Shekhinah

Question 1

What is a rabbi?

Answer 1

Ordained Jewish religious leaders or teachers.

Question 2

What is a tabernacle?

Answer 2

The holy place containing the ark of the covenant.

Question 3

What is a sanctuary?

Answer 3

The most holy part of a religious building.

Question 4

What is mount zion?

Answer 4

The holy hill in Jerusalem where the Temple was.

Question 5

What is a talmud?

Answer 5

Writings explaining the torah.

Question 6

What is a kabbalah?

Answer 6

Jewish mysticism.

Question 7

What is a hashem?

Answer 7

A word used to refer to God without mentioning His name.

Question 8

What is the meaning of immutable?

Answer 8

Unable to be changed.

Question 9

What is the shekhinah?

Answer 9

God’s presence in the world.

Question 10

What did the Shekhinah do?

Answer 10

Guided Moses to the promised land.

Question 11

SOWAA for shekhinah?

Answer 11

‘My presence will go with you and I will give you rest’

Question 12

SOWAA for a sanctuary?

Answer 12

‘make a sanctuary for me’

Question 13

Where is the Shekinah thought to be? Why?

Answer 13

Mount Zion and Jerusalem.
The nevi’im and ketuvim make references to the shekhinah being there.

Question 14

SOWAA for the shekhinah being on Mount Zion?

Answer 14

‘The Lord who dwells on Mount Zion’

Question 15

3 different Jewish beliefs about the shekhinah?

Answer 15

Shekhinah is a light linking God to this world.
Shekhinah and God are the same/interchangeable.
Shekhinah is the feminine attributes of God since Shekhinah is a feminine word in Hebrew.

Question 16

3 reasons why the Shekhinah is important for Jews?

Answer 16

Mount Zion and Jerusalem became special since the Shekhinah is there.
Moses was surrounded by the Shekhinah when he received the mitzvot therefore the mitzvot must be God’s direct words.
God’s presence can come at any time.

Question 17

3 reasons why the different understandings of the Shekhinah are important for Jews?

Answer 17

It shows that God is immutable and indescribable.
Jews and Christians can come together in the search for God.
They can relate God to the modern ideas in the world.