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RELIGION NOTES:
INTRO:
* The covenant to the Jewish people acted as a special bond, reuniting the people together with mutual commitments. With God, it was seen as a sacred contract which involved rights and obligations. The covenant is significant to the main aspects of Jewish practice, ethics and sacred texts in expressing the central beliefs of Judaism.
PRACTICES: * Two essential principles of Jewish practices are the belief in one god and moral law. * In Jewish belief god is transcendent, immanent and creator. Jews believe that god has no form, he is incorporeal. Hence, there are no images of god depicted in Judaism. According to the Hebrew Scriptures, the universe and all people owe their existence to one God. It is believed that evil exists because there is disobedience of Gods commandments and it is only at the arrival of the messiah that there will be an end to all evil and suffering. * God’s oneness is emphasised in the Jewish prayer, the Shema, “The lord is our God, The lord is one” (Deut 6:4). Therefore summing up that God is morally perfect. * The covenant between Abraham and God was the Israelites would follow Gods law as expressed in the Torah, Worship one god and in return will be granted the promise land. The Torah contains the divinely inspired moral law, which binds Jews to their God. The requirements of the covenant are known as halachah; the Jewish legal tradition grounded in the 613 commandments of the Torah which covers all aspects of life and worship and serves as a frame work for a true Jewish life. In return it is believed that God gives the gift of love to his people. * Thus it can be seen that through the practices and beliefs of Judaism that the covenant is integral to Jewish life.
TEXTS: * The importance of the covenant is expressed in the Hebrew bible Tenakh and Talmud. The main section of the Tenakh is the Torah. The Torah is a sacred book of stories, history and law. It is the word of God
INTRO:
* The covenant to the Jewish people acted as a special bond, reuniting the people together with mutual commitments. With God, it was seen as a sacred contract which involved rights and obligations. The covenant is significant to the main aspects of Jewish practice, ethics and sacred texts in expressing the central beliefs of Judaism.
PRACTICES: * Two essential principles of Jewish practices are the belief in one god and moral law. * In Jewish belief god is transcendent, immanent and creator. Jews believe that god has no form, he is incorporeal. Hence, there are no images of god depicted in Judaism. According to the Hebrew Scriptures, the universe and all people owe their existence to one God. It is believed that evil exists because there is disobedience of Gods commandments and it is only at the arrival of the messiah that there will be an end to all evil and suffering. * God’s oneness is emphasised in the Jewish prayer, the Shema, “The lord is our God, The lord is one” (Deut 6:4). Therefore summing up that God is morally perfect. * The covenant between Abraham and God was the Israelites would follow Gods law as expressed in the Torah, Worship one god and in return will be granted the promise land. The Torah contains the divinely inspired moral law, which binds Jews to their God. The requirements of the covenant are known as halachah; the Jewish legal tradition grounded in the 613 commandments of the Torah which covers all aspects of life and worship and serves as a frame work for a true Jewish life. In return it is believed that God gives the gift of love to his people. * Thus it can be seen that through the practices and beliefs of Judaism that the covenant is integral to Jewish life.
TEXTS: * The importance of the covenant is expressed in the Hebrew bible Tenakh and Talmud. The main section of the Tenakh is the Torah. The Torah is a sacred book of stories, history and law. It is the word of God