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18 Cards in this Set
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hostility towards Jews and Judaism
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Anti-Semitism
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"son of the commandment" or "daughter of the commmandment", the ritual celebrationg marking the comin of age of a Jewish chilc
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bar mitzvah
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the agreement between God and the ancient Israelites first throug Abraham and then through Moses
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Covanent
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The situation of Jews living away from thier ancestral homeland, a circumstance that has been true for most Jews since the classical period
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Disapora
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a form of Judaism that arose in eastern Europe,it emphasizes mysticism, a personal realationship with God
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Hasidism
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the persecution of Jews by the German Nazis from 1833-1945, killed 6 million Jews
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Holocaust
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Jewish mysticism, which teaches that God can best be known thorug the heart, developed mainly in the medieval period with texts such as Zohar
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Kabbalah
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contains the teachings of the rabbis of the preceeding four centuries along with the Talmud, most important text
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Mishnah
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the 8 day festival celebrated in early spring that commemorates the Exodus from Egypt
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Passover
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"my teacher" a teacher of Torah and leader of Jewish worship
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rabbi
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the festival occuring in early fall in commemoration for the new year
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Rosh Hashanah
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the day from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday that is set aside for rest and religious celebration
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Sabbath
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From Dueuteronomy 6:4 Judaism's basic statement of monotheism
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Shema
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the vast despository of the oral Torah, based on the Mishnah with extensiv rabbinic comentary on each chapter
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Talmud
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a common way of referring to the Hebrew bible, derived from the first letters of the Hebrew names of its three sections
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tanakh
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generally the revelation of God's will to the people, the divine law
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Torah
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Judaism's most important holy day, occuring in the fall on the tenth day of teh new year, spent primarily at synagogue services
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Yom Kippur
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the movement arising in the late 19th century that sought to reestablish a Jewish homeland
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Zionism
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