JS: Jewish Sects Flashcards
אמורה
Post Talmudic rabbi from the Mishnah
תנא
A rabbi from the mishnaic time
חז״ל
A rabbi that lived in the On my way! Of the mishnah and Gemara
גמרא
Commentary on Mishnah
משנה
Oral law
תלמוד
has Mishnah and Gemara
תורה
Written Torah and oral Torah,Jewish bible
תנ״ך
תורה, נביאים, כתובים
Torah, prophets, writings
תורה שבכתב
Written Torah
תורה שבעל פה
Oral Torah
קבלה/שמועה/מסורה
Traditions from Sinai
הלכה למשה מסיני
Law from god to Moses
גזירה
Laws made by rabbis for fence around the Torah
סייג לתורה
Fence around the Torah, rules to protect rules from Torah
תקנה
Laws from rabbis for life
מנהג
Custom
דאורייתא/דרבנן
Jewish law between two types of laws
הלכה
Jewish law
מצוה
Commandment
Pharisees
Believed in oral Torah
Sadducees
Believe I literal Torah
Essenes
Dead Sea sect, against Hasmoneans, mostly men
KNOW CHART
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How do the Karaites interpret laws differently?
They believed in literal Torah, similar to the Sadducees
Origin of Ashkenazi
France, Germany, Eastern Europe
Origin of Sephardic
Spain, Portugaul, North Africa, Middle East
Origin of mizrachi
North Africa, Middle East
Difference between Ashkenazi and Sephardic practices
On Pesach: Sephardic eat rice peanuts and beans and Ashkenazi don’t
Sephardic torahs stand up
Differences between chasidim and mitnagim
The two sects always opposed eachother
Chasidim:make other personal experienese route o god
Mitnagim: opposed them
Population of many different Jewish communities
Israel: more Sephardic
North America: more Ashkenazic
