Friday, June 3, 2011

Chareidi Judaism

Chareidi Judaism,  Chareidi is pronounced as Haredi. A follower of Haredi Judaism is called a Haredi (Haredim in the plural).Haredi Jews, have a belief system and set of religious practices in an unbroken chain back to Moses and the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. As a result, they regard non-Haredi streams of Judaism to be deviations from authentic Judaism. Haredi Judaism comprises a diversity of spiritual and cultural orientations, generally divided into Hasidic and streams from Eastern Europe, Yatziban Yahadut which consists it's followers of mostly Sephardi and Mizrahi Haredim and Oriental Sephardic Haredim. Its historical rejection of Jewish secularism distinguishes it from Western European-derived Modern Orthodox Judaism also known as Religious Zionism. Chareidi Judaism is the approach to Judaism which adheres to the application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin ("Oral Torah") and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim. Chareidi Jews are also called "observant Jews" or sometimes "Jewish Anti-Zionists" Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss is a great example of one of these Chareidi Jews; Chareidi Judaism is known also as "True Torah Judaism" or "traditional Judaism". Chareidi Judaism is not a single movement or school of thought. There is no single rabbinic body to which all rabbis are expected to belong, or any one organization representing member congregations. In the United States, there are numerous Orthodox congregational organizations. Generally,  Chareidi Judaism consists of two different streams Yatziban Haredim and Shulchan Aruch Haredim.