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Oh, and as for it being the religion of Jesus, certainly not. The Talmud is a foundational document of rabbinic Judaism, not biblical Judaism. Rabbinic Judaism is the ultimate success of Pharisaic Judaism, which filled the political-religious vacuum left after the destruction of the Temple. The Talmud was not even begun to be written until 90AD, at Yavneh.
My rabbi told me that Jesus preached standard Pharisaic thought, which is only mostly true. He did follow the Law then prevalent, but not all the Pharisaic stringencies. For example, Pharisees would only share meals with other Pharisees.

Warning, liberal Jewish thought to follow!
The Talmud is the work of rabbis, not prophets nor HaShem. (The Name, meaning the name of God) As such, it suffers from all the errors of men elevating their personal prejudices to religious dogma. That does not make it worthless. You have to interpret it in the light of the time when it was written, and the socio-cultural norms of the time. Yes, there are some horribly offensive things in there. Usually, those are hypothetical situations presented to help clarify what the law is, and how to apply that law.
Assuming the few mentions of Yeshua in the Talmud refer to Jesus is problematic, because the time frame the rabbis place that person in is over a century off from the time of the Christian Jesus, if he existed.

Sorry for the necromancy - but that line from the NT would never have been in Hebrew. Jesus would have spoken in Aramaic, or possibly Greek. Not Hebrew. 

http://jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/10602-melchizedek

I have a simply amazing genealogy program I just love. It has the best views of the family tree I have ever seen. It's called iFamily, and it cost about $29. I couldn't be happier with it.
Unfortunately, the sole developer of it passed away. While it is certainly not an emergency, I am in the market for a good Mac genealogy app. Reunion is the 800 pound gorilla in this room. Has anybody used it? Is it worth the $100 it costs?
Can anybody recommend a different Mac genealogy app? Free trials are good. I can export in standard GEDCOM format, of course, to migrate my data, and would prefer to be able to do so in the free trial to see how badly it mangles any custom fields on import.

Jew-dar, like gay-dar, is a real thing. And it is rarely wrong. Jewish souls recognize other Jewish souls.
There is a belief in Judaism that all Jewish souls, including the souls of future people, were present at Sinai and accepted the Torah. Unfortunately, some of those souls are born into non-Jewish families. Those people have the difficult task of figuring out that they are Jewish, have always been Jewish, and they convert to get their Jewish status recognized by other Jews. Other Jewish souls are born into families of those who were forcibly converted or those who lost their tradition due to the need to keep it secret - crypto-Jews. They too must usually convert to be recognized by the Jewish community. But the majority of lucky souls are born into Jewish families.
You say you have done your genealogy. Does it go back to Eastern Europe between WW1 and WW2? A lot of “Christian” immigrants to the US then left their Jewishness behind in the old country. Does it go further back, to Amsterdam, France, Turkey or the New World after 1497 and the expulsions from Spain and Portugal? Is your surname a typically Jewish one?
 

The Red Heifer sacrifice has to be done by a high priest, who must be a descendant of Aaron. Believe me, the affected families still know who they are. (my son-in-law's male line is kohanim, high priesthood members) Moreover, DNA testing has isolated a Kohanim specific DNA sequence. 
The red heifer itself is the more difficult hurdle. They thought they had one recently, but it developed disqualifying white hairs in its coat.

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Jesus rejected the Talmud
Here is where he did
Mt.15.1-14 and Mk.7.1-13
The claims the Pharisees were making against Jesus is not found in the Torah.They are in the Talmud only.
Jesus called this teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.And Thus have made the commandment of God of none effect.And Traditions of men.
The disciples said to Jesus the Pharisees were offended after they heard Jesus speak against it.
The Talmud is to the Jews held in higher regard than the teachings of Moses.Jesus criticized them for it.This is still true today.

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You have no idea.  Everything ends up going back to Orthodoxy.  They are always right.  How do we know?  Because they tell us.  *sigh*  There is no wiggle room for interpretation in orthodoxy, and yet, there is all the wiggle room in the world.  It is one big, giant, logical, nonsensical mess.  How did this happen?  To quote Tevya...
The essence of G-d stays the same (well, for the most part.  Reformed Jews can get a little...loose...with their traditions) in Judaism.
It is said that a man once visited a synagogue in a town in which he had traveled for business.  He approached the rabbi and asked, "Rabbi, I see some people in your congregation standing and some sitting.  Some smiling and some frowning.  Some covering their eyes and some davening (Yinglish...from the Yiddish daven meaning to pray).  Everyone is doing something different, it seems.  Tell me, what is your tradition here?"  "THAT is our tradition," replied the rabbi.

That is nice of you.  I feel more like a coal mine.    Why are there no modern Jewish prophets?  I wish I knew.  I'm glad I'm patient.  Moses was slow.  Moses plead on behalf of the Jewish people (after the whole golden calf ordeal) for forty days and forty nights.  Perhaps we are not ready.  Perhaps we have not prayed with great enough fervor.  We are, by nature, a stubborn people.  We were in captivity in Egypt for so very long, and, after we were delivered and after a brief Thanksgiving Day Parade, what did we do?  Complain.  About manna.  And pretty much everything else we could think of.  It isn't enough for someone to tell us to turn to G-d because we are suffering.  We need to have it proven to us that we are, in fact, actually suffering.
Q)  How many Jewish grandmothers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A)  Never mind, I'll just sit here in the dark.

Hi Ran
Yes it is possible. Because the level of involvement with Judaism itself has always been a matter of personal choice. In ancient times people would gather at the city gates and at the synagogues to hear and study the law. Those who wished could have a very deep education in the Scriptures and those who cared little for it could get by with the minimum. It is still this way to this day in Judaism. You have families in which some are Torah scholars and others can barely recite the prayer book. So it's possible that Laman and Lemuel cared so little for the things of G-d that they lacked the deep education that Nephi clearly displays.
b'shalom!

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