The Judaism indicates the Tradition and the religious culture of the Juifs, i.e. downward of the Hebrew Israélite S of Judaea, and those which joined them by conversion. The Judaism comprises religious elements, but does not limit itself to it, container, in addition to its code of conduct, a legislation, rites, and habits not specifically religious.
According to its texts founders, in particular the Tanakh, faith of old the Jews, and their descendants, the Jews, is based on an alliance contracted between God and Abraham and renewed with Moïse. The Judaism is thus a abrahamic religion '' '', founded on the mosaic Loi '' '', the writings '' prophetic '' and the other Writings, collectively called Tanakh, Miqra or Hebraic Bible.
Elle is based on the worship of God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, YHWH, Elohim with the unutterable Nom, One, Unique, omniscient, omnipotent, just, charitable, miséricordieux, transcendent, having created the world, and continuing to imply itself in its destiny, making irruption in the History, as It shows it while making leave the Enfants Israel of Egypt. Its worship was ensured by the cohanim and was centered on the Temple of Jerusalem, destroyed by twice.
The Judaism is one of the first times purely known monotheists, and one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced nowadays. The values and the history of the Jewish people are with the source of the foundation of other abrahamic religions, like the Christianisme, the Islam and the Bahaïsme. It is not however at the base of the Samaritanisme, which is a concurrent tradition.
Most important running Jewish current is the rabbinical Judaïsme, going down from the Judaïsme pharisee, reading the “Torah written” through the prism of the oral Torah, exegetic tradition transmitted orally, received, according to the tradition, of the mouth of Moïse at the time of the gift of the Torah, and compiled in the form of the Talmud S Babylonian and galiléen.
L' authority of this oral law was disputed at the time of the Temples by the Sadducéens, then at 8th century E.C by a movement scripturalist, the Karaïsme. She was ignored Samaritans, as well as Jewish communities too far away from the centers of teaching and diffusion of this law, like the Jews of China, Ethiopia or India.
prophets and centrality of Jerusalem.
the Judaism of the Second Temple itself one of is more diversified Jewish history: in addition to the sects the best known ones (Esséniens, Zealoies, Pharisees, Sadducéens,…), it is necessary to add those which one hardly knows but the name: nazaréens, gnostic, Minim (probably first Christians). The Second Temple of Jerusalem and the high priests, theoretically central authority in the Judaism, are rejected by the Juifs Elephantine and the Esséniens. Following the destruction of the Second Temple, only the Judaism pharisee remains, imposing the reading of --> Nevi' im ,
Oral tradition, fixed in writing after the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem, known under the name of oral Torah, that the rabbinical tradition pharisienne then said to hold of Brace.
Le Judaism also professed the arrival of a Oint of God , the Messiah, initially political character and soldier before acquiring a eschatologic dimension more . Thus during the first century, of the Jews which recognized this Messiah in the person of Jesus, gave rise to Christianity. -->
See also: Principles of faith of the Judaism
The Judaism requires more acts that beliefs, if it are not that in God One and Single, creator of the world, liberator of the people in Egypt and prescriber of laws. At the time of Flavius Josèphe, these regulations (mainly the circumcision) are regarded as more determining than religious designs.
However, two centuries later, Talmud, in front of the increase in the professing number of Jews of the new beliefs, like the Dualism, raises the question to see which is of Israel. Under the gréco-Moslem woman influence, declarations of faith appear, having for goal to define the beliefs differentiating the Jews from the not-Jews. These axioms are often defined of opposite course to the other doctrines. One of the lists of article of faith the most known, that of Brace Maïmonide, comprises 13 articles among which one is opposed to the doctrines aristotelician eternity of the world, another with the idea of “New Torah” or change of this one, etc
If the articlees of faith of Maïmonide Brace are currently regarded as obligatory by the orthodoxe Jewish , the not-orthodoxe currents take care not to impose a formula on their faithful, decreasing the number of articles and authorizing multiple inetrprétations. The currents more the progressists, like the Judaism reconstructionnist, do not hesitate to call into question of the principles among most fundamental at the Jews, like the belief in the Revelation or that to be a Peuple elected active until the handing-over in question of the existence of God.
See also: Monothéisme
The Jews consider that the monotheism was the first human belief, canted by the generation of the grandsons of Adam, and found by Abram and its descent. The “second command of the Decalog” interdict to have “other gods in front of My face”. This prohibition includes the syncretism, the worship of “minor divinities”, spirits, or incarnations, the doctrines of duality ('' shtei reshouyot '') or of trinities, considered as related with the Polythéisme.
