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Judaism

Judaism (Hebrew: יַהֲדוּת, romanized: Yahăḏūṯ) is an Abrahamic, monotheistic, ethnic religion that comprises the collective spiritual, cultural, and legal traditions of the Jewish people. Religious Jews regard Judaism as their means of observing the Mosaic covenant, which they believe was established between God and the Jewish people. The religion is…

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Classification
Abrahamic
Founder
Abraham and Moses (according to tradition)
Language
Biblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic
Number of followers
c. 14.8 million (referred to as Jews, 2025)
Origin
1st millennium BCE 20th–18th century BCE (traditional) Judah Mesopotamia (traditional)
Region
Israel and worldwide as minorities

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History of Judaism

Defining characteristics and principles of faith

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Jewish identity

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Judaism and ecology

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related to Further reading · 59
Judaism → Adele, Alan, An Encyclopaedia, Avery-Peck, Book, Brill, Concise Companion, Continuum, Customs, Descriptive Record, Earliest Times, Encyclopaedia Judaica, Encyclopedia, Encyclopedias Berlin, Facts On File, Farmington Hills, Fred, Funk, Gordon Melton, Green
related to Religious texts · 54
Judaism → Asher's Arba'ah Turim, Codes, Four Rows, Halakha, Halākhāh, Hasidic, Hasidic JudaismJewish, High Holy DaysOther, Holocaust, Instruction, Israel, Jacob, Jerusalem Talmud, Jewish, Joseph Karo's Shulchan Aruch, Kĕtûvîm, Land, Maimonides's Mishneh Torah, Maḥzôrîm, Midrash
related to Islam and Judaism · 46
Judaism → Abbasid, Abraham, Abrahamic, Al-Andalus, Almohad, Arab, Arabian Peninsula, At, Baghdad, Both Judaism, Dhimmis, For, Golden, Hamas, Hizbullah, Holocaust, In, Iran, Isaac, Ishmael
related to The Enlightenment and new religious movements · 39
Judaism → After, Bible, CE, Central Europe, Christian Europe, Christians, Conservative, Eastern Europe, Enlightenment, Europe, European, Great Britain, Haredi Orthodox Judaism, Haskalah, In, In Central Europe, Israel, It, Jewish, Jewish Enlightenment
related to Historical Jewish groupings (to 1700) · 33
Judaism → After, Around, CE, Christianity, Christians, Consequently, Essenes, Israel, Isunians, Jewish, Jews, Karaite, Karaite Jews, Karaites, Like, Malikites, Mishnah, Pharisees, Prophets, Rabbinic Judaism
related to Hasidism · 31
Judaism → As, Ba'al Shem Tov, Ba'al Shem Tov's, Besht, Eastern Europe, Eliezer, Europe, European Jews, Europeans, Haredi Judaism, Hasidic, Hasidic Jews, Hasidic Judaism, Hasidim, Hasidism, It, Its, Jewish, Jews, Misnagdim
related to Defining characteristics and principles of faith · 28
Judaism → Abraham, According, Birkhot Ha-Mitzvot, Blessings, Conservative, God, God's, Halakha, HaShem, He, Hebrew Bible, Israelites, Jewish, Jewish God, Jewish God's, Jews, Kabbalah, Listen, Many, Max Kadushin
related to Rabbinic Judaism · 28
Judaism → Anglophone, Ashkenazi, Ashkenazim, CE, Conservative, Greek Romaniote Jews, Hebrew, Israel, It, Italian, Italkim, Jews, Law, North America, Oral Torah, Orthodox, Orthodox Jews, Rabbinic Judaism, Rabbinism, Reform
related to Who is a Jew? · 26
Judaism → Abraham, According, All, Conversions, Converts, For, However, In, Israel's, Israeli Government, Jew, Jewish, Jews, Liberal, Orthodox, Progressive Judaism, Rabbinic Judaism, Rabbinical Judaism, Reconstructionist Judaism, Reform
related to Babylonian captivity, return, and Second Temple · 25
Judaism → Among, Babylon, Babylonian, BCE, CE, During, Ezra, First Jewish, First Temple, Great Assembly, Hebrew Bible, Hellenistic Judaism, Israelites, Jerusalem, Jewish, Later, Many, Persian Achaemenid Empire, Ptolemaic Egypt, Roman War

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JudaismClassificationAbrahamic1.00infobox
JudaismFounderAbraham and Moses (according to tradition)1.00infobox
JudaismLanguageBiblical Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic1.00infobox
JudaismNumber of followersc. 14.8 million (referred to as Jews, 2025)1.00infobox
JudaismOrigin1st millennium BCE 20th–18th century BCE (traditional) Judah Mesopotamia (traditional)1.00infobox
JudaismRegionIsrael and worldwide as minorities1.00infobox
JudaismScriptureHebrew Bible1.00infobox
JudaismScriptureTraditions: Talmud1.00infobox
JudaismScriptureExegesis: Midrash1.00infobox
JudaismSeparated fromYahwism1.00infobox
JudaismSeparationsSamaritanism1.00infobox
JudaismSeparationsMandaeism1.00infobox
JudaismSeparationsChristianity1.00infobox
JudaismTheologyMonotheistic1.00infobox
JudaismTypeEthnic religion1.00infobox
Judaismis anon-creedal religion that does not require one to believe in God0.90text
Judaismis asmall non-theistic movement centered in North America and Israel that emphasizes Jewish culture and history as the sources of Jewish identity.Subbotniks0.90text
Judaismis aChristian sect0.90text

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