Religions {Judaism} can be about loyalty to one tribal god, by following laws, rituals, and practices.
god
Judaism has only one God. In Judaism, Hebrews (wanderers) are God's chosen people. God commands that people love God and all other people. People should become like God in transcendence. No one can describe God in form or history. God does not state his purposes.
resurrection
Perhaps, at current-age end, God will raise people from the dead to live on the new Earth. In the resurrection, men and women will revert or advance to their optimal age.
sin
Adam and Eve sinned by accepting apple from Tree of Knowledge, causing them to lose Garden of Eden, to have to work, and to have pain at childbirth.
soul
Ancient Hebrews thought of the human being as body animated by God, with no soul, and thought people were mortal. Later, bodies have separate souls, which have life after death.
holidays
Saturday is holy day of Judaism, beginning at sundown on Friday and ending at sundown on Saturday. Purim is in March, when Esther saved Jews. Passover is typically one week before Easter, in April. Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement is in the High Holy Days at end of September. Feast of Booths or Ingathering is at harvest time. Hanukkah is near Christmas.
Jews spread over Mediterranean {Diaspora}, after fall of Jerusalem to Roman Republic.
A six-pointed star {Star of David} {Magen David} {Mogen David} symbolizes Judaism.
Places {synagogue}| are for reading and teaching law.
High priest wears rectangle {Urim vetumin} with 12 metal squares, for 12 tribes of Israel.
Letter permutations {gematria} have hidden meaning.
Jewish mysticism {Kabbalah} has cosmology based on Hebrew alphabet, using Platonist and Pythagorean ideas. Letters are numbers. Letter permutations have hidden meaning {gematria, Kabbalah}. Tetragrammaton is the four-letter name of Yahweh, YHVH. The ten Sefirot are parts of the one God, Ein Sof.
history
Isaac the Blind, Abraham Abulafia of Posquieres [1200 to 1300], Moses ben Nahman or Nahmanides [1194 to 1270], Moses Cordovero [1522 to 1570], Joseph Caro [1500 to 1570], Isaac Luria [1535 to 1572 or 1543 to 1620], Shabbetai Zevi or the False Messiah [1627 to 1676], Giovanni Pico della Mirandola [1463 to 1494], and Abraham Herrara are Kabbalists. Isaac Luria founded Chaverim or Friends.
Adam and Eve lived there {Garden of Eden} {Eden, garden}, and it contained Tree of Knowledge, according to the Old Testament.
Tree {Tree of Knowledge} was in Garden of Eden, according to the Old Testament.
chief priest and second in command to Moses during exodus from Egypt {Aaron}, according to the Old Testament.
first Hebrew {Abraham, Judaism}, according to the Old Testament.
first man or ground in Hebrew {Adam, Judaism}, according to the Old Testament.
Cain {Cain} and Abel were sons of Adam and Eve, and Cain killed Abel, according to the Old Testament.
A man {Daniel} escaped the lion's den when Jews were in captivity in Babylon, according to the Old Testament.
A woman {Esther} saved Jews from persecution in Babylon.
first woman {Eve}, according to the Old Testament.
Abraham's son {Isaac}, according to the Old Testament.
Jacob {Jacob} or Israel, Isaac's son, had 12 sons, for 12 tribes of Israel, according to the Old Testament.
Jacob's son {Joseph} went to Egypt and had a coat of many colors, according to the Old Testament.
After forty years of wandering after exodus from Egypt, after Moses [-1200 to -1100], a man {Joshua} fought at Jericho and led Jews into Canaan (Palestine), the land of milk and honey, according to the Old Testament.
A man {Methuselah} lived 900 years, according to the Old Testament.
Egyptian rulers nurtured a baby {Moses, Judaism}, after rescue from Nile River. He sent plagues on Egypt, led Jews out of Egypt, parted Red Sea, and received Ten Commandments, according to the Old Testament.
A man {Noah, Judaism} built the ark to survive the flood and had three sons, for the three races, according to the Old Testament.
Boaz loved a woman {Ruth}, according to the Old Testament.
early leader and prophet {Samuel}, according to the Old Testament.
The king after David {Solomon, Judaism} was wise and wrote Song of Solomon. He chose true mother of disputed baby by threatening to divide it in half, according to the Old Testament.
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