The Judaism made proclamation of the monotheism its twice-daily profession of faith, with déclamer at the time of its last breath.
For holding of the biblical critical , the second command indicates the existence of a primitive Hénothéisme. The monotheism would have developed in reaction in Hellènes.
The Judaism teaches that God appeared with the Enfants of Israel (as a whole and not with only one person) on the mount the Sinai, and gave them the Torah (the Loi ). This one is holy, single and untouchable.
The Law of God consists, in addition to the beliefs, in regulations ( mitzvot ) ritual, in particular the sacerdotal rites of the sacrifices in the enclosure of the Temple of Jerusalem, or ethics, governing each aspect of the daily newspaper. It also comprises narrative and poetic parts, recalling the destiny of the people of Israel since the creation of the world to their entry in Ground of Israel after the exit of Egypt and a crossing of the 40 year old desert.
However, if the Torah is one and single, the interpretations that one makes of it strongly diverge between groups and people. The Sadducéens, class sacerdotal of the Second Temple of Jerusalem recognize only its authority, whereas the other currents regard the Neviim (Books of the Prophets) and the Ketouvim (Written) as also inspired by God. The Jewish biblical gun, called Hebraic Bible, or Tanakh is fixed at the neighborhoods of 450 AEC. As from the 1st century, the term “Torah” will indicate Tanakh.
Tanakh takes again the history of the people of Israel since the crossing of the Jordan under the control of Josué until the construction of the Second Temple after a exile in Babylon.
After the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem in 70 EC. and the second exile of the Jews, interpretation prévalente of the Hebraic Bible was that of the sect of the Pharisiens, according to which the Torah can be correctly interpreted only through the prism of a tradition of oral interpretation initiated jointly with the gift of the Torah on the Sinai, called oral Torah. Only the Karaïsme, a movement entered on the scene of the History at the 8th century, disputed this interpretation, although the progressive movements of the rabbinical Judaïsme born from the movement of the Haskala at the 19th century them considered also this Torah oral in inadequacy with the modern time and carried out installations abrogeant more or less completely its decrees.
On the ritual level, the Jews publicly read a section of the Torah at the time of each commemoration, and of the office of the Sabbath. This reading is decorated of a Haftara drawn from the prophetic Books. The Torah is read during an annual cycle.
See also: Ground of Israel, List of the places saints#Judaïsme, List of the holy places of the Judaism
According to the Torah, God promises with Abraham a ground populated by seven nations canaanéennes, and reiterates this promises with Moïse. In the Deutéronome, Moïse reconsiders the fertility of this ground and the benefits which it represents, precise that God gives to Israel an inhabited ground, and especially that it is by Its will that Israel acquires it, and not by the merit of the people. Quite to the contrary, the people démériterait it that God would drive out it His ground as It drives out in front of them Canaanéens. However, their exile would not be final, and at the end of a peregrination of humiliations and sufferings, God would bring back His people on this terre.
Des special commands refer to the ground of Israel, such as that to live there. The legislation must is conceived there in order to live there at the divine rate/rhythm, by respecting the rest of the seventh day and the rest of the ground of the seventh year; the year following seven seven years cycles, i.e. each fifty years, is a year jubilaire during which the grounds must turn over to their owners and the servants with freedom.
Regarded as inalienable property of the people of Israel, this Holy Land comprises Holy Cities, in the enclosure of which it is interdict to bury deaths, and of the holy places, important centers of the history Jew and Jewish. A particular enthusiasm surrounds Jerusalem, capital rested by king David, where was located the Temple of Solomon, on the Mont of the Temple and where the Sanhédrin sat.
Jewish sovereignty on the ground of Israel is a constant of its history, and the movements armed during the history had only its restoration for goal, including the movement Zionist in 1948.
Toutefois, the Zionism, political movement, is not unanimously accepted by the Jews, so much by monks who regard it as an attempt to exceed the divine will, which can only put a term at the exile, that by not-monks who feel more integrated into their host country, and do not recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel.
