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Sikhs don't believe in the Jewish religious scriptures such as the Torah or in the

Jewish prophets such as Moses. Sikhs have their own religious texts and their

own prophets, ten of them born from 1469 to 1666.

Sikhs who eat meat will eat pork and beef (the question of meat-eating versus

vegetarianism is left as a personal choice by the highest Sikh body but no Sikh

is supposed to eat meat prepared by Moslem rituals such as halal) while Jews

do not eat meat from any animal that does not both have split hooves and

chew its cud.

Sikhism prohibits alcohol and tobacco (drugs are also prohibited). Judaism does

regulate wine and drug use as wine has pass through a boiling process called

mevushal to be kosher and drugs can only be used for medicinal effects, not for

recreational purposes.

Sikhs also do not get circumcised, in fact it is against the Sikh faith for the body

to be altered in any way (one can't pierce ears or anything else, cut or dye hair, etc.).

As well, most Sikhs choose to get cremated, while Judaism prohibits cremation.

Theologically it does not matter to Sikhs how the body is disposed of for the

belief is only the soul matters not the body once one is dead and it will not

impact God's judgement in any way. I know of one Sikh, for example, who chose

to have his body delivered out into the sea, which was perfectly acceptable.

Some parents bury children who die very young. The Jewish burial is critical

because Jews believe that there will be a bodily resurrection, therefore the

body must be buried to allow the soul to have something to re-inhabit at that

point.

Like Jews, Sikhs are monotheistic and believe in an abstract God that can't be

represented by statues or any other imagery.

Like Jews, Sikhs don't go about converting other people to their faiths and

believe there is salvation for people of other faiths too.

Both peoples have faced generations of persecution and have similar numbers

of believers today. As a Sikh, I feel a similarity with Jewish people for we both

don't go about pressuring others to join our faiths and have faced so much

persecution from people of other faiths. For nearly a hundred years in India,

it was the law to kill all Sikhs on site and one Sikh dead or alive was worth

a year's pay if turned in to the authorities.

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