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    beliefs. The irony of this is that while Danny tries to run from submission to a higher power‚ he inadvertently runs right into it again. Near the end of the movie‚ Danny says that "the Nazis followed Hitler; Jews follow the Torah." This blind compliance with the Torah is what makes Danny hate his fellow Jews even as a

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    root of this name is found throughout the Torah. It was Allah‚ the all merciful‚ who created and sustains the universe. In Judaism and Islam Adam was the first prophet and he followed a religion Muslims called Islam and that Jews call the Sheva Mitzvot Bnei Noach. Up until Moses this was the religion all of the prophets were obligated to keep. In the Quran and the Torah the Jewish people are described as being chosen by Allah. In the Quran and the Torah the land of Israel was given to the Jewish

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    religions elder who leads the celebration. In the instance of the Naojote ‚it is usually the head priest who leads the whole ceremony and blesses the child. While in the instance of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah it is the Rabbi who teaches the child about the Torah and guides them through their studies a year in advance of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Some times during the day of the Bar/Bat Mitzvah the Rabbi of the temple might have a special service. Furthermore in both ceremonies‚ the attendance of the family members

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    In order to gain a fully comprehensive insight into Jesus Christ‚ his person and his politics‚ one must delve deeper into the historical and social context of His time on earth. Most are aware of the general details; that he resided in the Galilee and Judea regions‚ that his birth determined the turn of the first century‚ and that he interacted with various cultural and social forces. The parties with which he was involved were depicted frequently throughout the bible – most notably the Jews‚ Gentiles

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    North Africa Ashkenazi: Eastern Europe and Russia Jewish Theology: Torah: Word of God. Monotheist: Belief in one God. Shema: Prayer‚ pray to One God. Orthopraxy & Orthodoxy: Ortho = Correct‚ right. Praxy = Practice. Doxy = Thought or belief/opinion. Tanakh: The whole of Hebrew bible. Exodus: Deliverance of Israelites from Egypt under Moses’ leadership. (250 B.C.E) lands fall apart. Mitzvah: 10 commandments given. Torah: Law Henotheists: Belief and loyalty to one God & exclusion to all

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    and the way we should live our lives” (Rich‚ 2011). There are 13 – 14 million Jews worldwide with more than three-fourths in the United States and Israel. Abraham‚ Isaac‚ and Jacob are the main patriarchs of Judaism. The Judaism is taught through Torah‚ the laws God revealed to Moses and that has been recorded into the first five books of the Bible‚ and Talmud‚ Jewish oral laws. Judaism and Islam are both Abrahamic religions and they differ in the founders and beliefs. Judaism is one of the oldest

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    The Torah is the Jewish sacred text. Moses is considered to be the prophet who received the word of God and then wrote it down into what is now considered to be the books of the Torah. The word Torah itself means teaching or doctrine. Therefore in the Jewish traditions the Torah is considered to be the written Law of Moses. Genesis contains the world’s origin story followed by the stories of

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    Judaism Everything we do‚ believe or see cannot be defined and complied just in one sentence. If this was possible‚ than it would have been really easy for everyone to understand and master the universe. All we would have to do would be to just look it up in the dictionary and define it. There would be no conflicts or arguments over the same word. This would also make Experience and history less important to today’s world‚ but things do not work like that. Even a simple word like Religion

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    away. There are also differences between the faiths of each branch. Modern orthodox Jews believe that the Torah was written by man‚ but influenced by god. They also believe in a national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish control in the Promised Land. This movement is known as Zionism. On the other hand‚ Hasidic Jews believe that the torah was written by god‚ and it is the word of god. They are also an anti-Zionist group. They believe that God

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    mystique and the romance‚ the music and the moonlight‚ just nature ’s way of hoodwinking men and women to reproduce? One is the prevalent‚ contemporary‚ scientific approach. And then we ’ll contrast it with the Torah approach o specifically‚ the KabbalisticoChassidic perspective on Torah. There are‚ of course‚ numerous secularoscientific theories of sexuality. Let us examine what is probably the most dominant one: the biological or evolutionary theory which is essentially based on the idea that

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