Judaism

Question 1

Abraham

Answer 1

Was called by God to renounce worship of many gods and live by faith in one God. God promises him land. God asks him to be circumsized, and sacrifice son Isacc. Angel intrevenes says his intention was sufficient.

Question 2

What is the covenant?

Answer 2

Covenant means contract. In Genisis 17 God made a covenant with Abraham that he would protext the people and give them their land if the people would reamin faithful to God. Primary sogn of covenant between God and Jews is circumcision, a practice borrowed from the ancient near east. The covenant binds people to God and to each other. The creator mand a covenant to maintain his creation.

Question 3

Who is moses?

Answer 3

Judaism was founded by him by revelation at Mount Sinai more than 3200 years ago.

Question 4

What is the Tanakh?

Answer 4

It is the Hebree bible made up of:

1. Torah “Teaching”
2. Nevi’im “Prophets”
3. Ketuvim “Writings”

Question 5

What is passover?

Answer 5

The festival of passover commemorates the Exodus. Today, Passover takes place over a nymber of days. In Canada, it began on April 23, 2016 and will begin on April 11 in 2017. The Seder is an important part of passover. Seder is a meal that take place on the first night. People retell story of exodus.

Question 6

What is the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah?

Answer 6

When Solomon died, 10 of 12 tribea formed the kingdom of Israel in the north and 2 tribes formed the Kingdom of Judah in the south.

Question 7

What is Hanukkah?

Answer 7

The celebration for when in 165 BCE the Maccabeans purged the temple ruled by Antiochus IV that followed paganism and the worship of Zeus and re-instituted their own worship.

Question 8

What is Midrash?

Answer 8

After the Hebrew Bible became fixed in the early centuries of the Common Era, commentaries begain to appear. People asked, ‘What do these texts mean?’ Midrash (“seeking out”) is Biblical commentary (3rd-6th centuries CE) to understand it and resolve contradictions.

Question 9

What is Mishnah?

Answer 9

Oral traditions were organized to produce Mishnah (“repitition”). The Mishnah is the first written account of the Oral Torah.

Question 10

What is Gemara?

Answer 10

Gemara (“supplement”) is commentary on Mishnah.

Question 11

What is the Talmud?

Answer 11

The Talmud is a combination of Midrash and Gemera (6th century CE).

Question 12

What is Zionism?

Answer 12

A movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.

Question 13

What is Shoah?

Answer 13

Another term for holocaust.

Question 14

What is Yom Kippur?

Answer 14

Is a festival marking the Day of Atonement.

Question 15

What is Kosher?

Answer 15

A dietary practices in Judaism.

Question 16

What is the Torah?

Answer 16

Made up of the first 5 books of the Tanakh: Genisis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Dueteronomy. The content is the history of Judaism. There are prophet figures where God reveals himself to the world. Most familiar to Jews what they chant in the synagogue. 613 commandments that are obligations mandated by God (dietary laws, morals, governance, etc.) Word of God given to Moses at Mount Sinai and the text is taken literally.

Question 17

What is exodus?

Answer 17

The 2nd book in the Torah marks the exodus event. Slave revolt and birth of Jewish people. This is when Moses frees the Jews from the Egyptians as God parts the red sea. Jews start following false Gods and God punishes them to wander the desert for 40 years. Sla

Question 18

What is a Synagogue?

Answer 18

A place for meeting and praying. Greek term meaning “house of assembly”

Question 19

What is a rabbi?

Answer 19

A person to read from scripture.

Question 20

What is the Pentateuch?

Answer 20

The first 5 books of the bible.

Question 21

Qhat is YHWH?

Answer 21

Yahweh, the god of the Israelites, whose name was revealed to Moses as four Hebrew consonants (YHWH) called the tetragrammaton. ancient israelites evolved from polutheism of Cqnaanites into followers of one diety from Hebrew bible.

Question 22

What is the Shabbot?

Answer 22

This is the jewish Sabath, which is the weekly holy day that begins on sundown Friday. Jews remember the Biblicalcreation of the heavens and the earth in six daysandthe Exodusof the Hebrews, and look forward to a futureMessianic Age.

Question 23

What are the patriarch?

Answer 23

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, known as the Patriarchs, are both the physical and spiritual ancestors of Judaism. They founded the religion now known as Judaism, and their descendants are the Jewish people.

Question 24

What is Kabbalah?

Answer 24

Kabbalah(Hebrew:קַבָּלָה‬, literally “parallel/corresponding,” or “received tradition”[1][2]) is anesotericmethod, discipline, and school of thought that originated in Judaism.

Question 25

What is genesis?

Answer 25

Geneis means origins. It is the biblical roots of Judaism and the story of creation. Genisis 1: The first creation account presents God as intellegent, active, and masculine power who overcomes primeval chaos to create order, God imposes seperations of light/dark and land/water and completes his work in stages over 6 days and rests on the 7th day. Genesis 2: The second creation account focus on Adam and Eve and their dillemma in the garden of Eden. Adam is to live in tge Garden as a caretaker. Adam created out of dust and God’s breath and eve out of Adam’s rib. Forbids them to eat from two trees that He needs for nourishment. Eve eats from one of the trees and encourages adam to and God expels them from the Garden.

Question 26

What is the oral torah?

Answer 26

According to RabbinicJudaism, theOral TorahorOral Law(Hebrew: תורה שבעל פה‬,Torahshe-be-`al peh, lit. “Torahthat is on the mouth”) represents those laws, statutes, and legal interpretations that were not recorded in the Five Books of Moses, the “WrittenTorah”

Question 27

What is sin?

Answer 27

The say sin is the greatest problem, and they don’t believe in original sin. “To go astray” and not follow jewish law.