Orthodox Judaism

Denomination·Founded 1800 CE·est. ~2 million worldwide

Judaism → Orthodox Judaism

Branch

History & overview · every faith gets one

The Torah is binding as given.

The traditionalist stream: written and oral Torah as divinely given and halakha as fully binding — continuity itself as the argument against every age's pressure to bend.

The founding

No single founder — Orthodox Judaism accreted rather than began.

What it holds

The divine. One God.

Death and after. The world to come.

The line

descent is public here — where it came from, what left it
Judaism — c. 1000 BCE Orthodox Judaism — 1800 CE
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