Answer 2Any/every principle considered to be a moral value in the world of the 21st Century will be found in the Torah.
"Do not do to your fellow what what you dislike (being done to you)." Talmud, Shabbat 31a.
The moral imperatives of justice, ethics and morality were taught in detail by the Torah and the Jewish prophets, so that they are religious ideals and obligations, rather than just good behavior. We are obligated to care for the poor (Deuteronomy 15:7-8), the widow, orphan and stranger (Exodus 22:20-21), the Levites (Deuteronomy 12:17-19) and the landless. We are also warned against corruption, bribery, misuse of power, and mistreatment of workers. The Torah specifies rights for women and other groups. The Torah teaches the ideal of justice for the benefit of society and the moral guidance of the individual.
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"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).
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Link: Are non-Jews expected to keep these laws?
Link: How do the Scriptures and Talmud teach the Jewish ideas of justice?
The Torah is a written text, as it's an inanimate object, it doesn't have any beliefs.
Belief in God, the Torah, and the afterlife.
From the Torah.
from the Torah.
In The Torah
Yes, the Torah is the basic text of Judaism, containing its beliefs and laws.
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Belief in God and in the Torah.
1) God exists.2) We possess a God-given soul.3) God gave us the Torah, to learn and fulfill.See also:More beliefs
Israelites record history and religious beliefs inside the Torah.
a torah.
the entire Torah and Talmud.
The entire Torah.