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When do Jewish people believe that life begins?

According to the Jewish religion, when does life begin? Conception? Birth? 6 days after the birth? Some other time?

Is abortion wrong according to these beliefs? Why or why not?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    In Judaism, abortion is allowed if the life of the mother--whether physical, emotional or psychological--is in jeopardy. Life is not considered to have begun until the greater part of the infant (if the infant is born feet-first) or the head has been born, by and large, although there are some who consider life to not begin until up to 30 days, if I remember right.

  • 1 decade ago

    As a general rule, abortion in Judaism is permitted only if there is a direct threat to the life of the mother by carrying the fetus to term or through the act of childbirth. In such a circumstance, the baby is considered tantamount to a rodef, a pursuer after the mother with the intent to kill her.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    As a jew, I don't really know when they say life begins. Birth, I assume but I'm kinda making that up.

    But most of the jewish women I know support a womans choice in relation to abortion.

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    5 years ago

    One ought to first be attentive to what a soul is and what a spirit is? Many have self assurance that those words advise something invisible and immortal that exists interior us. they think of that at demise this invisible area of a human leaves the physique and lives on. on the grounds that this perception is so usual, many are stunned to income that it is not in any respect what the Bible teaches. What, then, is the soul, and what's the spirit, in accordance to God’s be conscious? From the passage which you used, Gen 2:7, it of course says that adam became a residing soul. It does not say that adam became into "given" a soul. It ability then that Adam himself is a soul. In Romans 13:a million, we examine that each soul must be in subjection to greater powers or authority, of course soul refers to human beings themselves, to not some invisible area of human. What relating to the spirit? Psalms 104:29 explains that if the spirit is taken away one expires, comparable experience with James 2:26 "a physique w/o a spirit is ineffective." of course then spirit is a existence stress which God breath into Adam to alter right into a residing soul. The soul then is us ourselves, our physique. Then the spirit is the single that makes stay.

  • 1 decade ago

    Life begins at Conception in the Jewish Religion.

    And in the story of Onan, God was displeased with Onan because he disobeyed him.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i have never met a jewish person who supports anti choice fascism

    EDIT: according to the answer below me they consider the life of the woman important, unlike christians.

    i also appreciate how they take into account the psychological damage a woman forced to gestate would suffer. christians could care less about that

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If you read the story of Onan when he kept spilling his seed in Genesis. Yahweh killed him because of what he did, to me it would seem like life is sperm according to the Hebrew Israelites. I know the Old Testament never speaks about masturbation, one thing is for shore that story is a perfect example of Yahweh God going against the wasting of sperm. I mean damn is Yahweh a scientist of something.

    Source(s): Genesis 38:9
  • 1 decade ago

    At conception. Abortion falls under God's commandment "Thou shall not kill..." When is a person not human, before birth or after 90?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    life begins when the kids move out of the house

  • 1 decade ago

    I think when they get a good deal on something

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