Judaism

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is a promise that God made with Abraham

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Covenant

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is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe.

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Diaspora_

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is the dispersion of Israelites or Jews out of their ancient ancestral homeland and their subsequent settlement in other parts of the globe.

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Diaspora_

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God gave Moses a set of ten laws that they should follow in order to please him.

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Te3n Commandments

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the name given to two black leather boxes (singular: ‘tefillah’) with straps which are put on by adult Jews for weekday morning prayers, and are worn on the forehead and upper arm

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Tefillin

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a future Jewish king from the Davidic line, who is expected to save the Jewish nation, and will be anointed with holy anointing oil and rule the Jewish people during the Messianic Age

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Messiah

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in Hebrew means hand, which also reflects the use of the object. The pointer is used by the reader to indicate their place during a reading of the Torah (Jewish scriptures), which happens during prayer, or on holy days such as Sukkot.

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Yad

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a skullcap worn especially by Orthodox and Conservative Jewish males in the synagogue and the home

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Kippah/Yarmulke

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a community house of worship that serves as a place not only for liturgical services but also for assembly and study

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Synagogue

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Black Hebrew Israelites are a new religious movement claiming that African Americans are descendants of the ancient Israelites. Some sub-groups believe that Native and Latin Americans are descendants of the Israelites as well.

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Hebrew/Israelite

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a person qualified by academic studies of the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud to act as spiritual leader and religious teacher of a Jewish community or congregation.

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Rabbi

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to worship one god while denying the existence of other gods

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Monotheistic

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a monotheistic religion, believing in one god. It is not a racial group. Individuals may also associate or identify with Judaism primarily through ethnic or cultural characteristics. Jewish communities may differ in belief, practice, politics, geography, language, and autonomy.

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Jewish Beliefs

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the process by which non-Jews adopt the Jewish religion and become members of the Jewish ethno religious community

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Converting to Judaism

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is a Jewish festival commemorating the recovery of Jerusalem and subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE.the most solemn religious fast of the Jewish year, the last of the ten days of penitence that begin with Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year).

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Hanukkah

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commemorates the slavery of the Israelites in Egypt and their ultimate exodus to freedom

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Passover

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means fit or proper. Kosher food is any food fit for consumption by Jewish people. The laws of kosher define which foods a person can and cannot eat, and also how they should produce and handle certain foods.

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Kosher

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a coming of age ceremony for Jewish boys and girls when they reach the age of 12 or 13.

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Bar/Bat Mitzvah

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The name of God used most often in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton (Hebrew: יהוה, romanized: YHWH). Jews traditionally do not pronounce it, and instead refer to God as HaShem, literally “the Name”. In prayer, the Tetragrammaton is substituted with the pronunciation Adonai, meaning “My Lord”.

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God/G-d/YHVH

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a promise that God made with Abraham

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Abraham-first covenant

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When Moses and his people reached Mount Sinai on the way to the Promised Land, God spoke to Moses. It was there that God made a covenant with Moses and the Jewish people that renewed the one he had made with Abraham. At the same time, God gave the Jews the Ten Commandments - a set of rules by which they should live.

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Moses-second covenant

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Its earliest origins can be traced back to the Old Testament of the Bible, where it means “he will add” in Hebrew. In the Old Testament, Joseph appears in its Hebrew form Yosef as the favored 11th son of Jacob.

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Joseph

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the third king of the United Kingdom of Israel.

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David

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“God is Salvation”), also known as Isaias or Esaias, was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named. Isaiah.

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Isaiah

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Hebrew prophet who ranks with Moses in saving the religion of Yahweh from being corrupted by the nature worship of Baal. Elijah’s name means “Yahweh is my God” and is spelled Elias in some versions of the Bible.

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Elijah

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The Torah is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, namely the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. In that sense, Torah is the Pentateuch or the Five Books of Moses. It is also known in the Jewish tradition as the Written Torah.

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Torah

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The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, also known in Hebrew as Miqra, is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah, the Nevi’im, and the Ketuvim.

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Tanakh/Bible

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The Talmud is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism and the primary source of Jewish religious law and Jewish theology.

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Talmud