Judaism
I learned a lot about Judaism in class yesterday, I started off knowing mostly nothing so I could only go up from there. We learned that it is a monotheistic religion, textual religion, religion of the land, and ritual oriented religion.
Being a monotheistic religion there is one personal God named YHWH. One of the commandments is to not take God’s name in vain, so in the Bible they take the vowels of Adonai which means lord and puts them in the word YHWH as a clue to not say God’s name in vain. I thought this was a very creative way of reminding people to not say God’s name in vain. The textual part of the religion is the Bible, the story I learned about while talking about this part is the story of Abraham and how he had two wives, and each had one child. Through his wife Hagar they had a son named Ishmael, and the religion that came through him was Islam. Through Sarah, Abraham’s other wife, they had a son named Isaac (which means gigglesJ) through him came the religion Judaism which later came Christianity. The ritual oriented part of the religion I thought was very interesting all the different things they do and the things that can’t eat. They can’t eat shell fish, pork, and they can’t mix milk and meat. Also they can’t touch, or touch anything that a menstruating woman has touched. I found this very odd, I feel there’s no harm that comes from doing such a thing.
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