How do people Show their faith in Judaism? Like what kinds of things do they have to do?

Question

Im trying to learn about other religions and I dont know much but I would like to learn. It would be helpful if someone knew if they pray(if they do who do they pray to), or if they go to some type of place of worship, or if they celebrate any special holidays, or if they read certain books, or anything like that would be helpful.

Answer 1

Who do we pray to???? We pray directly to God without intermediaries. We read the Hebrew Bible which Christians have renamed "Old" Testament. We have a 2nd collection of writings called the "Talmud" which consists of 20 plus volumes. Those writings include interpretations of the 613 commandments found in the Hebrew Bible as well as writings of rabbis from the last 2200 years. Christians have been forbidden from reading the Talmud since early Christians declared all "non-believers" to be heretics and burned Jews together with their Hebrew Bibles and Talmuds in their synagogues.

We know what your gospels say about us because they have been imposed on us for centuries. The Talmud has been on the Roman Catholic Church's forbidden list until about 1967. Cardinal Ratzinger (the currrent Pope) was the officer in charge of the forbidden book list.

http://www.aish.com/
http://beliefnet.com/index/index_10005.html
http://www.jewfaq.org/toc.htm
http://www.jewsforjudaism.org/
http://whatjewsbelieve.org/
www.chabad.org
http://becomingajew.org/
http://www.asknoah.org/
http://www.askmoses.com/
http://judaism.about.com/
http://www.beingjewish.com/
http://www.convertingtojudaism.com/?wcw=google
http://www.interfaithfamily.com/site/c.ekLSK5MLIrG/b.1722327/k.2835/Conversion.htm

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Messiah:
http://www.judaismsanswer.com,%20www.messiahtruth.com/response.html
http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/jewsandjesus.htm
http://www.aish.com/spirituality/philosophy/Why_Dont_Jews_Believe_In_Jesus$.asp

Blood sacrifice:
http://whatjewsbelieve.org/explanation02.html
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Answer 2

Hard question to answer.

We do everything to show our faith. We recite blessings before we do many things during the day, like every time we eat bread. We're supposed to pray three times a day to HaShem in the synagogue, but pray all the time to Him at home/not in the synagogue. Everything else you put is kind of hard to sum up into a paragraph. You can read all about Judaism here:

www.jewfaq.org

Answer 3

They pray to G-d. The G-d of the Jews is the G-d of the Old Testament and the Jewish Bible (the Tanakh) is what Christians call the Old Testament. The Torah (the first 5 books of the Old Testament) is the Law, that according to Jewish belief was given to Moses by G-d at the top of Mount Sinai. In addition to the written Torah, G-d supposedly gave Moses the Oral Torah, which clarifies and provides details for many of the commandments contained in the written Torah. This was passed down orally from Moses to the religious heads of Israel and from generation to generation until it was finally written down in the 2nd Century AD in a book called the Mishnah, which then became the basis for the Gemara, which consists of case discussions and legal debates, commentaries and interpretations of the Torah conducted by the Sages. Mishnah and Gemara together make up the Talmud. The commandments of the Torah and Talmud, its statutes and regulations, cover the entire range of human and social behavior. It asserts its jurisdiction in areas of behavior which in other religions are generally thought of as belonging to the ethical or moral domains or to the jurisdiction of secular civil and criminal codes of law. Even its non-legal and non-statutory sections stress spiritual truths and convey insight into the still finer extra-legal ethical and moral norms of behavior.

Observant Jews show their faith by living in accordance with the laws of the Torah, and by studying the Torah and the Talmud in depth.

Jews pray in houses of worship called synagogues; more liberal Jewish denominations like the Reform Jews or the Reconstructionists also refer to their houses of worship as temples. Services in Orthodox and Conservative synagogues are entirely or mostly in Hebrew; services in Reform or Reconstructionist temples are mostly in English.

Jewish holidays are calculated based on the Jewish calendar, which is a lunar calendar as compared to the secular calendar we use everyday, which is a solar calendar. So Jewish holidays fall on the same day every year based on the Jewish calendar but vary from year to year if you're looking at the solar calendar.

Major holidays include: Chanukah (usually in December) which commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem after a group of Jewish warriors called the Hasmoneans defeated the Syrians who had defiled the Temple and attempted to force the Jews to assimilate. Purim (in early spring) celebrates the salvation of the Jewish people, in the year 356 BC, from evil King Haman's plot "to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews" in the days of Queen Esther of Persia, as described in the Book of Esther. Passover (another spring holiday) celebrates the deliverance of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt by Moses. Shavuot (49 days after the end of Passover) celebrates the giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai. The Ten Commandments are read in synagogues on Shavuot just as they were in the desert on Mt. Sinai over 3,300 years ago. Rosh Hashanah (in early autumn) is the Jewish New Year, which celebrates the creation of the world and is a time for reflection on the year past. Yom Kippur (10 days after Rosh Hashonah) is the Day of Atonement, the most solemn day of the Jewish year, when Jews atone for their sins of the previous year.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

being jewish is really fun. a lot of jews (or the ones i know) learn hebrew and/or yiddish. we pray to one g-d directly and we go to our shuls (or synogogues or beit knessets--all the same thing) yea we have a lot of holidays, we read the Torah and the commentaries on the Torah.

Answer 5

They pray (all prayers are in hebrew), they pray to god of course. They have their own rituals and celebrations and in a temple the rabbi only speaks in hebrew, basicly everything related to religion is in hebrew language

Answer 6

JUDAISM BELIEVES IN ONE GOD THE CREATER AND SUSTAINER OF THE UNIVERSE. THE HAVE A NUMBER OF CEREMONIES THAT THEY MUST ATTEND OR BE INVOLVED IN THEY BELIEVE THAT A MESSIAH IS COMING BUT HAS NOT YET ARRIVED.