Post Temple Rabbinical Judaism is not the same as Biblical Judaism, nor is the Secular State of Israel the same as the Biblical Kingdom of Israel. Plus, there is more than enough physical proof that Catholicism is the One True Religion.

The best way to describe modern Orthodox Judaism is to compare it to Mormonism. That is to say, they utilize the original book but they added to it with new books and they put their faith and daily practices and covenants from the new stuff that is unfortunately not inspired word of god.

You never mentioned how many Jews converted at and after time of Christ. Something to look into. It's a key element in terms of continuity of the Church. Also, no discussion of Talmud vs. Torah...very different animals. Thanks for the video, enjoyed it very much

I am ethnic jew and I chose to convert to Catholicism! Never looked back

Please do why not Buddhism next.

Why I am not Jewish: Talmud

Viva Cristo rey!

Brian the thumbnail for this video is legendary.

Thoughtful presentation, as usual. But I am left wondering: What about Ruth? She was the quintessential outsider, but by her own act, adopted Naomi’s people. What about Lot’s daughters? They were members of the tribe but their offspring became outsiders. Maybe you covered this and I missed it, but just in case you didnt I would be interested in your thoughts.

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Thanks for the video. Other comments are chastising you for not going hard enough on the people who rejected Christ, but I appreciate that you have kept your calm and composure and sincerity, as you always do.

Excellent presentation! Thank you Brian! God bless you!

“Here’s why I’m not Jewish” “But before we begin please give me money” 😂😂 Love you Brian

I am not Jewish for two simple reasons. A) I was not born into such a family and therefore cannot be an ethnic Jew. B) I choose not to be a convert to Judaism because Jews are still awaiting the arrival of the Messiah prophesied in the Old Testament while I am convinced that he already came and will again return. My reasons for believing so: 1. Isaiah 7:14- He would be born from a virgin 2. Psalm 72:10- He would be worshipped and given gifts at birth 3. Isaiah 40:3-4- His ministry would be preceded by a voice calling in the desert 4. Zechariah 9:9- He would come riding on a donkey 5. Isaiah 42:1-4- His message of salvation would also extend to the Gentiles 6. Isaiah 53:3- He would be despised and rejected 7. Zechariah 11:13- He would be betrayed for 30 pieces of silver 8. Psalm 22:16- His hands and feet would be pierced 9. Psalm 22:18- Lots would be cast for His clothes 10. Leviticus 17:11- He would die and pour out his blood for our sins 11. Psalm 68:18- He would ascend to heaven

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Brian, you are too wholesome for the internet. When people snidely asked why you haven't done a "why not Judaism" video yet, they were implying you were afraid of coming off as antisemitic. Jordan Peterson fell for this trap when he did his "letters to" videos: letter to Christians (protestants you're the worst), and letter to Muslims, and then letter to CEOs. When people asked him on Twitter why he didn't do a letter to Jews, he said "F off."

Catholics have followed the true line of Judaism. We are the church of Jesus, founded by Jesus, the Jewish Messiah. Participants in the New Covenant. * Jews go by the mother’s lineage. Jesus gave us His Jewish mother to be our mother and we receive His Body and Blood in the Eucharist. Fr. Calloway has said that the DNA of every mother is in her children forever and visa versa. So when we receive Jesus in Holy Communion we also receive Mary’s DNA.

Peace to you 🕊✌

I haven't read all of the comments so I don't know if this has been addressed by someone else and I apologize if it has. The problem I have with this is the fact that God chose the Israelites _before_ Judaism existed. That suggests that God didn't choose a people of a particular religion but people of a certain ethnicity. As a result, it is not possible for a someone who is not a descendant of those Israelites to convert and become one of the chosen. Contrary to current societal norms, one cannot change his/her ethnicity or race.

I was just having a conversation about this with someone!

