jews(what do they believe)?

Question

who do they belive in and who is there leader

Answer 1

Above all, the Jewish religion believes that there is only one God. The greatest leader in this religion was Moses, who received the Law contained in the Hebrew Bible and gave it to the Israelites (i.e. Jewish people). This Law contains the Ten Commandments (see Exodus 20), as well as instructions on every aspect of life.

Once upon a time, there was a Temple in Jerusalem, where the Jewish people offered sacrifices for sin, thank offerings, and regular offerings for days, months, holidays... Nowadays, since the Temple was destroyed in 70 CE by the Romans, the center of Jewish life is the synagogue, also called 'shul' in Yiddish. So, it is above all a place of study.

Each synagogue congregation has at least one rabbi - religious teacher, the Jewish equivalent of a Christian pastor or Muslim imam - and that person is supposed to be the prime authority for congregants in matters of interpretation of the Law for practical purposes.

There is a vast oral and written tradition of interpretation of the Law. Orthodox Jews consider this oral tradition to be on a par with Scripture and require adherence to it to be considered 'really Jewish'.

Conservative Jews allow a little more leeway in interpreting the Law - the very conservative would still be considered 'real Jews' by the Orthodox, the main criterion being whether they observe the sabbath (i.e. the day of rest in commemoration of God's having created the heaven and the earth in 6 days and rested on the 7th) 'really correctly', i.e. according to the oral tradition (Talmud) - meaning that on that day, they actually consistently refrain from doing all activities that are considered 'work'.

Reform Jews are more liberal in their interpretation of the Law, with many different concepts of God, anything from His being like a husband to them, to the Law being God.

And Reconstructionists are so liberal that, while they may observe the Law or selected parts thereof for cultural and/or religious reasons, they may not actually even believe in God at all.

So there is a great variety of Jewish faith and belief, and there is at this time no central leadership.

Answer 2

Perhaps a Jew would be able to answer this best of all????

Since I believe all of the old testament, I can perhaps answer some of it. At least as to what the Jews in the Old Testament believed.

From my research, this is what I found:

They believed in what is now sometimes called the "Old Testament" of the Bible.

Their God's name, which as a whole (but not some individuals who were born Jewish), they no longer use, for fear of using it in vain, was written with 4 Hebrew letters - corresponding to the English YHWH. (They supply the vowels as they read) (Side point: When the monks translated the Bible into Latin, they kept with the Jewish tradition of substituting the expression for Lord - Adoniah (perhaps the spelling is wrong) When it was translated to English, LORD (all capital letters) was put where the original Hebrew name had been.)

They are monotheistic, which means that they believe he is - ONE God. See Deuteronomy 6:4: "Hear O Israel, the LORD our God, is one LORD" (KJV)

They were given a complex set of laws (numbering into the thousands) by that one God, of which some Christians today still follow 10. Most Jews, today, do not follow all of those laws (which is evident by the fact that they no longer sacrifice animals to cover their sins)

They looked (and still do, for the most part) forward to a Messiah that, but for the most they did not accept Jesus as the Messiah, even though they were expecting him to appear about the same time that Jesus did (according to the Gospels, anyway.) There are those today who, although, Jewish by birth, have accepted Jesus as their Messiah.

There is more, but it is quite long. And they also have other traditions that are not found in the Old Testament - This is where a Jew would need to answer your question, since I did not research their traditions, only what was written in the Old Testament.

I also understand that there are different forms of Judaism - Orthodox is one, but here again, I only have part of the picture (the one that all Christians should know as part of their own religous "heritage")

I tried to not give a "blanket" opinion - that all Jews believe this or that. Because that is what I would ask of those who speak of Christians, without knowledge of what they ALL actually believe.

Answer 3

The closest that anyone has ever come to creating a widely-accepted list of Jewish beliefs is Rambam's thirteen principles of faith. Rambam's thirteen principles of faith, which he thought were the minimum requirements of Jewish belief, are:

G-d exists
G-d is one and unique
G-d is incorporeal
G-d is eternal
Prayer is to be directed to G-d alone and to no other
The words of the prophets are true
Moses's prophecies are true, and Moses was the greatest of the prophets
The Written Torah (first 5 books of the Bible) and Oral Torah (teachings now contained in the Talmud and other writings) were given to Moses
There will be no other Torah
G-d knows the thoughts and deeds of men
G-d will reward the good and punish the wicked
The Messiah will come
The dead will be resurrected
As you can see, these are very basic and general principles. Yet as basic as these principles are, the necessity of believing each one of these has been disputed at one time or another, and the liberal movements of Judaism dispute many of these principles.

Blessings )O(

Answer 4

The simplist answer is the Rambam's 13 principals, as quoted above. In the present state, there is no single leader, but when we had and will have the Temple, the king will be our leader. (Along with the high court, prophets, and priests).

Answer 5

I don't really know who the jews believe in, but they are still waiting for Christ to come and save them. They asked for a King to lead them, and misunderstood when Jesus was sent because they expected their king to come in great glory instead of as a carpenter's son, born from immaculate conception.

They were the chosen ones of God, they rejected his son and God knew they would this was done so that all of mankind can be saved, that who ever believes in Jesus is saved.

God bless you

Answer 6

Jews believe in one god who created everything. There are different branches of judaism, orthodox, reformed, and conservative. orthodox follow Torah (jewish holy book) as much as humanly possible. conservative follow the Torah and laws but not as strictly. and reformed jews do follow the Torah, but they change some laws for today's world.

Answer 7

I'm not Jewish. They are God's chosen. They believe in the God, the One and Only God of this universe. There is no other! And the coming of the Savior Jesus Christ. Then
they will be Christians too.

Answer 8

They believe in God, and God is thier leader (hopefully...supposed to be).

Answer 9

They believe in God, but do not agree that Jesus was the Son of Christ

Answer 10

htey believe they are on their own