Is Judaism (Jewish) name of tribal Rituals or a Religion?

Jews are a nation people, Israel (tribal origin) bound by an eternal covenant of the faith (religion) of Judaism. We are like a huge family and only the family can determine who is a member of it. It is the laws of Judaism, given to the covenant nation, Israel, in the Torah, that determine Jewish identity.





The Jewish people are considered both a nation and a religion. Our connection is primarily one of faith (religion) through the covenant of Israel, yet membership is also conferred by birth, through matrilineal descent .One may also become a part of the nation Israel by adoption of the faith of Judaism and formal procedures of conversion.





One who converts to Judaism is considered as FULLY Jewish as one born Jewish and their children are Jews. This has been the case since the times of the Torah.





However one can be a Jew and not belong to both. One may technically be a Jew if their mother is a Jew, but apostate to the covenant of Israel and no longer considered a member of the nation if they leave it to adopt the covenant of faith of another religion.





We are Klal Yisrael, the community of Israel, and have a shared " destiny" and history.. Many different and distinctly Jewish cultures and ethnicities have developed over the millennia in Diaspora lands. The Diaspora refers to the Jewish presence outside of Israel after the destruction of the First and Second Temple periods and the Bar Kochba revolt.





Another thing many people appear to be confused is the issue of ethnicity. There is no ONE Jewish ethnicity, but a great many ethnicities that are distinctly Jewish. There are the Mizrahi (from the Middle East and North Africa).The Sephardi (Spanish) and the Ashkenazi, (German, Polish, Russian and other Eastern European)that are all slightly different, even within those three designations as to cultural practices and foods, but it is the faith and covenant that binds them all together as Klal Yisrael.





The Jewish nation began as a group of tribes and our connection to one another is still from the perspective of a tribal nation.





One born a member of the tribal covenant nation Israel ( Jewish) may not be observant or even believe in God and they鈥檙e still a full member, a Jew. They may not be a good member or an active member but they鈥檝e not renounced membership. That is how one may be an "atheist Jew", they still may live Jewish ethics and identify with their people, but they did not take on foreign beliefs contradictory to monotheism or Torah. Now if one born into the covenant becomes apostate to it through rejection of the covenant by adoption of another belief contradictory to the covenant, they are still be considered a Jew, but for all intents and purposes, they're not given the status of a member. According to Jewish law they're not counted in a minyan, can't be buried in a Jewish cemetery, cannot be given honors to go up to read Torah at a synagogue, and may not speak for the Jewish people. They CAN however, return without formal conversion should they so desire and then be embraced again as full members. One who has left the Jewish people for the foreign faith of another people must uindergo the steps of TESHUVAH , which means repentance and return to the God of Israel. Some groups may require that the individual also requires immersion in the mikveh before being accepted back, but they do not require the formal steps of conversion should the person wish to return.





Jews are in NO way a RACE..other than as members of the human race. For those of you who want to claim Judaism doesn't accept converts as fully Jewish, how about Ruth in the Bible? She was a member of a nation that was condemned to be separate from God for their evil. However, she was a righteous woman who converted and adopted the faith of Israel and was the ancestor of King David. The New Testament depicts her as being an ancestor of Jesus, too. I like to bring this up when some Christians want to declare that converts aren't "real Jews" or that Jews are a race. (something that isn't up to them to decide one way or another anyway)





It is Jewish law alone, not Christianity or any other entity that determines the status of who and what is Jewish. When a Jew adopts a belief that is in conflict with the Jewish religion, the belief does NOT become a " Jewish belief" just because a Jew chooses to believe in it. Jews only have disdain with the Christians who call themselves Jews if deceptively try to present their Christian belief AS Judaism. A Jew who converts to Hare Krishna is just as apostate, but there exists no Jews for Hare Krishna or Hare Krishna Judaism evangelic groups spending millions of dollars a year in campaigns to convert secular Jews by convincing them it is a form of Judaism.





One cannot be Jewish and Christian at the same time. One may be an apostate Jew who is Christian. A Jew who converts to Islam is a Muslim. A Jew who converts to Christianity is a Christian. A Christian who converts to Islam isn鈥檛 a Christian for Mohammed. A Baptist who converts to Catholicism isn鈥檛 a Baptist for the Pope and a Jew who converts to Christianity isn鈥檛 a Jew for Jesus.





You can become a member of a tribe or nation if you meet the criteria of citizenship. And the covenant people, Klal Yisrael, remain as in the earliest days of the covenant..a nation. It hasn't changed.





Reform Judaism ( of which I am a member) will consider as Jewish one whose father is a Jew IF the child was RAISED in Judaism actively and exclusively. Even in Reform Judaism, simply having a Jewish father without exclusively Jewish upbringing, would require conversion on the part of the person with only a Jewish father to become a Jew.





It is against Jewish law and straight out of Torah for any Jew to discriminate against a convert to Judaism. Since the time of the Torah converts have been accepted as fully Jewish, and this is the case in all branches. We are not even supposed to refer to the fact that they are converts! It is up to them if they wish to identify themselves as such. They are Jews, period.





The covenant people, Israel have been MULTIRACIAL since the days of Torah, Moses' wife, Zipporah was a black woman. There have been Ethiopian Beta Yisrael since the days of Solomon! And I repeat, one cannot convert to a race. One may convert and become fully Jewish.





A comment about BEING a Jew...one thing it means is to witness many people, often insultingly and viciously giving false answers about Jewish belief and identity in order to confuse or perhaps justify their demonizing Jews. My purpose in stating this long detailed answer is to help prevent people from taking those mistaken notions and spreading them in INNOCENT ignorance. There is too much misinformation about the Jewish people and our history.





The Jewish Bible ( Tanakh ) tells from the beginning book to the end that the righteous of all nations ( Jew or Gentile ) have the capacity to connect directly to God, merit blessing and a place in the world to come. Atonement is directly from God. There is no fear that the eternal covenant will go away, we trust that it shall continue has it has all along. Shalom.

Is Judaism (Jewish) name of tribal Rituals or a Religion?
I think it's both, tribal rituals and a religion. when a man marries a woman or a woman marries a man if their any other religion it's ritual so he or she become Jewish, but she only really loves that person. Oh I'm not Jewish so I kind of know sort of what it means, one of my mom's or dad's friends are Jewish, but I'm catholic so just go on line to google or some other site not this one to get the right answer.
Reply:It is absolutely a religion.





And it is also a family.





I am starring for my Jewish contacts so that you can a Jew to answer - not what Christians of all stripes think - especially the first one who is about as anti-semitic as you can get when he is lying about being one.





A Jew is someone who is born of a Jewish mother or has converted. If one then converts to another religion - that person is APOSTATE.





Jews should be the only ones who can define who is, or is not, a Jew.
Reply:Judaism is law given to the Israeli nation by moses, amended by the Talmud and later rabies.


accordingly, Jew is one of the Jewish, Hebrew, nation -he may be a believer (religious) and even if he isn't, he is still a Jew.
Reply:Judaism is the name of a religion.
Reply:'Judah', the name of the man from which 'Jewish' comes, means I will praise YHVH. (It clearly has no "J" for there is no "J" in Hebrew, but rather is YAHUDAH). The name Jewish is applied to a culture, a race, a nationality, and a religion, with great abandon, so it is often hard to figure what is really being meant.