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Ancient Religions: Judaism
As a way to look for ancient religions and by what I found about Judaism is one of the oldest religions in the world. Judaism is not just a religion, but it is the way and the law for Jews life. Judaism laws are based on Torah. The Torah is the writing of God. Torah is the basis for all sects of all Jews. Torah came from God so it is holey laws and the laws must follow. All Judaism believes in one God and creation. Israel is the Jews homeland. The place where the Jews pray in called Synagogues. The Synagogues built around the eighteenth century as a special action to show their liability to the Jaws and to prove the Jews base. The oldest synagogues located in the United State. It built in 1763 in Newport, Rhode Island. It is Touro Synagogue. …show more content…
Some of the historical sites is the Ancient Jerusalem. Jerusalem is an ancient city that built with Jerusalem stone. That is why the city got this name. The Western Wall located there and the Jews have come to pray at the Wall. They believe that God's spirit loomed over this Wall, where the great temple once. All the Jews, families are coming to see and pray at the Western Wall and their kids enjoying also. The other historical site is The Jewish Quarter. It has been located in the Ancient Jerusalem City. It is there since King Herod. The others are The Gates of Jerusalem that built in the sixteenth century by the Turkish. Those gates are the entrance to the old city Jerusalem. Those gates are eight. They are: The Zion Gate, The Dung Gate, Gate of Mercy, Lion's Gate, Herod's Gate, Damascus Gate, The New Gate, and The Jaffa Gate. ( http://www.reformjudaism.org/ancient-jerusalem)
Judaism has three main branches: Orthodox Judaism, Reform Judaism, and Conservative Judaism. Each branch has special principles that different from one and another. From what I found about Orthodox Judaism believe in what is written in the Torah and follow the Talmud. The Talmud is oral orders. Orthodox believe that their letter not changeable. Orthodox Jews have more than one community now and each of them is different than the others from how they live, eat and cloths and some common things for example: Sabbath, women life, and

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