RS Jewish Beliefs Scripture

Oneness of God

"Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord is one." - Deuteronomy (Torah)

"There is no God besides me." - Deuteronomy (Torah)

"You shall have no other Gods before me." - 10 Commandments, Exodus (Torah)

God as creator/ creation

"So on the seventh day, he rested." - Genesis (Torah)

"So God created mankind in his own image." - Genesis (Torah)

"I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster." - Isaiah (Nevi'im)

God as law-giver

"The tablets were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God." - Exodus (Torah)

"Two tablets of stone, inscribed with the finger of God." - Exodus (Torah)

(Reference to any of the 10 Commandments)

God as judge/ freewill (1)

"The Lord sees all mankind and considers everything they do." - Psalms (Ketuvim)

"See the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil." - Genesis (Torah)

"I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses." - Deuteronomy (Torah)

"The curse is if you do not obey and go astray from the path." - Deuteronomy (Torah)

"I will be merciful... I will remember their sins no more." - Jeremiah (Nevi'im)

"The Lord made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them." - Genesis (Torah)

God as judge/ freewill (2)

"I am preparing a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. So turn from your evil ways..." - The Potter's Wheel, Jeremiah (Nevi'im)

"If that nation I warned repents of its evil, then I will not inflict on it the disaster I had planned." - Jeremiah (Nevi'im)

"I am setting a plumb line among my people Israel; I will spare them no longer." - Amos and The Plumbline, Amos (Nevi'im)

God as judge/ freewill (3)

"The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever." - Psalms (Ketuvim)

"Those who rebelled against me; the fire that burns them will not be quenched." - Isaiah (Nevi'im)

Many "who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt." - Daniel (Ketuvim)

God as judge/ freewill (4)

"To worship only one God and avoid idolatry." - Noahide Laws, referenced in Genesis (Torah)

"You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk." - Exodus (Torah)

"Any uncircumcised male shall be cut off from his people." - Genesis (Torah)

Abrahamic covenant

"I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you." / "The whole land of Canaan." / “Descendants as numerous as the stars.” - Genesis (Torah)

“Go forth from your land.” - Genesis (Torah)

"This is my covenant with you and your descendants after you."/ “Everlasting covenant.” - Genesis (Torah)

"Every male among you shall be circumcised."/ "Any uncircumcised male shall be cut off from his people." - Genesis (Torah)

Promised land

God said he’d deliver them to "a land flowing with milk and honey." - Exodus (Torah)

"I will bring you into the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." - Exodus (Torah)

"To your descendants, I give this land." - Genesis (Torah)

"Israel will be a light to the nations." - Isaiah (Nevi'im)

"Next year in Jerusalem" - during Passover

Mosaic covenant

"All the words that the Lord has spoken we will do." - Exodus (Torah) / “You shall be to me a holy nation.” - Exodus (Torah)

"Two tablets of stone, inscribed with the finger of God." - Exodus (Torah) / “Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy.” - 10 Commandments, Exodus (Torah)

"If you obey me, you will be my treasured possession." - Exodus (Torah) / "Israel will be a light to the nations." - Isaiah (Nevi'im) / God said he’d deliver them to "a land flowing with milk and honey." - Exodus (Torah)

Shekhinah

"Then have them make a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them." - Exodus (Torah)

"The cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle." - Exodus (Torah)

"A pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night." - Exodus (Torah)

"Whenever ten are gathered for prayer, there the Shekhinah rests among them." - (Talmud)

Pikuach nefesh/ sanctity of life

"Do not stand by while your neighbour's blood is shed." - Leviticus (Torah)

"Whoever saves one life, it is as if they saved the entire world." - Mishnah Sanhedrin (Talmud)

"You shall not murder." - 10 Commandments, Exodus (Torah)

"So God created mankind in his own image." - Genesis (Torah)

Key moral principle: chesed (loving kindness)

"You shall love your neighbour as yourself." - Leviticus (Torah)

"Share your food with the hungry." - Isaiah (Nevi'im)

"If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat." - Proverbs (Ketuvim)

Key moral principle: tzedakah (charity/ justice)

"If there is a poor man among you, do not be hard-hearted toward your poor brother." - Deuteronomy (Torah)

"Open your hand to the poor." - Deuteronomy (Torah)

"You must present a tenth of your tithe as the Lord's offering." - Numbers (Torah)

"Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow." - Deuteronomy (Torah)

"Let justice flow down like water." - Amos (Nevi'im)

Key moral principle: tikkun olam (healing the world)

"You shall not pollute the land in which you live." - Numbers (Torah)

Messiah

God promises "I will raise up a righteous descendant from King David's line." - Jeremiah (Nevi'im)

God says "He will do what is just and right throughout the land." - Jeremiah (Nevi'im)

"The spirit of the Lord will rest on him." - Isaiah (Nevi'im)

God says Israel will be "a light to the nations." - Isaiah (Nevi'im)

"The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb." - Isaiah (Nevi'im)

Life after death

Many "who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt." - Daniel (Ketuvim)

"The righteous will inherit the land and dwell in it forever." - Psalms (Ketuvim)

"Those who rebelled against me; the fire that burns them will not be quenched." - Isaiah (Nevi'im)