Hi MagnoliaAngel!
'That Jesus crap' came from a jewish girl at my school....which made me wonder...
The Jewish girl in question was un-Jewishly rude. Please do not think that her conduct reflects normative Jewish teaching. It doesn't. Our faith teaches us to respect other people & other faiths.
Why don't we accept Jesus? Basically he (please forgive my use of a lowercase
h ) didn't meet any of our beliefs of what the Messiah will due. That's it, in a nutshell.
Our very great medieval sage Maimonedes (
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/biography/Maimonides.html) summarized lomg-standing Jewish beliefs about the Messiah as follows:
"In the future, the King Messiah will stand up and restore the Davidic monarchy...build the Temple, gather the dispersed of Israel, and restore all the laws as they were in former times: offerings, sabbatical and jubilee years as they are commanded in the Torah. Anyone who does not believe in him or who does not await his coming is a heretic, not only against the other prophets, but against the Torah and Moses Our Teacher...Do not entertain the notion that King Messiah will have to do signs and wonders, make new things in the world or raise the dead...This is not so...If a king arises from the House of David, learned in the Torah and engaged in [its] precepts like David his father, both the Written Torah and the Oral Torah, enjoins all Israel to follow it and hold fast to it, and fights God's wars, he may be presumed to be the Messiah. If he succeeds in building the Temple on its place and gathering the dispersed of Israel, he is certainly the Messiah, and he will repair the entire world so that it worships God together...If he does not succeed, or is killed, then know that he is not the one promised in the Torah...Do not entertain the notion that in the days of the Messiah, anything will be canceled from its way in the world or there will be new works of creation, but the world will continue as it always has...Our Sages said that the only difference between the current world and the days of the Messiah will be service to the kingship of Heaven...There are those among our Sages who say that Elijah will herald the coming of the Messiah...One must not [try to] calculate when this will take place; our Sages say: 'Blast the bones of those who so calculate;' they should wait and believe."
In our view, the Messiah will be a flesh-and-blood human being and not a divine or semi-divine being. The Messiah will re-establish the Davidic monarchy (as Maimonedes describes; which will endure until the end of days) and eventually die, passing the crown onto his son. We will know him by what he does, not by who he says he is. What he does will prove his geneological lineage (since only the Messiah will be able to do these things).
http://www.jewfaq.org/moshiach.htm is a very good introductory read to the Jewish concept of the Messiah; it has a section about our views of Jesus.
Howzat?
Be well!
ssv