question about Jesus/Isa/Yeshua, from Judaism and Islam view?

Question

Jews and Muslims believe Jesus wasn't the son of God or God himself.
So Jews and moslems believe and Jesus did have powers.
Was Jesus(in their views) a mage or kabbilist/wizard?
Did Jesus when he was 12 - 33 go and study Kabballah or some form of divination?

Answer 1

Judaism does not have a view on Jesus. Hi was, and is, meaningless to Judaism and is not discussed in any of Judaism's books. He is completely absent from the Talmud and the Rabbinical writings from that time.
So, what he did from the age of 12 to 33 is completely unknown to us- and quite frankly, we don't care. Did he study sorcery? Perhaps. Did he study Kaballah to utilise the Divine Name to perform miracles? perhaps. Either way, it is meaningless to us and we don't bother with studying him or his life.

Note: He was NOT a teacher , and definitely NOT a Rabbi! - at that time the title was held by very few and had to be conferred by the Nasi (Prince i.e. Head of) of the Sanhedrin- and was only conferred to those renowned for their Torah knowledge (and knowledge of Mishnah, agaddah, sifrei, sifri and other areas) who had large followings. Jesus was NOT a master of this, did not have a significant following (the Rabbis followers numbers in the hundreds to thousands- 24 thousand in the case of Rabbi Akivah).

Answer 2

Why did you not silicit answer from Hindus ? Anyways , I will still answer ! We are all children of God . But the persons like Jesus are very rare who have tasted divinity and have experienced spirituality of the highest order. To me , as with most of the Hindus. he was a saint who showed the people one of the many paths to God ! He called himself son of God as he did not want people to deify him and become fanatics. He showed that he was one among us and thus inspired hope in people . Spirituality can not be acquired. It is a form of self awareness but such people are always curious to find the truth and so they study all the religions even if they do not need to.

Answer 3

Islam believes Jesus was a prophet and messiah. Judaism has no opinion on Jesus because he has nothing to do with Judaism just like Buddha.

Answer 4

There are speculations that Jesus was part or leader of the Essene sect, the community at the Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. Some believed that the Essenes kept secret and powerful prayers Some say these prayers went to the hands of the Knights Templar and were their real treasure.

Answer 5

As Jews we don't in fact have any view on Jesus. He simply does not feature in our religion at all. All we would say about him was that he was a Rabbi, or teacher, and one of many around at that time. We do not regard him as anything other than an ordinary mortal. For us he was not a prophet.

It's worth noting here that Jesus never renounced his faith. He died a Jew when the Romans crucified him.

Answer 6

Muslims think of Jesus/Esa as a prophet of God and respect him highly like other prophets before him. He was not a wizard of any sort, God gave His Messengers "gifts" to deal with people of their time. Moses was given the staff since sorcery was very highly practiced at that time. Esa was given power of healing since medicine was make progress in his time, and Mohammad (pbuh) was given Quran in poetic form since poetry was at its heights in that time frame.

Answer 7

Most Jews don't believe he had any powers, actually. The ones that do generally tend to believe he was a sorcerer, the kind that was forbidden by the Torah.

Answer 8

Muslims believed that Jesus was a prophet. I don't know how the Jews viewed him, other than what is portrayed in the bible.