Unit 2- test make up

Question 1

701 B.C

Answer 1

Assyrians attack Judea

Question 2

516 B.C

Answer 2

Dedication of the second temple

Question 3

168-165 B.C

Answer 3

Hasmonean rebellion

Question 4

132-135

Answer 4

Bar Kochba revolt

Question 5

622

Answer 5

Mohammad founds Islam

Question 6

Jews and Christians are treated by Islam as 2nd class citizens and are called…

Answer 6

Al Dhimi

Question 7

Moslem Holy War is called…

Answer 7

Jihad

Question 8

Spanish Jews who were forcibly converted to Christianity but secretly practiced their Judaism were called “pigs” or…

Answer 8

Moranos

Question 9

Jewish mysticism is called…

Answer 9

Kabbala

Question 10

The moslem pilgrimage to Mecca is called…

Answer 10

Hajj

Question 11

I edited the Mishna

Answer 11

Yehuda ha nasi

Question 12

I am a poet and philosopher. I wrote the poem “My Heart is in the East” and also wrote a great philosophical work, the Kuzari

Answer 12

Yehuda ha levi

Question 13

I was the founder of the Hassidic movement

Answer 13

Baai Shem Tov

Question 14

In Tzfat, I edited the “Shulchan Aruch” to summarize the entire halacha

Answer 14

Rabbi Joseph Caro

Question 15

I was the leader of 18th century Lithuanian Jewry and my great great great great great great nephew teachers in AMHSI

Answer 15

Gaon of Vina

Question 16

I was the best doctor in the middle ages and also authorized the Guide to the Perplexed

Answer 16

Rambam

Question 17

They thought I was the Mashiach but unfortunately i converted to Islam

Answer 17

Shabbeti Tzvi

Question 18

My element is earth. What city am I and my explanation and meaning

Answer 18

Hebron.
Explanation- It’s where the burial cave is
Meaning- Connected to our roots/ancestors

Question 19

Tikun Olam

Answer 19

Repairing the wound

Question 20

Kahal

Answer 20

Jewish community in Poland

Question 21

Pikuach Nefesh

Answer 21

You can break Shabbat to save a life

Question 22

Beit Din

Answer 22

Local Jewish court

Question 23

Mishna

Answer 23

Oral Torah as first committed to writing

Question 24

Gemara

Answer 24

Torah and Talmud commentator

Question 25

Midrash

Answer 25

Interpretations of Torah based on very close textual analysis

Question 26

Talmud

Answer 26

Mishna together with Gemara

Question 27

Kuzari

Answer 27

Yehuda Ha Levi’s philosophical work defending Judaism

Question 28

Shulchan Aruch

Answer 28

Summary of halacha- Jewish law

Question 29

Ammoraim

Answer 29

Sages of the Gemara