When I began my spiritual journey, I also considered the possibility that the true faith might be Judaism, and I, too, drew the conclusion that Orthodoxy was the most logical variety to explore. As I got into my studies, though, I discovered a distinction between the Torah SheBichtav and the Torah SheBeal Peh, both of which are referred to simply as the Torah. The former is what can be called the Oral Law, which was only finally written down after the fall of the Second Temple. This Oral Law, in what can today be called Rabbinic (as opposed to Biblical) Judaism, now takes precedence in Jewish teaching and belief. Not only is this (now written) Oral Law based on the teachings of the Pharisees (so many times decried by Christ), and not only does it often contradict (not to say undermine) the original written Scriptures, but it also delineates a two-tiered morality (as does Islam, incidentally), whereby sin against one’s neighbor is only truly sin against one’s true neighbor (i.e., a fellow member of the proverbial tribe). As an aside, when I finally got round to exploring Christianity, knowing these things about Judaism certainly cast an interesting light on my reading of Luke 10:25-37 (the parable of the Good Samaritan). At any rate, I will not go into the debate as to whether one can actually convert to become a full-fledged Jew. However, I will say that I could not bring myself to believe in (much less worship) a God who would advocate treating his children thusly. Moreover, it’s hard for me to even think of people today calling themselves Jewish (in a religious sense) as “People of the Book,” given the low place they actually accord the Tanakh (a.k.a., the Old Testament).

I was thinking of the same silence argument.

There was no year ZERO, 1BC was followed by 1AD (The year of the Lord).

Because of a priets's sermon I respect the Jews, but not those vengeful ones. According to the priest, The Catholic Church is the continuation of the Jewish religion, in fullfilment of the Prophecies. The priest said the early Christions did not abandon the Jewish religion, the early Catholics took all Jewish traditions and Christianized them. The Rites of the traditional Church all come from Judaism. Sadly the foefathers of the Jews that rejected Christ brought down a curse upon themselves, "Let His Blood be on our hands and upon our cildren and our childrens children". They called down from God a curse, when they accept Jesus Christ and His Holy Roman Catholic Church then I believe this curse will be lifted.

Back to the roots! (why not series)

I always figured Judaism is, first, that of blood. And if you do not have the blood, then you would never be accepted. Also, there are difficult questions they have to address as a religion.

So you have chosen space laser

Hey Brian, just to let you know, you're wrong about it not being possible to covert to Orthodox Judaism. It is absolutely possible and some people do so. Even one of their greatest "sages", rabbi Akiva from the late 1st and early 2nd centuries was a convert and he is extremely revered to this day. Even in the Old Testament scriptures we see the possibility, and the reality, of converting. Probably should have looked into this a bit more before making this video. I love you, so this is just a kind correction.

It’s my understanding that the kohanim had been eradicated by 70 - thus rendering Judaism dead and invalid for future practice - but certain lay Jews found and studied surviving Jewish rabbinical texts and then began a new priesthood (which allegedly gave rise to the various families named “Cohen” or something similar) with the knowledge gleaned from those texts.

I enjoy these videos. Please do "why I am not a daoist"!

"If secularism is dictating what your religion is, then just be secular."

My line of thought is the same. If I'm going to be religious, it has to be the most traditional and orthodox practice with historical backing etc... that's why I'm Roman Catholic =)

The vast majority of extremely Orthodox religions traditions to recognize the legitimacy of conversion, but they do not encourage it, do not make it easy, and it would mean separating yourself from the larger world (even the larger conservative world) through religious practices many of which seem to have been created to create just such a separation.

Love your channel Brian. Keep up the great work😊🙏🇺🇸

Why not judaism? They reject Christ and actively work against him and his teachings. They wait for a Messiah, but they had one 2000 years ago

E Michael Jones has some great work on the Jews from a faithful Catholic perspective.

TOTALLY AGREE

It is possible for Gentiles to join mainstream Orthodox and Charedi Jewish groups but they would initially be treated with suspicion. The theology of post-Temple Judaism is another matter. If you follow it through logically you end up Catholic or Orthodox Christian. In order to remain Jewish you have to set aside the entire NT.

This has to be one of the easiest questions for a Christian to answer. If someone asked this to try and stump you, it would be rude of me to say what that suggests about them.

Jon Chrysostom had some things to say about this…

Good take on why you don't endorse Judaism. I would like to add that God chose a single people to prepare the way for His coming into the world. It was His manifestation that marked His people's opportunity to choose Him. Some received and believed while others rejected. Those that received founded His church and in turn offered Him to the world. Those that rejected, lost their inheritance. Those that rejected Him lost everything and that void has been filled with hatred of Christ and all He stands for. That is why the history of the past 2000 years is the story of persecution against the Church. The synagogue of Satan is the force behind the persecution just as it was the force behind the Crucifixion. "If they hate you, remember, they hated me first" But we don't hate them, we pray for them. We are the children of the promise, we are the true Israel. The children of the lost can regain everything by their conversion. We want this because then we will be brothers once again.

