Why is judaizam.com the right domain for this project?
After years of research, we came to believe that monotheism is the only valid and sound foundation for everything: the key to understanding the universe. We believe that the supreme deity of this monotheism is YHWH, and that the same God has been spoken of throughout the world from the beginning of history to the present, though called by different names and sometimes represented in a distorted light.
The clearest examples of belief in one God are Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Islam uses the Arabic word Allah, which simply means “God,” and the Qur’an explicitly refers to Abraham, Moses, the Torah, David, and Jesus, presenting its God as the God of those earlier prophets.
Alongside the three major Abrahamic religions, Bahá’ís, Samaritans, Druze, and Sikhs also believe in one supreme God.
In our view, the idea of one supreme God was not confined to the biblical world; traces of that original belief also existed among other peoples. Over time, in some civilizations, the original concept faded, changed form, or was covered over by belief in additional deities. That is why we find figures of a supreme deity across many cultures:
- Ahura Mazda in Zoroastrianism
- Shangdi in ancient China
- Zeus as the supreme god among the Greeks
- Jupiter among the Romans
- Amun, later Amun-Ra, in Egypt
- Odin as a supreme divine figure in the Norse tradition
- Tengri among some Turkic and Mongolic peoples
- Ometeotl as a “dual god” in parts of Aztec tradition
- Olodumare/Olorun among the Yoruba
- Nyame among the Akan
- Chukwu among the Igbo
- Nhialic among the Dinka
- El among the Canaanites; El also means “God” in Hebrew
- Milcom among the Ammonites
- Chemosh among the Moabites
- Dagon among the Philistines
- Marduk as the supreme god of Babylon
- Ashur as the national and supreme god of the Assyrians
- Anu as the heavenly supreme god in older Mesopotamian tradition
- Tarhunt/Tarhunna as the supreme storm god of the Hittites
- Viracocha as a great creator god among the Inca
- Itzamna as one of the highest creator deities among the Maya
- Brahman as the supreme reality in many Hindu philosophical schools
- Vishnu or Shiva as the supreme God in certain Hindu traditions
- Perun as a leading deity among the ancient Slavs
- Great Spirit / Great Creator in various Native North American traditions, though the name and concept differ from one people to another
We are not claiming that all these peoples preserved the same pure monotheism. Rather, we believe their religions retain traces of an older idea of one highest divine authority.
We believe God chose to create the state of Israel and the Jewish people because the original account of Him was beginning to fade. The idea was for the Jewish people to be a moral beacon to other spiritually fallen peoples and to preserve essential historical records, preparing the foundation for the spread of pure monotheism over the following millennia.
To answer the question at last: in order to return as closely as possible to the original foundations, we chose to call our concept simply Judaism. We believe this monotheistic faith has preserved the original monotheistic message and tradition more than any other. We believe no present-day branch within it is ideal, so this site will examine our concept of an ideal, legally unassailable, legitimate Judaism. This Judaism is not limited to one people. Ethnic origin is absolutely irrelevant to it. Nor is it limited to the Tanakh merely because some rabbis decided it should be.
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Goal - truth