACHER COME FROM GOD: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest,, except God be with Him." (John 3:2)

-- therefore... YES, Jesus was a "Jewish Rabbi."

There has never been... nor ever shall be... One better qualified to TEACH the Word of God, the Scriptures, than the WORD of God, Himself!The very One whose Words they are.

Moreover... He is also our "HIGH PRIEST" today!

In matters of the Spirit... and the "worship of God"... it's never been a matter of a formal education, as the world has come to know it today. But, it's always been a matter of "God's ordination and appointment." In the case of the "Jewish" religion, God appointed the execution of the law and religious matters to the tribe of "Levi."

"Exempt the tribe of Levi from the census; do not include them when you count the rest of the Israelites. You must put the Levites in charge of the Tabernacle of the Covenant, along with its furnishings and equipment... Anyone else who goes too near the Tabernacle will be executed." (Num.1:49-51 NLTNew Living Translation)

"Call forward the tribe of Levi... they will serve Aaron [the high priest] and the whole community, performing their sacred duties in and around the Tabernacle... I HAVE CHOSEN THE LEVITES from among the Israelites as substitutes for all the firstborn sons of the people of Israel. THE LEVITES ARE MINE..." (Num.3:6-12 NLT)

Jesus, however, was NOT a "Levite." He was a JEW, of the tribe of JUDAH.

"And when the priesthood is changed, the law must also be changed to permit it. For the One we are talking about belongs TO A DIFFERENT TRIBE, whose members do not serve at the altar. What I mean is, our LORD came from the tribe of Judah, and Moses never mentioned Judah in connection with the priesthood. The change in God's law is even more evident from the fact that a different priest, who is like Melchizedek, has now come.

"He became a priest, not by meeting the old requirement of belonging to the tribe of Levi, but BY THE POWER OF A LIFE THAT CANNOT BE DESTROYED. And the psalmist pointed this out when he said of Christ, YOU ARE A PRIEST FOREVER IN THE LINE OF MELCHIZEDEK." (Heb.7:12-17 & Ps.110:4 NLT)

Jesus didn't come to qualify to preach to men according to the laws of man, or the teachings of man's seminaries or universities of Greek design, as man's modern culture has adopted. He obediently came to fulfill the plan of, and at the command of His Father... who CHOSE HIM to become the High Priest and Savior of His creation, mankind; the future Children and Family of God.

The "Scriptures" are JESUS' WORDS! He had elderly Jews marveling at His command of the Scriptures AT THE AGE OF TWELVE!

"...He was in the Temple, sitting among the religious teachers [rabbis], discussing deep questions with them. And all who heard Him were amazed at His Understanding and His answers." (Luke 2:46-47 NLT)

Becoming a "Teacher"... or a "Rabbi" was a given for Jesus... both blessed of His Father, and, no doubt, cognizant of His prior existence as the Old Testament "YAHWEH," the WORD of God [John 1:3].

He was recognized and called "Rabbi" and "Master" by people [and especially His disciples] wherever He traveled throughout Judaea. And it wasn't because he descended from the tribe of Levi... or grew up at the feet of some high priest, learning the ropes of the priesthood. It was because HIS FATHER CHOSE HIM.

Answer 3

Answer 1

Yes many believed. For example :

Act 2:41 Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them.

Act 4:4 However, many of those who heard the word believed; and the number of the men came to be about five thousand.

Answer 2

We know that at least SOME of they Jews contemporary with Jesus believed him to be the Messiah.

• His 12 apostles believed it - although something obviously happened with Judas Iscariot at the end.
• Enough Jews believed it when he entered Jerusalem during his last week that they were cutting down palm branches and placing them in his path as he rode in on an ass (symbolic of how their King was to be received)
• Enough were believing it that Saul felt it worth his time to head to Damascus with letters to apprehend the adherents
• Enough were believing it that there was a controversy in the original Christian church about letting Gentiles join up and whether they had to be circumcised like the Jews under the law of Moses.
• There are quite a few other examples demonstrating that there were Jews who believed Jesus was the Messiah.

