Halakha

When defining what an ideal Jew is, many factors can be considered, such as religious observance, relationship to Jewish culture, relationship to Israel and the Hebrew language, and connection to God. My ideal Jew is someone who really supports the community aspect of Judaism, and encouraging others within the community to participate in Jewish culture. An ideal Jew also incorporates certain Jewish values into their lives and allows them to govern their behavior and uses them to improve their…

I am looking forward to sharing a room with you in the coming years. As we are both part of a Jewish community, I wanted to share with you my Jewish story so that you can understand who I truly am. In order to do this, I will be utilizing David Hartman’s narrative called “Auschwitz or Sinai” in order to connect my affinity for the Sinai model to two critical…

Major Religions: Compare and Contrast Development and Practices By name: Institution: Major Religions Introduction The major religions of the world help in shaping what we believe as humans. Hence, we ask ourselves if there is anything in religion that might give our lives a greater depth and direction. The paper looks at the major religions of the world, how they have developed and their practices. The major religions are as follows; Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, and Christianity. There…

Judaism is the oldest monotheistic religion in the entire world. While the religion is considered the mother of Christianity and Islam, the moral values and basic ideas of the Western civilization are based upon Judaism. The religion propagates that any person can have a place in heaven irrespective of the religious identity, if that person is good. This universal religion also provides the Jews several daily rituals and norms. The ten commandments of Judaism come from the revelation that was…

In the minds of an average teenager their parents are too strict, forcing them to do chores, finish their homework, and are all around fun-suckers. Compared to an average parent, the character from the book The Chosen, Reb Isaac Saunders would compare to a prison warden. Principles of Hasidism (An Ultra-Orthodox sub-group of Judaism) governing his every waking moment, Reb Saunders serves as a man of devout following. Not only a follower but, a leader, referred to as a Tsaddik or “Righteous One”…

Terms are not innocent, objective tools, but often carry within them assumptions of older scholarship. Since the answer to any question already lies, to a certain degree, within the question itself, the conclusions we give birth to become the offspring of the language we use. Terminology is pregnant with meaning often unnoticed in the analytical process, which it nevertheless controls from within. Rethinking the way we speak may therefore result in the discovery of new landscapes. A cursory…

The religious site that I visited is called Beth Israel Worship Center, a Messianic Congregation, located at 11 Railroad Ave, Wayne NJ. I attended the 8PM service on Tuesday, September 29th 2015 . This service specifically focused on the Jewish holy day called “Sukkot” also referred to as the Feast of Tabernacles. Sukkot is a Autumn festival celebrated of each year, on the 15th day of Tishri, according to the Hebrew calendar and is commanded Torah and the Old Testament in the Book of Exodus…

Religion script What is Shavuot • Shavuot is one of the three biblical pilgrimage • 6th or 7th day of Sivan which is fifty days after the second day of Passover which is the celebration for when the Jews escaped slavery Egypt. • The Torah is associated with the grain harvest. • The festival of Shavuot I celebrated on the 6th or 7th day of Sivan How do they celebrate Shavuot? • celebrate Shavuot is by abstaining from work and attending synagogue services and readings are recited: • a…

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…

The idea of eating clean is heavily present throughout Jewish text and tradition. In Judaism, kashrut is followed to keep the body clean and holy. Kashrut is the Jewish practice of preparing and consuming foods in a clean and proper fashion. This paper will explain the practice of kashrut, starting with its origin and moving on to describe what foods can be eaten, what measures must be taken for a food to be considered clean, why meat and dairy cannot be consumed together, how kashrut changes…