The Religion of Judiasm

Judaism from the Greek, derived from the Hebrew, is the set of beliefs and practices originating in the Hebrew Bible, Tanakh, as later further explored and explained in the Talmud and other texts. Judaism presents itself as the covenantal relationship between the Children of Israel, later becoming the Jewish nation and God. Many have considered it to be the first monotheistic religion. Judaism is a monotheistic religion. Jews believe that there is one God who created and rules the world. This God is all powerful, all knowing, and is thought to be in all places at all times. It is believed that each person is created in the image of one God. Therefore, it is thought that all people should be treated equally.

In many aspects of Judaism that correspond to Western concepts of ethics and of civil law. Judaism is among one of the oldest religious traditions still being practiced today, and still many of its texts and traditions are central to other Abraham religions. In site, Jewish history and the principles and ethics of Judaism have influenced other various and other religions including Christianity and Islam.

Followers of Judaism as well as members of the Jewish people are often called Jews, and the Jewish collective is regarded as the ethno-religious groups for reasons

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derived from the sacred texts that define them to be as a nation other than just a follower of the faith.

In 2007, the worlk of Jewish population was estimated to be at 13.2 million people, and 41% of whom lived in Isreal. In modern Judaism, central authourity is not vested in any single person, body or form but by sacred texts, religious laws, and learned by reabbis who interpret those texts and sacred laws. Accoding to the Jewish tradition, Judaism begins witht the Covenant between God and Abraham in ca. 2000...