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Jewish Flashcards

1
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What is the approximate worldwide Jewish population today?

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14 Million

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2
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What does the word “rabbi” mean in Judaism?

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Teacher

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What are the three sections of the Hebrew Bible? (Tanakh)

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  • The Law
  • The Prophets
  • The Writings
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What is the Pentateuch?

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The 5 Books of Moses

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What word refers to rabbinic commentary on or interpretation of Jewish Biblical text?

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Midrash

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Where can we find the earliest reference to the people of Israel outside the Bible?

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The victory stela of Egyptian pharaoh

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7
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The word Jew originally referred to those belonging to what?

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A particular territory

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What do traditional Jews believe about the origins of the Torah?

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It was divinely revealed to Moses

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According to the Documentary Hypothesis, what do textual inconsistencies in the Hebrew Bible reveal?

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Indicators of different sources of the text

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10
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What was the earliest Jewish material to have been written down?

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The Torah

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What does the Jewish festival of Passover commemorate?

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The liberation of Israelites from slavery in Egypt

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What is the specific term used to describe the relationship between the Israelites and their God?

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Covenant

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13
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Most scholars now understand the Israelite acquisition of Canaan, as described in the book of Joshua, to have been accomplished through which of the following?

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Settlement rather than military conquest

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Following the death of King Solomon, when Israel split in two, what name did the southern kingdom use?

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Judah

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The Babylonian Exile marks the beginning of which of the following?

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The Jewish Diaspora

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What term refers to the period of Jewish history that followed the Babylonian Exile?

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Second Temple Period

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Why is the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible known as the Septuagint?

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It was translated by 70 Jewish sages who, according to legend, independently produced the same text.

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What does the word Sabbath mean in Judaism?

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Seventh Day

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19
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The kings of the Hasmonean dynasty in ancient Israel were descendants of whom?

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The Maccabees

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20
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What does the Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorate?

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The rededication of the temple bu the Maccabees

21
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Who were the two major first century Jewish groups?

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The Sadducees and the Pharisees

22
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When did the Romans destroy the Second Temple?

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70 CE

23
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According to rabbinic tradition, the Oral Torah originated with whom?

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Moses

24
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What is the Hebrew word for commandment?

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Mitzvah

25
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What was the result of the Bar Kochba revolt in 132-135 CE?

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It failed miserably

26
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How did rabbinic Halakah treat the status of women?

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As subordinate to men

27
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The Jewish Talmud is composed primarily of what?

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Mishnah and Gemrah

28
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In rabbinic literature, what is Aggadab

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Narrative material

29
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After the Bar Kochba revolt, where were Judaism’s two main rabbinic centres?

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Palestine and Babylonia

30
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Sephardim is a designation for descendants of Jews from where?

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Spain and Portugal

31
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The Ashkenazic Jewish community uses the what language?

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Yiddish

32
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What did Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides emphasize?

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Rational Philosophy

33
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In Kabbalah, what term refers to the ten aspects or emanations of God’s power?

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Sefirot

34
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Who was the founder of Hasidic Judaism?

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The Baal Shem Tov

35
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What did the eighteenth century Haskalah movement in Judaism seek to do?

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Help jews integrate into European society

36
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In the eighteenth century, what did Moses Mendelssohn urge German Jews to do?

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Be a jew at home, and a German on the Street

37
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Which of the following is NOT a modern branch of Judaism?

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Pharisaic

38
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Which of the following is true of Reform Jews?

A

They do not generally keep kosher dietary laws

39
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What do the Jewish dietary laws stipulate?

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The foods that are acceptable, how they are to be cooked, and the types that may be eaten together in the same meal

40
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The Reconstructionist movement in in Judaism developed primarily out of which other modern Jewish movement?

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Conservative movement

41
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In modern snyagogues, the Holy Ark where the Torah scrolls are kept, symbolizes what?

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The place that stored the tablets given to Moses at Mount Sinai

42
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What term refers to a group of ten adult males who make up a quorum for Jewish public prayer?

A

Minyan

43
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What is the name of the celebration of the Jewish New Year?

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Rosh Hashanah

44
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What is the Hebrew term used to refer to the Holocaust?

A

Shoah

45
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What act on September 15, 1935 resulted in the revoking of Jews’ German citizenship and the deprival of their legal and economic rights?

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The passage of the Nuremberg Laws

46
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When did the state of Israel come into being?

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May 14, 1948

47
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In Judaism, what prayer is recited by the children of the deceased after his or her burial?

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The Kaddish

48
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What ritual happens at the conclusion of Jewish wedding?

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The breaking of the glass

49
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In Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism, when is a child considered Jewish?

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If either parent is Jewish, as long as the child is raised as a Jew and adopts a Jewish identity

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