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aadil77
Interesting, brother are you a former jew?
Is the judaism of today not fully monotheistic? or is it polytheism because of the fact that rabbi's are making the laws now a days and people are following them?
As-Salāmu `Alaykum brother,
I am not a former jew but I have studied judaism for 4 to 5 years with the previous intention to convert before I begun to read the Quran and my nafs told me that islam is the true religion.
When I begun to study jewish history I found out about the rivaling sects during the time of Isa (peace be upon him). Currently there exists two
major sects in judaism: qaraim and rabbanites. The ancestors of the qaraim was the sadduccees who only believed in the written Torah, and the ancestors of todays rabbinical jews (who also follow the Talmud (oral law)) was the pharisees. Qaraite judaism was founded 1500 BCE and rabbanite judaism was founded 200 BCE.
The pharisees tried to easen the law for the general jew by adding an oral tradition which the rabbis used to explain the certain laws, while sadduccees kept themselves to a strict tradition of the plain meaning of the Torah. In the Torah, you're a jew if your father was a jew, but the rabbinical jews "decided" (against the Torah) that to give women more power judaism should be inherited maternally.
This meant that the pharisees more or less took power because they simplyfied Torah so that everyone could understand and by time the rabbinical jews have inserted rebbes (leaders of cult dynasties) and rabbis (rav in hebrew) to interpret the law for the general public while the qaraim still interpret the Torah literally.
This means that instead of following the Torah which was given to the jewish people, the majority of todays jews are rabbinical and instead of following the Torah they follow rabbinical decisions and decrees which actually may lack support in the Torah.