reform
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Judaism
“Reform”
• Reform has 2 word parts…
“Re”
“Form”
• “Re” means to do something again, or to do something over
• “Form” means to develop, to arrange or to create
• Putting together the roots…
Reform means “to create something again, to develop it again.”
• People in reform movements want to change what has been… They want to create it again, in a new way.
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Example: Some people in Egypt would like reform in their government. They would like change.
“Reform” Judaism
• Started when some Jewish people wanted change. They wanted to re-form how Judaism was practiced. They made changes to how the mitzvot are followed.
• It’s all about the mitzvot…
• In Reform Judaism, following the mitzvot is a choice that a person can make.