JEWS

...urs on each of these days. For instance, in Passover their distinctive food is "matzah" and they do not eat any other type of bread. They also have a small ceremony in marriage that takes place under a "huppah" (canopy) and during marriage "ketubah"(marriage contract) is dravvn up, which is witnessed by two Jews. Furthermore, traditional Jews eat only "kashrut" meat, in other words the animal's meat which is sacrificed by a small ceremony that is directed by a rabbi. Being a Jew requires obeying some rules and worshipping. According to Judaism, first of the rules, which a Jew must concern with, is love of God and as rabbi Akika(1965, p.658) said "Everything is foreseen [by God]". This basic belief was restated in the first three items of the "Ten Commandments", which can be called a summarize of Torah's rules. in addition to "God belief, the Ten Commandments include some ethical rules such as not to kili anyone and not to steal anything. Most of these rules also take place in Jewish laws, especially, in Israel. Elon(1974, p. 110), a professor of Jewish law, supports this idea like that "in some measure law in the State of Israel follows the principles of Jewish law even in areas where the latter system has not officially been rendered applicable.". Jewish laws are applied hı the "Rabbinical Courts" which have the jurisdiction of some matters like the personal status. Besides the laws and the rules, Judaism requires some worships that can be done daily ör weekly. Daily worships can be done lonely in the home but weekly worships must be done by the directory of a rabbi, on the Sabbath day, in the synagogue. Jews, generally have a nationalist attitude toward non-Jewish and also have different attitudes toward each other in themselves. Especially in Israel, that includes the majority of Jews, Jewish people live like being abstracted from the outside world. This is because tahnudical tradition calls ali non-Jewish as...

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