If Jesus was a Jew why don't Jews celebrate his birthday on Dec 25?

Answer 1

Because they don't believe the Jesus was the Savior.
and if you think about the story, Jesus wasn't born on Dec. 25, but sometime late spring, early summer

Answer 2

Traditionally Jews did not celebrate anybody's birthday. In fact, until VERY recently, many Jews considered it bad luck to brag about how old they or their children are -- doing so might attract the "evil eye." Only in the 20th century did birthday parties become more popular among Jews -- as a result of commercialism and pressure from the child's non-Jewish peers and surroundings.

Perhaps that is why nobody really knows on WHAT date Jesus was born -- because nobody recorded it at the time. December 25th was the birthday of Mithra, a Roman war god who was killed and rose from the dead in 3 days according to their mythology. The Satunalia was also clebrated on December 25th, celebrating the return of the sun after the Winter Solstice.

When the Roman Emperor Constantine became a Christian in the 4th century, and made Christianity the state religion of Rome, many Roman holidays were give a Chrisitan veneer. The birthdasy of Mithra became the birthday of Jesus.

FYI: The traditional day of remembrance among Jews is not the day of birth but rather, the anniversary of the person's death. The reason being, that we honor his/her accomplishments. Being born is no accomplishment -- everybody does it. Living a life worthy of honor by future generations -- THAT takes some doing. In traditional Jewish communities, family members honor the "yahrzeit" (anniversary of a death) with a feast in honor of the memory of the deceased. This is probably what Jesus originally meant when he said "do this (have a feast) in remembrance of me" -- not some pseudo-magic trick about turning bread and wine into body and blood -- which, by the way, was also part of the cult of worshipping Mithra. Eating a body and drinking blood are such repulsively trayfe (non kosher) symbolisms to Jews, there is no way a rabbi would have meant this. The Mithraists, on the other hand, "ate" their god ritually in just this manner.

Answer 3

Scripture doesn't mention Jesus's birthdate or any christians celebrating His Birthday. The only birthday mentioned besides Pharoah is the heathen king Herod. "Christmas" means "mass of Christ"; the celebration coexisted in Rome before there was any in Jerusalem. The early Roman Church however did establish a pagan festival that (Jer.10) coexisted with Jesus's Birth and that was the birthday of the sun god. (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., article: "Christmas"). The Catholic sources admit that Christmas didn't co-exist with the earliest festivals. Jesus wasn't born Christmas; even scripture makes this evident. "On the night of Jesus's birth, the shepherd's were still keeping watch over their flocks." (Luke 2:8). The rainy season in Ancient Israel began after the Feast of Tabernacles which generally is early October. In November, it would be cool and wet; the flocks from the pasture had already been brought and kept in winter quarters by the shepherds. This tells us the shepherds were no longer in the fields at night. Another peice of evidence is overlooked is in Luke 1:35-36; it tells us John the Baptist was born to Mary's cousin Elizabeth six months before Jesus. And as we look further in verse 5-17, we see Zacharias an elderly priest burning incense on the altar and then an angel appearing to him and telling him that he and his wife would have a son to prepare Christ's Way. We know however when this announcement was made by the angel because of Zacharias was "of the course of Abijah" Please look at 1Chron.24:1-19; it tells us that King David divided these priests into 24 "courses" that served in the temple by rotation. The Course of Abijah would be the 8th of the 24 courses which usually would occur around the end of May. Pentecost came the week after the 8th course served and he had to serve all 24 courses during the three festival seasons. So Zacharias came home approximately after the first week of June; in which John the Baptist was conceived around mid-June and 9 months later would be his birth. John Baptist's birth came around mid-March while Jesus's was around mid-September. Also notice every year people claim 3 wise men seen Jesus in a stable; is this really true? The Bible nowhere states "3 wise men" or "that the wise men visited Jesus in a stable". Read for yourself: (Matt.2:11); these Magi came from the east beyond the Euphrates River which in the 1st century was called the Parthian Empire (the eastern border of the Roman Empire).

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Answer 4

Because there is no actual proof that Jesus existed, nor is there any proof that He was the Son of God, because nobody can prove that God exists either. Getting serious though, I understand that the Jewish calendar does not follow the Roman calendar. That means that their months etc do not follow the same dates that we are familiar with. Jews celebrate Hannukah at about the same time as Christmas, and as far as I know, it celebrates the start of their year. However if you look up Judaism, and Hanukah, any decent reference will be able to tell you more than I can.

Answer 5

Jewish people do not accept Jesus as the Messiah. They are still awaiting the Messiah. However, the bible clearly pointed to the Messiah coming at the time period Jesus came and he fulfilled every prophecy in the bible regarding the Messiah.

Ist Century Christians did not celebrate December 25 as Christ's birthday. In fact, they didn't celebrate any birthdays. Birthdays are a pegan tradition, not Christian.

Answer 6

Some argue that Jesus was born in the Fall, probably in September by our modern calendars. However, the Bible does not even really tell us what season Jesus was born. The early church declared December 25th to be Jesus’ birthday in order to replace a pagan Roman holiday, Saturnalia. Ironically, December 25th was a celebration of the birthday of the sun god. The early church, in an attempt to get rid of the pagan holiday, declared December 25th to be the birthday of the Son of God.

Answer 7

Because the Jews rejected Jesus. They did not believe He was their long awaited Messiah.

That is like saying," Why don't Christians celebrate Mohammed's birthday?"

Answer 8

First of all, there is no reliable historical evidence supporting the existence of Jesus. He left no writings of his own, and no writings during the time that he is supposed to have lived have ever been found (all known writings about Jesus were written by authors born decades after his supposed crucifixion).

Secondly, even if Jesus existed, his birthday is just as likely to be on any other day of the year. The reason that it is celebrated on the 25th of December is because the Christians were not originally allowed to have their own holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, so they decided to have their holiday on a pre-existing one. Since the Winter Solstice used to be on the 25th, that is why it is supposed to be Jesus' birthday.

Answer 9

We believe he was a heretic. Its almost as if we were to celebrate Hitler's birthday.

We don't believe that he was our Savior. He turned his back on his brothers and G-d and didn't follow the Torah. He was the founder of a religion that has persecuted us for thousands of years (Greeks, Romans, Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, Pogrom, Blood Libels).Why would we celebrate his birthday?

It happens to be that on that day every person, including Torah scholars who never waste a minute of their day of learning, stop all their learning so that that Heretic should not have the merit of their learning. We don't recognize him, we despise him!!

Answer 10

Because Jews don't believe that He's the Messiah