NJN History Topic 2 lessons 5-7
Rabbis
A Jewish religious leader and teacher
Talmud
A collection of oral teachings and commentaries about the Hebrew Bible and Jewish law
Prophet
A person who believed to be chosen by God as a messenger, to bring truth to the people
Commentaries
A set of comments or a recorded discussion about something. They are important because they are source of the Jews, most important teachings, including teachings about ethics.
Sabbath
A weekly day of rest
Isaac and Jacob
Abraham had a son named_____ and a grandson named ____
The patriarchs, forefathers of the Jewish people
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are known as....
To leave Ur and travel with his family to Canaan
According to the Torah, God told Abraham to do what?
God put Egypt through terrible hardships. Eventually making the pharaoh give permission for the exodus.
Because the pharaoh refused, God did what.
No, he died without entering. Moses saw Canaan from a mountain
Did Moses make it to the promised land?
The Israelites
Egyptian pariahs, enslaved and miss treated, who
Moses
God appear to.... And told him to rescue his people.
individual
Having to do with a single person or thing
one God (monotheism)
Israelites believe in one god or many gods.?
Gods image
Israelites believed that God created each person in _____
Israel; Israelites
Jacob became known as .... And his followers were known as...
12; Each of Jacob sons became the ancestor of at least one large group
Jacob had how many sons
Passover
Jews celebrate ..... to commemorate the journey from slavery in Egypt to freedom
Righteousness
Living in a way, that is ethically write an obeys God's laws
refused
Moses ask the pharaoh to let him lead the Israelites, out of Egypt, but the pharaoh ...
Sinai Peninsula
Moses lead the Israelites out of the pharaohs reach to...
Mount Sinai
Moses went up what mountain to meet with God?
The Torah
Most of what you believe about their origins of religion comes from _____
Ethics (ideas of right and wrong)
The Israelites, believe that God called on them to act based on______
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible
The Torah consist of _____
The land of Canaan would belong to Abraham's descendants, so it became known as the Promised Land
The Torah says that God, and made a covenant with Abraham that said ....
Book of Exodus
The book of.... Comes after Genesis in the Torah.
Judaism
The first religion based on one god who set rules about right and wrong
Egypt
The last chapters of genesis describe a famine in Canaan, forcing Jacobs family to move to....
Genesis, the first book of the Torah
The stories of the patriarchs were eventually written down in ....
The Torah, which forms the foundation of Judaism
What did god give Moses at the top of Mount Sinai?
The Ten Commandments or laws for the people
What is in the Torah?
It was important because it was their oath
What is the importance of the Hebrew Bible in the commentaries in Judaism?
Jericho
What was the first city, the Israelites conquered in Canaan?
The tribes of Jacobs sons, - Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin
Who settled in the south part of Jericho?
Joshua, his deputy
Who took a Moses his place as a leader of the Israelites after his death
So they can be worthy for heaven
Why did the Jewish people give special importance to study in law?
Monotheism
belief in only one god
Justice
fairness or fair treatment
