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Judaism Flashcards

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What does Judaism put great emphasis on?

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Group identity

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What do observant Jews do out of reverence?

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Avoid speaking God’s name

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What did the Pharisees focus?

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The Torah rather than the Temple

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What was the relationship between Jews and Muslims?

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They lived in peace and prosperity in Spain and Poland during the medieval period.

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What does the Kabbalah observe?

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Basic forms of Jewish practice such as keeping the commandments and the Torah

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What do Jewish mystics focus on?

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The ultimate transcendence of God than the immanence of God

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True or false: Large Hidasic communities still exist today

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True

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Fewer than half the worlds Jew live in Israel? T or F

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Trie

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T or F: Orthodox Judaism rejects all aspects of modernity

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False

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Is conservative Judaism relaxed or strict?

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Strict

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What is Judaism more concerned with: correct practice or correct belief?

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Correct Practice

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Who is required to wear certain accessories while praying?

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Males

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Is Judaism one of the smallest or biggest world religions?

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Smallest

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What is the Hebrew equivalent of Gods name?

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YHWH

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Who revealed the five books of the Torah?

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God and Moses

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What are the 5 books of the Torah a summary of?

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The entire Hebrew Bible

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What do Jew refer to the Hebrew Bible as?

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Tanakh

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Who receieved the Law at Mount Sinai and is regarded as the Torah’s author?

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Moses

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It is more accurate to think of Jews as:

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An ethnic group that shares a common history and religion

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Jew believe that God is:

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Directly involved in History

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The second large-scale revolt the Jews waged against Romans ended when the Romans:

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-Leveled Jerusalem

Decreed that Jew could no-longer inhabit Palestine

22
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Israel was granted statehood in what year?

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What does the Torah define?

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Worship and ethical conduct

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Who conquered Palestine and the surrounding area in the 7th century A.D?

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Who was the man that was called to be the Father of the great nation?
Abraham
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Who helped to free Israelites from slavery?
Moses
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Who was Abrahams granson?
Jacob
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Who was the Israelite king whom Jews have always regarded a prototype for the Messiah?
David
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Who built the temple in Jerusalem?
Soloman
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Who conquered the northern kingdom in Israel?
Assyrians
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Who conquered the southern kingdom in Judah?
Babylonians
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Who destroyed the Jerusalem temple for the second time?
Romans
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Who was Moses Maimonides?
A Jewish philosopher that lived in Muslim Spain during the medieval period and applied the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle to the biblical tradition and contributed to Judaism
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What does Torah mean?
Instruction: the will of God as it is revealed to humankind
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What does Pentateuch mean?
It Greek for the five books of the Torah
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What are the Ten Commandments?
The most famous of the 613 laws of the Torah
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What is a synagogue?
A building of Jewish worship
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What is a prophet?
A person who is called to speak for God
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What is the Mishnah?
The starting point rabbinic study of the oral Torah
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What is the Talmud?
The vast depository of blending together the oral and written forms of the Torah
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What is Diaspora?
The situation of Jews living away from their homeland
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What is the Zohar?
The most famous text of Jewish mysticism?
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What is the Kabbalah?
Jewish mysticism, which teaches that God can be best known from the heart
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What is Hasidism?
A form of Judaism that arose in 18th-century eastern Europe and emphasized mysticism
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What is Zionism?
A movement that was originally the committed to the re-establishment of Jewish homeland
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The Holocaust?
The persecution of Jews by German Nazis resulting in the murder of 16 million Jews Sometimes called the Shoah
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What is a Rabbi?
A teacher of the Torah
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What is Seder?
The high point of the Passover festival
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What does Yom Kipper emphasize?
Repentance
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What circumcision?
A physical feature that distinguishes Israelites from people of other nations
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What is a Bat Mitzvah?
A coming of age ceremony for a Jewish girl
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What is Kaddish?
A prayer of mourning

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