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Not really sure how Judaism is consistent with libertarian tenets. There are certain rules about when you can and can't work, and rules about the rich leaving some of their produce for the poor, and stuff like that, not to mention strict rules about land designations and the jubilee. Though to be fair, I'm not entirely sure how that's put into practice by the various streams of modern Judaism
To start, they include an economic scheme in the religion, which already says a lot about the (correct) importance they give to economy not merely culturally but right from the very religious texts. The texts contemplate the basic principle of private property and exchange, and they make a crucial distinction on how they approach wealth respect to christianity: while christians thank god for the wealth they have, jews thank god for giving them strength to be able to have wealth. So while in christianity the only way to have wealth is by god's mercy, in judaism it's entirely up to yourself, and having wealth is not a discretional, seldom act of god's mercy, but an actively human act god expects you to do. That is: wealth is a good thing and something you should look after, not a bad thing and something you should refrain from as in christianity. All of those basic principles align fundamentally with libertarianism and, further, with capitalism.
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