Judaism: The Struggle Between God And Abraham

Judaism is believed to have its roots in the Middle East and begins with the covenant that was esablished between God and abraham around the year 1812 BC. The jewish religion says that God promised a nomad whos name was abraham that he would be the father of a great people if he did as god instucted. Abraham is regaurded by the jewish people as the first patriark of the jewish people and the founder of the religion. Judaism is an ancient religion that is currentally practiced by over 13 million people across the globe most notably in Israel and the United States which hold the largest Jewish populations. The religious text of the Jewish people is the Torah scroll a long scroll containing the entire text of the Five Books of Moses, hand-written

This covenant between God and abraham is why Jewish men are all circumsized as this act is symbolic of the covenant made between God and abraham the father of judaism. The Jewish people do fallow the Ten Commandments which are the first ten of the 613 commandments given by God to the Jewish people. These commandments form the foundation of the Jewish peoples ethics, behavior and responsibilities however they differ a little from that of the christian faith in how they are numbered and wording though they do keep the same princaples, though shalt not kill, steal, worship false idols and so on. The Sabbath or Shabbat in Hebrew is the day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by the Jewish people from Friday evening to Saturday evening, just as how Sunday is observed as a day of worship and rest by Christians, the sabbath is a day in which the Jewish people worship and rest. Jewish synagogues are very minimal in decor

and 1272 B.C. by Moses, all of the teachings found in the Torah were given by God to Moses at mount Sinai of egypt and the Taberacle meaning “tent” it was a place in which God would reviel himself to the jewish people in order to gift them his wisdom and guidance throughout the fourty years that the jews woundered the Ejyption desert under Moses’s leadership . The name Torah refers to the Five Books of Moses Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. However the word its self can also be used to refer to the entire jewish bible otherwise known as the Old Testament. The Torah scrolls are kept in every synagogues sanctuary inside a cabinet representing the ark of the covenenant that housed the ten comandments the tablets in which god engraved the laws of which man should fallow. The Torah is a large and holy scroll that is taken out of the ark for jewish services on Shabbat, Mondays and Thursdays durring which a portion of it is read aloud to the jewish congregation until the entire five books of moses are completed in a years’ time. The Torah represents the core of the jewish faith and is central to jewish worship as it is viewed by the jewish people as their connection to God and his wisdom, it lays down the guidelines for how the jewish people should act, what they should eat and when they should eat it, when they should work or worship and for what they must do to reach heaven. The