So - yes - some Jews believed, but is apparent that they were very much in the minority. There are several instances of people who came to hear from him but then abandoned him when he told them that he was not interested in assuming immediate political control of Palestine and delivering them from the rule of the Romans like they expected of their Messiah. Since he didn't fit what they expected of their Messiah, they rejected him.

Answer 4

Rabbi simply means "teacher" and was not a formal qualification. Yes, at one stage nearly everyone accorded Jesus this title of respect. It indicates that Jesus had probably helped with the teaching at his local synagogue.

Answer 5

Jesus was called a Rabbi. The word Rabbi was used by the Jews as a term of respect to their teachers and spiritual instructors.

But we know that Jesus is and was much more than just a teacher. He was the Messiah sent by God to save His people. When the Jews rejected Jesus as their Messiah God turned the Gospel or the "Good News" of Jesus Christ toward the Gentiles. A Gentile coming into favor with God was not a new thing as it had been predicted more than once in the Old Testament Scriptures.

Answer 6

YES. The Jews who believed the claim that Jesus was the Messiah became the first Christians. However, this was a significantly smaller segment of the Jewish community than Christians typically claim. In fact, the failure to attract many Jews to Jesus' Messianic Claims was one of the major reasons that the Apostles spent most of their effort evangelizing to Non-Jewish Roman Citizens.

Answer 7

Yes, there was a tiny number of Jews who accepted that belief.

According to our tradition, the vast majority of the Jews at the time didn't hear of him. The Torah-sages (Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, Rabbi Yonatan ben Uziel, Chanina ben Dosa, Bava ben Buta, Shimon ben Hillel, Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Akiva, and hundreds of others) were active at that time and their yeshivot (Torah-academies) were flourishing. Their tens of thousands of disciples and hundreds of thousands of sympathizers were active in the Jewish world in that generation; they were the leaders and the forefront of Judaism. As Josephus (Antiquities book 18) writes, "the cities give great attestations to them." The great majority of Jews loved their sages and their Torah.
The unlearned class of the Amei-haaretz (ignoramuses) was a small fringe of society, but even they would and did lay down their lives in order not to violate anything of the Torah. As one ancient historian famously wrote:
Hecateus declares again, "what regard we [Jews] have for our laws; and we resolve to endure anything rather than transgress them." And he adds: "They [Jews] may be stripped on this account, and have torments inflicted upon them, and be brought to the most terrible kinds of death, but they meet these tortures after an extraordinary manner, beyond all other people, and will not renounce the religion of their forefathers."

No one (even any of them who did hear of Jesus) - would have given any consideration to what was and is considered unacceptable for us. The few who came in contact with him soon lost interest, and the early Christians felt the need to turn to non-Jewish centers of population in order to gain adherents, while the Jews remained Jews.

Rather, you might prefer to ask "What does Judaism notbelieve about Jesus." And the answer is that we do not believe that he is or was anything other than a regular human being.

(See: What do Jews believe God is like?)

We may also note that according to our tradition, prophecy ceased about 340 years before the birth of Jesus; and public miracles stopped even earlier.

Here is a related topic:
The word "messiah" is the transliterated form of the Hebrew "moshiach." The word moshiach means "anointed." The title of moshiach was given to any person who was appropriately anointed with oil as part of their initiation to their service of God. We have had a number of meshichim (plural) in the form of kings and priests. There need be nothing supernatural about a moshiach.
This being said, there is a prophecy of a future moshiach. However, this is a relatively minor topic in Judaism and the Tanakh.
The Jewish requirements of the messiah have not yet been fulfilled. They are:
* Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28).
* Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6).
* Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred and oppression. "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, nor shall they learn war any more" (Isaiah 2:4).
* Spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. "God will be King over all the world. On that day, God will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9).
* The messiah must be descended on his father's side from King David (Genesis 49:10 and Isaiah 11:1).
* The messiah will lead the Jewish people to full Torah-observance. The Torah states that all of its mitzvot (commands) remain binding forever.

Answer 8

Jesus is called "Rabbi" twelve times in the Gospel. It means teacher.