Jews Beliefs and Customs
by Wade Scott

Judaism
Judaism is a religion that believes in one all powerful God. They believe that he created the world and that there is no beginning and end to him. They look out of two books. Some prefer one over the other saying that one is the word of God. The two books are the Torah and Tanakh.
Messiah
There was a man named Jesus that was born once and claimed to be the Messiah saying he was the savior of all. Jews thought he was a false prophet and did not believe he was the Messiah. The Christian religion believe he wasn't a false prophet. But the Jews crucified him on a cross for being a false prophet with the help of the Romans.
Christmas The Jews don't celebrate Christmas because Christmas is celebrating Jesus's birth and in the Judaism religion they believe Jesus was no more then a regular mortal man. | Easter They don't celebrate Easter either because Easter is celebrating Jesus dying on the cross for everyones sins and then rising and coming alive again. They believe that when Jesus died, he never resurrected. | Hanukkah Hanukkah is a holiday that the religion of Judaism celebrates. It is celebrating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. And in this picture you can see that there is this Jewish candle thing. Well that is called a menorah and it is lit during the holiday of Hanukkah for all 8 days that it is celebrated. It symbolized the divine light spreading throughout the world. |
Christmas
The Jews don't celebrate Christmas because Christmas is celebrating Jesus's birth and in the Judaism religion they believe Jesus was no more then a regular mortal man.
Easter
They don't celebrate Easter either because Easter is celebrating Jesus dying on the cross for everyones sins and then rising and coming alive again. They believe that when Jesus died, he never resurrected.
Hanukkah
Hanukkah is a holiday that the religion of Judaism celebrates. It is celebrating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. And in this picture you can see that there is this Jewish candle thing. Well that is called a menorah and it is lit during the holiday of Hanukkah for all 8 days that it is celebrated. It symbolized the divine light spreading throughout the world.

Tanakh
The Tanakh is the Hebrew Bible and the main source of information that Jews feed off of for their religion. It has three different parts to its scripture.
Torah The Torah is the first section in the Tanakh and it is made out of five books. The Jews say that the scripture in this text was given from God to Moses on Mount Sanai included with biblical laws of Judaism also called the 10 commandments. | Nevi'im The Nevi'im is the second section of the Tanakh. It contains two sub-groups, the Former Prophets which is the narrative books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings, and it also contains the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel and the Twelve Minor Prophets. | Ketuvim The Ketuvim is the 3rd and final section of the Tanakh. And the word Ketuvim means "writings". Found among the Writings within the Hebrew scriptures the books of I and II Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. These are just the main books of the section, but there are 11 books included in all of the section. |
Torah
The Torah is the first section in the Tanakh and it is made out of five books. The Jews say that the scripture in this text was given from God to Moses on Mount Sanai included with biblical laws of Judaism also called the 10 commandments.
Nevi'im
The Nevi'im is the second section of the Tanakh. It contains two sub-groups, the Former Prophets which is the narrative books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings, and it also contains the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel and the Twelve Minor Prophets.
Ketuvim
The Ketuvim is the 3rd and final section of the Tanakh. And the word Ketuvim means "writings". Found among the Writings within the Hebrew scriptures the books of I and II Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. These are just the main books of the section, but there are 11 books included in all of the section.
Place of Worship
Most Jews worship at a Synagogue or temple on Saturday.

The three different branches to the Judaism Religion
Orthodox This is one of the three branches of the Judaism religion. They believe the Torah speaks the truth of life and people must have faith in its essential. | Reform This is another one of the three branches of the Judaism religion. They believe Revelation is a continuous process. Torah is a human document preserving the history, culture, legends and hope of a people. It is valuable for deriving moral and ethical insights. | Conservative This is the oldest branch out of the three branches of the Judaism religion.They believe that the Bible is the word of God and man. It is not inspired in the traditional sense, but rather dynamically inspired. Revelation is an ongoing process in the evolutionary sense. |
Orthodox
This is one of the three branches of the Judaism religion. They believe the Torah speaks the truth of life and people must have faith in its essential.
Reform
This is another one of the three branches of the Judaism religion. They believe Revelation is a continuous process. Torah is a human document preserving the history, culture, legends and hope of a people. It is valuable for deriving moral and ethical insights.

613 commandments
A Jewish philosopher named Rabbi Maimonides found 613 commandments in the Torah and since they have become a standard list of what God requires of the Jews. The list isn't official but it has been well received by the Jews since the 13th century.
The first commandment
For an example of one of the 613 commandments, the first one is to know that God is real.

Passover Dinner
In the Jewish religion they have a Passover dinner to celebrate the story of Exodus. When Moses lead his nation out of the life of slavery in Egypt
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