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1
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What does Judaism put great emphasis on?

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Group identity

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What do observant Jews do out of reverence?

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Avoid speaking God’s name

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What did the Pharisees focus?

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The Torah rather than the Temple

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4
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What was the relationship between Jews and Muslims?

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They lived in peace and prosperity in Spain and Poland during the medieval period.

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What does the Kabbalah observe?

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Basic forms of Jewish practice such as keeping the commandments and the Torah

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6
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What do Jewish mystics focus on?

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The ultimate transcendence of God than the immanence of God

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True or false: Large Hidasic communities still exist today

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True

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8
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Fewer than half the worlds Jew live in Israel? T or F

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Trie

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9
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T or F: Orthodox Judaism rejects all aspects of modernity

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False

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10
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Is conservative Judaism relaxed or strict?

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Strict

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11
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What is Judaism more concerned with: correct practice or correct belief?

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Correct Practice

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12
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Who is required to wear certain accessories while praying?

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Males

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13
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Is Judaism one of the smallest or biggest world religions?

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Smallest

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14
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What is the Hebrew equivalent of Gods name?

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YHWH

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15
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Who revealed the five books of the Torah?

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God and Moses

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16
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What are the 5 books of the Torah a summary of?

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The entire Hebrew Bible

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17
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What do Jew refer to the Hebrew Bible as?

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Tanakh

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Who receieved the Law at Mount Sinai and is regarded as the Torah’s author?

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Moses

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19
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It is more accurate to think of Jews as:

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An ethnic group that shares a common history and religion

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20
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Jew believe that God is:

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Directly involved in History

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21
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The second large-scale revolt the Jews waged against Romans ended when the Romans:

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-Leveled Jerusalem

Decreed that Jew could no-longer inhabit Palestine

22
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Israel was granted statehood in what year?

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1948

23
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What does the Torah define?

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Worship and ethical conduct

24
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Who conquered Palestine and the surrounding area in the 7th century A.D?

A

Muslims

25
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Who was the man that was called to be the Father of the great nation?

A

Abraham

26
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Who helped to free Israelites from slavery?

A

Moses

27
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Who was Abrahams granson?

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Jacob

28
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Who was the Israelite king whom Jews have always regarded a prototype for the Messiah?

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David

29
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Who built the temple in Jerusalem?

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Soloman

30
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Who conquered the northern kingdom in Israel?

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Assyrians

31
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Who conquered the southern kingdom in Judah?

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Babylonians

32
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Who destroyed the Jerusalem temple for the second time?

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Romans

33
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Who was Moses Maimonides?

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A Jewish philosopher that lived in Muslim Spain during the medieval period and applied the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle to the biblical tradition and contributed to Judaism

34
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What does Torah mean?

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Instruction: the will of God as it is revealed to humankind

35
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What does Pentateuch mean?

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It Greek for the five books of the Torah

36
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What are the Ten Commandments?

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The most famous of the 613 laws of the Torah

37
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What is a synagogue?

A

A building of Jewish worship

38
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What is a prophet?

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A person who is called to speak for God

39
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What is the Mishnah?

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The starting point rabbinic study of the oral Torah

40
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What is the Talmud?

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The vast depository of blending together the oral and written forms of the Torah

41
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What is Diaspora?

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The situation of Jews living away from their homeland

42
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What is the Zohar?

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The most famous text of Jewish mysticism?

43
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What is the Kabbalah?

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Jewish mysticism, which teaches that God can be best known from the heart

44
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What is Hasidism?

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A form of Judaism that arose in 18th-century eastern Europe and emphasized mysticism

45
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What is Zionism?

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A movement that was originally the committed to the re-establishment of Jewish homeland

46
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The Holocaust?

A

The persecution of Jews by German Nazis resulting in the murder of 16 million Jews
Sometimes called the Shoah

47
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What is a Rabbi?

A

A teacher of the Torah

48
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What is Seder?

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The high point of the Passover festival

49
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What does Yom Kipper emphasize?

A

Repentance

50
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What circumcision?

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A physical feature that distinguishes Israelites from people of other nations

51
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What is a Bat Mitzvah?

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A coming of age ceremony for a Jewish girl

52
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What is Kaddish?

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A prayer of mourning

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