Jewish Beliefs and Practices

• One

  'The Lord is our God, the Lord alone'
• Creator

  'in the beginning of God's creation of the Heavens and the Earth'
• Judge

  'blessed are you, Lord our God, King of the universe, the True Judge'

  'Keep the Lord's commandments and his statuses which I am commanding for your God'
• Omnipotence

  'I the Lord do all these things'- including evil
• Love/Chesed

  'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might'

  'You shall love him as yourself'

  'You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your countrymen'

  'Love your fellow as you love yourself'

  'What you yourself hate, don't do to your neighbour'
• Justice

  'to do justice and to do goodness'

  'let justice well up like water, righteous like an unfailing stream'
• Pikuach Nefesh

  'whoever saves one life, saves the world entire'

  Genesis 2
• Free will

  'Everything is foreseen, yet freedom is given to choose'
• Abrahamic Covenant

  'I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you'

  'I give all land that you see to you and your offspring forever'

  'I walk in My (God's) ways and blameless'
• Moses Covenant

  10 commandments
• Messiah

  'The Lord herewith anoints ruler over His own people'

  'Messiah'=king

  'The spirit of the Lord and he will have no fear'
• Shekinah

  'the skirts of his robe filled the temple'

  'Wherever ten men are gathered for prayer, there the Shekinah rests'

  'The Shekinah dwells over the head side of the sickman's head'
• Action

  'to do justice and to love goodness'

  'be a light to all nations'

  'walk in the way of the Lord'
• Life After Death

  'the dust returns to the ground as it was'

  'the spirit returns to God who gave it'

  'some eternal life, others to reproaches to everlasting abhorrence'

  'He who destroys one soul of human being, the scripture considers him as if he should destroy a whole world'

  Heaven + Sheol + Gan Eden
• Evil

  'I form light and create darkness'
• Tikkun Olam

  'be a light to all nations'
• Learning

  'whoever learns Torah at night is granted grace during the day'
• Worshipping

  'I am your God your Lord, a God who demands exclusive worship'
• Aron Hakodesh

  'He brought the Ark inside the Tabernacle... just as the Lord had commanded Moses'
• Tefillin

  'It shall be a sign for you upon your hands, and as a memorial between your eyes, that the Law of the Lord may be in your mouth'
• Public worship

  'I will pray in the presence of His entire people'

  Beit K'nesset- House of Assembly
• Shabbat

  'Shabbat is committed to your keeping, not you to it'

  'Blessed are you, Lord, our God, King of the Universe, who sanctifies us with the commandments and commands us to light the candles of Shabbat'

  'Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy'

  Creation story
• Study

  'If he has acquired words of the Torah, he has attained after life'
• Love

  'What your yourself hate, don't do to your neighbour'
• Free will

  'Everything is foreseen, yet freedom is given to choose'
• Lord's Prayer

  'Pray then like this'
• Prayer

  'Let everything that has breath praise the Lord, praise the Lord'

  God 'knows the secrets of your heart' actions are not important
• Ner Tamid

  'Keep the lamps burning before the Lord'
• Tallit

  'they shall make for themselves fringes of the corners of the garments... and when you see it, you will remember all commandments of God and perform them'
• Services

  Ezekiel 3:3 recalls when the Torah is touched
• Shabbat

  'On it you shall not do any work'
• Birth ceremonies

  'Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it'
• Brit Milah

  'every male among you shall be circumcised'

  'be the sign of the covenant between me and you'
• Redemption of the First Born Son

  'but you shall have the first-born of the man redeemed... take as their redemption price... the money equivalent of five shekels'
• Bar/ Bat Mitzvah

  quote minyan

  receives tefillin/ tallit

  show praise
• Marriage


  'Be fruitful and multiply; and replenish the earth and subdue it'

  'A man should leave his Father and be united with his wife and shall become one flesh'
• Mourning

  'Jacob rent his clothes'

  'may God comfort you'- say to each other'

  'he mourned his father seven days'
• Dietary laws

  Leviticus 11

  Deuteronomy 14

  'Whatever parts the hoof and is cloven footed and chews the cud among the animals, you may eat'

  'You shall not cook a kid in its mother's milk'

  'You do not partake of the blood, for the blood's the life and you must not consume the life with the flesh'
• Rosh Hashanah

  'a remembrance with Shofar blasts'

  'may you be inscribed and sealed for a good year'

  'you will again have compassion on us; you will tread our sins underfoot and hurl allow inquiries into the depth of the sea'

  Creation story
• Yom Kippur

  'atonement shall be made of you to cleanse you of all your sins'

  'you shall practise self-denial; it is a law for all time'

  'humble your souls'

  'a holy convocation'

  'afflict your souls'

  'though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow'

  'atonement will be made to cleanse you'