HUMA 1860 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rabbinic Judaism, Halakha, Aggadah

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1860
• Professor: Gordon Anderson

Document Summary

Is conformity to jewish rites, ceremonies, and practices. Is the cultural and social, behaviours and practices of jews. Is the whole body of jewry the jewish people, described metaphorically as the. Many people see judaism as not a religion but a culture, with distinct literary and artistic traditions, folkways and roles in various social and historical milieus. 1:1 god created the heaven and the earth. 1:2 the earth was without form, and void. 1:3 and god said, let there be light: and there was light. In the beginning of god"s creating the skies and the earth when the earth had. The earth was there before god did anything. The only thing god created was light, from this nothingness of shapelessness or. Hebrew bible total vavohu undifferentiated shapeless fluid prior to the n. Traces its origins to the covenant between abraham and god abraham left his home in mesopotamia and settled in canaan. Famine in the land and went to egypt.