During a time when most people in the world believed in numerous gods a new monotheistic religion arose, Judaism. Their god, Yahweh, is all-powerful, all knowing, and all seeing, responsible for both all good and evil in the world and the creator of all that exists.
             While many of these other religions of the time taught of unprincipled gods, the God of the Jewish faith was moral and expected those who followed the teachings to be the same. The gods of these other faiths also had no interest in humans, the Jews reversed this notion for Yahweh loved human beings so much that he spoke with Abraham and promised to bless the Jewish people so long as they worshiped the one true God. This loving and moral God of the Jewish people gave humans supremacy over the Earth and its resources.
             Though God is not to be gendered or colored and there are to be no images attributed to him, Yahweh is personified in order to be more inspiring. In this way God becomes more of a person than something that is so beyond that it cannot be connected with, these human characteristics are not to be taken literally, only as metaphor.
             Though Yahweh is at the center of all that exists and has ever existed, he has given his word to the Jewish, the "chosen people", so that they may learn from it and move closer to God.
             Part of this word that God gave the Jewish is The Ten Commandments. The word commandment may be taken wrongly in this context, God is not to strike you down if you were to break one of these rules, but they are the guidelines in which society should live by in order to have healthy human relations. The Jewish people look at these guidelines not as obligations but as gifts from God and as long as the Ten Commandments are followed it will lead you to a more joyful life.
             There are four ethical Commandments are "Thou shalt not murder." "Thou shalt not commit adultery." "Thou shalt not steal." And...