CONVERSATION WITH A RABBI:

RABBI SHIOMO CHEIN:  WELCOME…WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND?

CALIFORNIAN:  When did the Jewish faith begin, approximate year?  

Rabbi Shiomo Chein:  Judaism as an official religion began 3319 years ago,
 This year being 5767 or 2007.

Californian:  Also who started the Jewish Faith?

Rabbi Shiomo Chein:  Judaism didn’t start like other religions where you had one individual, be it Jesus or Muhamud, who claimed to have a revelation and then started a faith…in Judaism every Jew witnessed the revelation of God at Siani. And that is when Judaism began as a religion.  Before that they were a people, descendants of Abraham, who is the father, not he founder, of Judaism.