Judaism✔️

Question 0

Jews refer to the Hebrew Bible as the

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Tanakh

Question 1

Gods name appears in the Bible in the Hebrew equivalents of the letters

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YHWH

Question 2

He received the law at Mount Sinai and is regarded as the Torah’s author

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Moses

Question 3

It is most accurate to think of the Jews as

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An ethnic group that shares a common history and religion

Question 4

Jews believe that God is

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Directly involved in history

Question 5

Israel was granted statehood in

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1948

Question 6

Torah defines

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Worship

Ethical conduct

Question 7

Jews are considered to be descendants of

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The Ancient Israelites (Hebrews)

Question 8

Throughout history, daily prayer has been mandatory for

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Males age 13 and up

Question 9

The Jewish Sabbath is

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Saturday sundown to Sunday sundown

Question 10

The person who helped free the Israelites in Egypt

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Moses

Question 11

The people who destroyed the Jerusalem temple for the second time in BCE 70

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Romans

Question 12

The people who conquered Palestine and the surrounding area in the 7th century BCE

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Muslims

Question 13

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

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Moses Maimorides

Question 14

The man God called to be the father of a great nation, the first patriarch

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Abraham

Question 15

Greek for “five books”, the Torah

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Pentateuch

Question 16

The persecution of the Jews by German Nazis from 1933-1945

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The Holocaust

Question 17

A building for Jewish worship

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Synagogue

Question 18

The most famous of the 613 laws in the Torah, found in chapter 20 of Exodus

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The Ten Commandments

Question 19

A physical feature that distinguished the Israelites from people of other nations

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Circumcision

Question 20

A teacher of the Torah and leader of the Jewish worship

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Rabbi

Question 21

A movement that was originally committed to the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland, since 1948 generally the support of Israel

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Zionism

Question 22

Literally “instruction”

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Torah

Question 23

Someone who is called to speak for God

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Prophet

Question 24

A coming of age ritual for a Jewish girl

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Bat Mitzvah

Question 25

List and describe the three Modern Institutional Divisions of Judaism.

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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

Question 26

Last the first five books of the Hebrew Scripture

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genesis, exodus, Leviticus, numbers, and Deuteronomy

Question 27

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?

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Persia. Started turmoil which lead to three sections of Judaism.

Question 28

List five of here seven main groups that were persecuted during the Shorah

Answer 28

Jews, homosexuals, physical/ metal handicapped, gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses