Torah Flashcards
What are major events/themes in Sefer Bereshit?
1) Creation of the world.
2) Adam and Eve.
3) Cain and Abel.
3) Noah and the Flood.
4) 3 Patriarchs and 4 Matriarchs.
5) Rivalry between Jacob’s ten sons and his favored son Joseph.
What are major events/themes in Sefer Shemot?
1) Moses’ childhood in Egypt and God’s appearance to him in a burning bush.
2) Moses is commanded to redeem the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt but Pharaoh refuses.
3) Ten plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea.
4) Moses leads the people to Mt. Sinai where they receive God’s Torah (Law) and Berit (Covenant).
5) Sin of the Golden Calf.
6) Instructions for building the Tabernacle and many laws to do with torts.
What are the sections in Nevi’im?
(Book of the Prophets)
Former Prophets
1) Joshua
2) Judges
3) Samuel
4) Kings
Latter Prophets
1) Isaiah
2) Jeremiah
3) Ezekiel
4) The Twelve minor prophets
What are the major events/themes in Devarim?
Three sermons by Moses delivered shortly before entering the Promised Land:
1) The first sermon recalls the period of forty years of wondering in the wilderness and concludes with an exhortation to observe the Torah’s commandments.
2) The second reminds the Israelites to remain loyal to God and not to follow strange gods. To observe the laws He has given them, on which possession of the Promised Land is dependent.
3) The third provides comfort that even if Israel is unfaithful and exiled from the land, through repentance a return is possible.
What are major events/themes in BeMidbar?
1) Consolidation of Israel as a community in the Sinai and God taking up residence in the Mishkan (Tabernacle).
2) Commandment to take possession of the Promised Law.
3) The people are numbered and preparations are made.
4) Considerable grumbling about the hardships of the desert journey and rebellions against the authority of Moses and Aaron.
5) God destroy about 15,000 by various means.
6) Sin of the scouts (unfavorable reports about the Promised Land).
7) God punishing the remaining Israelites to wander the desert for 40 years until a new generation of Israelites returns to the Plain of Moab ready to cross the river Jordan.
What are major events/themes in Vayikra?
(also called Torah Kohanim)
1) The instructions regarding the korbanot (sacrificial offerings).
2) Legal questions about what are clean and unclean, laws for slaughtering animals, which animals are Kosher (fit) to eat and priestly laws of Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement).
3) Various moral and ritual laws to do with maintaining the sanctity of religious worship and a detailed list of punishments incurred for violations.
What is the Chumash and how is it divided?
Chumash = Torah she-bi-ktav (written torah)
Hebrew (BS V BD)
1) Bereshit - “beginning”
2) Shemot - “names”
3) Vayikra - “he called”
4) BeMidbar - “in the desert”
5) Devarim - “words”
English/Latin (GELND)
1) Genesis - “origin”
2) Exodus - “way out”
3) Leviticus - “Levi”
4) Numbers
5) Deuteronomy - “second law”
What is the TaNaKh?
The initials of which stand for Torah, Neviim (Prophets) and Ketuvim (Holy Writings)