Huh? So you converted to Catholicism over Orthodox Judaism by default? Not solely based on the Truth? The same spirit that, then, was adversarial to the fulfillment of the Biblical promises - manifested in the Logos Incarnate - persists in the form of Rabbinic/Talmudic Judaism today. (Btw, absolutely it's possible to convert to OJ.)

I have a very important question. Perhaps you could answer? We're not orthodox Jews so how are we saved? (nutshell) I'm under the impression that Jesus died for his chosen people. How are we saved if we are not orthodox Jews?

Please have a discussion with Dr. E Michael Jones. One of the most knowledgable and courageous Catholics fighting the culture war today.

Incorrect. All streams of Judaism, including Orthodoxy, although in all streams, conversion is discouraged. In Orthodoxy, when a prosylite is accepted, conversion is very rigorous.

All denominations of Judaism accept converts, conversion was always part of Judaism some famous converts include: Ruth, Obadiah, rabbi Yehuda Halevi, also another Obadiah who also converted wrote to Maimonides regarding questions such as can he recite prayers thanking G’d for freeing Jews from Egypt, for not making him a non Jew etc and Maimonides replied yes he can

Traditional Orthodox Judaism definitely takes converts, it is harder to get and as a rule may chase away 3 times before taking your conversion intentions seriously.

Brian please open up Fishers network to the rest of the world.

You CAN CONVERT to Orthodox Judaism. However you must be converted by an Orthodox Rabbi. The Orthodox Rabbis in Israel do not recognise conversions any conversions by orthodox rabbis outside of Israel

Orthodox Judaism do eccept converts. Judaism is not a proselytizing religion, because it isn't a universal religion like Christianity or Islam, but an ethnic religion. Judaism it's foremost a peoplehood/ethnicity/nation/culture/civilization. In actuallity you aren't convert to the Jeish faith, but join to the Jewish people.

Make like St Francis and never be to proud to beg. I'm on locals i'll sub. Also genetically i'm like a Samaritan, daughter of Abraham but a mutt to the pure breeds. /:) not that I think that matters to the Lord but obedience to Him.

You can convert to Orthodox Judaism though

When it comes to conversion to Judaism, it is my understanding that Orthodox conversion is the only one considered valid. Now, if you really agreed with their theology but did not feel called to convert, there is the Noahide path, which is not necessarily a path to conversion but is the way of the righteous gentile.

I was raised Orthodox Jewish. I can tell you with absolute confidence that ANY individual, no matter their race or previous religious affiliations will be accepted as a convert. The caveat is that a Rabbi will not convert a person who believes Jesus is the Messiah or Devine in some way. The first part of the video is pretty misleading. It implies the Orthodox reject new converts. That is definitely not the case. Orthodox people don't actively proselytize to bring outsiders into the fold. But they welcome, literally anyone who will accept the basic practices and beliefs of Orthodox Judaism (Torah Judaism). Converts are full fledged Jews in ALL respects. The only difference between a Convert and a Jew born into the faith, is that a Convert cannot marry someone who is a descendent of the Priestly class (appx. %10 of Jews). Hope that helps!

Orthodoxy does indeed accept conversion. The requirements are very strict and not for the dilettante. They will want to see that you are 100% living the life. I do agree with what you say about the more liberal denominations. Too much intellectual inconsistency there.

I'm a Jew and I honestly feel like Catholics share a lot of the same beliefs in regards to a lot of things.

Jew does not equal = Hebrew Israelite follower of the Law the Moses.

For the last damn time guys, Jews don’t think the Talmud is Scripture, the Talmud is their equivalent to the church fathers, it’s a collection of dialogues and debates. And before you call me a Zionist or smth, I am literally a Roman Catholic Catechumen and a Monarchist, the most authentically Jewish thing I can do is accept Yeshua as my King and Myriam as the Mother of God.

Orthodox Judaism does most certainly welcome converts. It is a very rigorous process requiring full compliance with Torah observance.

