Judaic Religion

The Judaic religion is one of the most ancient in the world. Judaism is rooted in the ancient near-eastern region of Canaan and originated nearly four thousand years ago. Judaism has about 14,000,000 followers. Judaism started with an important man named Abraham. Abraham is sometimes called the father of monotheism, God promised Abraham to give him many descendants. Another important man in the Judaica religion was Moses. Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, received the Ten Commandments, and led the Israelites in the desert for 40 years and eventually into the Promised Land. The Jewish view of Jesus of Nazareth is that he was an ordinary Jewish man and, most likely a preacher who lived during the Roman occupation of Israel in the first century C.E. The Romans executed him and many other nationalistic and religious Jews for speaking out against the Roman authorities and their abuses. Some beliefs of Jews are written in the Torah or their Bible. The Jewish people believe that the words of the Torah come directly from God. The Torah is the first five books of the bible. In Nevi’im, the Prophets are divided into the …show more content…
The Sabbath is observed from a few minutes before sunset on Friday evening until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night. Three Jewish holidays are Rosh Hashanah, Purim, and Chanukah. Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year. Purim celebrates Jews being saved from Hamam. Chanukah is the festival of rededication. A Jewish event is the Holocaust. In 1933, there was about nine million European Jews, after the holocaust there were only about three and half million European Jew remaining. If the Nazis caught you, you were either shot or sent to a concentration camp. Concentration camps were where Jews awaited mass execution by gas, gun, or poison. While they waited, they were forced to work hard labor in extremely bad conditions. From then Judaism has grown and is known