SoWAs - Judaism Practices Flashcards
Give a quote from Psalms about the Jewish requirement to worship publicly in the Temple as well as at home
“I will fulfil my vows to the Lord in the presence of all his people… in the courts of the house of the Lord.”
Give a quote from the Torah of the mitzvot commanding the celebration of Rosh Hashanah
“On the first day of the seventh month, you are have a day of sabbath rest, a sacred assembly commemorated with trumpet blasts”
Give the quote from Leviticus in the Torah where Yom Kippur is commanded to be celebrated
“the tenth day of the seventh month is the Day of Atonement. Hold a sacred assembly and deny yourselves… Anyone who does not deny himself… must be cut off”
Give the mitzvah quote commanding Sukkot
“On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, the Lord’s Festival of Tabernacles begins, and lasts for seven days”
Give the quote from the Torah forbidding chametz (food containing yeast) during Pesach
“For seven days, no yeast is to be found in your houses. And whoever eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel”
Give the mitzvot quotes for 2 Jewish food laws
” You may eat any animal that has a divided hoof and chews the cud.”
“Of all the creatures living in the water, you may eat any that has fins and scales.”
“Do not eat anything you find already dead”
“Do not cook a young goat in his mother’s milk.”
“Any… who hunts any animal or bird that may be eaten must drain out the blood”
Give the quote from the Torah about serving God through prayer
“to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Give the quote from the Talmud about serving God through prayer
“What is service of the heart? That is prayer.”
Give the quote from the Torah relating to thanking God and touching the mezuzah when entering/leaving a room
“You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.”
Give the quote from the Shema relating to tefillin
“You shall bind [the words of the Torah] as a sign upon your hand, and they shall be for a reminder between your eyes.”
Give the quote from the Shema relating to God’s nature as one
“Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One.”
Give the quote from the Shema relating to tallits’ tzizits
“make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments… They shall be to you as tzizit, and you shall look upon them and remember all of the commandments”
Quote the mitzvah concerning Jews having children
“Be fruitful and increase in number.”
Quote the part from the Torah concerning marriage
“a man will leave his mother and his father and be united to his wife and they will become one flesh.” - Genesis
Give the Talmudic teaching about marriage completing Jewish people
“A man without a wife is incomplete. An unmarried woman is an unfinished vessel.”
Give the Torah quote commanding to keep Shabbat
“Remember the Sabbath by keeping it holy… On it, you shall not do any work”
