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What year was the Spanish expulsion
1492
What year the french revolution
1789
During the golden age of Spain how were the Jews treated?
Quite well, they were excepted, wealthy and happy
When the Christians conquered Spain what rules did Jews have to follow ?
They were forced to wear a yellow star
What choice were the Jews given under the Catholics ?
Baptism or death
What were Jews who converted from Judaism to Christianity called?
New Christians
What is a Marrano?
They were Jews who pretended to convert to Christianity but were secretly Jewish
What are old Christians ?
People who has always been christian
Who was the king and queen during the Spanish Inquisition ?
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand
What was the Spanish Inquisition ?
A court of law who tried to find out if Christians were following christian law
Who was the head of the Spanish Inquisition ?
Tomas Torquemada
What is a Martyr
Someone who died for their beliefs
What is the Missionary Activity ?
Christians who want to convert Jews to Christianity
What do Jews believe happen after death?
Jews believe that our soul goes to Olaf Habah
The goose are rewarded and the bad are punished
The bad can only go to OLam Habah once they repent
In 1492 what choice did queen Isabella and King Ferdinand give the Jews?
Convert to Christianity or be expelled (kicked out)
Why do we remember the Spanish expulsion even though May Jews were kicked out of many European countries ?
It effected 150000-300000 people
Created the Sephardic diaspora
If you are Sephardic it means your ancestors came from —
Spain
If you are Ashkenazi it means your ancestors came from —
Germany
What is a Zionist
You believe that the Jews should have the state of Israel
Name ways you can be a Zionist
Go to yom haatzmaut rally Learn about Israel Pray for Israel Travel to Israel Speak Hebrew
In the 1400s in Spain what social class were the Jews in
Middle class
Why did the Spain economy plummet when they kicked out all the Jews
Because the Jews were their middle class
What is Kabbalah
Jewish mysticism
What is the book of Kabbalah called ?
Zohar
Who is believed to have written the Zohar
Shimon bar hochai
Who is the lead rabbi in Tzfat?
Rabbi Lauria
What is the non+kabbalistic reason of why bad things happen to the world.
Why is there bad in the world
We all have the option to be good or bad. We have a yetzer hatov and yetzer harah
We has humans can decide if we want to be good or we want to be bad.
It’s up to us
According to Kabbalah how did God create the world
In order to create the world god had to become smaller (shrink) to create the world
What is t(e kabbalistic way to explain of why there is bad in the world
Because the vessels broke, the vessels broke there was chaos +evil Jews must try to fix it by doing tikkun olam
How many mitzvot are there
How many are do’s
How many are don’t do’s
613
Don’t do 365
Do 248
What is shulchan aruch and who wrote it
Code of Jewish law- simple form of Jewish law. Rabbi Yosef Karo wrote it
What does renaissance mean
Rebirth
Before the renaissance what was the world focused on
The church and god
What bad things did. Alexander the 6th do
Murdered
Pedophilical
Incest
Bribed people
When was the destruction of the first temple
Who destroyed it ?
Babylonians -586BCE tisha b’av
When was the destruction of the second temple?
Who destroyed it ?
70CE by the Romans on Tisha b’av
Who was Martin Luther
Martin Luther tried to convert the Jews kindly and when he realized it didn’t work he made a seven point plan to convert them.
Where did the Jews go after they got expelled ?
Portugal
Ottoman empire
North africa
Saved
Wha5 was the Nasi family real last name
Mendez
Who were the nasi family
Explain about them
Marranos Lived in Portugal Daughter refuses to marry christian men They left to Italy Then to Israel Then openly returned to Judaism
Who wrote the mappah
Rabbi isserles
What were inventions created during the renaissance
Printing press
Clock
Compass
Microscope
Who was Martin Luther ?
His plan was for him to be nice to the Jews and teach them about Protestant so that they will convert
The plan did not work and he made a 7 point plan
