The Similarities Between Judaism And The Friday Night Ceremony

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I am from Brazil and my partner is from Israel. The place that my partner decided to take me was to a religious ceremony. The reason of this was that he is Jewish and I am Christian. The two religions main seen very common, but I didn’t have any known logy of the Judaism religion before this project. The begging of the project was a lesson that he gave me about Judaism, after similarities between our religions and them the Friday night ceremony that we attend. Israel, the place where my partner come from, is considered the world region with the largest number of practitioners of Judaism. It is considered the oldest religion in the world and the first monotheistic religion that appear in history. Jews have a very strong faith, they believed in only one God, the creator of the world and everything else, they also believe that God spoke to them in the past and that God promise them the Promised Land and this make them the chosen people. (Infernizz in English, 18th November 2011 by Haynã Murillo) Jews and Christians, they both have many similarities, …show more content…
The ceremony in my point of view, it was complicated to understand due to the blessing be in a different language, but I learn the main details for this ceremony. For a Friday night ceremony, you will need a cup of grape juice or wine for the Kiddush, candles for the woman’s do the blessing, whole breads, a table cover with a white tablecloth and since it is a very important night in the religion you have to use your best plates, glasses and silver wire. The woman’s and men’s have to dress appropriated and only the men’s need to use the Kipa that recognized that God is bigger. Before eating everybody has to go wash the hands, and when you are washing the hands you make a blessing, and they do this to clean and purify themselves. As a traditional banquet on Friday night, the menu includes a big variety of types of

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