When Did Judaism Begin? - Rabbi Yitzchak Botton

addressing the question of when Judaism began is a little bit complicated because it really has two stages first of all from the beginning of the creation until Abraham comes that first stage represents the general message from God as its expressed through seven commands which we call seven bits or Binet Noah's that knock came over to his descendants whenever I'm arrives so he receives a transmission from Hashem because he was a very exalted soul and he perceived that there are 613 commandments to be fulfilled in order to connect wash em on this higher level now the actual Jewish religion as a people doesn't really start until we left Egypt when we left Egypt we formally received the Torah and in 613 commandments being obligated to fulfill them so these are the three stages of my two stages of development of Judaism first from creation until Avram was the general message from all of mankind from algorithm until Martin tore the giving of the Torah was the building stages and the of Judaism and from Martin Toronto became the official establishment of the Jewish nation and religion in the way we know today [Music]