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History
The story is literally and factually true as recordedPro- Solid
foundation for faithCon- Conflicts with science and
archaeology
TERM 2
Myth
DEFINITION 2
Story tells us important things about God/ourselves, but it is
not literal
TERM 3
Stories
DEFINITION 3
Memorable
Invoke emotional responses
Simple enough for a child
Complex enough for an adult
Conveys the inexpressible
Connect a community
Serve as interpretive lens
TERM 4
Adam and Eve
History
DEFINITION 4
6,000 years ago, God created one man and one woman in a
garden. A talking snake then convinced them to sin.
TERM 5
Adam and Eve
Myth
DEFINITION 5
Represents human struggle against sin
God's Promises to Abraham
1. I will make you a great nation; your descendants will be as
numerous as the stars in the sky.2. I will give your
descendants the land of CanaanConflicts- Abraham and his
wife are childless; the land of Canaan is occupied
TERM 7
Abraham
DEFINITION 7
Father of the Jewish people
TERM 8
Ishmael
DEFINITION 8
Father of Islam; son of Hagar and Abraham
TERM 9
Wants all baby boy Jews killed
DEFINITION 9
How does Pharaoh try to prevent uprising/rebellion?
TERM 10
Plagues
DEFINITION 10
Water to blood
Frogs in swarms
Gnats in swarms
Flies in swarms
Disease on livestock
Incurable boils
Locust swarms
Hail and thunder
Darkness
Death of the firstborn of all Egyptian humans and animals
613 Mitzvot
(commandments)
How many laws in the Torah?
Divided into Marriage and sex, holidays, purity laws,
sacrifices, and dietary laws
TERM 17
Mishnah
DEFINITION 17
By 200 C.E., what is oral law written down as?
TERM 18
Helps people understand and interpret
written law
DEFINITION 18
Why is oral law as important as written law?
TERM 19
Act of Thanksgiving to God for deliverance
from slavery
DEFINITION 19
Purpose of Halakha?
TERM 20
Jewish Population
DEFINITION 20
Israel: 5.7m, 75% of populationUS: 5.2m, 1.75% of
populationWorldwide: 13.4m, 0.2% of population
Someone whose mother is Jewish
Traditional definition of a Jew
TERM 22
Someone whose mother or father is Jewish
DEFINITION 22
Newer definition of a Jew
TERM 23
Yes
DEFINITION 23
Can someone who converts to the Jewish faith be considered
a Jew?
TERM 24
Religion
DEFINITION 24
A code of ethics and guidelines that one lives by in order to
lead a prosperous life.
TERM 25
Sarah cannot get pregnant
DEFINITION 25
Why does Abraham have a child with Hagar and not Sarah,
his wife?
Reform
Purpose of law- ethics, not ritual
Believes change is good
Jew if mother or father was a Jew
TERM 32
Samuel Holdheim and Abraham Geiger
DEFINITION 32
Founders of Reform Judaism
TERM 33
Conservative Judaism
DEFINITION 33
Middle ground of Judaism
Values law and historical change
Jew if mother was a Jew
TERM 34
Anti-semitism and Intermarriage
DEFINITION 34
What are the 2 threats to Jewish Identity?
TERM 35
Lowers the Jewish population; lowers the
percentage of religious observant Jews
DEFINITION 35
What's wrong with anti-semitism?
Gentile woman that a Jewish man finds
attractive (translates to rat)
What is a Shiska?
TERM 37
Orthodox Conversion Process
DEFINITION 37
Candidate must prove to be sincere
Time of formal study of Jewish faith
Conversion must be approved by Bet Din (court of
Rabbis)
Males must be circumcised
Must be immersed in milkveh (ritual bath)
TERM 38
Bar Mitzvah
DEFINITION 38
Celebration of transformation from childhood to adulthood for
males
TERM 39
Enlightenment
DEFINITION 39
What is the origin of Judaism?
TERM 40
Conservative
DEFINITION 40
Most popular sector of Judaism in U.S.
Zionism
Jewish nationalism supporting a Jewish state in the land of
Israel
TERM 47
King Nebuchadnezzar and Babylonians
capture Judah, destroy temple and carry off
captives
DEFINITION 47
What happened in 586 BCE?
TERM 48
Romans destroy second temple after Jewish
uprising
DEFINITION 48
What happened in 70 CE?
TERM 49
Theodore Herzl
DEFINITION 49
Father of Modern Zionism
TERM 50
French Jewish military officer, Alfred Dreyfus
accused of treason
DEFINITION 50
What is the Dreyfus Affair?
Pittsburg Platform (1885)
Document contructed by group of rabbis; details about
reform Judaism
TERM 52
First aliyah (immigration to
Palestine)
DEFINITION 52
What happened in 1881?
TERM 53
Second aliyah
DEFINITION 53
What happened in 1904?
TERM 54
Balfour Declaration
DEFINITION 54
1917- Britain attempts to negotiate between Jews and
Arabs
1947- Britain turns situation over to U.N.
May 14, 1948- State of Israel declined
This declaration declared that the British favored a Jewish
homeland in Palestine
TERM 55
West Bank and Gaza Strip
DEFINITION 55
What two pieces of land are in conflict with Palestinians?
Pogroms
mob violence against Jews or particular group/ethnicity
caused much Jewish emigration from Eastern Europe to
US
TERM 62
Holocaust
DEFINITION 62
largest attempt in history to eliminate Jews (killed approx 6
mil)
TERM 63
Onan
DEFINITION 63
Who was struck dead because he was practicing the "pull-out
method" (spilling seeds sin)
TERM 64
The Red Tent
DEFINITION 64
novel where women would go off and live by themselves
during their period; they love it as a time of rest and
relaxation
TERM 65
Hand deliver divorce documents to wife in
presence of two witnesses who sign it
DEFINITION 65
If a man wants to get a divorce with wife, what must he do?
