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Judaism Judaism (originally from Hebrew , "Yehudah", "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is an ancient monotheistic Abrahamic religion with the Torah as its foundational text. It encompasses the religion, philosophy and culture of the Jewish people. Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenant that God established with the Children of Israel. Judaism includes a wide corpus of texts, practices, theological positions, and forms of organization. The Torah is part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible, and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud. With between 14.5 and 17.4 million adherents worldwide, Judaism is the tenth-largest religion in the world.
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Mosaic covenant The Mosaic covenant (named after Moses), also known as the Sinaitic Covenant (named after the biblical Mount Sinai), refers to a biblical covenant between God and the biblical Israelites, including their proselytes. The establishment and stipulations of the Mosaic covenant are recorded in the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, which are traditionally attributed to Moses and collectively called the Torah, and this covenant is sometimes also referred to as the Law of Moses or Mosaic Law or the 613 Mitzvot.
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Ten Commandments (disambiguation) The Ten Commandments are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and most forms of Christianity.
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Law of Moses The Law of Moses, also called the Mosaic Law or in Hebrew: תֹּורַת מֹשֶׁה‎ ‎ , "Torat Moshe", refers primarily to the Torah or first five books of the Hebrew Bible. Traditionally believed to have been written by Moses, most academics now believe they had many authors.
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Religious antisemitism Religious antisemitism is aversion to or discrimination against Jews as a whole based on religious beliefs, false claims against Judaism and religious antisemitic canards. It is sometimes called theological antisemitism.
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Hebraic law The term Hebraic law refers to a set of ancient Hebrew Law as found in the Torah of the Hebrew Bible also known as Mosaic Law. The Hebraic law has a great similarity to the law as proclaimed by ancient monarchs of the Middle East, including Hammurabi of the 18th–17th century BC and his famous law code known as the Code of Hammurabi, and the law Code of Lipit Ishtar of the 20th century BC. Hebraic law, in a formal sense, may be construed to begin in the Book of Exodus, chapter 20, with the words
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Talmud The Talmud ( ; Hebrew: "talmūd " "instruction, learning", from a root "LMD " "teach, study") is a central text of Rabbinic Judaism. It is also traditionally referred to as Shas (), a Hebrew abbreviation of "shisha sedarim ", the "six orders", a reference to the six orders of the Mishnah. The term "Talmud" normally refers to the collection of writings named specifically the Babylonian Talmud "(Talmud Bavli)", although there is also an earlier collection known as the Jerusalem Talmud ("Talmud Yerushalmi") or Palestinian Talmud. When referring to post-biblical periods, namely those of the creation of the Talmud, the Talmudic academies and the Babylonian exilarchate, Jewish sources use the term "Babylonia" long after it had become obsolete in geopolitical terms.
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Torah Umadda Torah Umadda (Hebrew: תּוֹרָה וּמַדָּע‎ , "Torah and secular knowledge") is a philosophy of Orthodox Judaism concerning the relationship between the secular world and Judaism, and in particular between secular knowledge and Jewish religious knowledge. The resultant mode of Orthodox Judaism is referred to as Centrist Orthodoxy.
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Jewish views on love Judaism offers a variety of views regarding the love of God, love among human beings, and love for non-human animals. Love is a central value in Jewish ethics and Jewish theology.
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Judeo-Christian Judeo-Christian is a term that groups Judaism and Christianity, either in reference to Christianity's derivation from Judaism or due to perceived parallels or commonalities shared between those two religions. . The term became prevalent towards the middle of the 20th century in the United States to link broader principles of Judeo-Christian ethics such as dignity of human life, adherence to the Abrahamic Covenant, common decency, and support of traditional family values.
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Torah reading Torah reading (; Ashkenazi pronunciation: "Kriyas HaToire") is a Jewish religious tradition that involves the public reading of a set of passages from a Torah scroll. The term often refers to the entire ceremony of removing the Torah scroll (or scrolls) from the Torah ark, chanting the appropriate excerpt with special cantillation (also called trope), and returning the scroll(s) to the ark.
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Mishnah Yomis In Judaism, Mishnah Yomis (Hebrew: משנה יומית‎ "The Daily Study of the Mishnah") refers to the Torah study cycle in which two Mishnayos (brief collections of rulings dealing with the Oral Law) are learned every day.
