RL ST 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Burning Bush, Extermination Camp, Rabbinic Judaism
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Intro to judaism: christianity and judaism have a relationship, only worship one god, linear concept of time, this god is seen as all powerful, all loving, all good, etc, time and the world have a beginning. Time: the world is real because of it being god"s creation. This is what gave and the world will have an end point. The events that occur in time is called history. rise to western outer sciences. Hinduism and buddhism where the world is not impermanent or an illusion: in monotheistic religions, they define the central problem of human existence in behavioral terms. The greatest sin is to claim you are equal to god or that you are god: essence of judaism, a gentile is someone who is not a jew. Lived 2000 years ago: tell me entire torah. Tell me the meaning of all of judaism while standing on one foot. : hillel answered, you will love your fellow human being as yourself.