Judaism

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The oldest of the Abrahamic religions, it is based on a belief in one God and the Hebrew Bible.

- "Judaism is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, and ethnic religion comprising the collective religious, cultural, and legal tradition and civilization of the Jewish people."
- "Modern Judaism evolved from Yahwism, the religion of ancient Israel and Judah, by the late 6th century BCE, and is thus considered one of the oldest monotheistic religions."
- "The Torah is part of the larger text known as the Tanakh... The Hebrew word torah can mean 'teaching,' 'law,' or 'instruction'."
- "The Torah's supplemental oral tradition is represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud."
- "Judaism's texts, traditions, and values strongly influenced later Abrahamic religions, including Christianity and Islam."
- "The largest Jewish religious movements are Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, and Reform Judaism."
- "Orthodox Judaism maintains that the Torah and halakha are divine in origin, eternal and unalterable, and that they should be strictly followed."
- "Conservative Judaism generally promotes a more traditionalist interpretation of Judaism's requirements than Reform Judaism."
- "A typical Reform position is that halakha should be viewed as a set of general guidelines rather than as a set of restrictions and obligations whose observance is required of all Jews."
- "In 2021, about 45.6% of all Jews resided in Israel and another 42.1% resided in the United States and Canada..."
- "Major sources of difference between these groups are their approaches to halakha (Jewish law), the authority of the rabbinic tradition, and the significance of the State of Israel."
- "Authority on theological and legal matters is not vested in any one person or organization, but in the sacred texts and the rabbis and scholars who interpret them."
- "Jews are an ethnoreligious group including those born Jewish (or 'ethnic Jews'), in addition to converts to Judaism."
- "In 2019, the world Jewish population was estimated at 14.7 million, or roughly 0.2% of the total world population."
- "In 2021, about 45.6% of all Jews resided in Israel and another 42.1% resided in the United States and Canada..."
- "It has its roots as an organized religion in the Middle East during the Bronze Age."
- "The Tanakh is also known to secular scholars of religion as the Hebrew Bible, and to Christians as the 'Old Testament'."
- "Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenant that God established with the Israelites, their ancestors."
- "Modern Judaism evolved from Yahwism, the religion of ancient Israel and Judah, by the late 6th century BCE, and is thus considered one of the oldest monotheistic religions."
- "Hebraism, like Hellenism, played a seminal role in the formation of Western civilization through its impact as a core background element of Early Christianity."