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Religious relations in Israel Religious relations in Israel are relations between Haredim, non-Haredi Orthodox, Karaite, Ethiopian, Reform, Conservative, and secular Jews, as well as relations between different religions represented in Israel. The religious status quo, agreed to by David Ben-Gurion with the Orthodox parties at the time of Israel's declaration of independence in 1948, is an agreement on the role that Judaism would play in Israel's government and the judicial system. Tensions exist between religious and secular groups in Israel.
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Apostasy in Judaism In Judaism, apostasy refers to the rejection of Judaism and possible defection to another religion by a Jew. The term apostasy is derived from Ancient Greek: ἀποστάτης , meaning "rebellious" (Hebrew: מרד‎ ‎ .) Equivalent expressions for apostate in Hebrew that are used by rabbinical scholars include "mumar" (מומר, literally "the one that was changed"), "poshea Yisrael" (פושע ישראל, literally, "transgressor of Israel"), and "kofer" (כופר, literally "denier"). Similar terms are "meshumad" (משומד, lit. "destroyed one"), one who has abandoned his faith, and "min" (מין) or "epikoros" (אפיקורוס), which denote the negation of God and Judaism, implying atheism.
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Yichudim Yichudim (Hebrew: "Unifications") is a specific form of Jewish meditation in Kabbalistic Jewish mysticism, especially denoting the complete meditative method developed by Isaac Luria (1534–1572). The term Yichud is found in Halakha (Jewish law), denoting male-female "seclusion". In the esoteric anthropomorphism in Kabbalah, "Yichudim" denote unifications between male and female Divine aspects in the supernal sephirot.
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The Mitzvah of sanctifying the Kohen The commandment to sanctify the progeny of Ahron (Hebrew "מצוות קידוש זרעו של אהרן") is a commandment based in the Hebrew Bible, and developed in rabbinical teaching that requires believers in Judaism to sanctify their priests ("kohanim") in various ways. These include assisting him to abstain from any prohibitions in the Law that apply to him, and by affording him first rights in areas relating to holiness and the service of God. In the enumeration of Maimonides this is the 32nd positive commandment of the Law.
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Mishpat Ivri Mishpat Ivri (Hebrew משפט עברי "Jewish/Hebrew law/jurisprudence") are the aspects of Halakha ("traditional Jewish law") that are relevant to "non-religious" or "secular" law. In addition, the term refers to an academic approach to the Jewish legal tradition and a concomitant effort to apply that tradition to modern Israeli law.
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Priestly Code The Priestly Code (in Hebrew Torat Kohanim, תורת כהנים) is the name given, by academia, to the body of laws expressed in the Torah which do not form part of the Holiness Code, the Covenant Code, the Ritual Decalogue, or the Ethical Decalogue. The Priestly Code constitutes the majority of Leviticus, as well as some of the laws expressed in Numbers. The code forms a large portion, approximately one third, of the commandments of the Torah, and thus is a major source of Jewish law.
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Minchat Chinuch Minchat Chinuch (Hebrew: מנחת חינוך‎ ‎ ) is a legal commentary on the "Sefer ha-Chinuch". It was written by Yosef Babad ("Rabbeinu Yosef"; 1800–1874), "Av Beit Din" of Ternopil. The "Sefer Ha-Chinuch" systematically discusses the 613 commandments of the Torah, their Biblical source, and philosophical underpinnings - while the "Minchat Chinuch" serves as a legal commentary through the perspective of the Talmud and Rishonim. "Minchat Chinuch" is widely studied in Yeshivas and in private study groups, and remains popular to this day.
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Yevamot Yevamot (יבמות, "Brothers-in-law") is a tractate of the Talmud that deals with, among other concepts, the laws of the levirate marriage, and, briefly, with conversion to Judaism.
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Talmudical hermeneutics Talmudical hermeneutics (Hebrew: מידות שהתורה נדרשת בהן) defines the rules and methods for the investigation and exact determination of the meaning of the Scriptures, within the framework of Rabbinic Judaism. This includes, among others, the rules by which the requirements of the Oral Law and the Halakha are derived from and established by the written law.
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Zohar The Zohar (Hebrew: זֹהַר‎ , lit. "Splendor" or "Radiance") is the foundational work in the literature of Jewish mystical thought known as Kabbalah. It is a group of books including commentary on the mystical aspects of the Torah (the five books of Moses) and scriptural interpretations as well as material on mysticism, mythical cosmogony, and mystical psychology. The Zohar contains discussions of the nature of God, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of souls, redemption, the relationship of Ego to Darkness and "true self" to "The Light of God", and the relationship between the "universal energy" and man. Its scriptural exegesis can be considered an esoteric form of the Rabbinic literature known as Midrash, which elaborates on the Torah.