CMike
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Ingledsva, This is what Wikipedia says;
Judaism has never accepted any of the claimed fulfillments of prophecy that Christianity attributes to Jesus. Judaism also forbids the worship of a person as a form of idolatry, since the central belief of Judaism is the absolute unity and singularity of God.[3][4] Jewish eschatology holds that the coming of the Messiah will be associated with a specific series of events that have not yet occurred, including the return of Jews to their homeland and the rebuilding of The Temple, a Messianic Age of peace[5] and understanding during which "the knowledge of God" fills the earth,[6] and since Jews believe that none of these events occurred during the lifetime of Jesus (nor have they occurred afterwards, except for the return of many Jews to their homeland in Israel), he is not a candidate for messiah.
Well, none of this is actually denied by the Tanakh!
As far as idolatry is concerned, Jesus Christ is not worshipped as a human person, but as Holy Spirit.
The failure in understanding comes mainly from the fact that no distinction has been made between the prophecies that relate to the first and second comings of Christ. The whole focus seems to have been turned to the Messiah's final judgement.
With God's complete scripture in front of us it is possible to see clearly what God intended. And it's no surprise that the prophecy of the Tanakh was hard for Jews to disentangle - in the NT we are told that some things were intentionally kept a mystery. Had God not done so, the powers of darkness would not have crucified Jesus, and this was a necessary part of God's plan.
That second coming is purely a christian invention as I mentioned.
Also Deuteremony 13:1 states it is forbidden to add or subtract from the commandments in the Torah.
The christian bible has nothing to do with the jewish bible. They are mutually exclusive.