Judaism

Question 1

What is theology

Answer 1

Things people believe

Question 2

Orthodoxic

Answer 2

focuses on faith and belief but not much diet and dress

Question 3

Orthopraxis

Answer 3

Thinks about behavior, ritual and diet

Question 4

Bracketing

Answer 4

What religious scholars have to do, put your beliefs aside to study a religion

Question 5

Theological questions

Answer 5

Where did we come from? How do we know we are blessed by God. How do we know others are not blessed by God. Why does how we eat, dress, and pray matter to God. What is sin, what happens to sinners.

Question 6

Abraham

Answer 6

Called by God to move his people to a new place far away. Fathers his child Ishmael with a maid. His wife Sara gives birth to Isaac. Sara gets jealous kicks out Ishmael and his mom. Isaac has child Jacob, wrestles with God and God changes Jacob’s name to Israel.

Question 7

Moses

Answer 7

Egyptians kill and enslave Hebrews and Moses is sent off to safety to a household. When Moses finds out he is Jewish he kills Egyptian overlord. Goes out into the wilderness and meets a burning bush that speaks to him and tells him to set his people free. Exodus occurs and Moses receives the 10 commandments

Question 8

Shema

Answer 8

creed of Judaism

Question 9

Covenant and election

Answer 9

Treaties, “if you are loyal to me i will protect you”, this becomes an issue when temples are destroyed

Question 10

Theodicy

Answer 10

Why does god allow evil to occur?

Question 11

Halakhah

Answer 11

how to follow the law of god properly

Question 12

Messiah

Answer 12

David was the first messiah, one loses the title of messiah when they die, it’s passed on to their off spring. Cyrus only non jew as messiah

Question 13

Hebrew Bible

Answer 13

main theological writing for jews, 3 parts: Torah, Nevi and Ket. In other words (Teaching, prophets, and writings)

Question 14

Ahskenazi vs sephardic

Answer 14

Different tradition, diets, dress, languages, prayers, etc. Ashkenazi: Eastern Europe, Germany, France
Sephardic: Spain, Portugal, North Africa, Middle East

Question 15

Conservative Judaism

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Fine with cultural changes but strict with the changes to tradition

Question 16

Orthopraxy

Answer 16

correct practice “ortho” (correct) “praxy” (practice)

Question 17

Mitzvah

Answer 17

laws or commandments

Question 18

Torah

Answer 18

Contains laws of God given to Moses to instruct the Israelites in every aspect of life. It is the first 5 books of the bible

Question 19

Circumcision

Answer 19

Cut off foreskin to mark Abrahams covenant with God,

occurs on the 8th day of a boys life

Question 20

Epispasm

Answer 20

creating new foreskin for yourself, used a lot for the olympics in Greece

Question 21

Kashrut

Answer 21

Rules of eating in Judaism. Cannot eat an animal that died of natural causes or killed by another animal. Consumption of blood not allowed too.

Question 22

Ritual Purity

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Contact with something like blood, semen or death, makes one impure and requires ritual purification

Question 23

Niddah

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Women who are menstruating cannot be touched and go into a mikveh which is like a hot tub

Question 24

Sabbath

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Every 7th day is a day of rest, handling money is prohibted during sabbath

Question 25

Synagogue Worship

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Decentralized authority (no hierarchy), no temple like functions, led by rabbis, gender seperations (for conservative congregations)

Question 26

Synagogue service

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1 hour long; scripture, singing, kissing torah scroll, prayer

Question 27

Bar Mitzvah

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When a Jewish boy becomes a man and he can be in a minyan, 10 adult males are required for a minyan. Female version is a novelty, but conservative and reform would have sports for women in their minyan

Question 28

Tefillin

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Tool for focusing on prayer, two small black boxes each with a scroll of the torah in it are placed on the body (one on heart one on mind. the boxes are strapped to the body with kosher leather

Question 29

Tallith

Answer 29

A shawl that is placed over your head that is supposed to block out sound and motion, some jews wear this all the time to show their devotion

Question 30

Kippah

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A skull cap, orthodox tend to wear in public, conservative sometimes in public always in worship, reform only sometimes

Question 31

Jewish time

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Relation to the cycle of nature, history of interaction with god

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Rosh Hashanah

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Jewish new year: 5780,1st of tishri- september and october, sep 29 2019, focuses on self improvement and repentance

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Yom Kipper

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Collective guilt and forgiveness, temple culture, holy of holies, YHWH a name NOT to be spoken, spoken instead as Adonay, 10 days after Rosh Hashanah, most holy day; fasting, somber, serious, 10th of Tishri

Question 34

Sukkot

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15th of Tishri, related to autumn harvest, sleeping in field to protect crops

Question 35

Simhat Torah

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The joy of the torah, follows last day of sukkot, celebrates the gift of God's law

Question 36

Hanukkah

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Hanukkah is a Jewish festival commemorating the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem at the time of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire. Last 8 nights, each night a candle it lit, until the last night when there are 8 candles burning

Question 37

Purim

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Most joyous and fun of jewish holy days, Book of esther

Question 38

Pesach/Passover

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Symbolic meaning: emergence from winter and entry into spring, Historical meaning: recalls exodus from Egypt, meal is called seder (means order), story told alongside meal is Pesach Haggadah

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Shavuot

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Also called the festival of weeks (My-june), relationship to nature Theological meaning: celebrates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai

Question 40

Tisha B'av

Answer 40

Collective day of mourning for the two destroyed temples; expulsions from Spain (1492) and England (1290), weddings, cutting hair, makeup and new clothes are not permitted during this period