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OUR BODIES: Teachings & Traditions

In Judaism, spirituality and physicality are closely connected. Jewish traditions promote eating healthy food, avoiding drugs and alcohol, and healing the ill, while regulating body modifications such as tattoos, piercings, and cosmetic surgeries. Many Jewish communities also observe codes of modesty.

LATEST ARTICLES: JEWISH PRACTICES

  • Environmental Awareness

    Rejuvenating Ourselves and Our Planet

  • Fruit Tree

    Judaism has special rituals for springtime, Nissan, and Passover.

  • Hermeneutics (Drash)

    A method for learning Torah, developed by the rabbis of the Talmud.

  • Ordination (Semihah)

    How does a rabbi become a rabbi?

  • Compassion

    Compassion is fellow feeling, the emotion of caring concern; in post-biblical Hebrew rahamanut, interestingly from the word rehem, 'womb', originating in the idea of either motherly love or sibling love (coming from the same womb)

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