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What is the difference between Hacidic and Orthodox Judaism?

It seems there are almost as many, if not as many or more sects of Judaism as there are Christianity. Does each sect belive they have the one true path, or is it just a lifestyle differences?

Update:

I know a lot of Jews, therefore Judaism is obviously not a myth. I didn't ask if anyone belives one way or another, or state my beliefs, I'm just asking what the differences are. Thanks to those who have given intelligent answers so far or at least pointed me somewhere with an answer.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    quite the contrary....

    theres Hassidic's, Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform. orthodox and such do not generally consider reform as "in" and do not universally even consider conservative's as really jewish.

    but its not nearly the rivalry or division between sects of christianity.

    mostly the difference is degrees of observance, with minor differences on some things, like most orthodox synogogues are NOT egaltarian, and have females and males separated. but not always.

    most orthodox keep kosher, where most reform do not, conservative is a mix from keeping fully kosher, to not even pretending, to symbolic.... or somewhere in between. like for example I occasionally have bacon or mix milk and meat on things like pizza's and such, but I don't have bacon or pork frequently, ect. some reform synogogues will even have blatant non-jews participating (don't ask me the logic to that....)

    Hassidic are the most extreme of course, extremely observant, to a very very strict degree, sometimes also subtlely involved or more beliving in kabbalistic stuff as well, (which goes along with the extreme observance, interestingly enough)

    I do not belive any of the "sects" consider them exclusively correct, (within judaism or in general) but merely degrees of observance and strict-ness.

    myth, lol, thats absurd, islam didn't even exist til after christianity did, let alone judaism.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    shame we have to have the mohommedans insisting that everybody was mohommedan, especially since the koranic heresies hadn't been invented.

    Chassidic judaism was developed by The Baal Shem Tov and it's rather a mystically oriented sect of Judaism. In his day, there was no Reform or Liberal or Conservative Judaism - just Judaism. The Chassidics came from the very observant but less intellectual groups of Jews. Their primary belief seems to be that communion with the Godhead can come from strong emotion (produced by song and dance for example) as well as by mere study.

  • 1 decade ago

    Judaism is a myth that you wont find in any Scripture.

    Jews are an re-invention of the Hoax of the Bible for the Hoax of the Crucifixion.

    Jews were one of 12 tribes and the 12 tribes became Yahuudi under Musa.

    The 12 tribes were Muslims all.

    Source(s): Quran Bible
  • 1 decade ago

    http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_o/bl_s... is one page on a site on Judaism that has lots of interesting and informative material that's not hard to understand. This page briefly addresses your question, and then you can look around at their other links and topics.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Have you looked them up on the internet? The infos all out there. It's Hasidic btw

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasidic

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Judaism

    Look on the left side, it has many categories

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Try wiki...

    Ronin: IT IS NOT AN ENGLISH WORD. BOTH SPELLINGS ARE COMMON.

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