Exploring the Religions of Our World

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Exploring the Religions of Our World
Chapter 2 Judaism
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• A Living Religion
• 1. Judaism is the religion practiced by Jesus
  when he was living on earth.
• 2. Judaism is the religion of the Hebrew Bible
  and a religion still longing for Gods chosen
  one.
• 3. Being a Jew has both an ethnic and a
  religious connotation.
• 4. A religious Jew practices Judaism. An ethnic
  Jew may or may not practice Judaism.

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• Periods of Jewish History

Biblical Period 1800 BCE 323 CE
Medieval Period 639 - 1783 CE
Rabbinic Period 323 BCE 637 CE
Modern Period 1783 - present
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• Periods of Jewish History

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• Modern Judaism
• Reform Judaism advocates full integration into
  the culture where one lives
• Conservative Judaism counteracts reformed
  Judaism, modifying Jewish traditions in a limited
  manner
• Orthodox Judaism the most traditional wing,
  insists its members strictly follow the Torah
• Reconstructionist Judaism advocates Judaism as
  a culture, not only a religion

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Sacred writings
Torah first five books

• Tanakh
• The Hebrew Bible

Neviim prophets
Ketuvim writings
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• Other sacred writings

Jerusalem Talmud commentary
Midrash Biblical interpretation
Babylonian Talmud commentary
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• Beliefs and Practices

Shma Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the
Lord is One (Deuteronomy 64)
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• Beliefs and Practices (continued)

Torah 613 commandments
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• Beliefs and Practices (continued)

Gods covenant with Israel The Chosen People

I have given you as a covenant to the people, a
light to the nations (Isaiah 426)
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• Sacred Times

• Annual Feasts
• Rosh Hashanah Jewish New Year
• Yom Kippur Day of Atonement
• Sukkot Feast of Tabernacles/Booths
• Pesach Passover
• Shavuot Harvest festival / reception of Torah
• Hanukkah Festival of Lights
• Purim Feast of Lots

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• Sacred Times (continued)

• Shabbat the Jewish Sabbath
• weekly event
• sunset Friday through sunset Saturday
• obedience to fourth commandment
• Jews rest on the seventh day, as God did
• Shabbat dinner Friday evening

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• Sacred Places and Sacred Spaces

Synagogue house of prayer house of
study house of assembly
Home
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• Sacred Places and Sacred Spaces (continued)

Land of Israel Israel Canaan Promised
Land Judea Palestine State of Israel

• Jerusalem
• holiest city
• City of David
• Temple
• holy city for Judaism, Christianity, Islam

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• Judaism through a Catholic Lens

Judaism
Christianity
Commonalities History Scripture Liturgy Theology
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• Judaism through a Catholic Lens (continued)
• Differences

Judaism
Christianity
Still expects a Messiah or messianic age to come
Jesus was the Messiah Jesus is God
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• Judaism through a Catholic Lens (continued)
• Jewish influences in Catholicism

The Hebrew Bible Old Testament Passover
meal the Lords Supper Passover Holy
Thursday Shavuot Pentecost
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Vocabulary

• Torah
• Idolatry
• Diaspora
• Hellenization
• Septuagint
• Sadducees
• Pharisees
• Essenes
• Rabbi
• Talmud
• Monotheistic
• Sephardim

• Pogroms
• Ashkenazim
• Yiddish
• Hasidism
• Zionism
• Tanak
• Neviim
• Ketuvim
• Mishnah
• Midrash
• Shma

• Mitzvoth
• Covenant
• Halakhic
• Shabbat
• Pesach
• Yom Kippur
• Havdalah
• Bimah
• Mezuzah
• Kosher
• Testament