Basic Doctrines and Beliefs
- Judaism insists that the community has been confronted by the divine not as an abstraction but as a person with whom the community and its member have entered into a strong relationship with each other.
- As the Torah indicates, it is a program of human action rooted in personal confrontation. The response of these particular people to its encounter with God is significant for all of mankind.
- The community is called upon to express its loyalty to God and the covenant by exhibiting solidarity within its corporate life on every level, including every aspect of human behavior, from the most public to the most private.
- Jewish worship is a communal celebration where everyone comes together in the meetings of God in history and in nature. This people, together with all humanity, is called upon to institute political, economic, and social forms that will affirm divine sovereignty.
- Within the community, each Jew is called upon to realize the covenant in his or her personal intention and behavior.
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