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- Judaism Is Based on the Torah. The foundation of all Jewish beliefs, practices and scholarship is the Torah, known as the Five Books of Moses. Next come the Prophets and Writings (Neviim and Ketuvim in Hebrew).
- Jews, Israelites, and Hebrews Are the Same People. Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, was called a Hebrew. His grandson Jacob was renamed Israel by G‑d, and his children were known as the People ("Children") of Israel.
- There Is Just One G‑d. Judaism believes in the one invisible Creator of Heaven and Earth. He has no children and needs no helpers. Nor does anything have independent power (even Satan is just an angel with a unique job description).
- Mitzvahs Are How Jews Live Jewishly. In the Torah, G‑d tells the Jewish people to follow His commandments, all 613 of them. These are known as mitzvahs (“instructions”).
Jewish Ethics. The Jewish religious and spiritual tradition has been largely concerned with regulating behavior through a wide-ranging legal system. Nevertheless, it has developed — alongside the literature of halakhah(Jewish law) and intertwined with it — a parallel literary tradition concerned with the practice and, to a lesser degree ...
Aug 18, 2021 · Introduction. Jewish ethics investigates both theoretical and practical questions of what Jews can and should do in the world. It involves weaving together theology, philosophy, and law—the classic triumvirate for religious ethics—as well as lore, history, science, and sociology, among other facets of human knowledge and experience.
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Judaism is about how to live, not just what to believe, writes one contemporary observer. Jewish daily life and practice is how Jews do thingsday in and day out, and week after weekthat embody the ideals and standards expressed in Judaisms sacred writings and its ancient (and modern) traditions.
The children of Israel are called upon in Leviticus 18:2 to be holy: You shall be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy. Holinesskedushahis a theological concept. It refers to the attempt to live in a way that emulates or brings us into contact with the realm of the divine, a realm of existence beyond that which is objective and verifiable. Livin...
Traditionally, Judaism has attempted to codify behavioral norms on the basis of specified requirements and prohibitions that govern the ethical and the ritual alike. They seem to generate a total guide to existence, regulating a persons relations both with God and with other human beings. The ancient rabbis derived some of these directly from the T...
Aug 30, 2005 · Many who see Judaism as an ethical system, for whom these kinds of jokes produce embarrassment and indignation, believe that ethics are the essential component of Jewish tradition. They often assert that Judaism provides not only ethical guidance for Jews, but for all peoples of the world.
This sense of a higher calling–an altruistic urge to bring righteousness and justice into the world–is the Jewish legacy from Abraham. It is what I call the “Sinai impulse.”…. Reconciling Exodus and Sinai. …[There is a] millennial tension in Judaism between Exodus and Sinai impulses. Every faith community is committed to the ...
Jul 30, 2015 · JEWISH ETHICAL PRINCIPLES. The basis, validity, and source of Jewish ethics are rooted in the belief in God and His Torah (Bible), whereas the basis of secular ethics is based primarily upon humanistic and rational intellect. The following are some basic principles of Jewish ethics as viewed by Orthodox Judaism:
