Judaism

Question 1

How many Jews are there worldwide?

Answer 1

15 million

Question 2

What is a shema?

Answer 2

The most important Jewish prayer inside the mezuzah on the door

Question 3

What is the Torah?

Answer 3

Gods word in a book. The most important sacred writing.

Question 4

What is the mezuzah?

Answer 4

Box for the shema.

Question 5

What is the Talmud?

Answer 5

The Talmud is a holy book and is how to use the Torah.

Question 6

What is the yad?

Answer 6

The stick used to read the Torah

Question 7

What is the mantle?

Answer 7

The cloth to cover the Torah

Question 8

What is the Sofer?

Answer 8

The Torah writer

Question 9

What is the Bimah?

Answer 9

The platform in which the reading desk to read the Torah

Question 10

What is the Mitzvot?

Answer 10

God’s given commander

Question 11

What is Shabbat? How is it celebrated?

Answer 11

Shabbat is a day in the week that Jews specifically keep for God and spending time with family and friends. On this day the family says a prayer and then eats a big meal. During Shabbat the family has a list of everything they should and should not do.

Question 12

What does Shabbat give Jews time for?

Answer 12

Rest

Question 13

What does it mean to keep Kosher?

Answer 13

Keeping Kosher is what foods Jews can and can’t eat.

Question 14

Why do Jews only eat Kosher foods?

Answer 14

Jews believe that it is good for your soul.

Question 15

What are the basic laws of Keeping Kosher?

Answer 15

Meat and dairy cannot be mixed, only finned and scaled fish can be eaten, blood must be removed from all meat, a Jewish butcher must slaughter an animal but slitting its throat, only animals with split hooves and that chew their cud may be eaten.

Question 16

Why are Jewish babies given a Hebrew name as well as another name?

Answer 16

Hebrew names have a significance.

Question 17

Explain the process of when a Jewish baby is born.

Answer 17

On the Shabbat after the birth of a girl the father is usually asked to read from the Torah in the synagogue from the Bimah. After 8 days of a Jewish boy being born, he his given his Hebrew name and is circumcised(cutting of the flap of the penis)

Question 18

How do Jews celebrate Bar and Bat Mitzvah? How are they different?

Answer 18

Bar Miztvah’s are the mens coming of age when they are 13. Bat miztvah’s are the women’s coming of age when they are 12. This means that their parents no longer have to care for their religious duties.

Question 19

What is the festival of Pesach?

Answer 19

Passover. It commemorates the Angel of death ‘passing over’ all of the houses without blood on the doors(the freeing of the Jews as slaves in the Egyptian times).

Question 20

What is the sedar meal?

Answer 20

It’s a meal very similar the to one that the freed Jews ate in 1200BC. A roasted egg(new life), parsley(God cared for the Jews when they were freed), Charoset(a paste made from fruit and nuts. Cement used for when Jews biult pyramids), Shankbone( lamb on the doors).

Question 21

What are the 2 different types of Jews?

Answer 21

Progressive Jews(move with the times) and Orthodox Jews(very strict)