13 Principles of Faith OF Judaism

             The closest that anyone has ever come to creating a widely-accepted list of Jewish beliefs is Rambam's thirteen principles of faith. These principles, which Rambam thought were the minimum requirements of Jewish belief, are:

1.  The belief in the existence of the God, the Creator.
2. The belief in God's absolute and unparalleled unity.
3. The belief that God is incorporeal. God will not be affected by any physical occurrences, such as movement, or rest, or dwelling.
4. The belief that God is eternal.
5. The imperative to worship God and no false gods; all prayer should be directed only to God.
6. The belief that God communicates with man through prophecy and that this prophecy is true.
7. The belief in the primacy of the prophecy of Moses our teacher.
8. The belief in the divine origin of the Torah -- both the Written and the Oral (Talmud).
9. The belief in the immutability of the Torah.
10. The belief in God's omniscience and providence, that God knows the thoughts and deeds of man.
11. The belief in divine reward and retribution.
12. The belief in the arrival of the Messiah and the messianic era.
13. The belief in the resurrection of the dead.