Judaism

Question 1

YHWH- Adonai

Answer 1

General term for Lord

Question 2

Yetzer Hatov

Answer 2

The good inclination/instint

Question 3

Yetzer Hara

Answer 3

The evil instinct/inclination

Question 4

Mishnah

Answer 4

The first written recording of the oral Torah of the Jewish people.

Question 5

French Revolution

Answer 5

CA. 1789

• Jews received full citizenship rights in France
• Napoleon abolished the ghettos wherever he went
• They accepted the idea of the American Revolution that, “all men are created equal.”

Question 6

Asherah

Answer 6

Goddess

• Cohort with El
• Female deity

Question 7

El

Answer 7

General term for God

Question 8

Bar Mitzvah

Answer 8

“Son of the Commandment”

-The assumption of responsibility before God for keeping the Torah

Question 9

Bath Mitzvah

Answer 9

“Daughter of the Commandment”

-The assumption of responsibility before God for keeping the Torah

Question 10

Kosher

Answer 10

Body of ritual Jewish law dealing with what foods can and cannot be eaten, and how those foods must be prepared and consumer.

Question 11

Shema

Answer 11

Basic statement of faith from Deuteronomy 6 that begins, “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God.”

Question 12

Tanak

Answer 12

Name for the Hebrew Bible, an acronym formed from the first letters of Torah (the law), Nevi’im (the prophets) and Kethuvim (the writings)

Question 13

Ashkenazic

Answer 13

Jews in midieval and modern times living in Western, Central, and Eastern Europe.

Question 14

Sephardic

Answer 14

Jews in midieval and modern times living in the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain.

Question 15

Maccabean Revolt

Answer 15

Rebellion against Hellenistic Greek rulers led by Judas Maccabeus and his sons.

Question 16

Rabbi

Answer 16

Teachers of the law and successors of the Pharisees who eventually gained influence and judicial authority over Judaism.

Question 17

Synagogue/Temple

Answer 17

“Gathering” of local Jews in a congregational for worship and community life, a term later applied to a building.

Question 18

Torah

Answer 18

Teachings and commandments conveyed by Moses, particularly in the first five books of the bible.

Question 19

Zionism

Answer 19

Modern movement for large Jewish immigrants (immigration) into Palestine

Question 20

Mitzvah

Answer 20

One of the four pillars of Judaism

-A commandment of the Jewish law

Question 21

Hasidic

Answer 21

Of or relation to the Jewish Hasidim or its members of their beliefs and practices.
-A member of a Jewish mystic movement founded in the 18th century in Eastern Europe by Baal Shem Tov that reached against Talmudic learned and maintained that God’s presence was in all of one’s surroundings and that one should serve God in one’s every deed and word.

Question 22

Septuagint (LXX)

Answer 22

Greek translation of the Jewish bible

Question 23

Kabala

Answer 23

A midieval and modern system of Jewish theosophy, mysticism, and thaumaturgy marked by beliefs in creation through emanation and a cipher method of interpreting Scripture

Question 24

Henotheism

Answer 24

Belief and worship of only one God, but accepting the existence of other deities that may also be worshipped

Question 25

Talmud

Answer 25

The collection of ancient Rabbinic writings consisting of the Mishnah, and the Gemara, constituting the basic of religion authority in Orthodox Judaism

Question 26

Varieties of Judaism

Answer 26

• Conservative
• Reconstructionist
• Orthodox
• Reform
• Hasidic

Question 27

Judaism Holidays

Answer 27

• Sabbath
• Passover
• Feast of Weeks
• Rosh Hashanah
• Yom Kippur
• Feast of Tablenacles
• Hanukkah (Feast of Dedication)
• Purim