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Man's solution for this belief was that the Torah specifies laws that need to be followed by the Children of Israel. Although other religions have been characterized by temples where priests worship their gods through sacrifice, the Children of Israel had their own temples, priests, and made sacrifices but the difference was that Judaism offered alternatives such as elevating everyday life to the level of a temple and thus worshiping God through everyday actions.
In Judaism, Olam Ha Ba is the afterlife. However, the Torah has no reference to the afterlife and the Jewish philosophy does not discuss the afterlife in much. Some religious philosophers believe that the Torah is silent about an afterlife to ensure that Judaism is not a cause of death such as the obsessed Egyptian religion was an early contributor to Judaism. Judaism does have a multi-staged morning practice called Shiv'ah which is observed for one week, shloshim which is observed for one month and for individuals that lost a parent there is avelut yud bet chodesh which is observed for one year. Judaism does believe in a next world. The belief in an afterlife is not as much a leap of faith like in Christianity. In Judaism it is more a logical product of other Jewish beliefs such: believing in God and acknowledging God is all powerful and just; not believing that the world is evil or believing that God permits evil to win because that would entail God is not good.
Doing the evaluation of Judaism and coming up with four philosophical...
But the four are:
The Torah has many inconsistent texts that seem to have been edited together.
Judaism has never developed a binding catechism or a formal agreed-upon dogma
It is difficult to become a Jew if one is not born into the faith.
Judaism has too wide an array of tolerances and theological perspectives.
These evaluations are to demonstrate that I would not encourage someone who was not born into the religion to become a follower. Individual rabbis and often entire groups either agree or disagree with certain dogmas and/or a rabbi and group could completely be at ends. In other words, because there is no central authority in the Jewish faith, there are too many opinions of right and wrong. To become a Jew requires physical adjustments such as circumcision for males as well as the adherence to traditional customs which at times are very unusual.
In conclusion, this paper was a quick report about Judaism. The paper addressed Judaism's origin, God, scriptures, worldview, problem and solution for man, and the view of the afterlife and what it takes to attain it. The paper then gave an evaluation of Judaism and listed four philosophical combinations of agreements and disagreements that would encourage or prevent one from following the religion.
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