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Judaism is a monotheistic religion, so the most important and only sacred person in the Jewish religion is obviously God, who is believed to be transcendent (supreme, beyond others), immanent and the creator of everything. God is without form, and this is why images of God are never found in Jewish synagogues. The Jewish belief also holds that while God is separate from our world, He continues to be involved with its people, and the Jewish traditions, food habits and beliefs are based on this relationship between God, his laws and the humanity.
Probably the next most important people in Judaism after God are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (also known as the Patriarchs) who are considered to be the founding fathers of Judaism. What is believed to be so special about those men is that it was with them that God established the covenant, meaning a unique relationship with him, which started with Abraham with the promise that he would be the father of a new nation, and was renewed with Isaac......

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