We direct all of our prayers only to G-d. Even if we go to the grave of a
righteous person to pray, we are not praying to the soul of deceased. We
are only invoking his merit while we pray to G-d and G-d alone.
If there would be such true concept we should expect to find an open mention of this in the Torah (what the Christians call the Old Testament). We find no such mention at all.
The idea of the Messiah is a foundational Jewish idea which is mentioned throughout the writing of the Prophets in the Bible. It is from Judaism that the whole idea of the Messiah has originated.
The Messiah has not made any public appearance yet in this world, and he will come only once.
When he comes we all will know his validity for certain. The Prophet Elijah who never died and still lives an angel-like existence will verify the authenticity of the true Messiah. The Messiah's personality will be of such stature that the world has never witnessed before.
However, he will be human, though his level of prophecy will be less than that of Moses. It is a fundamental principle that no Prophet ever did or will again reach the level of prophecy attained by Moses. Moses’ level of prophetic vision was not a vision, but as one man speaks to another, as the verse describes it.
The first reason and the most important reason I feel why we reject J as the Messiah is the following.
J lived in the time of our many of our Talmudic sages. Not only that but the Talmud tells us that he was a student of one of these sages. J was sent away though improper behaviors as recorded in a censored part of the Talmud.
These men of immense stature saw and knew of J and totally rejected him. If J would have been the Messiah these men would have known it and accepted him. When G_D brings the true Messiah all will know it. If the sages rejected him then that is a 100% proof that he as not the Messiah.
There is no source for the depiction of a Messiah as the Christians have painted "J". Especially there is no source for what they refer to as the second coming. We will see, G-d
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