Judaism✔️ Flashcards
Jews refer to the Hebrew Bible as the
Tanakh
Gods name appears in the Bible in the Hebrew equivalents of the letters
YHWH
He received the law at Mount Sinai and is regarded as the Torah’s author
Moses
It is most accurate to think of the Jews as
An ethnic group that shares a common history and religion
Jews believe that God is
Directly involved in history
Israel was granted statehood in
1948
Torah defines
Worship
Ethical conduct
Jews are considered to be descendants of
The Ancient Israelites (Hebrews)
Throughout history, daily prayer has been mandatory for
Males age 13 and up
The Jewish Sabbath is
Saturday sundown to Sunday sundown
The person who helped free the Israelites in Egypt
Moses
The people who destroyed the Jerusalem temple for the second time in BCE 70
Romans
The people who conquered Palestine and the surrounding area in the 7th century BCE
Muslims
A Jewish philosopher who lived in Muslim Spain during the medieval period and who applied the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle to the biblical tradition and contributed Judaism’s most famous statements of beliefs
Moses Maimorides
The man God called to be the father of a great nation, the first patriarch
Abraham
Greek for “five books”, the Torah
Pentateuch
The persecution of the Jews by German Nazis from 1933-1945
The Holocaust
A building for Jewish worship
Synagogue
The most famous of the 613 laws in the Torah, found in chapter 20 of Exodus
The Ten Commandments
A physical feature that distinguished the Israelites from people of other nations
Circumcision
A teacher of the Torah and leader of the Jewish worship
Rabbi
A movement that was originally committed to the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland, since 1948 generally the support of Israel
Zionism
Literally “instruction”
Torah
Someone who is called to speak for God
Prophet
A coming of age ritual for a Jewish girl
Bat Mitzvah
List and describe the three Modern Institutional Divisions of Judaism.
1) Reform Judaism - Jewish and completely involved in modern society
2) Orthodox Judaism - conform to the Torah, traditional, Torah is standard truth
3) Conservative Judaism - between reform and orthodox, Jewish law is strictly observed
Last the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture
genesis, exodus, Leviticus, numbers, and Deuteronomy
Who ruled the Jews between the end of the Exile and the destruction of the second Temple in BCE 70? How did the Temple’s destruction affect Judaism?
Persia. Started turmoil which lead to three sections of Judaism.
List five of here seven main groups that were persecuted during the Shorah
Jews, homosexuals, physical/ metal handicapped, gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses
