Monotheism, the Ten Commandments, the Torah and the Prophets.
Judaism values all individuals; men, women, and children. The wealthy have no privileges; and the poor are valued, supported and their opinions listened to. (Compare this to those societies in which only mature, land-owning males had any legal status.)
Judaism applied laws, and rules of moral behavior, to all its members equally. The laws of Moses form much of Western legal background.
Quote:
"I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation ... fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations" (John Adams, 2nd President of the United States).
"Certainly, the world without the Jews would have been a radically different place. Humanity might have eventually stumbled upon all the Jewish insights, but we cannot be sure. All the great conceptual discoveries of the human intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they had been revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them for the first time. The Jews had this gift. To them we owe the idea of equality before the law, both Divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of the human person; of the individual conscience and of the collective conscience and social responsibility" (Paul Johnson, Christian historian, author of A History of the Jews and A History of Christianity).
Monotheism, the Ten Commandments, the Torah and the Prophets.
Judaism is egalitarian and values all individuals, both men and women. The wealthy have no privileges; and the poor are valued, treated well and their opinions listened to. (Compare this to those societies in which only mature, land-owning males had any legal status.)
Judaism applied laws, and rules of moral behavior, to all its members equally. The laws of Moses form much of Western legal background.
Quote:
"I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation ... fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations" (John Adams, 2nd President of the United States).
"Certainly, the world without the Jews would have been a radically different place. Humanity might have eventually stumbled upon all the Jewish insights, but we cannot be sure. All the great conceptual discoveries of the human intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they had been revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them for the first time. The Jews had this gift. To them we owe the idea of equality before the law, both Divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of the human person; of the individual conscience and of the collective conscience and social responsibility" (Paul Johnson, Christian historian, author of A History of the Jews and A History of Christianity).
The long, rich history of Judaism gives the Western world much of its shape today. Many of the laws, traditions, culture and values are directly attributable to Judaism.Link: History of Judaism
The long, rich history of Judaism gives the Western world much of its shape today. Many of the laws, traditions, culture and values are directly attributable to Judaism.Link: History of Judaism
It is important to note that all of the above were instituted among the Hebrews (a.k.a. the Israelites) thousands of years earlier than in other nations. Here's one example: Infanticide was practiced among classical European nations until it was stopped by the influence of Judaism and its daughter-religions. Professor and former President of the American Historical Association, William L. Langer (in The History of Childhood): "Children, being physically unable to resist aggression, were the victims of forces over which they had no control, and they were abused in almost unimaginable ways."
Link: Infanticide was practiced
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Polite tradition is not to refer to stories found in the Bible as mythology. The story of Eve is found in the Book of Genesis and is part of Jewish religious tradition.
According to our tradition it was not. It is not even considered a part of the Jewish Apocrypha or Deuterocanon.
A Jewish child would like to use a dreidel because it is a game that is part of Jewish tradition.
Jude is not a part of the Jewish Bible. Jewish tradition holds that the canon of the Jewish Bible was closed 2350 years ago.
Jude is not a part of the Jewish Bible. Jewish tradition holds that the canon of the Jewish Bible was closed 2350 years ago.
Annullment is not part of Jewish law or tradition. Traditional Jews wishing to separate must go through a Jewish divorce.
There is no evidence in the text to support that conclusion, nor is it part of Jewish or Christian tradition.
Drake is not Asian but he is part Muslim, he has Muslim beliefs he is actually part African American and part Jewish though, his mother is Jewish and his father is African american, but he was born in Canada which makes him a Canadian :p
Almost certainly not. The almost part is because a few Jews probably traveled to India thousands of years ago, but there's no tradition in India that remembers them intermarrying with the Brahmins, nor any Jewish tradition of this.
The Kotel Ha-Ma'aravi (Western Wall).
Jewish tradition states the Torah (the oldest part of the Bible) was first written around 1200 BCE. Modern Jewish scholarship suggests it was still an oral tradition until at least the time of King David (1000 BCE).
No, he was not Jewish or part Jewish.