A Popular Dictionary of Judaism
Judaism teaches that righteousness is the only way to achieve justification in the eyes of *God. Thus the *prophet *Micah maintains, ‘What does the Lord require of you, but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God’.
Because it was understood that human beings were incapable of perfect righteousness (see *YETZER HA-RA), *sacrifice was instituted as *atonement for *sin. Once the sacrificial system disappeared with the destruction of the *Temple in 70CE, *prayer and *fasting were regarded as the means by which the divine-human relationship was restored. (See *FASTING, *SACRIFICE, *YOM KIPPUR).
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