Judaism without God is like a ship without a rudder. This wonderful religion on which Christianity and Islam were fashioned, is destined to survive all the elements of hatred that continues to threaten its existence, together with its people. It is a stringently-tested religion that offers its light in the darkness of human failures; it does not assume any authority over other religious concepts, but freely shares its well-established principles of virtues, based on love, faith and truth - attributes that has helped it to overcome centuries of vitriol, spewed by anti-semites of all colors. Judaism is not just a religion; it is also a way of life; a philosophy of human values and a medium through which lessons of self-awareness and self-discipline are learned, as reflected in the Torah, without which Judaism could never survive.

The followers of Judaism have managed to keep their identity in many different countries. For two thousand years, Jews were without a homeland of their own, scattered through all parts of the world, in spite of which, the religion of Judaism remained untouched by hate-mongers, all because of implicit faith in God and His miracles that helped deflect the onslaught of evil that was meant to pull it down from its time-honored pedestal. Judaism teaches the lesson of liberty. The thrilling story of the Israelite march from Egyptian slavery to a land of freedom
emphasizes the importance of democracy that is so aptly expressed by Moses when he declared: "Proclaim ye liberty throughout the land to all the inhabitants thereof." These words that belong to Judaism was historically inscribed on the American Liberty Bell. King David set a glaring example of faith in Judaism by writing some of the great psalms of the Bible, the best known of which begins with the words, "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want....." The prophets of Israel, whose unquestionable faith in God is so well-chronicled, were the guardians of Judaism. They formed the spiritual vanguard that protected the edifice of Israel's glory under the banner of Judaism.

Today, the restoration of Israel's birthright makes it all the more obvious that faith and trust in God, are "weapons" that no nobody could take away. Judaism is time-tested. It is the source from which Christianity emanated; it is a model for Islam, the tenets of which, echoe the values of Judaism that preceded it. The ideology of monotheism began with Judaism. The belief in One God, to the exclusion of inferior deities, is what the United States is all about. The message of liberty, equality and justice for all, reflected in the Torah, on which civilization itself is modeled, are characteristics of God, attributed to Judaism.

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