Judaism's Communal Orientation

1. Relationship with God and the Torah. The Torah is the primary document of Judaism. Torah, which means "teaching", is God's revealed instructions to the Jewish People. It teaches Jews how to act, think and even feel about life and death. Jews usually belief that all of the following statements are true about their relationship with God:

Prayer must be directed to God alone and to no other

Moses was the greatest of the prophets

The Torah which are the first five books of the Old Testament (the first five books of the Bible) and the Oral Torah now documented in the Talmud and in other writings were given to Moses

God knows the thoughts and deeds of men

God will reward the good and punish the wicked

The true Messiah will come to save the world from sin

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l, named after Abraham's grandson and whose descendants are the Jewish people. The land is often referred to as the Promised Land because of God's repeated promises found in the Old Testament to give the land to the descendants of Abraham. Judaism focuses on relationships: the relationship between God and mankind, between God and the Jewish nation, and between the Jewish nation and the Nation of Israel. Jews have lived in this land continuously from the time of its original conquest by Joshua more than 3200 years ago until the present day, though Jews were not always in political control of the land, and Jews were not always the majority of the land's population. 6. Different Sects of Judaism: According to another essay by Tracey Rich, the different sects or denominations of Judaism are generally referred to as movements. The differences between Jewish movements are not nearly as great as the differences between Christian denominations. There are basically three major movements in the U.S. today: Reform, Conservative and Orthodox. Some people also include a fourth movement, the Reconstructionist movement, although that movement is substantially smaller than the other three. Orthodox and sometimes Conservative are described a
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