Judaism test Flashcards
True or False? Most jews believed the otah was written by Moses
True
T/F The first commandment is love God with all your heart soul and mind
True
5 things about torah
Torah is the most important writing in Judaism.
It literally means “instruction”
It is the way of god law/rules of Judaism
It is the first 5 books of the Hebrew bible
The majority of Jews believe Moses wrote the Torah
What is the holocast?
It translates to “the Burning”
ix million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this “the final solution to the Jewish question.
The Nazis portrayed the Jews as a race and not as a religious group.
it started 1938-1944
Who was Abraham and what was is deal with god?
Abraham was the first Hebrew patriarch and is revered in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to the Bible, he was called by God to journey to a new land, where he founded a new nation.
God then commanded Abraham and his future generations to perform the ritual of circumcision (brit milah) as a symbol of the covenant.
T/F Circusum was practiced under moses
False it was abraham
when who, what and why were the temples destroyed
These were religious temples where Jews come to pray and worship the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BCE and the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 CE. S
Who was Moses?
Moses is the most important Jewish prophet. He’s traditionally credited with writing the Torah and with leading the Israelites out of Egypt and across the Red Sea. In the book of Exodus, he’s born during a time when the Pharaoh of Egypt has ordered every male Hebrew to be drowned.
What are the Jews?
Jews or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites and Hebrews of historical Israel and Judah
who is Abraham’s grandson?
Jacob/isreal
What kosher foods do they not eat
Lobster
What and what happened at the masuda?
Masada is an ancient stone fortress in Israel, located high above the Dead Sea on a tall, rocky mesa.
Romans started a seige against the fortress, When it became clear that the Romans were going to take over Masada, on April 15, 73 A.D., on the instructions of Ben Yair, all but two women and five children, who hid in the cisterns and later told their stories, took their own lives rather than live as Roman slaves.
What does TNK mean?
T: The Torah the first 5 books of hebrew bible God’s revealed teaching or guidance for humankind.
N: Neviim, Prophets, the second division of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament,
K: Ketuviim he third division writtings of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament. the final section of Tankah
mount sinai
is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God.
Tankah
The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh, is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, including the Torah, the Nevi’im, and the Ketuvim. These texts are almost exclusively in Biblical Hebrew,
