As a Catholic, I was not given a great deal of insight to the Jewish religion. As a student in Catholic school, the most we were taught about the Jewish faith was that Christ was a Jew, and that the belief of modern day Jews was that they believed Christ was a prophet and not the Son of God. The same applies to my schooling in high school and college. The Jewish faith was something I was very unaware of. Until I read Night, and compared it with the section in our textbook.
The section on Judaism in our textbook Living Religions is very complex and detailed. It covers many sections. But one of the sections that I found to be very meaningful was the section devoted to “the sacredness of human life”. In this section, Martin Buber discusses the relationship between God and man. Although he was r
eferring to Jews in his statement, it could be applied to any person celebrating any religion.
Monotheism, in my opinion is best described in our text by the line that is quoted by David, “God is everywhere, even in the darkness”. To me, this shows that even though we may not be able to see our way through the darkness and we could question whether or not God is there, he is present despite our inability to see him. Another strong teaching of Monotheism is in Psalm 139:7-14. I had never heard this before, but it does give one a great deal of comfort when things are going badly or we are in need of reassurance. This Psalm is one of the most powerful ones I have ever read.
Buber, states that God needs man as much as man needs God. I never thought about this before. How and why would God ne
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