Maimonides 13 Principles - These thirteen Principles compiled by Maimonides outline Judaism’s tenets, which one must acknowledge as truths to be considered a Jew and partake in the World to Come. (1. GOD IS THE CREATOR AND RULER OF ALL THINGS. HE ALONE HAS MADE, DOES, AND WILL MAKE ALL THINGS.2. GOD IS ONE. NO UNITY IS IN ANY WAY LIKE HIS. HE ALONE IS OUR GOD. HE WAS, HE IS, AND HE WILL BE. 3. GOD DOES NOT HAVE A BODY. PHYSICAL CONCEPTS DO NOT APPLY TO HIM. THERE IS NOTHING WHATSOEVER THAT RESEMBLES HIM AT ALL.4. GOD IS FIRST AND LAST.5. IT IS ONLY PROPER TO PRAY TO GOD. ONE MAY NOT PRAY TO ANYONE OR ANYTHING ELSE.6. ALL THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS ARE TRUE.7. THE PROPHECY OF MOSES IS TRUE. HE WAS THE CHIEF OF ALL PROPHETS, BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER HIM.8. THE ENTIRE TORAH THAT WE NOW HAVE IS THAT WHICH WAS GIVEN TO MOSES. 9. THE TORAH WILL NOT BE CHANGED, AND THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER GIVEN BY GOD. 10. GOD KNOWS ALL OF MAN’S DEEDS AND THOUGHTS. 11. GOD REWARDS THOSE WHO KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS AND PUNISHES THOSE WHO TRANSGRESS HIM. 12. THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH, NO MATTER HOW LONG IT TAKES, I WILL AWAIT HIS COMING EVERY DAY. 13. THE DEAD WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE WHEN GOD WILLS IT TO HAPPEN.)
SADDUCEES - WERE A SOCIO-RELIGIOUS SECT OF JEWISH PEOPLE WHO WERE ACTIVE IN JUDEA DURING THE SECOND TEMPLE PERIOD
Zealots – a member of a Jewish sect noted for its uncompromising opposition to pagan Rome and the polytheism it professed.
PHARISEES - WERE A JEWISH SOCIAL MOVEMENT AND A SCHOOL OF THOUGHT IN THE LEVANT DURING SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM.
Orthodox – a significant branch within Judaism that teaches strict adherence to the rabbinical interpretation of Jewish law and its traditional observances.
Conservative - Jewish religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition as emanating primarily from the assent of the people and the community through the generations, more than from divine revelation.
Reform - also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of the faith, the superiority of its ethical aspects to its ceremonial ones, and belief in a continuous revelation, which is closely intertwined with human reason and not limited to the theophany at Mount Sinai.
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