Oral Torah

According to “Yom Kippur” (1996-2011) website after entering the temple the high priest would perform a series of rituals to include the sprinkling of blood from sacrificial animals on the Ark of the Covenant, which contained the Ten Commandment tablets. By accomplishing this ceremony the priest made amends and additionally asked for God’s forgiveness on behalf the people of Israel. The destruction of the Second Temple in 70 A.D. drew to an end this tradition and an adaptation of this ritual…

In order to understand God’s creation, a person must have a belief in the word of God, which is considered the Bible. God’s involvement in His creations should be a foundational belief for all Christians. In this essay, one will be able to understand the theology of creation and the involvement of God is His creation, as well as how this will have an impact on my career as a nursing student. For example, in the very first chapter of Genesis, it says this, “In the beginning God created the…

Christianity and Judaism while they are two different religions also have some very similar concepts. They both believe in the same God, they believe that there is only one God, they both believe in and study the Old Testament, as well as other common themes in both religions. Some of these similarities are due to the fact that “Christianity began as a sect of Judaism in the first century C.E.”(Hopfe, pg. 203). But Christianity and Judaism have some vast differences as well. Throughout this…

person whose bat mitzvah by her parents. The family is allowed to cite along with the Bat Mitzvah from the Torah and then the bat Mitzvah walks down the sides of the aisle and makes her way around the congregation and is followed by her parents and the clergy. After that the Torah is passed down from generation to generation by the Rabbi and after that the Bat Mitzvah reads parts from the Torah.…

The commandments of peace in the Jewish religion tradition stand as a fraction of their principal teachings regarding the concept of peace. As a result of the requirement for Jewish adherent to adhere to and imitate the righteous and compassionate nature of God, peace remains an aspect of spiritual life that is highly sought after at all times. This is also the case as it is also one of the 613 mitzvot which adherents are required to follow demonstrates the need to “walk in his ways”…

of documented laws for a group of people to follow. This work just like the book of Genesis might not necessarily be seen as a reliable source to many. It was physically written long after these stories actually occurred and was written based off of oral stories passed down for generations. Making the reliability questionable. Based on the fact that the stories were retained orally this could be seen as a biased source of reference. Biased because over the years people could have changed and…

Stephen in his speech in Acts told the abridged version of the Hebrew Bible. While doing so he decided to include and exclude different stories, as well as characters from the old testament as he so choose. I will try and explain here the reasons why he selected what he did, and also address the question of the order of the stories. Overall, I believe that which was included, was so for the reason of creating a different image of God as well as the stories of the Old Testament. Starting…

society. Israeli women are defined as Jewish and Palestinian Arab. Traditionally, Israeli women’s were groups of religious observant’s who believed that they should be able to pray at the Kotel and read the Torah scroll as well as wear the Tallit. Also Modern Israeli women wanted the Simhat Torah to dance with, which they believe would…

As we reach the end of the Old Testament, we also reach the Minor Prophets which cover the books of Hosea to Malachi. The prophetic books of the Bible are books of judgment and punishment. They also cover and illustrate the issues of idolatry, social injustices and religious ritualism. Even now in the 21st century these issues still apply to us and we can learn things from the teachings of the prophets. A man named Amos prophesized in Israel during a time of prosperity for the nation;…

Jewish religion. Aside from God speaking through the Torah, there is also the idea that God created everything and everyone based on Yaakov Ariel’s essay An Introduction to Judaism “...The religion of the israelites turned gradually into a monotheistic tradition whose adherents worship the one God, creator and ruler of the Universe.” God is the pervading power in Judaism because he is present in both the Hebrew bible, The Tanakh, and in the Torah. Judaism also uses the Tanakh to further show…