Jews consider Abraham to be the first patriarch of the Jewish people (as he was afterwards named). Before Abraham, people believed in multiple gods; Abraham was the first to preach that there is only one God. Ironically, Terach, Abraham's father, had made a fortune by selling idols of several deities.
What faith did Abraham practise prior to Judaism?
Jewish folklore claims that Terach, Abraham's father, was an idol-maker. These bits of wood can't possible be divine, Abraham reasoned when he was left alone to take care of his father's business. He then placed the axe in the hands of the largest idol after having dismantled the others.
Terach was as shocked to find out that his whole inventory had been destroyed as you or I would be. "What have you done, Abraham?"
He replied, "I did nothing, Dad. The biggest idol used the axe to cut down the other idols after they started fighting.
You may say that skepticism was the parent of the Jewish and Muslim
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