Branches
Cards (3)
- ORTHODOX:
- Strictly keep the Torah
- God’s rules cannot be changed.
- Obey the 613 mitzvot
- Society must conform to Jewish teachings.
- REFORM:
- The Torah and its teachings are important.
- Religion should move with the times.
- Don’t take the teachings of the Torah literally.
- Their own reasoning and conscience help them interpret the teachings.
- LIBERAL:
- Faith should fit into modern ways of thinking, including scientific and moral ideas.
- Liberal Judaism encourages people to make up their own minds about what to believe.
- How to interpret the Jewish scriptures, what is right and wrong, and which traditions to follow.