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The Torah

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First five books of the Hebrew bible

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Tanakh

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Hebrew Bible

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Hebrews

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People who speak the Hebrew language

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Israelites

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People of Ancient Empire

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Israelis

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Residents of contemporary Israel

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Halacha

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Jewish Law

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Talmud

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Book of Jewish law

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Apocrypha

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non-canonical sources that are not part of the official cannon

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King David

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Father of King Solomon, builds a big empire

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Bath Sheba

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Got pregnant with Kind David’s baby while being married to a general

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Sarah

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Abraham’s wife and mother of Isacc

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Rachel

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Married to Jacob, mother of Benjamin and Jospeh (dies during childbirth of Ben.)

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Deborah

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a prophet and a juge in a mostly all-male society (patriarchy)

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Hannah

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one of the two wives married to Elkanah; mother of Sammuel who is the high Judge of Israel

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Delilah

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Discovered Samson had power in his hair

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Rachel

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Ran a brother and became friends with two spies from the opponents of war; she survived the raid because of it

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Yael

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Killed Sisera in a tent

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Abraham

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Founding father of the covenant

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King Solomon

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Solomon, also called Jedidiah, was a monarch of ancient Israel and the son of King David, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament

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Queen of Sheeba

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Ruled a KIngdom with high status. She also had an affair and a child with King Solomon.

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Esther

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Esther is a young Jewish woman living in the Persian diaspora who finds favor with the king, becomes queen, and risks her life to save the Jewish people from destruction when the court official Haman persuades the king to authorize a pogrom against all the Jews of the empire. She helps save them and gets rid of the axt against the jews.message: when God seems absent, he does not abandon his people.

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Exodus

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the liberation of the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt in the 13th century bce, under the leadership of Moses

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Genesis

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the story of how God created the world and dealt with all humanity until He initiated a personal relationship with their forefather Abraham.

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Old Testament

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he first part of the Christian Bible that tells about the Jews, their history, and God’s words to them in the time before Jesus Christ was born.

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Adam and eve

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our progenitors. They lived in paradise in total innocence until the serpent (the devil) enticed them to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge. As punishment for their disobedience, God banished them from Paradise.the dignity of the human race, and the shame of sin which led to the need for redemption by Christ.

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Garden of Eden

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a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil

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Monotheism

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the doctrine or belief that there is only one Go

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Sabbath

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a day of religious observance and abstinence from work, kept by Jewish people from Friday evening to Saturday evening, and by most Christians on Sunday.

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Ten Commandments

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help us know how to serve God and how we should live with each other.
1. You shall have no other God’s before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images.
3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy.
5. Honor your father and mother.
6. Thou shalt not kill. — God wants us to protect human life.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. — This means husbands and wives should be faithful to one another.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shall not bear false witness.
10. You shall not covet.

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Kosher

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Land animals must have cloven (split) hooves and must chew the cud, meaning that they must eat grass.
Seafood must have fins and scales. Eating shellfish is not allowed.
It is forbidden to eat birds of prey. Only clean birds, meaning birds that do not eat other animals, can be eaten. Poultry is allowed.
Meat and dairy cannot be eaten together, as it says in the
Torah
: do not boil a kid in its mother’s milk (Exodus 23:19). So Jews who follow these dietary rules cannot eat cheeseburgers for example. Often this rule is extended further, so that people wait up to six hours after eating meat before they eat dairy.

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Hager

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handmaid of Abraham’s wife, Sarah. As the story goes, Sarah was barren, so Hagar was tasked with bearing a son by Abraham-son- Ishmael.

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Ten Plagues

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water turning to blood, frogs, lice, flies, livestock pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness and the killing of firstborn children. T

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First Temples

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the Temple of Solomon-long ago on the spot where God created Adam, the first man.

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Second Temples

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a relatively modest structure built by Jews who had returned from exile in Babylon under the authority of Persian

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Passover

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“passing over” of the forces of destruction, or the sparing of the firstborn of the Israelites, when the Lord “smote the land of Egypt” on the eve of the Exodus
the celbration of when the Israelites were freed

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Covenant

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a contract, treaty, or a will. Each covenant established the basis of a relationship, conditions for that relationship, promises and conditions of the relationship and consequences if those conditions were unmet.

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Moses

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a prophet who receives the Ten Commandments from Yahweh/God. Earlier in his story, he is responsible for leading the Israelites out of slavery and parting the Red Sea to let them escape from the Egyptians.