Jewish Religious Beliefs

The Jewish people who lived at the beginning of the Common Era saw their religious faith as part of their daily living. Several of their daily activities were therefore established around their religious rituals, which was believed to have been past-on by their ancestors, such as the fulfillment of the mitzvoth, or commandments that are found within their most sacred document, The Torah. Jesus, who lived in this territory called Israeli-Palestine, also would have contemplated the religious rituals and events of the Jewish people. This particular name first appears in Greek literature in the 5th Century BCE when the historian Herodotus called the area "Palaistinē" (Παλαιστίνη). Originally, some say that it derived from the Semitic word “peleshet.” Which could be translated to mean, "roll" or "nomadic," the name was used to describe the people established on the northeast of Egypt. …show more content…
This was in fact the second Temple, built by Herod the Great who build it in order to gain popularity among the Jewish. The Babylonians in 587 BCE destroyed this first Temple, a sacred place that meant the world to the Jewish people. A place of worship, in which they made rituals of animal sacrifices to atone for particular sins, which was another common practice for Jewish people of the time. Jesus' family would have travel to Jerusalem and to the Temple to offer an animal sacrifice of thanksgiving for his birth, as described in Luke 2:25-40. Also every year, the Passover festivities were celebrated and every Jewish family was required by law to travel to