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.
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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).
*Ancient greece gave us a democracy * Ancient greece gave use the hippocratic vote *They gave us the Olympic games
China gave us paper, and confuses .
God is a personal God, not some faraway entity (as perceived by the philosophers). God gives us free-will and holds us responsible for how we use it. God hears our prayers and cares about us (which is why He gave us the Torah).
Possibly you mean this "God gave us two eyes, two ears, two arms two legs, two feet, two hands, but he only gave us one heart. You know why? Because he gave the other one to someone else and its our job to find it." That's a piece of modern sentimentality of obscure origin, and not from the Bible.
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Jews and Hebrews are the same thing. So if a Jew marries a Hebrew, it's the same thing as saying two Jews got married. Also, no one calls us Hebrews anymore.
The Bible has two authors: God and humans.
it doubled the size of the us and it gave more farming ground
The Hebrews' civilization never declined. We are still here. The majority of us live in Israel and North America.
Chinese food, funny accents, and the Chinese language.
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What used to be called Hebrews is now the Jews, and we're still around. Scholars may refer to the Israelites as Hebrews down to and including the time of the Kings (not later), but we ourselves used the name "Hebrews" only down to the time of the Forefathers. After that it was Bnei Yisrael (Children of Israel); Israelites. The term "Hebrews" (Ivrim) was used by us after the time of the Forefathers only when we were talking to non-Jews (Pharaoh or others), who begrudged us the honorable title of Israelites (Hebrews is, technically, more generic).