Ch. 3- Judiasm

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Food that is kosher (ritually acceptable) must be ________.

ritually prepare and only from certain kinds of animals

What marks the end of the first or 'elementary' phase of religious education in Jewish tradition?

the Bar/Bat Mitvah

In what region were Sephardic Jews found?

the Mediterranean

The documentary hypothesis suggests that ________.

the Pentateuch is a composite text consisting of four major blocks

The tallit, used in prayer, is a ________.

rectangular piece of cloth worn as a shawl

The Talmud consist of

the mishnah and Gemarah

Which of the following is a famous saying from the book of Exodus?

'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.'

What does the term 'messiah' (Hebrew mashiah) mean?

'anointed one'

In all, Jews today number approximately ________.

14 million

In what year was the State of Israel created?

1948

In what year did the kingdom of Judah fall and the Babylonian Exile begin?

586 BCE

Yom Kippur is the ________.

Day of Atonement

Who are believed to be the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Essenes

What ruler(s) expelled the Jews expelled from Spain, starting in 1492?

Ferdinand and Isabella

What is the body of religious law in the Talmud known as

Halakah

Philo was a first-century ________.

Hellenized Jewish philosopher

Elie Wiesel is a famous ________.

Holocaust survivor and author

The tent-like canopy under which Jewish marriage ceremonies are conducted is called ___

Huppah

To what does 'the Diaspora' refer?

Jews living outside the ancient land of Israel

What are the three parts of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh?

Law, Prophets, Writings

Which Jewish philosopher held that all humans have two ways of relating to the world, the 'I-it' and the 'I-thou'?

Martin Buber

At what fortress did the Zealots hold out against the Romans for four years, only to commit mass suicide on the verge of the Romans breaking through?

Masada

Whose ideas inspired the Reform movement in Judaism?

Moses Mendelssohn

With whom did God make the first covenant, according to Jewish tradition?

Noah

What festival or ritual commemorates the Exodus?

Passover

The five books of Moses, which make up the first part of the Hebrew Bible, are called The ______

Pentateuch

From the traditions of what group did the rabbinic movement evolve?

Pharisees

What are the three major Jewish groups in Canada and the United States?

Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox

What mystic was proclaimed the messiah by his followers in 1666, and led a failed revolt against the sultan in Istanbul?

Sabbatai Zvi

The period of Jewish history following the Babylonian Exile is known as the ________.

Second Commonwealth

What does 'Bar Mitzvah' mean?

Son of the commandment

Rabbi Shlomo ben Yitzhak (Rashi) is famous for his ________.

Talmudic commentary

What was the name of the hill on which the temple of Solomon was built?

Zion

The principal text of Kabbalah is called the ________.

Zohar

The goal of the Maccabean revolt was to ________.

expel the Seleucids and re-take the temple

the Baal Shem Tov, founder of Hasidism, stressed ________.

humility and joy

What is the role of cantors?

leading the congregation by singing lines from the prayer books

Kabbalah is a form of Jewish ________.

mysticism

Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur were traditionally marked by ________.

the blowing of the ram's horn (shofar)

'Making a fence around the Torah' refers to ________.

the creation of rules to prevent inadvertent violations of the religious law

Making a fence around the Torah' refers to ________.

the creation of rules to prevent inadvertent violations of the religious law

Orthodox Judaism emphasizes ________.

the preservation of Jewish tradition

What does Hanukkah commemorate?

the purification and re-dedication of the temple after the Maccabean revolt

One of the symbolic foods eaten during the Passover seder is ________.

unleavened bread


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