SOR 2 evidence judaism

aboriginal connection to land 1

the land is my backbone

aboriginal connection to land 2

we dont own the land, it owns us

god tells Abram to move to canaan

‘Land I will show you’ Genesis 12:1

god promises Abram land

‘to your offspring I will give this land’ Genesis 12:7

God promises abram blessing

‘ I will bless you and all people on earth will be blesses through you’ Genesis 12:3

God promises abram offspring

‘I will make you into a great nation’ Genesis 12:2 ‘Look up at the sky and count the stars …. so shall your offspring be’ genesis 15:5

God reaffirms his covenant after abram sleeps with Hagar

‘yes, but your wife will bear a son and you will name him isasc’ Genesis 17:19

God gives mosaic covenant

‘if you keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured posession’ exodus 19:5

10 commandments

‘you shall not murder’ exodus 20:13, ‘you shall not commit adultery’ exodus 20:14 ‘you shall not steal’ exodus 20:15

God is one

‘hear, O Israel: the lord our god, the lord is one’ Deuteronomy 6:4

god is a creator

‘in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth’ Genesis 1:1

God as a ruler of the universe

‘see now that I myself am he! there is no god besides me’ Deuteronomy 32:34

Omniscient

‘the lord is a god of knowledge’ 1 Samuel 2:3 ‘the lord who sees’ Genesis 22:14

omnipresent

‘even before the word is on my tong, behold, o lord, you know the whole of it’ Psalm 139:4

Omnitpotent

‘Your right hand, O lord, magnificent in power, your right hand, O lord, has shattered the enemy’ Exodus 15:6

Positive mitzvot 1 and commandments of the torah

‘to love other Jews’ Leviticus 19:18

positive mitzvot 2 and commandments of the toad

‘to learn the torah and to teach it’ Deuteronomy 6:7

positive mitzvot 3 and commandments of the torah

‘you shall have no other gods before me’ Exodus 2:3

negative mitzvot 1 and commandments of the torah

‘to not hate fellow jews’ Leviticus 19:17

negative mitzvot 2 and commandments of the torah

‘to not embarrass others’ Leviticus 19:17

negative mitzvot 3 and commandments of the torah

‘you shall not murder’ exodus 20:13

importance of the covenant

‘I will walk among you, I will be your god and you will be my people’ Leviticus 26:12

evidence of prophetic vision

‘he has shown you O mortal, what is good? And what does the lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your god’ Micah 6:8

Book of proverbs

‘trust in the lord with all your heard and do not lean on your understanding’ Proverbs 3:5-6

evidence of shabbat being day of rest

‘six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a hold day, a sabbath day of solemn rest to the lord’ Leviticus 23:1-3

gods commandment from the torah - sabbath

‘remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy’ exodus 20:4

sabbath symbolises covenant

‘iseralites are to observe the sabbath, celebrating it for generations to come as a lasting covenant’ exodus 31:16

rrepresents god freeing iseralites

‘remember that you were slaves in egypt… therefore the lord our god has commanded you to observe the sabbath’ Deuteronomy 5:15

sabbath allows for rest

‘by the seventh day god had finished the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he rested from his work’ genesis 2:2