Technically one can convert to Orthodox Judaism. Like through marriage is one way. Another way is sincere conversion. Even in the Acts for example you see Jews then wanting gentiles to become Jewish so they could then become Christian. So I think it’s possible. I’m not Jewish even if I could I would not be is obviously because of Jesus

Omgosh, I am gobsmacked. This is the second video that I have watched of yours, appreciating the thought put into the first video. As a Noahide, meaning a non-Jew who recognizes the Torah, I am shocked to hear your points in regards to your truth seeking mission. The Torah talks about converts many times and converts are definitely recognized in orthodox communities (maybe some more than others but there are many many laws commanding respect and integration of converts). It is well known amongst Rabbis and Rabanits that converts have a special place in G-d’s heart as they have chosen to take on the heavy burden of being a light onto the Nations. The second part just seems like you read the New Testament and the Old Testament from the eyes of a Christian and looked at history as a Christian rather than an unbiased truth seeking person. There are so many sources debunking the New Testament’s link to the Tanach that there is a whole movement of Christians leaving the church when they started asking more questions and digging deeper. Moreover, there are so many amazing Rabbis online that share the most amazing understandings from the Jewish traditions and sages about what the Tanach says and why things happened the way that they did; it is plain in the text to a learned scholar about the exiles that have been placed on the Nation, with the last one (the Roman one) being the longest and most feared. I don’t sense that you actually dug in deep to the context, the understandings, and truth of the Jewish traditions and sages but took a macro look at society’s understanding and modern secs that are not a reflection of the Torah’s undistorted truth. Sorry for the negative comment; I felt so shocked by your comments that I felt drawn to post my understanding, for what it is worth.

I have to say that its isn't true that Orthodox Judaism does not recognise conversions. There are specific, regulated mechanisms for it even in the most closed-off branches of Ultra-orthodox Judaism. And about the destruction of the Temple, what a bout the first time around. There are no major recorded miracles that I can think of that happened to the entire nation during that exile. All they had is prayer. If someone could not theoretically survive this exile, would they have survived the previous one? If you ask Jews, they will not at all say God has been silent throughout their recent history. With respect, and I say this as a Jewish convert to Catholicism, it seems to me that this video was made with Christianity's being true in mind. While its s true that Christianity is true, that cannot be a working supposition when looking into another religion. It would have been interesting to see you try to tackle Judaism's best responses to the issues you raised.

The modern political state of Israel is not the direct descendants of the ancient Hebrews, the Israelites. They are Ashkenazi Jews. Eastern European, mostly Turkish people who converted to Judaism. That is why the religion is completely different, and they are fairly light skinned. They are not the true Israel.

Why do you say a person can't convert to Orthodox Judaism? Isn't that what Ruth did? Was Abraham born a Jew?

You're not the first person to suggest that the destruction of the Jerusalem temple was God's way of definitively removing his bessing from the Jewish people. According to modern Jews, their Rabbis can sometimes have a Pope-like authority and their halachic rulings can come pretty close to ongoing revelation as Orthodox Judaism is practiced. Hasidic Judaism goes even further with the supernatural honor they give to their holy men. Some of the language they use could also be used by a Christian to talk about Jesus.

You don't have to be Jewish to delve deeper into Jewish scripture such as the Talmud.

Time 4:56 yeh you can choose to be chosen. Judaism accepts converts so being wee English doesn't disqualify you. But of course that having been said Catholic is Judaism now that the Messiah has come where as Judaism is Proto Catholicism b4 the Messiah came.

dangerous topic.

Of course Orthodox Judaism accepts converts. Yes, you will have to be convincing why that is so important to you to convert. But they will accept you. There are a lot of converts in the Torah and even Egyptians who left Egypt together with the Israelites and received the Torah at mount Sinai became Jews that day.

Jesus is my spiritual master , but I wish other prominent religions weren't so exclusive or reclusive.

God went silent because they rejected Him (Jesus Christ) as their Lord and Savior. This is apostasy and heresy. That should be reason enough to answer your question.

A good video actually. Respect. We Jews have never sought to convert gentiles; it’s possible, but rabbis have to reject one three times before they can even start their conversion, and even then they can drop whenever they choose. I, & many Jews, are just fine with gentiles being good Christians & following the 7 commandments of the sons of Noah.

Bishop Sheen once said " if Christianity didn't exist i would probably join the second most persecuted religion" i think he meant Judaism. , i agree with Bishop Sheen.

Time 15:40 is awesome !

