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Key facts
Beliefs About God: Oneness, Creator, Judge
"Adonai" ("Lord") and "Hashem" ("the Name") are used in place of God's unspeakable name YHWH.
Moses, the Exodus and the Ten Commandments
God first spoke to Moses through a burning bush that was not consumed by the flames (Exodus 3).
Pikuach Nefesh: The Sanctity of Life
Jews are commanded to break Shabbat if necessary to save a life.
The Covenant with Abraham
Abraham is regarded as the father of Judaism, the first Jewish patriarch.
The Messiah: Jewish Beliefs
The Messiah is sometimes called Mashiach ben David: "Messiah, son of David".
The Torah and the Tanakh
The Tanakh contains 24 books in the traditional Jewish count.
Beliefs About God: Oneness, Creator, Judge
The Hebrew title Adonai means "Lord".
Moses, the Exodus and the Ten Commandments
The Exodus is the escape of the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt under Moses's leadership.
Pikuach Nefesh: The Sanctity of Life
Kosher food laws may be broken if eating non-kosher food is necessary to save a life.
The Covenant with Abraham
Abraham is remembered as the first to accept the one God, rejecting the idolatry of his contemporaries.
Practice questions with answers
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Is God seen as Creator in Judaism?
- •No: God is only a lawgiver
- •Only in the mystical Kabbalah tradition
- •Yes, but only of the Jewish people
- ✓Yes: the Creator of all
What was the tenth plague of Egypt?
- •A famine for years
- •A great earthquake
- •A long darkness
- ✓Death of the firstborn
What does Pikuach Nefesh mean?
- •Honouring your parents
- •Keeping kosher
- •Loving your neighbour
- ✓Saving a life
What is a covenant in Judaism?
- •A daily Jewish prayer
- •A Jewish holy book
- •A Jewish religious law
- ✓A sacred agreement with God
What will the Messiah bring?
- •A new set of laws replacing the Torah
- •A new Torah and priestly order
- •Judgement and the end of the world
- ✓Peace and rebuilding the Temple
What is the Tanakh?
- •A daily Jewish prayer book
- •A rabbinic commentary on law
- ✓Jewish Bible (three sections)
- •The oral Torah passed down verbally
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