Judaism in all its variations has remained consistent in its religious principles of belief and faith. According to Jewish belief there is only one God or G-d and he is the one that created the world. G-d also created a covenant with the Jewish people and placed his laws and commandments to the Jewish people in the Torah. The Jewish religion is devoted to the study of the commandments as they are written in the Torah. The Torah is simply the five books of Moses and is the entire basis of Jewish law. There are 613 commandments in the Torah. “Less than 300 of these commandments are still applicable today” (Wilkipedia).
Although Jews believe in the Torah they also believe in what they call the Oral Torah. The Oral Torah was transmitted by the Pharisee sect and then later on was written down by the Rabbis. According to the Torah someone is considered to be a Jew if they were born to a Jewish mother or they were converted to Judaism in accord with Jewish law. Once you become a Jew you......
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