Judaism And Judaism

Both Jews and Christians belief there is one god whose name is Jehovah, thus describing them as monotheistic religions. Furthermore, both believe in the same god. However,

The Bahá’í religion diffused in the nineteenth twentieth centuries, under the leadership of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, son of the prophet Bahá’u’lláh. Bahá’í also spread rapidly during the late twentieth century, when a temple was constructed on every continent.

Followers of Judaism call their scriptures of holy books the Tanakh, the Talmud, and the Torah.

The religions Judaism and Christianity are two of the five major belief systems. Some of the similarities they share are: they are both monotheist, believe in the afterlife, and they share the old Testament in their Holy Book. Some of their differences include: the Jews believe that Jesus isn't a divine being and the Christians believe that Jesus was the Messiah, and their holy ceremonies are guided by Rabbis, for the Jews, and Priest, for the Christians.

Judaism and Islam have a large history of fighting which has separated them significantly but they have also grown similarly side by side. On one hand there is the oldest religion and on the other one there is the youngest religion but both of them possess the same belief in monotheism, and to a large extent a similar code of law and scriptural authority. These religions share a similar creation story and patriarchy, since the roots of these two are to be found in the basin of Mesopotamia, dubbed the “Fertile Crescent” of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The story is used here as an opening to introduce a religious law effecting God and the surrounding area of the Arab nations, the Hebrews, the Muslims, and even a mention of Mesopotamian law. Chatim Potok phrases their story in his book Wanderings: Chaim Potok’s history of the Jews and he wrote “Abraham was probably born in the Sumerian City of Ur four thousand years ago a scholar invented a label for the descendants of Shem; he called them Semites,” (23).1

Judaism is one of the monotheistic religions. It is one of the most ancient. They believe in one god. They also believe Messiah will come, the dead will be resurrected, and the word of the prophets are true. Judaism was the first tradition to teach monotheism, the belief that there’s only one God. “As Judaism evolved, the idea of God evolved, too, focusing on One unknowable, universal, image-less Being, Who, because the universe is framed in Love, requires justice of human beings” ("Taking a Look at Jewish Religious Beliefs"). Early Jewish history is told in the Hebrew bible. Their holy book is the Torah. Their faith usually carried them through the tough times they experienced in life. Judaism teaches that maintaining the following of Jewish teachings will bring blessings. Almost everything a Jewish person does can become an act of worship. “Because Jews have made a bargain with God to keep his laws, keeping that bargain and doing things in the way that pleases God is an act of worship. And Jews don't only seek to obey the letter of the law - the particular details of each of the Jewish laws - but the spirit of it, too. A religious Jew tries to bring holiness into everything they do, by doing it as an act that praises God, and honours everything God has done. For such a person the whole of their life becomes an act of worship. Being part of a community that follows particular customs and rules helps keep a group of people together, and it's noticeable that the Jewish groups that have been most successful at avoiding assimilation are those that obey the rules most strictly - sometimes called ultra-orthodox Jews” (BBC "Religions - Judaism: Jewish beliefs" 2009).

Religion has been taught as a set of beliefs that relates to the forces of nature, a cause, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a deity and/or associates. It would often contain a moral pull to themselves and onto others and creates the goodness they believe in and what they think what is right and what is wrong. Whatever the religion they worship, many of them strongly believes on their beliefs and their ties would become so powerful, it could give hope to many, or be seen as a controlling cult. In their own way, they are their own utopia and society like the books, "The Giver" and "Fahrenheit 451." Though not all, the worshippers believe the other is wrong and tries to convert or condemns them, they

For many religions, there exists a thin line for the individual people balancing what their faith requires and influences of the outside world. Judaism is deeply rooted and rich with traditions, many of which are fundamental to the religion itself. Sometimes these cultural traditions appear to create difference and conflict with those outside the faith. Fortunately, to live in America means that we citizens of this nation by law are granted individual rights and liberties to conduct our lives as we see fit. The free exercise of religious is protected expressly under the first amendment, so long as they do not infringe on the rights and liberties of others. These rights extend to all races, ethnic groups, religions, and cultures in America, a protected melting pot of ways to live out our lives. Including the liberty to integrate and connect with a closed community, like Hasidic Judaism, which from the outside may appear alien.

Throughout Jesus’s life and after his death, there were several different views and opinions generated that separated the people in society during this time. These differing opinions resulted in an entire new religion being formed called Christianity. The first Christians were called Jewish Christians. These were the first group of people that converted from Judaism to Christianity. There were many differences between the Jewish Christian’s beliefs.

Judaism originated a very long time ago, it is a part of the Bronze Age Polytheistic Ancient Semitic religions. The Jewish calendar goes back more than 5000 years, most scholars date the beginning of the religion of the Israelites to the known founder, Abraham, whose life is generally dated around 2000 to 1800 B.C.E. Abraham came to believe that the universe was the works of a single creator, and taught this to other believers. Therefore, Judaism is the first recorded religion to advocate monotheism, meaning there is only one God. Both Christianity and Islam found some of their roots in Judaism, about 2,000 years after Abraham, Jesus was born into Judaism. Then after Jesus, Muhammad could trace his ancestry back to Abraham. Judaism has three essential parts the written Torah, the recognition of Israel, which are the descendants of Abraham, as uniquely holy people chosen by God, and also it is a requirement that Israel lives in accordance with God's laws as it’s said in the Torah.

When choosing my classes at the beginning of the semester I wanted to choose something that I was interested in learning but didn’t know much about, and that’s exactly why I chose to take this Jewish Studies course. As I was raised a Catholic and attended Catholic school all my life I knew very little about the Jewish Religion. Now my knowledge of the Jewish faith has strengthened and has been fulfilled with the help of this class and Rabbi Bogot. The phrase I chose to right my term paper on is the word and meaning of Mitzvah also known as commandment. As stated in the syllabus packet “A Mitzvah is a God-mandated behavior. These behaviors, introduced in the Torah as statutes and ordinances for the Hebrew people, define the ways in which

Judaism is practiced by almost half of the country and is one of the oldest and biggest monistic religions. The laws they follow come from the Torah which comes straight from the Hebrew bible. This paper will consist of Jewish traditions regarding food preferences and avoidances, death/dying, communication, and grieving.

It is estimated that around 3.8 billion people in the world follow a religion that has either branched off of or has been significantly influenced by Judaism. Judaism is an ancient religion from the Middle East based off of the Hebrew Torah that teaches devotion to an all-powerful monotheistic God and the reality of an afterlife. Although only accounting for a tiny percent of the world’s religious followers, Judaism has had a greater impact on the world than any other religion in the history of mankind. The foundations of Judaism teach truths held by the world’s most prominent religions.

The Islamic faith has taken a firm stance on their belief of Baha’i. They take the teachings of the Baha’i religion as the teachings of heretics. Muslims have ridiculed, persecuted, and executed followers of this faith since 1850, when they executed the Bab.

Judaism, which is made up of a few separate groups, was very common at the originating of Christianity. The common ground (shared beliefs) for these sects was the belief in One God and that this One God had made a covenant with the people of Israel. The foundation of this covenant was called “The Torah.” The Pharisees and Sadducees were the two main groups the Bible focuses on around the time of Jesus, along with the Zealots, the Hellenists, the Lawyers, and the Essenes, who we only read about in sources outside of the New Testament.