REL 1000 : Judaism QUIZ 4
Document Summary
Place where the spirits of the dead wait until the day of judgment. Aka you don"t get judged by god immediately upon death, you go to. Theres no theory of an afterlife in any types of judaism until after the emergence of christianity. *gives a sense of gender inequality; adam was created. *gives a sense of gender equality; adam & his 1st: 1st creation story (gen. 1)= god created humans in his image; both male & Torah: its perfect word from god to moses. Mitzvot: can be adapted but not radically: 2nd creation story (gen. 2)= god created woman out of man"s rib. Conservative judaism: the orthodox jews are stuck in the past but the reform jews have gone too far, so conservative judaism seeks compromise. Reconstructionist: even too far for reform jews; the extremely liberal form of. The torah is historical document like any other document and the mitzvoth can be completely rewritten.
