Moses brought them God's Ten Commandments to prove that, if they followed God's will, His promise would be kept. ... "They taught that by conformity in daily life to the Torah as elaborated in the rabbinic tradition, that through study, prayer and observance the individual Jew could achieve salvation while still waiting for God to bring about the Messianic redemption of all Israel. Thus institutionally the synagogue and the rabbinic study have replaced the destroyed Temple- Jews dispersed throughout the known world. ... This "ultimately led to the creation of the state o...

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