Religion: Judaism Or Judaisms?

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in which the religion has found itself. A brief conclusion
follows the discussion.

A Place to Call Home

No other religion has ever been so attached to its birthplace as Judaism.
Perhaps this is because Jews have been exiled and restricted from this place for
most of their history. Jerusalem is not only home to Judaism, but to the Muslim
and Christian religions as well. Historically this has made it quite a busy
place for the various groups.

Jerusalem is where the temple of the Jews once stood; the only place on the
whole Earth where one could leave the confines of day to day life and get closer
to God. In 586 BCE when the temple was destroyed, no Jew would have denied
Jerusalem as being the geographic center of the religion. From that point on,
the Jewish people have migrated around the world, but not one of them forgets
the fact that Jerusalem is where it all began. It is truly a sacred place, and
helps to define what Judaism means to many people; a common thread to ...

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of the new faith were subjected to many of the ideas and
prejudices of the time. Any new society that finds itself in an existing social
situation, can do no more than to try and integrate into that framework. And
this is exactly what the Jews did.

Early Judaism worshipped multiple gods. One of these gods was known as Ba'al,
and was generally thought-of as a �statue god' with certain limitations on his
power. The other primary deity was called YHWH (or Yahweh) and enjoyed a much
more mysterious and illusive reputation. He was very numinous, and one was to
have great respect, but great fear for him at the same time. Ba'al was not ever
really feared, as his cycles (metaphorically ...

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