Judaism Quotes

• Creator

  "In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth"
• Omnipotent


  "I am the Lord...is anything too wondrous for me?"
• Omnibenevolent


  "God saw all that he had made and found that it was good"
• Omniscient


  "He knowns everything."
• Omnipresent

  "he sees all the children of man"
• Eternal


  "Where were you when I laid the earths foundations? "
• Compassionate

  "I am aware of their sufferings
• Judge

  'The lord loves what is right'. During Rosh Hashanah Jews pray for gods mercy and forgiveness.
• Transcendent


  "My ways are high above your ways"
• Imminent

  "Where can I escape from your spirit?"
• Book of Job


  Reminds us that suffering is a part of life for all people and not a punishment from God
• Moses is a mediator


  "I shall send you to pharaoh, and you shall free my people"
• Moses is a leader

  "Moses summoned all of the elders of Israel and said to them, "go pick lambs for your families"
• Moses is a teacher

  "Put before them all the lord had commanded him"
• Sinai covenant

  "If you observe my Mitzvot, then I will look after and care for you" "you shall be my treasured possession amongst also the people"
• Shekinah


  The divine presence of God with the Jews.
• Outdated mitzvot

  'Shall not have tattoos' 'woman can't wear men's clothes
• Unrealistic mitzvot

  'Build a temple' 'break a donkeys neck
• Important mitzvot

  'Shall circumcise your son on the 8th day' 'shall remember the sabbath' 'shall not murder' 'no blaspheming
• The divine presence


  'They heard the sound of the lord god moving about in the garden
• The messiah will reunite Jews in Israel

  'He will gather the dispersed of Judah from the 4 corners of the earth
• The messiah will rule

  'He shall reign as king...and do what is just and right in the land
• Halakhah


  Jewish law
• Positive mitzvot


  Mitzvot aseh
• Negative mitzvot

  Mitzvot ta'aseh
• Divine providence


  God cares for and guides his people
• Divine providence quote showing that God rewards mitzvah followers


  "His treasured people who shall observe all of his commandments...you shall be...his holy people"
• Story that shows gods divine providence


  Book of Jonah, God rewards the people who repent for breaking the mitzvot.
• Keeping to the mitzvot challenges the idea of free will

  'Choose life...by loving your God and heeding his commands
• Ethical mitzvot

  Relations with other humans
• Ritual mitzvot

  Relations with God
• The mitzvot must be followed to ensure the land and descendants

  'Impress my words upon your very heart...so your children may endure the land the Lord swore to assign to them
• Mitzvot are important due to tzitzits

  'That shall be your fringe...look at them and recall the commandments of the Lord and observe them
• Ritual mitzvot

  'Your shall have no other God beside me
• Ethical mitzvot

  'You shall not steal
• Humans were created in God's own image


  And god created man in his image
• Pikuach Nefesh

  The obligation to save a life, even if doing so breaks Jewish law
• Talmud believes life is relevant to whole world


  One who saves a life it is as though they have saved the whole world
• No ones life is worth more than anyone else (Talmud)


  Is your blood redder than his
• How important is pikuach nefesh ?

  Mitzvot can be broken to save a life (apart from, murder, incest, idolatry)