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title: "Interesting Facts about Judaism"  
description: "Want to know more about Judaism? Here are Interesting Facts about Judaism that you probably didn’t know before reading this!"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-15  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1579/interesting-facts-about-judaism  
category: "religion"  
tags: ["Religion", "religious", "Judaism", "Judaism facts", "Jews", "Jews facts"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Interesting Facts about Judaism

![Interesting Facts about Judaism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d682487b-2d12-4ce7-9c40-10eaee679413/images/ab154b39-da1d-4a31-85f0-a3d31995325c.jpeg) ![Interesting Facts about Judaism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d682487b-2d12-4ce7-9c40-10eaee679413/images/a4c17626-5944-4cec-8988-6ab1cd071eeb.jpeg) Judaism has several different sects There are three main branches within Judaism, Reform, Conservative and Orthodox Jews. ![Interesting Facts about Judaism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d682487b-2d12-4ce7-9c40-10eaee679413/images/a1c95c39-ac53-4530-bf8a-624ab76bf204.jpeg) Shabbat is the Jewish holy day ![Interesting Facts about Judaism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d682487b-2d12-4ce7-9c40-10eaee679413/images/d3da67d1-8bf8-4632-8392-f9c3e0993129.jpeg) The Torah is the holy book of Judaism The Torah typically refers to the first five books of the 24 books of the Tanakh ![Interesting Facts about Judaism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d682487b-2d12-4ce7-9c40-10eaee679413/images/1dc38552-11d6-474c-9159-e047c087d552.jpeg) Judaism is one of the three Abrahamic religions Judaism is the oldest of the three Abrahamic religions, the other two are Christianity and Islam, ![Interesting Facts about Judaism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d682487b-2d12-4ce7-9c40-10eaee679413/images/7b6d02c4-5ea7-4237-8d63-673938db6b97.jpeg) The Jewish people began as slaves according to the book of Exodus ![Interesting Facts about Judaism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d682487b-2d12-4ce7-9c40-10eaee679413/images/09147d27-6153-4c95-a7b5-6532382bd580.jpeg) There are 613 Commandments in the Law of Moses This is also known as the Talmud, which is the main source of Jewish religious law. ![Interesting Facts about Judaism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d682487b-2d12-4ce7-9c40-10eaee679413/images/99b62599-66ea-4be7-a36a-f8d9ef726027.jpeg) The Temple Mount is the holiest site for Jews, they believe that God has manifested here more than in other places. ![Interesting Facts about Judaism](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/d682487b-2d12-4ce7-9c40-10eaee679413/images/762cebee-7aa0-4acd-af5f-879e7ae45a23.jpeg) The Bar Mitzvah is the rite of passage into adulthood Bar Mitzvah (for boys) and Bat Mitzvah (for girls) is an important tradition within Judaism.

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