Book 5 - Religion and Family Flashcards
Brit Milah (Circumcision)
- sign of covenant with Abraham, shows he is a Jew
- Mohel (trained circumcisor, in the synagogue
- On the 8th day of birth
- Godmother (sandek) gives to Godfather, name given to baby
- Wine, Kiddush, a drop baby’s lips, then party
Naming ceremony for a girl
- Synagogue, father reads Torah
- Some when the girl is born, first Shabbat or 30 days
-Party
Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah Basis
- Responsibility for their religion (law & tradition) and morals (ethics)
- Following the 613 Mitzvot
- Conincides with puberty
Bar Mitzvah Ceremony
- Preparation (Attending Shabbat, learning Hebrew, Chanting Torah, using the Ritual dress, community service
- Father thanks God for being freed of responsibility
- Boy puts on tallit, Tefillin and Kippur
- Reads the Sefer Torah and may give a talk on its importance
- Party
Bat Mitzvah/Chayil
Reform Jews
- Same as the Bar Mitzvah
Conservative
- No reading of the Sefer Torah or leading prayer services
- Lecture on a Jewish topic, or researchpaper
Orthodox
- Means daughter of Valor
- Takes place at home, or at synagogue with only women
- Sunday not Shabbat
- NO reading of Sefer Torah
- Read a book other than the Tenakh
- Presents and a party
Marriage Importance and part 1 of marriage
- Souls and man and woman merge into a single soul
- Conservative and Reform recognise gay marriage
- In a synagogue (both must be Jewish)
- Not on Shabbat
Kiddushin Engagement - Ring exchanged, Ketubah Contract (Man bound, women has no promises, for bride’s future security)
Part 2 of Marriae
Nissu’in (Ceremony)
- Huppah (Couple stands under the huppah, showing the home they will live in)
- 7 Blessings, Rabbi, Chazzan, special guests
- Breaking of wine glass (Destruction of the Temple)
- Party
Funeral Rites
- Burial Society care for the dying and prepare the dead
- Lay Body on gorund, wash it, dress body in simple white clothes
Burial
- No embalming or cremation (for Orthodox)
7 Stages
- Working too Hard, trust in Money, injustice of the world, denial of pleasure
- Short lived political power, relationships, all must die
- Dirt thrown on casket, for closure, wash hands to move on with life
Ritual of Mourning
- Too little or too much mourning is bad
1. Tearing of clothes (true sorrow)
2. Shiva - 7, mourners stay at home and do not have to do anything, only to go to Shabbat.
-Jewish Festival takes priority
3. sheloshim, 30 days, no big event, then back to normal life
4. ONLY IF A PARENT, until 1 year annivesari, recite the Kaddusg each month, lit candle, memorial stone on grave
Treyfah foods
- Food that may be eaten
- Opposite is Treyfah
Examples are - Pigs, rabbits, camels, Eagles, vultures, shellfish or osyers, unwashed vegetables and eggs, meals with milk and meat, Blood
Reasons for Kashrut
- Health (e,g Milk and Meat)
- Respect to Nature
- Customs of Middle East (Camels are useful, pigs are not food efficient
- Discipline in food, leads to values
- Torah says so
- Call to Holiness, all of life is prayer, as well as eating
- Kashrut separates Jews from others (culture)
- Kashrut calls Jews to purity and in obedience
Kashrut Clothings vs Treyfah
- No mixing
- God is 1, everything is distinct, not symbolic mixture (like marriage)
- Shatnez (linen and wool)
- Modesty, Ecology (humanely) and Fair trade
Roles of Family
- Parents are seen as partners in God’s creation of each human being, both raising a child to be kind and generous, and grow up as faithful Jew
Hasidic Jews - Boys receive religious education, Girls Loyal wives and mothers, large families
Orthodox - Only males go to Friday evenin Shabbat
- Women are not involved in the service of Shabbat
Conservative - Approve of same sex couples and rabbis
Nurturing the young
-Parents teach their children about Judaism and duties as Jews
- Children to be a mensch, kind responsible and honourable
- Parents provide for the children with food, a house clothes and education and support them
- Children are exposed to Jewish practices and traditions to become better Jews, an interest
Care of Elderly
- Children tend to Parent’s needs
- May only place them in their own home or a facility if they cannot care for them, themselves, or if the parents are happier to to not be in the child’s home
- Grandchildren can interact with grandparents, and maybe help them,
- Jewish respoect and honour, to learn about the care of relatives
- Honour your father and thy mother
