Judaism Flashcards
No single founder or central leader
Both a race and an ethnicity
Abrahamic Religion
Judaism
According to the Jewish law, if your ______ is jewish, so are you
Mother
Ethical monotheism
There is only one God that provides one ethical guide
Omniscience and omnipotence
All powerful
Transcendence
God is not of flesh
Immanence
God connects people through prayer
Tanakh
The Hebrew bible (old testament in christianity)
Includes the Torah
Torah
In the Tanakh
First five books of the bible
- Genesis
-Exodus
-Leviticus
- Numbers
Talmud
Explains and analyzes the torah, the oral teachings and commentary of Jewish leaders in one book.
Pre-dates Judaism
Mesopotamian myths
The great flood and Noah’s Arch
Abraham
-The Father of Judaism
- Circumcision and sacrifice of Isaac
-Abraham->Isaac->Jacob
Jacob and the tribes of Israel
Israelites
Moses
Leads Israelites out of Egypt and parts the sea
-Gets the 10 commandments from Mt Sanai
Temple periods
The first and second temples were destroyed
Western Wall
Last piece of the second temple
A very holy place
Rabbinical Judaism
-Developed after the destruction of the second temple
- Judaism migrated from a temple based religion to a rabbi- centered one
-Biblical and rabbinical Judaism emphasizes the relationship of god with Israel
-Home is where many practice their religion
Synagogue
Where the Torah is studied
-Torah must be copied by hand into a scroll
Medieval Jewish context
Muslim empires= Jews are people of the book
Christian Europe= Jewish people must life in Ghettos
- Frequently persecuted
-“Christ Killers”
Reform Judaism
Modern adaptations to Judaism
Shoah
The holocaust
-“How could god do this?”
Zionism
Dream of Jews having a refuge/safe land
Orthodox
Intense study of the Torah, follows Halacha to a tea
Conservative
Embraces Jewish Law but are flexible “Middle ground”
Reform
Change and adaptation to views of modern world
Secular Jews
Non religious Jews
