These are a belief in the existence of the Deity, the duty to worship such a power, the identification of worship with practical morality, the obligation to repent of sin and to abandon it, and divine recompense in this world and the next. ... Also, there was the common view that belief in an immortal soul that would be punished for sin and rewarded for virtue was a vital support for morality. If the Jews were soft on the immortality of the soul, then they may be considered to be soft on morality. ... The Jewish-Islamic Medieval mystical tradition also approached this. ...

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