... all, his unity, omnipotence, eternity, omniscience, and that only him shall be worshipped. Also included are the beliefs in Moses teachings, the torah and its truth, reward and retribution, the messiah and the messianic age, the resurrection of the dead and the belief that God communicates through prophecy. Modern scholarship and science have however challenged such beliefs and different segregations of the Jewish faith have dealt with these challenges differently. Ultra-Orthodox and orthodox Jews tend to reject the findings of scholarship and science, therefore leaving the traditional aspects of the religion to remain more or less unaffected. Yet, other Jews such as Reform Jews seek to reconcile traditional beliefs with science and scholarship, therefore denoting some kind of modification of traditional beliefs and at times rejecting certain commandments as unsuited to the modern world. Thusly Orthodox Jews still view the Torah as the word of God and literally true. Whereas, ...

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