Jewish Holy Books While the Tanakh (which includes the Torah) is considered the sacred text of Judaism, many other important manuscripts were composed in later years. These offered insights into how the Tanakh should be interpreted and documented oral laws that were previously not written down. Ar...
Such compromise with the pagan world, entailed by the widening horizons of the monarchy, violated the sanctity of the holy land of YHWH and turned the king into an idolator in the eyes of zealots. Religious opposition, combined with grievances against the organization of forced labour for state...
Judaism Key Features/Beliefs of Judaism God = Yahweh Monotheistic Holy Book Hebrew Bible Similar to the Old Testament of the Christian Bible Key Features/Beliefs of Judaism God created the earth, but man broke his law. Jewish people were chosen by God, and given rules to live by: Ten Comman...
to a patient surrender to God but moving them to a redeeming activism, which is the measure of their sanctity. Such requirements make the ideal of Lurianism possible only for a small elite; ultimately, it is realizable only through the exceptional personage of the “just”—the ideal holy...
The text includes chapters on the interpretation and significance of the word "Torah," the foundation of all Jewish knowledge; the synagogue and its artifacts; prayer and Jewish liturgy; the Jewish (lunarsolar) calendar; the Sabbath; the high holy days; the pilgrimage festivals; the minor festiva...
The Jewish holy text is the Torah, which is written in ancient Hebrew. Top 10 facts Judaism is the religion of Jewish people. It originated around 4000 years ago among a people called the Hebrews, nomadic people of the Middle East (where Africa, Asia and Europe meet). Nomadic means some...
Its great center was Jerusalem, the “Holy City”, whither repaired in hundreds of thousands Jews of every part of the world, anxious to celebrate the yearly festivals in the “City of the Great King”. The Temple was in the eyes of them all the worthy House of the Lord, both by the...
During the Middle Ages, an unknown cantor, humbled at the task of praying on behalf of the entire congregation so that God would inscribe them into the Book of Life, penned the prayerHineini,meaning “Here I Am.” Before the invention of the printing press, leaders of tefilot, or Jewish...
Holy book Torah (1st five books of the Old Testament) Hebrew history Describes moral conduct and duty to the Lord Bible (Old Testament) Gives details of daily life, food, prayer Celebrations Passover - the Exodus, Hanukkah (חֲנֻכָּה), Rosh Hshanah (ראש ...
The structure in the middle of the Temple presumably held the “Holy of Holies“, the inner sanctum that held the Ark of the Covenant said to contain the Ten Commandment stones. Only one person could approach it, the head priest, and then only once a year. Many ultra-Orthodox Jews won...