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Reflection of Juduasm

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Judaism is a religious tradition with origins dating back nearly four thousand years, rooted in the ancient region of Canaan, which is now known as the land between Israel and Palestine. Judaism did not emerge until the 1st century C.E. Judaism traces its heritage to the covenant God made with Abraham and his lineage that God would make them a sacred people and give them a holy land. The primary characters of Israelite culture include the great patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the prophet Moses, who received God's law at Mt. Sinai. Judaism is a tradition grounded in the religious, ethical, and social laws as they are articulated in the Torah. The Torah is known as the first first five books of the Hebrew Bible. Jews refer to the Bible as the Tanakh, an acronym for the texts of the Torah, Prophets, and Writings.
Judaism is a religion and a culture; it has a major influence on inheritance and heritage. The Hebrew history has been written back and forth from the exodus. The exodus was the mighty act of Yahweh. Yahweh is the most respectful name for God in the Jewish religion. The Jews take the name of Yahweh very serious and always use it with great diligence. If I were to compare and contradict my belief to Judaism I would say that Judaism is very similar to my own religion, Christianity, on belief but are very different in their own ways. For example in Christianity we believe that Jesus Christ is the lord and he is our savor; however, in Judaism they believe that there savor has not arrived yet and that he’s still coming to take them to the promise land, but some similar beliefs that they have in common are that God is the creator and, God does not have a physical form; he is eternal and God Almighty is the only God that will be worshiped. One of the most important things that Christianity and Jews differ in is there book of worship. Christians study the Old

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