Reflection on Judaism

Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expire concisely of the covenant relationship that God conventional with the Children of Israel. Judaism includes a wide corpus of texts, institutionalizes, theological positions, and forms of organization. Within Judaism there are a variety of movements, most of which emerge d from rabbinical Judaism, which holds that God revealed his virtues and commandments to Mo age Mount Sinai In the form of both the Written and Oral Torah. 6 Historic ally, this assertion was challenged by various groups much(prenominal) as the Caduceus and Graeco-Roman Judaism during t he Second tabernacle period the Karate and Sebastian during the early and later media al period 7 and among segments of the modern reform movements. progressive tense movements in modern times such as Humanistic Judaism may be monotheistic. 8 Today, the largest Jewish religious movements are Jewish-Orthodox Judaism (Harder Judaism and Modern Orthodox Juju Dadaism), merce nary Judaism and Reform Judaism. Major sources of difference between these e groups are their approaches dishtowels police force, the authority of the Rabbinic tradition, and the SSL influence of the State of Israel. 9 Orthodox Judaism maintains that the Torah and Jewish law are divine in origin, eternal and unalterable, and that they should be strictly followed. bourgeois e and Reform Judaism are more liberal, with Conservative Judaism generally promoting a m ore conventional interpretation of Judaism requirements than Reform Judaism. A common Reform position Is that Jewish law should be viewed as a curry of general guidelines rather that n as a setoffs restrictions and obligations whose observance Is required of all Jews. 1011 Historically, special courts enforced Jewish law today, these courts still exist but the practice of Judaism I s mostly voluntary.