Orthodox Judaism
A living tradition within Rabbinic Judaism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Orthodox Judaism is a living tradition within Rabbinic Judaism. Also written Torah Judaism.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. NULL: no founding event. The Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices records that the term 'orthodoxy', borrowed from Christianity, first appeared in a Jewish context in 1795 in an article by reformers using it disparagingly of those who refused to modify Jewish practice or belief; it was adopted as a self-description over the nineteenth century.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Orthodox Judaism.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-orthodox-judaism.
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}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.