Importance of Prayer in the Jewish Religion

Introduction

Jewish religious culture (also known as the people of Israel). It is one of the oldest religions in history. It is a system of sanctification in which everything is subject to the express will of God, according to divine models revealed about the cosmic order and lawfulness. Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the three great monotheistic religions have much in common. Christianity arose in Palestine within the Jewish community during the first century AD, in the beginning; Islam drew part of their ideology of Judaism.

Considering that since the seventh century most Jews have lived in a cultural environment very close to Christianity and Islam, two religions exerted a strong influence on the history of Judaism. Judaism originated in the Middle East. But almost from its inception, the Jewish communities, often as a result of voluntary migration and forced exile or expulsions, have lived in almost every corner of the world. In mid-1993 the total population of Jews in the world amounted to 18 million, of which 6.8 million live in the USA, more than 3.6 in Israel and more than 1.9 in the Soviet Union, these are the three most important Jewish sites in the world.

Discussion and Analysis

Moses in Judaism plays a more prominent role as the bearer of the law (Torah) and as a guide for freeing Israel from slavery in Egypt. No later prophet Judaism taught something that was not already contained in the Torah of Moses. It is considered the great teacher of Judaism Maimonides calls it the "father of the prophets" before and after him. Many accounts of the Jewish tradition dealing with the life and legends of Moses. The activity of the prophet, made at the five (5) books of Moses (Pentateuch), is considered as the root of all other prophecies.But although it is considered the great lawgiver of Judaism, tradition always stressed that in reality only bearer and warning of the divine laws.

The Torah is considered the law of God by Moses brought the people of Israel, as transmitted in the 5 books of Moses, the Pentateuch. But the Torah is not only the law, is "truly the doctrine" or "written doctrine" (to distinguish it from the "oral tradition" then added, rabbinic tradition). The belief in the Torah and the reference to it in principle belong to the Jewish faith, among the few "dogmas" of Judaism is the belief ...