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Judiasm Flashcards

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Bar bat mitzvah

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Coming of age ceremony initiated into adult ritual responsibilities first for boys some now for girls (bat)

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Bris

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Removal of foreskin from 8 day old infant

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Covenant

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An agreement

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The first Covenant was

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God and Abraham - circumcision of boys

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Diaspora

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Jewish world outside of ancient Israel

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This began with the Babylonian exile

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Diaspora

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Penateuch

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First five books of Hebrew bible

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Documentary hypothesis

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Theory that the first five books of the Hebrew bible was not written by one person (Moses) but compiled over a long period with multiple sources

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The exile

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Deportation of Jewish leaders from Jerusalem by the babylonians 586 BCE

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What marked the transition from Israelite religion to Judaism

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The exile

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Hebrew bible

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Canonical collection of Jewish texts

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Holocost

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Burnt offering- burnt sacrifice - ancient sacrifice mandated in Hebrew bible

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Holocost

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Persecution and murder of 6 million European Jews by nazis - WW2

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12 Tribes

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Descendents of Jacob the Hebrew patriarch

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Kabbalah

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Midevil Jewish mystical tradition

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Kippah

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Dome or cap

Hebrew for skullcap

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Kosher

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Food that is ritually acceptable

All rabbinic regulations re animal slaughter have been observed

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Passover

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Major spring festival

Agricultural rebirth

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Rabbi

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Teacher - expert in Torah interpretation - after 2nd temple destruction rabbi is scholarly and spiritual leader of Jewish congegation

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Rabbinic movement

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Legal teachers who becane dominant voices of Judaism after the destruction of the temple

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Rosh Hoshanah

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New year festival - september

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Sabbath

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Sundown Friday to sundown saturday - day of rest

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Synagogue

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Place of assembly for congregational worship

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Halakha

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Collective body of Jewish religious laws from written and oral torah

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Hasidism

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Jewish religious group devotion to dynastic leader wearing distinctive clothing and greater than average study of torah

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Messiah

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Future heroic figure will rescue the righteous judge the wicked restore peace in the world

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Messiah

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The anointed one

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Mitzvah

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A commandment - rabbinic movement identified 613

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Tallith

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Prayer shawl traditionally worn by men

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Yom kipper

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Day of atonement
10 days after rosh hasanah
Day for reflection of one’s conduct

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Zionism

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Movement for the re establishment of a homeland - protect
Toon of a Jewish nation
Israel

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Get

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Hebrew for divorce documebt

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This commemorates the exodus the time when Moses led the Israelites from slavery in egypt

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Hanukkah

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Celebrates purification and rededication of the temple

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Celebrates divine deliverance through divine intervention

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Current day hannukkah

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Reminder of an earlier victory in the struggle for national liberation from foreign oppressors

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Tenants of Hasidic movemebt

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Communicate with god thru humanity good deeds prayer and joy - importance of mutual help forbearance and other virtues

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Tallit

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Prayer shawl

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Kippah

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Tefillin

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Prayer garb - 2 small black boxes that ho,d passages from the scripture - long leather straps

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This is intended to fulfill the commandment to bind the words of Torah upon the hand and —— between the eyes

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How did nazis justify their antisemitism

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Blamed Jews for Germany’s economic problems - afraid Jews would sully their superiority

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A factor in Nazi success

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Long history of European Christianities tradition of seeing Jews as Christ killers - used New Testament to support these views

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Final Solution

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Kill the Jews

45
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Actions nazis took

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Cruel laws; took away national identity; looted their homes and businesses; took away livelihoods; work and concentration camps; gas chambers killed 6 million

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The UN response after WW 2

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UN voted to partition Palestine create two states 1 Jewish 1 Arab

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4 sects that emerged during enlightenment period

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Sadducees Pharisees Essenes Zealots

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Four covenants were made with god and

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Noah
Abraham
Moses
David

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Covenant between god and Noah

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Arc - flood - Noah could not consume life blood of animals and avoid shedding blood of another person
And god will not bring another floods destroy living things

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Symbol of first covenant

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God and Abraham. Meaning of Circumcision

Patriarchal period

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Specifically applies to people
Begin privileged relationship with one god
Circumcision sign of commitment to Jewish religion

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Covenant mount Sinai

Moses

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Obey gods commandments

613 mitzvot - commandments of Torah

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Covenant between god and David

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Promised a messiah of davidic lineage would always rule over people of Israel

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Hellenism

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Influx of Greek ideas and customs that influenced Jewish traditions

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Sadducee

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Upper crust
Only Torah is legitimate
No angels

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Pharisees

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Lower ranking priestly families
Recognized Torah and oral Torah
Angels do exist

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Essenes

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Lived in seclusion
Stressed ritual purity
Celibate
God would one day see them as the only legitimate Jewish community

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Zealots

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Fiercely resistant to foreign occupation of Judea
Rebelled against Roman authority
God alone should be king in judea

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Mishnah and Gemara are parts of

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The Talmud

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Four movements in Judaism

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Orthodox
Conservative
Reform
Reconstructionist

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Talmud

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All commentaries on Jewish scripture

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Shared beliefs of Jewish identity

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God is the creator unique formless eternal
Veracity of words of prophets
God gave law to Moses
Messiah will come someday and redeem humankind
The good will be resurrected once the messiah has restored the world

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