Judaism; CCWV.LIFE

The covenant of Israel: one God, the Torah given at Sinai, and a people's life ordered by commandment, study, and prayer.

Judaism carried its covenant through temple and exile, rabbinic re-founding, and the movements of the modern centuries, which divided over how the Torah binds a Jew in a changed world. This tree models those movements as first-class entities.

Major divisions

The divisions most visitors need first, in the order the tradition itself presents them.

Branch Orthodox Judaism The Judaism that holds the Torah, written and oral, as binding without remainder, ordered by halakha and its decisors. Branch Conservative Judaism The Judaism that holds the law binding and historical at once: halakha that develops, under the guidance of its scholars, with the people's practice. Branch Reform Judaism The Judaism that reads the tradition through the conscience of the modern Jew: the ethical law binding, the ceremonial open to judgment and choice.

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Branch Reconstructionist Judaism Mordecai Kaplan's Judaism as an evolving religious civilization, reconstructed for the democratic age without a supernatural legislator. Branch Karaite Judaism The Judaism of the Scripture alone, which rejects the oral Torah of the rabbis and reads the Hebrew Bible by its own lights. Branch Secular Judaism The Judaism of culture, history, and peoplehood without theistic belief, carried by the secular and humanistic movements and congregations.

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