Social Life

Question 1

What would most ordinary Jewish men work as?

Answer 1

Carpenters
Farmers
Fishermen

Question 2

What did the poor work as?

Answer 2

Shepard’s

Question 3

What were a few employed as?

Answer 3

Tact collectors by the Romans

Question 4

What were boys educated?

Answer 4

In synagogue

-learned working trade from their father

Question 5

At the age of 13 what did the boy become?

Answer 5

An adult or the ‘son of the Law’

Question 6

What did mothers and daughters do?

Answer 6

Looked after the Home

Question 7

What was an important social perspective ?

Answer 7

Have many children -particularly sons

Question 8

For a woman to be childless what was it seen as?

Answer 8

A great sadness and a punishment from God

Question 9

After eight days what happened to the boy?

Answer 9

Was circumcised as a mark of the covenant

Question 10

Who usually arranged marriages ?

Answer 10

The brides parents

Question 11

Was was the duty of everyone?

Answer 11

To be married

- and a bride had to be paid for with a dowry

Question 12

What happened about a year before the actual wedding?

Answer 12

Couple became betrothed

- legal binding agreement, carried out by a formal ceremony and exchange of gifts