our main prayer, the Shema, describes the fundamental jewish belief of G-d: shema Yisra'el, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai echad." "hear, O Israel, the L-rd our g-d, the L-rd is One."
yes, mercy is a quality of G-d, as well as compassion, forgiveness, anger, goodness, evil... G-d is everything to us, we have no problem with the idea that G-d is the origin of evil as well as good.
the way to the world to come for other religions is based on their ethics, just as it is with the jews. G-d does not differentiate between jews and gentiles. this is a jewish belief which comes from our oral torah, not the written torah. the written torah does not talk very much of the afterlife, we get our beliefs of the afterlife mainly from oral torah.
2006-09-23 21:12:15
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answered by Anonymous
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i'm Jewish (I DID answer your different question, btw). "Elohim" is only a word meaning "ruler" in Hebrew. to those those who're Jewish, we trust that God is an all-useful, all-understanding, all-recent, non-actual entity. We trust that God is inherently solid, even although God possesses the aptitude to do evil (merely as we do), God is suitable and in no way DOES evil. even with the reality that the historic idea of God changed into that of a terrifying being, i do not trust so that you could discover any present day-day Jew who believes that, short of (per chance) some truly Orthodox Jews, or maybe those are few and far between. I truly imagine that maximum Jews trust that God is benevolent, and the giver of all issues, and to be respected really than feared. As to Kabbalah, I have not studied it, and understand truly little about it; per chance some day i ought to have that danger. Shalom.
2016-11-23 18:40:18
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answered by Anonymous
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G-d is sometimes merciful, sometimes not. Non-Jews can get rewarded if they follow the 7 Noahide laws: No murder, adultery (Which includes some incest and homosexuality), idolatry (Might include some forms of christianity), cursing G-d, eating meat from an animal before it dies, stealing, and the society must set up courts to enforce these. No Sabbath needed, no kosher needed, just those 7.
2006-09-25 08:02:45
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answered by ysk 4
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as she said, Judaism doesn't actually dictate much beliefs about the afterlife.
interestingly, unbeknownst to most people... most traditional beliefs stem from kabbalistic views of the world. (Kabbalah is ancient jewish mysticism... a spiritual path that began with moses, the real thing is much more and much different than the "pop-kabbalah" that the celebs have been into).
judaism has no eternal hell like most of christianity, and it DOES NOT say that its the ONLY way to "get to heaven" so to speak.
repeating that... judaism does not have a hell that non-jews generically are sent to, and does not "by default" exclude non-jews from a heaven-type place.
2006-09-23 21:46:52
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answered by Anonymous
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Romans 11:11
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall?
God forbid, but rather through their fall SALVATION IS COME UNTO THE GENTILES, for to provike them!! to jelousy.
God loves all, but gives mankind freewill.
read the whole bible old and new, they are one together. complete.
Yeshua is the promised messiach fortold in the pentatuch. Godbless.........now read his word! =)
2006-09-23 21:08:26
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answered by LIVE4TRUTH 3
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