Judaism's Ten Best Ideas

But the fact that Judaism is a religion of doers, requiring an active commitment, and that participation will be defined by deeds, will be with us for a long time to come.

We proclaim that life itself is a sacred gift and that God’s presence is to be found in daily living.

“Whoever teaches another’s child Torah, it is as though he [or she] had brought that child to birth.”

Although Judaism formally accepted a belief in the eternity of life, even including the future bodily resurrection of the dead, it never permitted the afterlife to become the centerpiece of Jewish faith.

The great enemy of such a joyous quest is self-doubt, often caused by excessive worry about one’s sins.

a form of Judaism that broke away from a growing tendency toward self-punishment that seems to be the shadow side of most religions.