A question for Jewish people about the Kaaba?

Question

Does the Kaaba have any significance to the Jewish people?

Does the Kaaba, the stone building, around which Muslims pray. Have any historical significance to the Jewish people.

Answer 1

The only significance it has for Jews is that it belongs to a religion that mentions Jews in its holy book, and whose adherents have been trying to kill Jews since their religion began.

"O you who believe (Muslims)! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends of each other; and whosoever among you takes them for a friend, then surely shall become one of their number; surely Allah does not guide (those Jewish and Christian) people." - Sura 5:51

"I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them." - Sura 8:12

In the centuries after Muhammad there have been periods when the Jews were able to live in relative peace under Arabs, but their position was never secure. They were generally viewed with contempt by their Arab neighbors, and their survival was always predicated on their abject subordination and degradation to them. Mass murders of Jewish "protected people" started in Morocco as early as the eighth century, where Idris I wiped out whole communities. A century later Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil designated a yellow badge for Jews (setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later in Nazi Germany), and synagogues were destroyed throughout Mesopotamia in 854-859. In Tripolitania, Jews were considered the property of their Arab masters, who would bequeath the Jews to their heirs upon death. In the 12th century, after anti-Jewish riots, the contemporaries commented that their population had 'greatly declined.' ( Middle East Digest, September 1999)

As to how to solve the problem, the only way would be for Israel to defeat the Arabs overwhelmingly, and then dictate the terms for peace. Otherwise, the Arabs will never stop trying to destroy Israel

Answer 2

What is the Kaaba? (Is that a Jewish term for something presently)?

Answer 3

It is in no way relavant to our religion from a religious point of view. It is a Muslim place of worship.

Answer 4

First one must ask clarification: do you mean the Kabbalah, or do you refer to Islamic Ka'aba historically?

Answer 5

It's a disagreement of whether it's a house of idolatry.

Answer 6

no, to us it is just the holy site of another person's religion.

Answer 7

yes
we hate it
the muslims tried to kill off our race back around 200 b.c.
anything belonging to them is hated by us