Why not Messianic Judaism? Messianic Judaism contains people of both Jewish and Gentile origin. There is no discrimination when it comes to genuine Messianic Judaism. Also, while mainstream Judaism rejects the true Messiah, Yeshua, Messianic Judaism does not have the same problem. Remember that Jesus was a Torah observant Jew, who taught the Torah (Matthew 23:1-3). When it was presented to me, it wasn't presented as Jesus in addition to Judaism, but rather the Judaism of Jesus.

Correct, God is not done with them yet, Jesus is their messiah and fulfilled the law and the prophecy's, and God will still fulfill his promises to them, Jesus is the line of David, the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Jesus is also the son of God and equal with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. What he did living a righteous life and fulfilling the law of God, and dyeing on the cross and raising again from the dead. This allows us to not try to establish our own righteousness before God, which will always fail because it will never measure up to his own righteousness, which he compares it to! But! Be credited with his by our faith in this truth! This is as a Gift from God so we cannot boast. Super awesome, just wanted to add that part.

Brian I love the way you say the name of Jesus. It's kinda cute

There are converts to ORTHODOX Judaism.

The chicken goes to heaven.

"Their father is the father of lies"

Of course you CAN become an orthodox jew!! but it's hard work...lots of studies. A convert is referred to a "Ger Tsedek" and is regarded very highly by "born" jews.

The first christian believers were messianic jewish. Our Lord Saviour's family were jewish. Lady Miriam (Mary) is a jewish mother and father Josef were King David's descendant. Yeshua was born as Ben David like Talmud teaches haMashiach will come first and the second coming of the Messiah will be Ben David. Jesus will come soon again in Glory and the house of David will be re-established. We should know the first 40 years after Yeshua's death on the cross and resurrection, the follovers of Yeshua gathered in the Temple of Jerusalem even daily and they observed those customs like immercing in ritual bath mikveh just before entering the Temple area. The follovers of Yeshua did those alljewish practises in the name of Yeshua differing other jewish sects. The first followers of Yeshua were like jewish at that time and also in the Talmudic texts at that time shows they were honored among other jewish people but later on the Middle Ages those Talmud text were changed polemic way. Nowadays the historians and archeologists in Israel think that the early christians were one jewish sect and it's roots are more pharisaic not sadducean. Later when more pagan origin people converted to christianity the church fathers were antisemitists and made huge mistakes and changed many crusial things, like calendar and festivals etc. I think catholic traditions (Latin mass etc) are rich and beautiful and we can practise them but we should same time remember that Jesus and His discibles didn't do those practises and that tradition is much later. Knowing old jewish traditions enriches our understanding about Yeshua and the life of His jewish followers. Antijewish attitudes are not the fruit of the Spirit. Loving jewish people and wanting to learn the jewish perspective in the Bible doesn't lead away from Yeshua, on the contrary. Messianic jewish scholars like "One for Israel" are perhaps the best christian teachers today.

The major flaw with Judaism that I see is that 99% of people in the world have no recourse to God.

Sad to say that Brian is deeply mistaken about conversion to Orthodox Judaism. I grew up in the Orthodox ("non modern/secular" to put it more in Brian's word) and there were plenty of converts. Its a complete fallacy that conversion is not possible in Orthodox Judaism. Brian's assertion that conversion to Orthodox Judaism is not allowed is almost akin to saying that pork is kosher.

Don't be a liberalized Vatican 2 Catholic. Be the real thing, Traditional

The basic faith of Orthodox Judaism is just Leviticus 26:44.

If you accept that God made all humans and cares for them than what about the other 98.8 % of the people who arent Jewish? I believe that is an essential part of Jesus' incarnation.

Because you are not a Judaizer like some people from Pedowood with german, czech and ukrainian last names

This seems silly. Once you meet Christ there's no turning back. More interesting would be WHY i am not a zionist. Any catholic that embraces that movement cancels themselves as one. It makes me sick how few have the courage to speak.

I keep replying to the Jew bashers and my posts keep getting eaten...

You can convert to traditional Judaism, but the Jews are not a church; in Hebrew they are an “AM” or a “people.” However, Jewish identity is matrilineal, that is, carried through the mother, and not the father. If the child’s mother is Jewish, then the child is Jewish. If the father is Jewish and the mother is not, then the child is considered non-Jewish. But anybody can covert to traditional Judaism. Jesus was from the House of David, through Joseph, but his Jewishness can through his biological mother Mary. It is through Mary the Incarnation happened, and occurred within time and space, in Judea two thousand years ago.

