welcome to another five minute village education recap video we're on the example of educas we're looking at the study of a world faith judaism and we're focusing upon jewish beliefs today's session is going to look at god as one and creator and i'm hoping you're able to explain those beliefs by the end of this video so the example then they want you to look at the nature of god and they want you to look at these five aspects we're going to concentrate on the top two today and the subsequent videos we'll look at the other ones so first of all i'm going to start with this rabbi called my mondays you may have not heard of him but he comes up with these 13 principles of faith 13 key things that jews believe in and if you pause the video and have a look down the list you'll see there is plenty of different beliefs coming through here just to highlight a few it's things such as god is eternal and god communicates through the prophets moses is the most important prophet and god is perfect and he's one the idea that god knows all things and the rewards or punishes now the reason i'm highlighting this to you is because my mondays is a great person to drop into a multitude of answers so you could say because my mom that he's teaches because the rabbi my mom that he's taught and then back up with one of these bullet points to show why jews believe or follow or do the things they do and the thing about these 13 principles of faith they kind of provide a structure to judaism and what that means is it gives jews a kind of common set of beliefs that binds them as a community and ensures that they are living good lives and following their religion correctly to help you kind of remember this and i created a mnemonic now on the monitors where you kind of take you know kind of a phrase or a word to help you try and remember now i pulled out kind of the phrase one people and each of these stands for one of the principles of faith so i know i've not done all 13 but i pulled out what i thought was some of the most important ones so when i think of one people i think my mondays taught the 13 principles of faith and this helps the jews to be one people to be one community and one obviously stands for believing in one god p god is perfect e god is eternal oh god is omniscient p god has no physical body l god sets laws and e god is eternal so again if you're picking up a note or writing about any of those phrases or key terms there throw in that my mondays teaches this and it develops your answer and it will get you more marks now let's concentrate on the nature of god as one judaism is a monotheistic religion this means they believe in one god mono meaning one theist meaning belief in god so for jews then god is a single whole being that cannot be divided god is also unique and therefore he is almighty and he's worthy of praise now the impact of this is that in a synagogue you will find no statues no idols no pictures because since god is unique they wouldn't want the jews would not want to depict him in any way jews also you know they will not worship any false idols nothing that distracts them from the greatness of god and finally some jews they won't even write god's name because they consider it to be so mighty unique and holy so this is the whole idea of what the implications of believing in one god means now some evidence for this well there's a prayer judaism called the shema it states that the lord is one so it opens without clearly identifying believe in one god in the ten commandments given by gods of moses well the first commandment is believe in one god worship one god and finally as we looked at before synagogues they contain no pictures or statues because god is the only one worthy of recognition so therefore you should not be broken down in some sort of image or statue or idol let's move on to god has created them well jews very similar beliefs as christians in fact they use the same book genesis now in genesis there are seven days of creation now do you use a little bit split on this some will take this literally some of them take it more as a metaphor so they see it's kind of got hidden messages in there rather than literally happening but one thing you can't take away from is the fact that god made everything that god makes people that god puts people in charge of creation and then ultimately he creates a day of rest for people so let's look at some of these ideas for jews god creates the entire universe and brings order to it now there's a quote in hebrew here um from the book of genesis and it says that god created everything well the earth it was tohu ra bohu what that means is is that the earth was formless and void it was chaotic that it needed structure it needed order and god brings about that order into creation we also know in genesis that god created humans in his image so in the image of god god creates a day of rest the sabbath or shabbat which jews should also rest on and finally god gave responsibility to care for the environment to humans so some of the evidence for this then we can take formless and void we can say that god existed before creation so therefore he's above and beyond it let us make mankind in our image this shows that life is sacred that human life is sacred and finally god said let there be light by word alone god creates everything in the universe and each of these now we can link to some key phrases so the idea that god has existed beforehand shows his eternal transcendence the fact that he's created everything and that life is sacred and you know he created humans shows his own benevolence and the fact that god creates the word alone shows his omnipotence there's a lot of evidence in key terms you can link up together there have a look through this checklist see if you can explain jewish beliefs about god as one and god as creator if you can write a key phrase for each of those or a sentence do with each one then you've been successful you want to push yourself a little bit further go for some of these example questions whatever you're up to best of luck