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    Synagogue Report Shabbat is the Jewish Sabbath. It is a day of rest and spiritual enrichment that occurs every Friday evening just before sundown until an hour after sundown on Saturday evening. In observance of Shabbat‚ Jews are to refrain from all work and focus their attention on the holy day. Shabbat is observed Friday evening until Saturday evening because it is written in Genesis that on the 7th day of creation‚ God rested. This day is a day of rest‚ peace and prayer. Shabbat services

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    jewish and christian art

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    Chapter 7 Jewish ‚ Early Christian and Byzantine art Done by – Ieshangie Gamage 3558 Amanda Ranawaka 3534 Features Jews Christians Muslims religion Judaism Christianity Islam Religious Book Torah (Old testament of Bible) Bible (Old testament+ New Testament) Quran Religious leader Hebrew Prophet (monotheistic) Jesus Christ (monotheistic) Prophet Mohammed (monotheistic) Belief in God believe that god made a covenant with their ancestors

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    Judaism Ethical Teachings

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    Judaism as a living religious tradition has a deep inspiration on the lives of adherents through principle beliefs and core ethical teachings as they are of critical prominence to Judaism and administrate the lives of adherents. The core ethical teaching of Judaism that govern and impact the lives of adherents are the Ten Commandments‚ the book of proverbs and the prophetic vision. Ethical teachings and principle beliefs influence the lives of Jewish adherents meaningfully as they are expected make

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    Synagogue Visit

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    church of I would attend but with a few differences. There were 12 rows of pews going forward and in the middle was I was sort of area which look like a pool pit which I found out was called a Bimah and that is were a person reads the Torah out loud to the audience. The Torah is the Jewish bible‚ which consists of 5 books of the old testaments‚ which is Genesis Exodus‚ Leviticus‚ Numbers‚ and Deuteronomy. There were only seven people when I came in but they were friendly even though they seemed curious

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    Judaism vs. Paganism

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    History has been known to show religion as a way for people to find a mental relief in hard times. Religion gives humans something to look forward to and to use as guidance for their day to day lives. Naturally‚ this means there will be many different types of religions to satisfy the diverse population from history through modern times. Two quite different religions‚ Judaism and Paganism have more similarities than one may think. Paganism‚ sometimes known as Neo-Paganism or Wiccan‚ is said to

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    It's Your Move

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    cities‚ and addressed their issues and arguments against the school of thought of the Baal Shem Tov and Chassidism. Briefly‚ amongst the fundamental objections were two‚ which‚ primarily contended that Chassidus seemingly undermines תלמידי חכמים and Torah scholarship. 1. According to Chassidus even the עמי הארץ/אנשים פשוטים‚ the masses and simpletons should put great emphasis on their Davening‚ because of its supreme importance.

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     Brit Milah  Welcoming ceremony into Judaism for a boy  Includes circumcision  Covenant of Circumcision  Occurs 8 days after birth - VERY important‚ nothing interrupts  Ritual objects used:  Circumcision tools (anesthetic is possible according to some)‚ tallit (prayer shawl)‚ booklet with ceremony text‚ Elijah’s Chair  Time of ceremony – early in the morning  Ritual setting – morning prayer service  Parts

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    and admiration of the righteousness of those whom follow his laws. The Pharisees teachings relate to these ideas. The Pharisees used a combination of oral and written law. The law was created and based around the ideals presented in the Torah. They used the Torah as a guide and model for their laws. The Pharisees believed in Divine Providence‚ which in terms means the idea of God being present in our lives. Divine Providence is God intervening in the world. The found text expresses this idea. In

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    Israel Hope

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    circulated (Epic of Gilgamesh‚ Canonical texts)‚ Myths/stories about the origin of the world (Atraphasis‚ Enuma Elish)‚ Life after death (Pyramids). 2. For Mosaic Authorship- Against Mosaic Authorship- Various repetitions and contradictions; Torah is the work of many compilations of tradition after the time of Moses; Different names for God (Yahweh/ Elohim/Jehovah) Documentary Hypothesis- the view that the Pentateuch is a combination of at least the 4 different source documents (PJED) J- Jehovah/use

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    Although Christianity‚ Islam and Judaism are all religions that grew from the same central idea of one divine god named Abraham in the general time zone of 2500 BC‚ and in the holy city of Jerusalem‚ they are all very different from each other. Christianity‚ Islam and Judaism are all similar religions in some ways but are also very different from each other in other ways. The religions of Christianity‚ Islam and Judaism are all similar because of a few very distinct reasons. The biggest reason that

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