Judaism
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Judaism is one of the oldest major religions and was the first religion to teach the belief in one God. Both Christianity and Islam developed from Judaism. The Hebrew bible is what Christian's call the Old Testament. The basic laws and teachings of Judaism come from the Torah, the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
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The most important teaching of Judaism is that there is one God who wants people to do what is just and merciful. Judaism teaches that a person serves God, studies the scriptures and practices what they teach. The most fundamental of these teachings concerns behavior towards other people. Judaism teaches that all people are created in the image of God and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Thus moral and ethical teachings play a more important role in Judaism than do teachings about God.
The Jewish doctrine is that humanity constitutes a single family. This sculpture depicts the best of family symbolizing each separate growth coming together at a sharp point. There are bumps and smooth points along the way, which is typical of any family's struggles and celebrations.
There is a quote from Hilel, a great Jewish scholar who lived about 2,000 years ago: "If I am not from myself, who am I? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" This quote embodies the belief in one God with ethical behavior, which is the essence of Judaism. He made a very fine differentiation between doing unto others as "do not do unto others what is hateful unto you".
The Jewish doctrine is that humanity constitutes a single family. This sculpture depicts the best of family symbolizing each separate growth coming together at a sharp point. There are bumps and smooth points along the way, which is typical of any family's struggles and celebrations.
There is a quote from Hilel, a great Jewish scholar who lived about 2,000 years ago: "If I am not from myself, who am I? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?" This quote embodies the belief in one God with ethical behavior, which is the essence of Judaism. He made a very fine differentiation between doing unto others as "do not do unto others what is hateful unto you".
