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    Throughout history Christianity and Judaism have played a crucial role in the development of class and gender roles. There are both similarities in differences in the ways that they influenced the development of these societal constructs. In many ways the ideas of class and gender presented by Judaism are ultimately adopted by Christianity. However, Christianity also offers some important developments of its own. One of the most definitive texts on the role of gender in Judaism is the book of Genisis. As

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    Core beliefs are the key foundations to all dynamic religious traditions of the world. In particular, core beliefs underpin the Abrahamic and Messianic faith of Judaism, as they offer Jewish adherents a unique interpretation of reality. Thus, these core beliefs must be viewed through a sympathetic cultural and historical lens. Leunig once said: “Does G-d exist? More to the point: what does it matter if G-d exists or not? After all everything else seems to exist, so what’s the problem?”- raising issues

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    Abrahamic religions, (Christianity, Judaism and Islam) which comprises of about 54% the worlds. Among these three religions, When it comes to numbers Christianity is the largest followed by Islam and then Judaism. The similarities among these three religions include, The common characteristics of the three religions, including their ethics The three religions are monotheistic; this is to mean that each one of them believes in the existence of one deity. In Islam and Judaism, this is quite clear but in Christianity

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    The modern variants of Judaism, of Orthodox, Conservative and Progressive, share common beliefs, sacred texts and writings, ethics and rituals and ceremonies. However, each variant focuses on particular aspects of these characteristics of their religion and thus are unique in their own way. The beliefs the variants have in common include the belief in one God, who was, is and will be, both the transcendent and immanent Creator and carer of all things. God created humans in his image, and so they

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    reference to the significant person ‘Isaiah’, explain the contribution to the development and expression of Judaism and analyse the impact of this person on Judaism. The prophet Isaiah played an important role in the development and expression of Judaism as a dynamic, living religion through the impact of his works. The impact of Isaiah is evident in both the development and expression of Judaism both in his time and in modern society, as his teachings, for the Jewish people, prove to be relevant

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    Judaism Judaism began about 4000 years ago with the Hebrew people in the Middle East. Abraham, who was a Hebrew man, is considered the father of the Jewish faith because he promoted the main idea of the Jewish faith: that there is only one God. At the time a lot of people in the Middle East worshipped many gods. The Jewish tradition, Abraham founded which was later named the Jewish religion in the land of Israel, around 1800 BCE. The Torah says that Abraham came to know that there was only one

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    The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have over many thousands of years established many traditions and beliefs. Many of these are from their respective book of scripture such as the Bible, Torah, or Qu’ran. Others are from the interpretation of the religions over the many years from their leaders and the generational stories that have been passed down. Many of these can be seen as quite similar between the religions, but others can be considered unique to each one of

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    Isn’t normative or Orthodox Judaism inherently anti-woman, insofar as its public ceremonies are conducted by males? Assuming we reject the idea that women are in any way inferior, aren’t we forced to make basic changes in Judaism? Perfect asymmetry occurs when two different formed parts are come together to make a perfect whole. For examples, black and white keys on a piano, ultramarine and cool red in a rich purple, the wick and the flame in a lit Shabbat candle. In Judaism the two unlike parts of a

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    They have faith that they must follow God's laws in daily life. Judaism focus on the relationship between man and god, there are three basic groups of Jewish people who have a different understanding of the Torah they are Orthodox Jews, Conservative and Reform Jews and Reform Jews. Orthodox Jews: They believe that all of the practices of Torah must be obeyed without any hesitation. Conservative and Reform Jews. : Believe that the ancient laws and practices have to be adjusted into modern life

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    Essay about Judaism: Temple Emanu-el

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    Before this assignment I was unaware that there were different branches of Judaism, and different temples for each of those branches to accommodate to the persons specific belief in Judaism. Before choosing which temple I was going to visit, I did my research in the differences between all four of them; to see which I should go to for Friday night Shabbat and I found out that each temple was in different branches of Judaism. Temple Emanu-El was a conservative

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