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2) Yahweh is the lord of the Jewish people. He is their only God and he is most holy. He made a covenant to the Jewish people through Moses- the Ten Commandments. Their relationship is a master/pupil relationship. They follow his commands and become a good Jew, and he blesses them.

3)Their only task is to follow the written and oral laws of the Torah, and to follow the ten commandments bestowed by God. They do not have to tell others about their religion because they are they chosen ones by God, and only those who run in the blood line of Abraham will be resurrected when the messiah comes.

4) They are already saved. As long as they live a good life and are a good Jew, they do not have to spend the 12 months in "hell". They must fall in accordance with the Torah, the Shulchan Aruch, and the Halakha.

5) Judaism is largely unconcerned with the problem of death or an afterlife; the Biblical book of Ecclesiastes states that death is final; the place of the dead is called sheol, which means "the grave." Aside from the ghostly apparition of Samuel, called up by a witch at King Saul's command, the Hebrew Bible does not mention an afterlife. Biblical Jews first believed that God always punished evil, but always during a person's life Ð'-- or, if the person is repentant, in the life of one of that persons' descendants. Towards the end of the Biblical period, Jews began questioning whether God's punishments and rewards were always executed during a person's life. A belief in an afterlife only developed in the Second Temple period, but was contested by various Jewish sects. The Pharisees believed that upon death people rested in their graves until they would be physically resurrected with the coming of the messiah (in other words, they did not believe in an eternal soul independent of the body). The Rabbis adopted this as a core belief, and it is the thirteenth of Maimonides' Thirteen Principles of Faith.

6) God is their ultimate authority, but the main written and oral authorities are the Torah and the Talmud, and the Shulchan Aruch and the Halakha. The main authority in the Synagogue is the Rabbi, or teacher. He is the leader of the temple and leads the people in reading and in prayer.

7) They believe that they are not Jewish, so they are therefore Gentiles. They do not fall in accordance with Jews or the Jewish religion. They

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