The 'Current Era' AD calendar was first instanced in the year 535 CE by Dionysius Exiguus, the 25th of December being the pagan holiday of the roman deity 'Sol Invictus' is clearly shown in the "Chronograph of 354" the earliest christian calendar, predating the current one. In the old testament Abijah was a wicked king, and had war with his rival (1. Kings 15:3). 2 Chronicles 13:3 says that Abjiah was pious ; that he took the field with 400,000 men against Jeroboam, who was at the head of 800,000 men ; and in a great battle the King of Israel was defeated, and 500,000 of his men slain. It seems that, 1,200,000 soldiers sent into the field at one time by two small tribes, and the destruction of 500,000 men in one battle, were beneath the notice of the author of Kings. Textual criticism in christianity began when the bible was first translated into european vernavular in the 16th century (was translated into Arabic in the 19th century), it reached a professional level around the 19-20th century and is still ongoing today, In Islam however it started in the first century. Unlike the Quran, the hadith are transmitted oral accounts which were written 2-3 centuries after they happened and even in the canonical collections of Bukhari and Muslim there are several narrations of the same hadith due to some people paraphrasing and others forgetting part of it. Most of the hadith are without context, this is not to take from the value of hadith as in practice it was the first serious endeavor of having authentication of the historical record. The hadith are transmitted by way of chains of narration, x heard from y who heard from z that .... took place, a study of who x, who y, and who z were and whether what they are saying is true by checking what others had said about them and whether they had indeed met those who they are purported to have taken the accounts from began and so the first "peer review" mechanism took place, all before the internet in the 2nd and 3rd centuries fo the hijra, which unlike the christian calendar has been continuously kept, the writing down of hadith was forbidden by the prophet himself for the aforementioned issue (people forgetting, paraphrasing, taking words out of context) only the Quran was ordered to have been written and linguistically they are too far apart, it is clear that the Matn of the hadith, the substance or the wording was altered as the language used seems to be more modern in many instances (Arabic had not changed in any significant way since the Abbassids, 1200 years ago sound as "modern" as things written in the last 50 years. Arabic is the oldest continuously spoken language in the world, the only possible corollary, chinese, has script which has no relation to the actual language hence why Japanese and old vietnamese use it, event the script itself was only codified in the 1700s in the kangxi emperor's dictionary. A miracle in plainsight blinded by familiarity). Hadith for example has several levels of correctness, from Hasan which means "well" to rejected as pertains to the Matn or the substance of the hadith itself, The isnad of the Hadith or the chains of transmission / citation also have varying levels from Marfu' meaning quoted without having actually met any of the people in the transmission chain or a second hand account or Mudalas meaning plagarised from another transmitter of hadith without citing and Marfud meaning outright rejected for various reasons, there is another layer of complexity here called ilm-aa-rijal, the study of the bibilogrophy of those in the chains of transmission themselves and their soundness whether objectively by crosschecking where they lived and whom they met or subjectively by seeing what their peers said about them regarding their character Those unaware of the aforementioned would not only have not been allowed to cite hadith it would have been a criminal offense and there are hadith which clearly contradict one another and one ought not be citing hadith without knowing all other hadith from the colossal hadith collections that were written, even the earliest hadith collection, Musannaf Abdel Razaq Al-Sanani ( 137-211H / 744- 827 CE) and Musannaf of Ibn Abi Shaybah ( 159H-235H / 775-849 CE). for instance had over 53,000 hadith with their chains of transmissions included ahas yet to be translated into English . Yes, Bukhari and Muslim are taken the most correct as they had the most narrow criterion, but an enormous study is required before citing either one of them. Later scholars such an Al-Darqutni show that there were mistakes made. I say later here though he is still over a millennium old this seriousness of scholarship was the first endeavor of its kind in human history, what became today known as university degrees started with the institutions giving "ijaza" or certificate t transmit hadith and talk about it , indeed they are the origins of the University system we know today. There are texts from the 800's CE debating whether, if one for example were to take a log of wood that was not theirs, make a column out of it and have it as a foundation of a house, later the original owner of the column comes back and demands the log to be retrieved into his custody and refuse monetary compensation ought the judge comply, tear down the structure and give him the log or ought he enforce a monetary compensation. this was 1200 years ago back when in the west they were hilariously pondering questions like the video here. property rights were taken that seriously, you could not simply handwave it and enforce a monetary compensation as that property in question was not attained by proper channels, hence it' s ownership and how much ought be the compensation for it is judicated by its owner and no one else has the right to, not the governor or even the caliph. Stephen Langton, the writer of the Magna Carta (12th century, contemporary with the crusades for a reason) studied in the university of Paris which archives show had plenty of Arabic treatises in its procession, there can be no question about it being inspired by the "Sharia". Jabir Ibn Hayyan (101-199 H / 721-815 CE) the father of chemistry whose theories (distillation, measurement system, oxidaton, nature of substances, etc) remained dominant until the 18th century. and who was the first to elucidate the scientific method said: "The first thing that is required for anyone who seeks the knowledge of chemistry is that he should work with his hands and experiment, for he who does not work with his hands and does not experiment will not attain any degree of knowledge." Ibn al-Haytham (4th century of Hijra), referred to as "the Physicist" in Europe is famous for the first comprehensive scientific book on optics, before his study of optics and perspective paintings were entirely 2 dimensional, a leap after his treatises and works were translated is visible in how paintings became three dimensional, He discovered integral calculus (physicist, mathematician and astronomer who discovered calculus, Newton often references Arabic in his writings for a reason), is even still argued with today the work "The Enigma of Reason" primarily deals with his arguments. regarding the scientific method he said "The duty of the man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads, and... attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into either prejudice or leniency." This scientific method of studying hadith and jurisprudence was developed and already in practice in the 2nd and third centuries of the hijra (around 800 CE) back when most of europe did not have a written script for their vernacular, enormous encyclopedia such as the 40 volume history of Al-Tabari which, averages 400 pages per volume (and is only one of his works) were written, the only corollary of which in the west would have been the "decline and Fall of The Roman Empire" by Edward Gibbons in the 1700s, considered a watershed, a monument of its time, with a span that would have hardly constituted a volume and a half of Al-Tabari's encyclopedia and written a millennium later, indeed over the last millennium the collection of Arabic manuscripts when compared on word-per-word basis in Western Museums alone, when they are compared with the collected Greek and Latin manuscripts combined, the latter does not constitute 1 percent of the former as per German professor Frank Griffel speaks volumes as to whom civilisation ought to be ascribed to if one were to compare camps. Both the renaissance and the european enlightenment were directly preceded by massive translation movements form Arabic (see the The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment by Alexander Bevilacqua, The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization By Jonathan Lyons) What started this intellectual revolution, what started this sharp contrast between before Islam and after it, what started the real Enlightenment of humanity? God did bring down the Qur’an, Mohamed is his Messenger.

