Welcome to Gaia! ::

i am about 1/4 jewish, and i want to know more about this side of my family, cause i know nothing.

so if anyone wants to be a tutor or somthing i would greatly apretiate it, as in how it started beleifs stuff like that. so if you can help, thanks.

I think you'll have more mentors here than you even want to think about, NN... um... is there something that we can call you that has less typing obstacles (random capitalizations and punctuation)?

Anyway, welcome, and we'll look forward to getting to know you and help you out.

Judaism has only one belief, that there is only one deity, G0D, aka HASHEM aka names with a higher spiritual value, more on that later. Everything else in the religion is either a commentary or an act of devotion to the premise of monotheism.

That's the be all end all answer... Hear oh Israel, The Lord is G0D, The Lord is One.

Comparing to other religions, we're not a pagan or sacred earth based religion or a cult of personality, but a sacred text based religion. We have a large collection of writings that either tell of G0D's greatness or how to show respect to G0D for all his greatness miracles and creations.

So yeah, believing in G0D and more importantly that G0D actually does things, is the first step on the way to knowing what it is to be Jewish.