See also: Messiah in the Judaism, Messianic Times
According to the Judaism, the Messiah is a man, resulting from the line of king David, who will lead the Monde to come, one era of peace and happiness, eternal and whose all the nations will profit from the ground. It did not come yet: the fact of having believed in the messianity of Jesus separated the Jews from the first Christians, and certain hassidic Jews are currently suspected of heresy to have affirmed the messianity of Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
Moreover, a certain number of false-Messiahs were isolated throughout the Jewish history, in the light of the criteria referred to above.
However, if Messianic times are a generally shared belief, the opinions on the divergent Messiah, and many are the Jews, in particular the reformed Juifs, which estimate to be able to occur some.
With regard to the world to come, several designs are côtoient in the Judaism, and it in the final analysis occupies only one very additional place there.
However, the prophets criticize this purely ritual worship highly if it does not join with true intentions (Isaïe 1:11 - 18), and consider that the prayer can fulfill its role (Dared 14:2).
The ordinance of the worship, and the impact of the Torah in the daily life, are discussed then furious between priests sadducéens and wise, the first being based on a literal interpretation of the Torah, whereas the seconds trust the received traditions of the ancestors (who would have received them their, and so on to Moïse) and on methods of legalistic interpretation to determine the Halakha (led religious). The point of view of wise carried it after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 EC. and, except for the dissidence karaïte which trusts only personal interpretation, imposed its Halakha: this one developed in the Mishna , then the Talmud S and the rabbinical Littérature later. Various codes were written to determine the general principles as well as Responsa for particular cases. The reference book on the matter is the Shoulhan Aroukh, written at the sixteenth century. However, interpretation continues until our days, Halakha having to take into account the evolution of the company.
See also: Offices in the Judaism
There are three offices in one day, corresponding at the three times of the service in the Temple: Sha' harit (“Prayer of the morning”), Min' ha (literally “oblation of flour”) and Ma' ariv (“prayer of the evening”).
Le Sabbath and the holy days, an additional service, the Moussaf (“Added”), is inserted after Sha' ahrit.
The orthodoxe services of prayer are led by a Hazzan (cantor) or a Shalia' H tzibbour (officiating) in Hebrew, with some passages in Judéo-araméen. They have various parts, separate between them by various versions of the Kaddish. The divine Unit is proclaimed evening and morning in the Shema Israel . The prayer itself, recited upright from where its name of Amidah , is made up in week of nineteen blessings, of seven the Sabbath. Men and women are separate, and only the voice of the men is made hear.
La held of an office requires the behavior of a quorum of ten men, the Minyan (to pronounce “miniane”), because certain prayers require a collective answer.
Le worship is carried out covered head. The morning, orant it is covered with a Talit (shawl of prayer) and ties with its arm like at its head the Tefilin (Phylactère S containing 4 sections of the Torah), except the sabbath, where only the talit is of rigueur.
Chaque sabbath, a section of the Torah is read in public, in order to have read the 54 weekly sections of the Torah in a Jewish year. A shortened reading of the section is also carried out Monday and Thursday preceding the sabbath. Only the men have to read the Torah.
The not-orthodoxe Jews instituted various alternatives according to the community. Among most frequent appear the abolition of separation between men and women, making it possible those to take part in the office or to direct it and the invocation of the matriarches (Sarah, Rébecca, Léah and Rachel, the wives of the patriarchs; the women can also read the Torah, and carry talit and tefilin . The service reformed is appreciably shorter than that of orthodoxe, and is sometimes led in the language of the home country, although some preserve Hebrew.
See also: Celebrations in the Judaism, Fast in the Judaism
The Jewish Calendrier is based on a cycle lunisolaire métonien, according to a method of calculating instituted by Wise the Hillel II, the determination of the month starting from the observation of the the new moon having been abolished with the disappearance of the Sanhédrin.
Four other fasts were instituted by the prophets, in remembering the destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem. The festival of Pourim was instituted following the events described in the Livre of Esther. The festival of Hanoukka as for it was proclaimed by the Stiffs. Its rites were determined by the rabbis, like two rites mentioned in Talmud: Tou Bishvat, festival of the trees and Tou BeAv, festival of the love and in love one.
See also Calendars Saga -->
See also: To hide
Kasher (or to hide, or cachère, etc) means clean with consumption . However, this very general term generally means in the direction of Jewish food laws . Nonkosher mets is taref (fém. treifa ), which means literally “torn”, consumed starting from a member torn with the animal (death or alive), to eat like an animal, and not like a man, who must be holy as God is Saint. The cacheroute can thus be defined as the sanctification of the food .
The laws of the cacheroute are taught in the Lévitique. One learns from this context that they relate to as well the ritual purity and holiness as health. Among the laws of the cacheroute figure prohibition to consume blood, the animals which nourish other animals, which excludes the animals from prey like the lions, the shark, the eagle or pike (among others), those which traverse sea-beds to the research of the waste left by the others, like the etc.
, seafood
In the same way, it is the most famous restriction, milk and the meat cannot be consumed during the same meal , because you will not cook the kid in the milk of his mother (in connection with the dish of venaison accompanied by cream that Abraham offers to the three angels, the Midrash sign which the dairy produces were served before the meat, which is allowed, and that, in any case, the food laws had not been enacted yet).
Although much sees only one rule of ritualized dietetic hygiene there, the acknowledged goal of the cacheroute is to make become aware that the only authorized food is those which come from sources of which aspects “spiritually negative” like the pain, the disease or the dirtiness is absent, and whose preparation did not match practices as hunting, torture…
See also: Nidda
The laws of the nidda (“distance”) refer to the obligatory distance of the woman during her menstrual period, (the husband and his wife do not sleep in the same bed) and are called “laws of the family purity”, the reports/ratios before marriage being prohibited, and the marriage occurring about the time of the Puberté (at biblical times). It was noted besides that the cancer of the uterus was much less frequent in Israel, it proves that the scientists realized that reports/ratios during or right after the menstrual period were very negative at the woman because during ten day the uterus is reformed.
Various other laws governing the relationship between men and women are attached, like the Tsniout (“decency”, i.e. modesty in clothing), and are perceived to it like vital factors of the Jewish life, in particular at the Orthodoxe ones, but they are seldom followed to the others.
The laws of the nidda themselves enact that the sexual relations cannot take place as long as lasts menstrual flow . The woman must then check her losses until adding up seven days “clean”, after which it goes to the Mikvé to purify. While following this rite, the woman is allowed her husband only to be left approximately the twelfth day of her cycle and until its next cycle occurs.
See also: Which is Juif
Traditionally, is considered Jewish the person born of mother Jewish or converted into agreement with the Jewish Law.
The sources are:
The liberal movements, like the Judaism reconstructionnist, also declare Juifs the people born of not-Jewish mother if the father is Jewish and if the child were high in practice Judaism. However, these people are not considered Jewish by the movements orthodoxe or preserving, not more than are to it people converted by a Beth DIN (rabbinical court) nonorthodoxe.
A Jew ceasing practicing, believing, was this with the basic principles, remains Jewish. The same applies to a converted Jew to another religion.
However, in this last case, the person loses the statute of member of the uive community J , and cannot count in a Miniane (cf will infra). In the past, the family and the friends of the convert made her mourning, as if he had died (the Mitnagdim also did it for their daughter which had married a Hassid, vice versa, but that is not done nowadays any more.
The question accepted a new repercussion when, in the Années 1950, David Ben Gourion, in order to form a laic Jewish State, required several opinions, in the religious world but also in the international intellectual community, as for knowing which can, being considered Juif, to profit from the “law of the return” (automatic granting of Israeli nationality with which makes the request of it, in so far as it is Juif).
The sentence, known under the name of law Mihou Yehoudi (“Which is Juif”) does not satisfy the orthodoxe opinion, since one can go up with one (only) Jewish grandparent to be considered Jewish and claim with the law of the return. This is why the question was not completely solved and remake surface in the Israeli political debates of time to other.
Since the thirteenth century about, the symbol of the Judaism is the Star of David who, according to the tradition, was the emblem of the king David. The oldest symbol of the Judaism is the Ménorah , candlestick with seven branches, which was in the Temple of Jerusalem.
In the pediment of the synagogs are also illustrated the Tables of the Law.
See also: Synagog
The term Synagog (Greek, " sunagôgon" , gathering place, translation of the Hebraic term beit knesset ) indicates places of worship and study Jews. This last role characterized so well the synagogs of the world Ashkénaze that one invites them in Yiddish shul (to pronounce " shoule" , cf German " Schule" , school).
The synagogs comprise usually parts separated for the prayer (the principal sanctuary), of smaller parts for the study, and often a part intended for the Community gathering (from where their name) or for the educational tasks.
There is no preestablished plan, and architecture, as well from outside as of interior, varies largely. However, the following elements are generally found:
Other buildings of importance are the yeshivot, Institutions of studies of the texts of the Judaism, or the Mikvé, where are the ritual baths.
Mishna is the first compilation, followed by Tossefta, which wants to be of it already comment. Laconic and without references, it requires its own interpretation however in order to connect Lois oral and written. This one was carried out in two separate centers of the Jewish spiritual life, Babylon and Galileo, to give Talmud of Babylon and Talmud of Galileo, improperly called " Talmud de Jérusalem" , less studied than the first.
Works of this time not integrated in Talmud were gathered under the term of " Treaties mineurs" , not because of their importance but of their little of volume.
It is around Mishna and of Talmud that primarily teaching in the talmudic institutes nowadays rests.
A exegetic literature develops Talmud parallel to: the Midrash , of which there exist many variations. Talmud sometimes referred there and that certain lesson is found in one and the other.
The Wise ones of Midrash are generally those of Talmud: * midrashic Literature:
halakhic Literature:
Thought and ethical Jewish
See also: Cohen (Judaism)
There exists in the Bible a sacerdotal caste, the cohanim , made up of downward the male Jews of Aaron Ben Amram the Lévite, themselves distinguished among the people from Israel to have rejoined Moïse at the time of the episode of the Golden calf. However, Levites and Cohanim are not any more in activity since the destruction of the Second Temple.
Cohanim dealt mainly with the sacrifices, Leviim of the handling of Temple (gatekeepers, cantors, etc). They could be deposed of their row, while being devoted to pagan rites, while contravening their obligations, etc These rules are always in force in the orthodoxe Judaism, in the hope which Cohanim would take again their functions at the time of the rebuilding of the Temple.
Although not being able more to ensure the service of the Temple, the cohanim are always held with certain prerogatives like the Rachat of first-born the, the sacerdotal Bénédiction… the Levites have a role more modeste.
See also: Rabbi
In the times of Mishna, the Rabbi was a scholar occupying an official position within the religious legislation judéenne. After the dissolution of Sanhédrin, it was not possible any more to order the rabbanim , and those whose scholarship made it possible to rule on questions of observance of the Law, justifying a title received from now on that of Rav (Hebrew, רב much or large ).
Rav thus indicates the large ones among the people of Israel, recognized ( nismakhim ) among their pars, indifferently of their origin (i.e. Cohen, Lévi or Israel). In the Moslem countries, Al-Rabb being one of the 99 names of Allah, the Wise ones were called Hakham im .
Although holders of an increasingly large spiritual authority in the Judaism, cumulating the functions of referee as regards religious observance, of link in the moral authority, transmission chain of the knowledge, of example, of officiants, the rabbis for were never regarded as much as intermediaries between God and the men, this role being held only by the prophets .
Rabbinate became an official profession in France under Napoleon, the rabbis becoming ministers of religion , subjected to a hierarchy (rabbi, chief rabbi, etc) and remunerated for this specific function.
The access of the women to rabbinate was a polemical subject, within the orthodoxe Judaism like reformed Judaism, where some women, like Pauline Bebe in France, become rabbi. There remains however exceptional in Europe that the women hold an important role in the organization of the offices or become rabbi. On the other hand, with the the United States of America and the Canada where the liberal forms of the Judaism are majority, the women rabbis are more numerous.
Although a Jew can fill by itself the majority of the regulations for the prayer, certain activities, like the reading of the Torah or the haftarot (additional sections drawn from Neviim or Ketouvim), Kaddish (prayer at the end of a study, at the time of a mourning,…), the blessing of the grooms, the thanksgiving after a meal, etc, require the presence of a quorum or Minyan of ten people (10 men for the Orthodoxe ones, and Massortim " less libéraux" ; Massortim " more libéraux" and Réformés makes it possible to the women to join the minyan). -->
It is frequent that the same person cumulates these various functions, or that several people able to take up these duties " relaient" during the various offices.
the Dayan is a rabbinical judge, i.e. an expert rabbi in Jewish legislation; he directs a Beth DIN (rabbinical court), slicing in the litigations financial, matrimonial, or of conversions to the Judaism, in charge of the handing-over of the Guett (act of divorce').
Some conversions of group, more or less spontaneous, mark out apparently the history but they can correspond, contrary, with the assimilation partial with the surrounding populations of cut Jewish groups their traditions (legends of the " Ten Tribus" disappeared):
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