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A male convert to Judaism is referred to by the Hebrew word ger ( Hebrew: גר, plural Hebrew: גרים gerim) and a female convert is a giyoret. In all branches of Judaism, a ger or giyoret is considered a full Jew; the literal meaning of "stranger", "resident", or "foreigner" refers to the convert's origin, not present status. [citation needed]
The belief that Jesus is God, the Son of God, or a person of the Trinity, is incompatible with Jewish theology. Jews believe Jesus did not fulfill messianic prophecies that establish the criteria for the coming of the messiah. [7] Judaism does not accept Jesus as a divine being, an intermediary between humans and God, a messiah, or holy.
The unity of God is stated many times in Jewish tradition. It is the second of Maimonides 's 13 principles of faith; Maimonides wrote that, "This God is One, not two or more than two, but One whose unity is different from all other unities that there are. He is not one as a genus, which contains many species, is one.
El Shaddai ( אל שדי, ʾel šaday, pronounced [ʃaˈdaj]) is one of the names of God in Judaism, with its etymology coming from the influence of the Ugaritic religion on modern Judaism. El Shaddai is conventionally translated as "God Almighty". While the translation of El as ' god ' in Ugaritic / Canaanite languages is straightforward, the ...
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh [a] ( / tɑːˈnɑːx /; [1] Hebrew: תַּנַ״ךְ Tānāḵ ), also known in Hebrew as Miqra ( / miːˈkrɑː /; Hebrew: מִקְרָא Mīqrāʾ. . ), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim. Different branches of Judaism and Samaritanism ...
The Star of David ( Hebrew: מָגֵן דָּוִד, romanized : Magen David, lit. 'Shield of David') [a] is a generally recognized symbol of both Jewish identity and Judaism. [1] Its shape is that of a hexagram: the compound of two equilateral triangles. A derivation of the seal of Solomon was used for decorative and mystical purposes by ...
World Jewish population around 7.7 million, 90% in Europe, mostly Eastern Europe; around 3.5 million in the former Polish provinces. 1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920. Three major waves of pogroms kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920.
