JUDAISM

Judaism

(Approx.) The eighth most popular, practiced, religion in the world. With about 13.3 million people following this religion to this day.

Foundation

In c. 1300 B.C. Abraham founded the religion of Judaism in Mesopotamia. (Above is Davids Star and a Hanukkahs Menorah)

Number of Disciples & Locations in the World

About 0.22% of the world today are Jews. And the majority of them are located in Israel, Europe and the U.S.A.

Holy Readings/Religious Texts

Their holy readings and religious texts consist of the Torah, the Tanakh and the Old Testament from the Bible.

Religious Celebrations/ Holidays

The major holidays of Judaism is Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year), Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement), Sukkot (the festival of Booths), Hanukkah, Tu B'Shevat (the New Year for Trees) and the Pesach Passover.

Religious Customs

The Jewish rituals are birth ceremonies, circumcision for the boys, on their eighth day of life, marriage ceremonies and death mourning.

(Above is the Jewish symbol Davids Star)

Special Religious Dress

Jews normally wear quite normal clothes (pants, and a t-shirt), but for certain religious ceremonies they wear things like a prayer shawl, white robes, a kipa (clothing you must wear to enter a synagogue), and a garb (traditional Jewish wear).

Highest Positions

In Jewish culture they answer to the president, the council, and the rabbi.

Beliefs

Jews are a part of a monotheism belief, which means that they believe in one God of whom they worship. Christianity, the worlds most popular religion, was actually developed from Judaism. The difference is that Christians believe that Jesus Christ (0 B.C.- 33B.C.) was (and is) the Messiah, but Jews believe the messiah is still yet to come.