How does Judaism influence modern society? Judaism marked the beginning of a revolutionary idea that laid the groundwork for social reform:humans have the ability and therefore the responsibility to stop injustices in the world. ... This mentality revolutionized social reform and brought it into exi...
Judaism, conversely, is about what you do: a good life is defined by carrying out the mitzvot (usually translated as “commandments”). The Old Testament is generally concerned with practice rather than belief. This continues to the (accurate!) modern aphorism that being a good Jew does not...
As children of the free woman, gentile believers in Christ should not enslave themselves to the mitzvot. In Genesis, Sarah explicitly refers to a one-time act: “Drive out this slave and her child, for the child of this slave will not share in the inheritance with my son, Isaac” (Gen...
In fact, I feel just the opposite, which leads to my second point. Many of us consider the continuity of Judaism, Jewish tradition, and the Jewish people to be important. This is, admittedly, circular, since the feeling derives mainly from our being a part of it, but this does not ...
“Sad stories can have happy endings if we choose to edit the past through teshuvah and create a brighter future through mitzvot… Perhaps the most important idea that Judaism offers the world is that there are no tragedies and there are no comedies. Every story is unfini...
mitzvot”). By eating pomegranates you are effectively saying “in this year ahead may you do as many good deeds as are seeds in this pomegranate”. Others believe that even more importantly, eating a pomegranate reminds God of all the good deeds we’ve done over the past year and...
Interesting point. Some Christians do celebrate the sabbath on Saturday, but the majority see Sunday as the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy in that it was the day Christ rose from the dead. Anyone in Christ is considered a "new creation," so your point about the Sabbath being on...