Yigdal

Judaism is a religion of “deed, not creed.”  Our God is concerned primarily with what we do, not with what we believe.  Jews throughout history have in fact held many different beliefs about God, about the afterlife, about the cosmos and about human nature.  There simply is no single Jewish dogma.

            That being said, there have been several important attempts to map the outlines of Jewish faith, and none more influential than that of Rabbi Moses ben Maimon in the 12th century.  His Thirteen Articles of Faith were rendered poetically in the song Yigdal.