1. Discussion:
Judaism is the religion, philosophy and lie of the Jewish people. It is monotheistic
religion in the Hebrew bible and later on explore as Talmud. The conventional
relationship that developed by the God to the Children of Israel. It is claimed as 3000
years old religion and defined as one of the oldest religion of the world and also as the
oldest religion that has been survived till today world. Judaism has directly and indirectly
influenced the secular western ethics and civil war (Experiencing the World’s Religions,
pp. 289-341).
This religion only adopts those who have born to the religion or changes in to Judaism.
The most important feature of this Judaism is the Jewish Law as the Torah and Jewish
laws are originated by divine and these are unalterable and eternal. Second feature is the
Social Justice, as because it teaches to the humans about the importance of the social
justice. Social justice in Judaism is defined as for the individual or the community as
fairly treated, there should not be any discrimination among all (Anthology of World
Scriptures, pp. 219-253)
The philosophy is of the humans as all are created in the image of God and therefore
entitled to dignity and equal opportunity. Third is the place of worship in Judaism as the
worship of place is very special in this religion is like a church to Christians or a mosque
to Muslims. Every person belongs to this religion need to only pray to the God in this
kind of special place of worship. There are some other essential features of this religion
that creates impact on the humans who belong to this religion (Shaye J.D. Cohen 1999, p.
7).
The thoughts and ideas are also very different than other religious and the practice of the
religion are also quite different. These three features have been selected for the Judaism
religion because these are most important things in the religion and everyone who
suppose to follow the religion need to strongly follow these three features because rules
and regulations are important. Also the social justice as the religion states need not to be
ignored by the people because the main aim of the religion is not see the humans
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2. unequally and any kind of discrimination and all the humans follow that (Jacobs, Louis,
2007, p. 511).
Place is also very important as it is the divine place and can’t be create anyplace, this
place is very scared and holy. The orthodox of this religion is that it follows the very
traditional rules and don’t change according to the modern world. The humans who
belong to this religion are very conservative to the spiritual thinking and the message of
the religion.
The rituals of this religion are very strong as for example for ritual purity
law relates to the segregation of menstruating the women (Heribert Busse, 1998, pp. 63–
112).
The people in this religion only eat kosher food that is written in Bible. For example,
these people don’t eat pork or shellfish or mix milk and meat products.
Thus, this
religion is very strict in terms of religious norms and still today it is maintaining the laws.
References:
1. “Judaism”, chapter 8, in Experiencing the World’s Religions,
5th edition, pp.
289-341
2. Anthology of World Scriptures, 7th edition, pp. 219-253
3. Shaye J.D. Cohen 1999 The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties,
Uncertainties, Berkeley: University of California Press; p. 7
4. Jacobs, Louis (2007). "Judaism". In Fred Skolnik. Encyclopaedia Judaica. 11 (2d
ed.). Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. p. 511
5. Heribert Busse (1998). Islam, Judaism, and Christianity: Theological and
Historical Affiliations. Markus Wiener Publishers. pp. 63–112
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