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INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM
RELI 3310
@ UT TYLER
SPRING SEMESTER 2015
Instructor
Rabbi Neal Katz
REVIEW
HEBREW BIBLE TEXTS
TORAH
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
PROPHETS
Joshua
Judges
Samuel (I & II)
Kings (I & II)
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
WRITINGS
Psalms
Proverbs
Job
Song of Songs
Ruth
Lamentations
Ecclesiastes
Esther
Daniel
Ezra
Nehemiah
Chronicles (I & II)
SECOND TEMPLE
Alexander the Great
PHARISEES
SADDUCEES
ESSENES
DEAD SEA SECT
GREAT REVOLT AGAINST ROME
DESTRUCTION OF SECOND TEMPLE
Modern Jewish View of Temple
MASADA
KAMSA / BAR KAMSA
SHECHINAH
RABBINIC JUDAISM
PARDES
P’SHAT
REMEZ
D’RASH
SOD
PARDES
P’SHAT - LITERAL
REMEZ - HINTED
D’RASH - SERMONIC
SOD - SECRETIVE
PARDES
GEN 21
TIMELINE
Pre-Temple
Era
1000
King David
986
Solomon’s
Temple
722
Northern
Kingdom
destroyed
586 516
450?
332
162-165
Southern Exile
Maccabees
Second
Kingdom Over Temple Built Alexander the
Destroyed
Great
- Exile to
Babylon
0
66-69 70
Great Revolt
Against
Rome
Judea
defeated /
Temple
destroyed
RABBI JUDAH THE PRINCE
200 CE
JEWISH LAW
DEUTERONOMY 6 EXAMPLE
MISHNA
TIMELINE
332 200 162-165
Maccabees
Alexander the
Great
Pharisee/Rabbinic
Period Begins
0
66-69 70
Great Revolt
Against
Rome
Judea
defeated /
Temple
destroyed
200
Mishna
500
Talmud
MISHNA STUDY
Deuteronomy
6:4
Listen, Israel, God is our Lord, God is One.
6:5
Love God your Lord with all your heart, with all your soul,
and with all your might.
6:6
These words which I am commanding you today must
remain on your heart.
6:7
Teach them to your children and speak of them when you
are at home, when traveling on the road, when you lie
down and when you get up.
6:8
Bind [these words] as a sign on your hand, and let them be
an emblem in the center of your head.
6:9
[Also] write them on the doorposts of your houses and
gates.
Mishnah Berachot 1.1
From what time may one recite the Shema in the evening?
1)
From the time that the priests enter [their houses] in order to
eat their terumah until the end of the first watch, the words of
Rabbi Eliezer.
2)
The sages say: until midnight.
3)
Rabban Gamaliel says: until dawn.
4)
Once it happened that his sons came home [late] from a
wedding feast and they said to him: we have not yet recited the
[evening] Shema. He said to them: if it is not yet dawn you are still
obligated to recite.
5)
And not in respect to this alone did they so decide, but
wherever the sages say “until midnight,” the mitzvah may be
performed until dawn.
a)
The burning of the fat and the pieces may be performed till
dawn.
b)
Similarly, all [the offerings] that are to be eaten within one
day may be eaten till dawn.
c)
Why then did the sages say “until midnight”? In order to
keep a man far from transgression.
HILLEL / SHAMMAI
GEMARA
200-400/500
PALESTINE
200-400
BABYLON
200-500
MISHNA +
GEMARA (COMMENTARY)
=
TALMUD