Question

What virtues are emphasized in Judaism? Explain in detail?

Answer 1

Judaism may be described as an "ethical monotheism", a religion based on a concept that there is a single incorporeal God who gives commandments which constitute a moral law for all humanity.

Judaism follows that no religion or group of religions can claim any exclusive virtue when it comes to human rights. The international code in effect recognizes that all religious and cultural groups have a common understanding of those essential rights which they are united in proclaiming.

It is an approach which is reflected in the Jewish attitude that no religion has a monopoly of truth and that each reflects its own culturally appropriate path to an understanding of the Divine and the relevance of that understanding to human affairs. 

Answer 2

Explanation:

Jewish affirmations about God and humans intersect in the concept of Torah as the ordering of human existence in the direction of the divine. Humans are ethically responsible creatures who are responsive to the presence of God in nature and in history. Although this responsiveness is expressed on many levels, it is most explicitly called for within interpersonal relationships. The pentateuchal legislation sets down, albeit within the limitations of the structures of the ancient Middle East, the basic patterns of these relationships. The prophetic messages maintain that the failure to honour these demands is the source of social and individual disorder. Even the most exalted members of society are not free of ethical obligations, as is seen in the ethical confrontation of David by Nathan (“Thou art the man”) for seducing Bathsheba and arranging to have her husband killed (2 Samuel 12)