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RE Vocabulary 2 (Judaism)

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"Hear O Israel! The Lord your God is one."
Shema prayer from Deuteronomy, showing Monotheistic belief.
"Keep his decrees and commands, which I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you and that you may live long in the land the Lord your God gives you for all time."
God as Lawgiver, from Deuteronomy.
"In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth."
God as Creator, from Genesis.
"The heavens proclaim the glory of God."
Psalm 19
"I am the Lord and there is none else, I form light and create darkness, I create evil and create woe - I the Lord do all these things."
Isaiah. God deliberately creates evil in order to give humans Freewill.
"The dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it."
Ecclesiastes. Jewish belief about life after death.
"Many of those that sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to eternal life, others to reproaches, to everlasting abhorrence."
Daniel. Belief in heaven and hell.
"El Chaim."
"To life."
"May you live to be 120."
Birthday card greeting that underlines the importance of life before death.
"The belief in the arrival of the Messiah and the Messianic era."
Maimonides. 13 principles of the Jewish Faith.
"They will beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore."
The Prophet Micah on the coming of the Messiah.
"They will be my people and I will be their God."
From the Song of Ruth. The Jews are God's chosen people.
"I will make of you a great nation and I will bless you. Your descendants will be as many as the stars."
God's promises to Abraham.
"To act justly, to love goodness and to walk humbly with your God."
Micah on Jewish moral principles.
"Let justice flow like a river and righteousness like a never-ending stream."
The Prophet Amos. God cares about the poor.
"The stranger who resides with you shall be to you one of your citizens. You shall love him as yourself."
Welcome the foreigner. Love of neighbour.
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