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Abraham is regarded as the first prophet and father of the Hebrews The…

- - - - First Temple Destruction was the destruction of Solomon's Temple by the Babylonians, resulting in an exile of the Jewish people. This impacted their faith by cementing their monotheistic beliefs, believing the destruction to have been caused by their God-- the only God-- as a result of their impiety.
      - The Second Destruction was the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, which was built following the return of the Jews after their exile was ended by third-party warfare. Preceding its destruction was the rise of Second Temple Judaism
        
        Before the destruction of the Second Temple, this period saw a division of belief between four sects of Judaism
        
        Pharisees Recognize the oral Torah and provide a foundation for Rabbinical Judaism
        
        Essenes were a mystical Jewish sect and attributed as the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls
        
        Sadducees rejected the oral Torah, accepting only the written Torah as divine
        
        The Zealots were a political movement of Jewish people seeking to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel them from Israel
        
        Division on how to practice Judaism persists into the modern era
        
        Conservative Judaism views Jewish law as binding, but subject to historical development
        
        Reform Judaism interprets the Torah liberally, regarding traditions as evolving and carrying belief in continuous revelation
        
        Orthodox Judaism interprets the Torah literally and strictly observes Jewish law
- - - - The Tree of Knowledge contained the knowledge of good and bad. God warned Adam and Eve to not consume its fruits
      - The serpent convinces Eve to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, and she later convinces Adam as well. In this interpretation the serpent does not represent the devil, but another of God's creatures
      - The Garden of Eden was a paradise. God placed Man in the Garden, Adam, in order to tend it. Noticing he would be lonely, he created his wife, Eve , from his rib.
      - The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden is their punishment for consuming the fruit. It results in the serpent being forced to walk without legs, painful childbirth for Eve, and the need for Adam to farm laboriously for food