Transcript Judaism Unit - review

Judaism Unit - review
For your test…
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Read your 6 trait model
Reread your notes
Make some connections
Review the BIG list of terms
The GREAT BIG list of Jewish terms
History
• Covenant with God – responsibility of being ‘chosen’
• The Patriarchs – Abraham, Isaac, Jacob
• Moses
• Exile
• The Diaspora
• Creation of State of Israel
• Pogroms, ghettos
• The golden age of Jewish thought (Spain –
Maimonides)
• Destruction of the Temple by Rome (70 CE)
Worldview
• The Shema – connect to mezuzah, tefillin, Torah learning
• The Covenant and the ‘Chosen’ People of God
– Connect responsibilities and privileges
• Maimonides 13 Principles of Faith
• The Afterlife
Sacred Stories
• Tanakh
• 1. Torah (written and oral)
• 2. Talmud (“oral Torah”)
Ethics
• 10 commandments
• Halakah/Halakhah - 613 commandments,
chukkim – “the way of living that is pleasing to
God”
• Kosher food laws – (kosher certification)
– Meat, fish
– Grains (Passover and not)
– Wine, grapes
– Dairy and meat
Rituals and Festivals
• Sabbath
• Passover/Pesach
• Rosh Hashanah
• Yom Kippur
• Hanukkah
• Purim
• Bar/bat mitzvah
• Marriage, divorce
Prayer
- Shema
- Amidah
- Kaddish
- Blessings/baruchot
Community of
Faith/Sects
Main sects/branches of
Judaism:
• Orthodox
• Reform
• Conservative
• Ultra-Orthodox
Hasidim
• Rabbi
• Synagogue or Temple
Potpourri
• Star of David
• Shofar
• Kippah/yarmulke
• Menorah
• Tallit, tzitzit
• Tefillin
• Mezuzah
Jewish Blessings
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Transliteration: Barukh atah Adonai Eloheinu, melekh ha'olam...
Translation: "Blessed are You, LORD, our God, King of the universe...“
• Holidays:
– Shabbat
• Candle lighting blessings before Shabbat
• Havdalah ("Separation" ceremony)
– Hanukkah
• Blessing for lighting the candles
• Blessing for the miracles of Hanukkah
– Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur (The High Holy Days)
• Candle lighting
• Over apples and honey on Rosh Hashanah
– Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)
• Mezuzah
• “Who has kept us alive” – blessings said when something pleasant happens that has not happened in a
while (on holidays, but not Sabbath – for things like wearing new clothes, trying new food)
– Transliteration: Barukh atah Adonai Eloheinu melekh ha'olam, she'hehiyanu
v'kiy'manu v'higi'anu la-z'man ha-ze.
– Translation: "Blessed are You, LORD, our God, King of the universe, Who has
kept us alive, sustained us, and enabled us to reach this season."
• Everyday prayers and blessings
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Upon waking up
Morning
For putting on tzitzit
• For putting on a talit katan
• For putting on a tallit gadol (prayer shawl)
– On inspection of the tzitzit
– Before putting on the tallit
– After wrapping the tallit around the body
For putting on tefillin
• On placement of the arm-tefillin
• On placement of the head-tefillin
• On coiling the straps around the middle finger
Blessings during a meal
• N'tilat Yadayim (Ritual washing of hands)
• Blessing over the bread
• After the meal
• Blessings over food
– Before eating grain products – M'zonot
– Before drinking wine – Ha-Gafen
– Before eating fruit – Ha-Etz
– Before eating non-fruit produce – Ha-Adama
– Before eating other foods – She-Hakol
– On immersion in a Mikvah
• Blessing for surviving danger or illness
Making Connections
1. What is the most important observance in Judaism?
2. What is the holiest festival – when most Jews
(observant or not) will go to the synagogue
3. Why do Jews say so many blessings? What does it
suggest about daily life and worship?
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Connect to halakha
Connect to rituals, festivals
Connect to the covenant – “chosen people”
Connect to the Jewish image of God
4. Create a word web summarizing daily life for:
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An observant Orthodox Jewish woman
An observant Orthodox Jewish man
A Reform Jew (man or woman) who belongs to a synagogue
5. Which is more important in Judaism? The oral Torah
or the written Torah? Explain your answer using the
following terms: rabbinic Judaism, the Talmud, Moses,
mitzvoth.