"why i wasn't born into the funny hat tribe" wow what a compelling concept for a video.

if you love tradition, EO is probably the better denom. Catholicism is grounded in tradition, but the church seems to prioritize mission more than tradition. If you know anything about the historical RC, she had to break tradition quite a few times either due to circumstances, or to fulfill its mission (bringing the kingdom of heaven on earth).

You can convert . There are coverts to the Jewish faith. BUT , you would have to deny Christ.

Brian, where did you hear that it’s impossible to convert to Orthodox Judaism? That’s news to me. Also, trust me, studying the history of Christianity does not inevitably lead to Rome or Orthodoxy. Finally, the Roman Catholic Church had anything but a benevolent attitude toward the Jews until after Vatican 2. I’m very suspicious of your channel after this video.

Brian, I do not know why you so constantly misrepresent the traditions of which you are not a part. My complaint in this video concerns your false claims starting at 8:02. It is not only the Roman Catholics and the various branches of the Eastern Communions who hold to the elements you gave from the Patristics (Episcopacy, Sacraments, Sacrificial Priesthood). Old Catholics, Anglicans, and Lutherans all hold to these elements as well. Also, Orthodox Judaism does allow for conversions. Please, please, PLEASE stop misrepresenting other traditions.

Good because we don't encourage people to convert to our religion (it's possible though, but it's a super difficult and long process). I still think that Catholicism is just a Greco-Roman copy of Judaism.

Kabbalah, Zohar, Talmud.

What is with the antisemitic attacks on the Talmud and why can I not respond to them?