Year 11 Religion Exam #1

Question 1

What are the principal beliefs of Judaism?

Answer 1

One God - monotheism 
Incorporeal - spirit, without body form
Omnipotent  - all-powerful 
Omniscient - all-knowing 
Omnipresent - all present

Question 2

What is the Jewish word for the ten commandments

Answer 2

Mitzvot

Question 3

What words do the jews use for the word God?

Answer 3

YHWH- Jews traditionally do not pronounce it, and instead refer to God as HaShem, which translates to “the Name”.

Question 4

What are the first lines of the Shema?

Answer 4

“Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God. The Lord is One.
Blessed be his name, whose glorious kingdom is forever and ever.
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your might.” Deuteronomy 6:4

Question 5

Outline Orthodox Judaism

Answer 5

Those who maintained the most traditional beliefs and practices of the religion. They strictly observe the dietary laws and the practices of the sabbath and are often marked by their ways of dress and appearance. Men undergo the ritual of circumcision when infants. As adults, they wear black suits and hats. Women sometimes wear hats or other head coverings and dress modestly. Orthodox synagogues are gender-segregated.

Question 6

Outline Progressive Judaism

Answer 6

Reform Judaism disregards old practices and focuses on ethical dimensions of faith instead of traditional rituals, commandments, and practices. Reform Jews moved the sabbath from Saturday to Sundays, often read scriptures in English instead of Hebrew and often discarded circumcision.

Question 7

Outline Conservative Judaism

Answer 7

Conservative Judaism: in between orthodox and reform Judaism, many traditions and practices are retained but some reforms are instituted as well.
While agreeing with the Progressives that the Torah is a human, rather than divine, creation,
Conservatives believed firmly in the value of maintaining distinctive Jewish rituals and practices.
They felt that Judaism had to adapt to the times and took on some reforms, such as men and women sitting together during worship, but rejected others.

Question 8

How many Aboriginal nations are there in Australia and how are they similar/ different?

Answer 8

There are about 900 Aboriginal nations within Australia and subsequently, there is enormous diversity in the way the Dreaming is expressed. Each Aboriginal nation has its own dialect. Each nation also has its own boundaries and subsequently different Dreaming stories, which are applicable to those boundaries. Overall, the belief in the notion of the Dreaming is the overriding commonality, which binds different Aboriginal nations together.

Question 9

What are the examples of Aboriginal sacred sites?

Answer 9

Uluru, the blue mountains, Mount Olga and the pinnacles

Question 10

What did God promise Abraham?

From which book in the bible can this be seen?

Answer 10

Received the promise of God that they would be the ancestors of descendants that would number as many as the stars in the sky
(Genesis 15:5).

Question 11

What is the story of the exodus?

Answer 11

The Exodus is the second book in the bible. It outlines the life of Moses and his journey out of Egypt with the Israelites.

• God tells Moses to return to Egypt to free the Israelites.
• Moses returned to Egypt and tried to convince the Pharaoh to free the Hebrews, with the ten plagues.
• After the ten plagues, the Pharaoh let the Hebrews leave because of the terrible destruction the plagues had caused.
• The Hebrews left but the Pharaoh’s army followed because the Pharaoh had changed his mind.
• Moses split the Red Sea on the command of God, and walked across to freedom.
• The army followed but the Red Sea collapsed and killed all the soldiers.
• Moses and the Israelites traveled to the desert of Sinai. And Moses climbed himself to receive the Ten Commandments.
• When he came back down the mountain with the commandments, the people had grown impatient and had started worshipping a golden calf.
• Moses got mad at the heresy and destroyed the Ten Commandments. But God forgave the people and gave Moses another copy of the commandments.

Question 12

How many positive mitzvot are there?

Answer 12

248

Question 13

How many positive negatives are there?

Answer 13

365

Question 14

What is the moral law?

Answer 14

Jewish belief holds that the Torah contains the divinely inspired moral law that binds Jews to their God.

Question 15

What are the two main covenants in the Torah?

Answer 15

God and Abraham

God and the Jewish people at Mount Sinai

Question 16

What is the second covenant

Answer 16

¨God promised the people of Israel that they would be blessed with descendants & have land called the “Promised Land”. Jews in response promised to be loyal to God, to teach children the ways of righteousness, & to obey God’s commandments.

Question 17

What are the first 3 lines of ‘the Shema?’ (the name means “Listen/Hear”)

Answer 17

“Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God. The Lord is One.
Blessed be his name, whose glorious kingdom is forever and ever.
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your might.” Comes from Deuteronomy 6:4

Question 18

What is the story of the covenant between God and Abraham?

Answer 18

Although old, God promised that he would be the father of many descendants.

• Abram was worried about God’s promise that he would be the ancestor of a great nation of people. He and Sarai had no children, and Sarai was beyond the age of childbearing.
• Sarai had a slave girl named Hagar, and she gave Hagar to Abram. Hagar bore Abram (at 86) his first son, a boy named Ishmael.
• His previously barren wife Sarah, gave birth to Isaac when Abraham was 100 (she was 90)
• In Genesis 22, we read of how Abraham took his young son Isaac, and in response to God’s call, prepared to sacrifice him.
• However, an angel called to Abraham not to kill Isaac, and a ram was substituted in his place.
• In acknowledgment of his loyalty, Abraham’s covenant with God was established and made him the Father of the Jewish nation.

Question 19

Who is the third Patriarch, Jacob?

Answer 19

• He was the second-born of Isaac’s children
• Jacob has a dream in which angels go up and down a ladder connecting earth to heaven. God appears before Jacob and renews the covenant that God had made with Abraham.