Beliefs

• Shema


  A prayer declaring Jewish faith said twice a day. Placed in the mezuzah case and tefillin.
• Characteristics of god

  • Omnipotence
  • Omnipresence
  • Omnibenevolence
  • Transcendent
  • Creator
• Transcendent


  The belief that God is above and beyond anything in the physical universe
• Talmund


  The written version of the Jewish oral law and commentaries on it
• Mitzvah


  Commandment. A good deed
• Shekhinah


  God's presence in the world
• Synagogue


  House assembly. Building for Jewish public prayer, study and assembly
• Rabbi


  A person who teaches Jewish law and provides advice
• Orthodox


  A brach of Judaism which adhere faithfully to the principals and practices of traditional Judaism
• Charedi


  Groups of ultra Orthodox Jews whose devotion to their religion separates them from aspects of secular culture
• Reform


  A major brach of Judaism which seeks to embrace a diversity of interceptions of Jewish law and customs
• Secular Jews


  Jews born to Jewish parents but they do not see the teachings of the Torah sacred
• Siddur


  A book of daily prayers
• Mezuzah


  A small case containing the Shema inscribed on parchment. Attached to every doorframe apart form the bathroom