Whom does Judaism worship?

Answer 1

Judaism worships God. Judaism is a monotheistic religion (One God). The people who believe in Judaism are called Jews or Hebrews, from Israel and Jerusalem. Their place of worship is a temple or synagogue. Their holy book is the Torah and also the Ten Commandments. The founder was Abraham. Moses was the prophet who led them out of enslavement in Egypt (exile), and to Jerusalem (diaspora).

Answer 2

Judaism is strictly monotheistic, meaning it has one God. Jews worship the One God, who created the heaven and earth. Tradition holds that He gave the Torah to Moses on Mount Sinai (Exodus 24:12) 3300 years ago, and it instructs how to worship Him. The God of Judaism is without form, not physical, and cannot be divided into parts.

The Creator has one true name which is represented by the letters YHVH in English. The Hebrew letters are "yud, hei, vav, hei". These four letters are referred to as the tetragrammaton and are a contraction of the Hebrew words for "was, is, and will be". His true name was only said in the Temple and with the Temple's destruction we lost the correct pronunciation.

In the Tanach (Jewish Bible), there are 72 different 'names' used for The Creator. These aren't actual names though; they're descriptions of Him that are contextual. In daily conversation, most Jews refer to God by the title 'HaShem' which literally translates to 'The Name' in reference to His true name.

Answer 2

The Jews and Muslims worship the same God that the Christians do. They just don't worship Jesus.

Answer 3

Jews worship God, the Creator. Many Jews do not accept that Christians worship the same God, because of the trinity which is a form of polytheism from the Jewish perspective.

The Creator has no form, body or limit. Jews do not worship people or any physical item.

Answer 3

Judaism is about worshiping a monotheistic god. The Jewish people, as a cultural group rather than a religious belief system, can worship whomever they choose, or not worship at all. There is a large atheist movement among persons of Jewish ancestry.

Answer 4

Jews have always worshiped the One God. God wrecked the Egyptian idols (Exodus 12:12) and warned against idolatry (Exodus 22:19). Abraham worshiped "the Lord God of Heaven and Earth" (Genesis 14:22 and 24:3) and complained about the Philistines' lack of fear of God (Genesis 20:11). Jacob confiscated the idolatrous images taken from Shechem (Genesis 35:2) and got rid of them (Genesis 35:4); and refrained from invoking the gods of Nahor (Genesis 31:53). Rachel pilfered Laban's statue-images (Genesis 31:19) in order to prevent him from idolatry (Rashi commentary, ibid.). Joseph placed his hope in the God of the Forefathers (Genesis 50:24). Moses characterized the Golden Calf as "a great sin" (Exodus 32:21, 30) and punished the worshipers (Exodus ch.32). During the rest of his lifetime and that of Joshua (Judges 2:7), no incidents of Jewish idolatry were reported. Shortly before he died, Moses warned the people that he suspected that they would eventually succumb to the lure of the idols (Deuteronomy 29:17). Joshua gave a similar warning (Joshua ch. 24). These warnings came true. Many of the Israelites went astray after the foreign gods (Judges 2:11). However, the Jews never invented their own idol. It was always the baneful influence of other peoples. And there were times when the entire Jewish nation repented (Judges 2:1-4) and prayed to God (Judges 3:9, 3:15, 6:6, 10:10). Because of the idol-worship that did happen, images of idols have been found in Israel too. Images of God aren't found because it is forbidden to represent Him through imagery (Deuteronomy 4:15-16). It should be noted that idolatry was never universal among the Jews. The tradition of the One God was handed down in every generation, whether by the few or the many; and it is those who handed down the tradition whose beliefs we Jews continue today. Deborah ascribed victory to God (Judges 4:14), Gideon tore down the idolatrous altar (Judges 6:25-27); Samson prayed to God (Judges 16:28), as did Hannah (1 Samuel 1:11) and Samuel (ibid. 12:18); Eli blessed in the name of God (1 Samuel 2:20), Saul built an altar to God (1 Samuel 14:35); Jonathan ascribed victory to God (1 Samuel 14:12), as did David (1 Samuel 17:46); and Solomon built the Temple for God (1 Kings 8:20). A number of the kings "did what was right in God's eyes": David (1 Kings 15:5), Solomon (see 1 Kings 3:3), Asa (1 Kings 15:11), Yehoshaphat (1 Kings 22:43), Yehu (2 Kings 10:30), Yehoash (2 Kings 12:3), Amatziah (2 Kings 14:3), Azariah (2 Kings 15:3), Yotam (2 Kings 15:34), Hizkiah (2 Kings 18:3), and Josiah (2 Kings 22:2). Even at the height of the unfortunate spread of idolatry among the less-loyal Ten Tribes, there were thousands who remained loyal to God (1 Kings 19:18). And, of course, the Prophets, who spoke in the name of God and warned against idolatry: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea and so on. The sages of the Talmud, who ridiculed idolatry (Megillah 25b), were simply continuing in the tradition of the Prophets whose verses are quoted in that context (ibid.).

Answer 5

Dictionaries define "Judaism" as The monotheistic religion of the Jews, since the founding principle of Judaism was and is the belief in One God, creator of the universe. This was the teaching which was spread by Abraham, and has continued since then. From Judaism, belief in One God has spread through the Western world.

Answer 6

The Creator of the universe.

God is One (Deuteronomy 6:4). The concept of a dualism (as in Zoroastrianism), an independent Satan, multiple gods (polytheism; paganism) or a trinity of three in one, are all unimaginable in Judaism. Also, any belief that an intermediary between humanity and God should be used, whether as necessary or even optional, is considered heretical.God is non-physical, indivisible and incomparable. Jewish tradition teaches that God is beyond human comprehension; and that it is only God's revealed deeds, as He interacts with mankind and the world, that we can begin to grasp.

God is omniscient (He is aware of everything), and infinitely wise.
God created the universe and all existence, including time and space, in a deliberate, purposeful act of benevolent Creation.

God is the mover of everything. No molecule can move without the energy and direction with which God imbues it.

God is eternal; and His ways are also eternal. He is not capricious, forgetful or fickle.
God is just. He rewards good and punishes evil - whether in this world or in the afterlife.

God is ethical and moral; and He expects us to imitate His ways.

The God of Israel is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. He is the guide of history, who delivered the Israelites from Egyptian slavery.
God is the source of law, who gave the Torah to the Israelites at Mount Sinai.
God is immanent and personal, meaning that he relates to humanity and hears our prayers. This is the basis of the Psalms and our siddur (prayerbook).

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Names of God

Answer 7

Jews do not worship human beings. Jews only worship God.

Answer 8

it is nothing .. its just boreing

Answer 9

Jewish people worship one God

Answer 10

Jews worship God and consider worship of anything other than God to be idolatry. Jews generally agree that the God of Judaism is also the God of Islam, and while Jews utterly reject the divinity of Jesus and the doctrine of the Incarnation, Jews agree that Christians, while making these grave mistakes, are also worshiping the same God. There are many names for God used in the Jewish tradition. One of these names, the Tetragrammaton or 4-letter name, is never pronounced, but is replaced with words like My Lord when reading.