A summary of what Jews believe about God God exists. There is only one God. There are no other gods. God can’t be subdivided into different persons (unlike the Christian view of God) Jews should worship only the one God. God is Transcendent: God doesn’t have a body. God created […]
The Conservative movement, while respecting the validity of Orthodox rabbis, believes that Orthodoxy has deviated from historical Judaism through an insistence on the halachic principle of binding legal precedent, in particular with respect to relatively recent codifications of Jewish law. Is Conservative Judaism the same as Orthodox? Conservative Judaism lives […]
Key doctrines include a future Messiah who will restore Jewish practice by building the temple in Jerusalem and gather all the Jews to Israel, belief in a future bodily resurrection of the dead, divine reward and punishment for the righteous and the sinners. Orthodox Judaism is not a centralized denomination. […]
What is a correct pronunciation? Pronunciation is the way in which a word or a language is spoken. This may refer to generally agreed-upon sequences of sounds used in speaking a given word or language in a specific dialect (“correct pronunciation”) or simply the way a particular individual speaks a […]
How was Jesus’s name pronounced? As its roots lie in the name Yeshua/Y’shua, it is etymologically related to another biblical name, Joshua.Jesus (name) Pronunciation /ˈdʒiːzəs/ Gender Male Origin Word/name Hebrew Other names Is Yeshua and Jesus the same? Due to the numerous translations, the Bible has undergone, “Jesus” is the […]
Tezak formed International Games, Inc., to market Uno, with offices behind his funeral parlor. The games were produced by Lewis Saltzman of Saltzman Printers in Maywood, Illinois. What company makes Uno cards? Several major game and toy manufacturers offered to purchase the rights, but Tezak held out until 1996, when […]
“Yeshiva.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yeshiva. What is yeshiva in Israel? In Orthodox Judaism a yeshiva (Hebrew: ישיבה) is an educational institution where men can study the Torah, the Talmud, and develop their character. How many yeshiva are there in Israel? Increase in the Number of Yeshiva and Kollel Students: in […]
Abitub or Abitob. The name Abitub or Abitob appears only once in the Hebrew Bible, in 1 Chronicles 8:11, where it is used for a character said to be the son of Shaharaim, in a section on the descendants of Benjamin. Who in the Bible has no name? Nicolas Poussin’s […]
When Jesus had tasted it, he said, “It is finished!” Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. That phrase is actually the translation of one word, “tetelestai,” in the original language of the Bible. What is the last in the Bible? Revelation 22 is the twenty-second (and […]
A new Pew Research Center survey finds that nearly all Israeli Jews self-identify with one of four subgroups: Haredi (“ultra-Orthodox”), Dati (“religious”), Masorti (“traditional”) and Hiloni (“secular”). What are the 4 branches of Judaism? Orthodox, Conservative, Reform and Reconstructionist rabbis in the United States and Canada have formed the first […]
Each day, more than 100,000 Jews worldwide use their early-morning, lunchtime or evening hours to study the same two sides of a page of Talmud, fulfilling the Jewish belief in study for its own sake, until all 38 books of the Talmud are completed. What are the books of the […]
A third of Conservative Jews and 14% of Reform Jews say religion is very important in their lives. Moreover, 37% of Conservative Jews and 18% of Reform Jews believe in God as described in the Bible. What do Reform Judaism believe? Reform Jews believe that the Torah was inspired by […]
Because the New Testament was originally written in Greek, not Hebrew or Aramaic. Greeks did not use the sound sh, so the evangelists substituted an S sound. Then, to make it a masculine name, they added another S sound at the end. The earliest written version of the name Jesus […]
Central to Reform Jewish beliefs is the idea that all human beings are created b’tzelem Elohim, in the image of God, and that we are God’s partners in improving the world. Tikkun olam, the repair of our world, is a hallmark of Reform Judaism as we strive to bring about […]
The reason is that during the Second Temple period, most likely in the early 5th century B.C.E., Jews decided that that name was ineffable, too holy to be uttered aloud. This was based on a particular interpretation of the third commandment, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord […]