Judaism (Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת, romanized: Yahăḏūṯ) is an Abrahamic monotheistic ethnic religion that comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, and legal...
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Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the...
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Rabbinic Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות רבנית, romanized: Yahadut Rabanit), also called Rabbinism, Rabbinicism, or Rabbanite Judaism, has been an orthodox form...
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Messianic Judaism (Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת מְשִׁיחִית, Yahadút Mešiḥít) is a syncretic Abrahamic new religious movement that combines various Jewish traditions...
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Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism. Theologically, it is chiefly defined by regarding the...
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Hasidism (Hebrew: חסידות, romanized: Ḥăsīdus) or Hasidic Judaism is a religious movement within Judaism that arose in the 18th century as a spiritual revival...
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Karaite Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות קראית, romanized: Yahadut Qara'it) or Karaism is a non-Rabbinical Jewish sect and a separate Judaic ethno-religion (in...
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Haredi Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות חֲרֵדִית, romanized: Yahadut Ḥaredit, IPA: [ħaʁeˈdi]) is a branch of Orthodox Judaism that is characterized by its strict...
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Conservative Judaism, also known as Masorti Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות מסורתית, romanized: Yahadut Masortit), is a Jewish religious movement that regards the...
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Hellenistic Judaism was a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Hellenistic culture. Until...
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In Judaism, God has been conceived in a variety of ways. Traditionally, Judaism holds that Yahweh—that is, the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the...
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Conversion to Judaism (Hebrew: גִּיּוּר, romanized: giyur or Hebrew: גֵּרוּת, romanized: gerut) is the process by which non-Jews adopt the Jewish religion...
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שִׁבְעָה, romanized: šīvʿā, lit. 'seven') is the week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives. The ritual is referred to as "sitting shiva"...
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In modern Rabbinic Judaism, the traditional method of determining Jewishness relies on tracing one's maternal line. According to halakha, the recognition...
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Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, and Reform Judaism. Baruch Spinoza, Mordecai Kaplan, and prominent atheists have criticized Judaism because its...
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The Messiah in Judaism (Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ, romanized: māšīaḥ) is a savior and liberator figure in Jewish eschatology who is believed to be the future redeemer...
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Jewish religious movements (redirect from Divisions of Judaism)
movements, sometimes called "denominations", include diverse groups within Judaism which have developed among Jews from ancient times. Today in the west,...
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Anti-Judaism is a term which is used to describe a range of historic and current ideologies which are totally or partially based on opposition to Judaism,...
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In Judaism, angels (Hebrew: מַלְאָךְ, romanized: mal’āḵ, lit. 'messenger', plural: מַלְאָכִים mal’āḵīm) are supernatural beings that appear throughout...
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Bereavement in Judaism (Hebrew: אֲבֵלוּת, avelut, "mourning") is a combination of minhag (traditions) and mitzvah (commandments) derived from the Torah...
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Torah Judaism refers to schools of thought in Judaism perceived to be most adherent to the Torah and mitzvot. The term is often used by Orthodox Jewish...
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Crypto-Judaism is the secret adherence to Judaism while publicly professing to be of another faith; practitioners are referred to as "crypto-Jews" (origin...
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Synagogal Judaism or Synagogal and Sacerdotal Judaism was a branch of Judaism that emerged around the 2nd century BCE with the construction of the first...
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Women in Judaism have affected the course of Judaism over millenia. Their role is reflected in the Hebrew Bible, the Oral Law (the corpus of rabbinic...
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Christianity began as a movement within Second Temple Judaism, but the two religions gradually diverged over the first few centuries of the Christian...
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Hinduism and Judaism are among the oldest existing religions in the world. The two share some similarities and interactions throughout both the ancient...
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Christianity began as a movement within Second Temple Judaism, but the two religions gradually diverged over the first few centuries of the Christian...
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compassion are paramount in Judaism, Judaism also contains a number of doctrines which eschew violence. However, while Judaism condemns normative violence...
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Reconstructionist Judaism (Hebrew: יהדות רקונסטרוקציוניסטית, romanized: Yahadút Rekonstruktsyonistit) is a Jewish movement based on the concepts developed...
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extracting semen in vain (in Hebrew: הוצאת זרע לבטלה) is (according to Orthodox Judaism) a Biblical prohibition derived from (Genesis 38:7), this is explained...
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