WEEK_ 6-7: Introduction to Judaism

Introduction

The origin of this religion starts with the covenantformed between the Jehovah and Abraham (he was the first patriarch of the followers of Judaism).Actually, he teaches that there is only one God, and stop worshiping the other or more than one God. And the Abraham is regarded as Hazrat Ibrahim A. S in Islam he gave the idea of touheed. He broke the idols of other Gods.

The founder of this religion is Abraham around  1750 B.C .E and then his grandsonJacob regarded as the early patriarch of this religion he gave the name Israeland it is also an important personality of the Jews or Abrahamic religion which is Judaism, Christianity and Islam .Jacob was first appeared in the Book of Genesis( the first book of the Hebrew bible and the Old Testament, is in the reference of the beginning and creation of world and the origin or initiative of the Jewish people) and he was the father of 12 children which were famous as the Israelites or the children of Israel . And became the Jewish people and then he became the great grandfather of each and every follower or Jew.

Jew:

These people are ethnoreligiousgroup (the people are unified by common religion backgrounds) and a nation, emerging from the Israelites and Hebrews. they are the descendants of Hebrews and Bibles. Traditionally, a Jew is anyone who is the son of Jewish mother and a conversion ceremony is really just an adoption into the family of Abraham and Sarah. The ancient Israelites was passed on by the mother instead of the father because you are always sure who the mother is biologically. In short, they are child of Jewish mother or conversion. they are actually the ancient extant community of Europe or monotheistic religion .and the current religion regarding Judaism is formed after the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD. There are many types of the Jews some are here like Sephardim ,these are the people who were expelled from Spain in 1497 , Ashkenazim the people who are from the Germany ,Australia and Poland ,the next one is oriental Jews the people belong from the Middle East or Arabs and the last one falash residential of Ethiopia.

 

 

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