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Jewish Teaching
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Central concepts of Judaism are God, education, justice, and righteousness, and observance of religious and moral law
The Hebrew name of God is YHWH, never pronounced by jews
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In ancient Jewish communities, only boys could study their religion
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Jews are expected to give aid to orphans, sick people, or poor
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Believed that Moses created a system of laws that God wanted them to follow. System called mosiac law.
Mosiac law governs how people celebrate holidays, and pray. It forbid working on holidays/ sabbath.
Sabbath is a rest day because God created the world in 6 days, so they believed the seventh was a rest day, as God was believed to rest.
There are rules about what food they can eat, and how they can prepare them
They cannot eat pork or shellfish, due to them being unclean
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Among the texts that taught the Jewish religion were the Hebrew bible, the the Torah, and the Commentaries
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To respect the Torah, readers shall not touch it, instead, they use a pointer
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The second part of the Hebrew bible is made up of 8 books 2that describe messages from Jewish P.rophets
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The final part of the Hebrew bible is 11 books on songs, poetry, stories, lessons, and history
An example of a book was the book of Daniel, which was about a man who lived in Babylonian captivity and disrespected the king, so got thrown into lion den. He was angry because the King kept the Jews as slaves
Stories tell that Daniel wasn't' malled by the lions, due to his faith in God
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Because some laws are difficult to understand, scholars write Commentaries to explain them
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A very important document to the Hebrews, were the dead Sea scrolles written by Jews who lived 2,000 years ago
Until 1947, no one knew about the dead Sea scrolls
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Throughout the decades, explorers found lots more of these stories
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Scrolls included prayers, Commentaries, letters, and passages from the Hebrew bible
Although Jesus was Jewish, he taught Christianity, but reflected on Jewish ideas
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