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Conservative judaisn |
Falls in the middle between Reform Jews and Orthodox Jews. It preaches that Judaism should keep in step with a changing world and keep an open mind to updating the faith |
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Essenes |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups; A Jewish monastic group that formed a religious community near the Dead Sea |
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Ethical monotheism |
The doctrine that prophets taught that there is only one God and God's goodness requires that human beings at ethically doing the right thing in pursuit of goodness |
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Exilic period |
Began 586 BCE when Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Solomons temple and forced many Jews to exile in Mesopotamia |
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Exodus |
The paradigm event in the history of Judaism when moses rescued the Hebrews from slavery and led them out of Egypt |
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Exodus |
The paradigm event in the history of Judaism when moses rescued the Hebrews from slavery and led them out of Egypt |
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Hanukkah |
Celebration that Commemorates The Jewish purification of the temple after it was re-taken from the Syrian Greek about 165 BCE |
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Exodus |
The paradigm event in the history of Judaism when moses rescued the Hebrews from slavery and led them out of Egypt |
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Hanukkah |
Celebration that Commemorates The Jewish purification of the temple after it was re-taken from the Syrian Greek about 165 BCE |
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Hasidism |
Jewish mysticism in Eastern Europe |
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Kabbalism |
A mysticism stress the experience of love and joy of God and maintains that Scriptures contain mystical teachings lying beneath the surface reading of the text |
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Kabbalism |
A mysticism stress the experience of love and joy of God and maintains that Scriptures contain mystical teachings lying beneath the surface reading of the text |
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Messiah |
A future savior of the people of Israel who will inaugurate an age of peace |
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Kabbalism |
A mysticism stress the experience of love and joy of God and maintains that Scriptures contain mystical teachings lying beneath the surface reading of the text |
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Messiah |
A future savior of the people of Israel who will inaugurate an age of peace |
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Midrash |
The work of interpreting Torach |
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Kabbalism |
A mysticism stress the experience of love and joy of God and maintains that Scriptures contain mystical teachings lying beneath the surface reading of the text |
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Messiah |
A future savior of the people of Israel who will inaugurate an age of peace |
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Midrash |
The work of interpreting Torach |
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Mishnah |
The legal prescriptions and precepts of the oral Torah |
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Kabbalism |
A mysticism stress the experience of love and joy of God and maintains that Scriptures contain mystical teachings lying beneath the surface reading of the text |
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Messiah |
A future savior of the people of Israel who will inaugurate an age of peace |
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Midrash |
The work of interpreting Torach |
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Mishnah |
The legal prescriptions and precepts of the oral Torah |
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Moses |
A Hebrew prophet who grew up as in Egyptain and eventually rescued all the Hebrews from slavery and let them out of Egypt |
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Kabbalism |
A mysticism stress the experience of love and joy of God and maintains that Scriptures contain mystical teachings lying beneath the surface reading of the text |
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Messiah |
A future savior of the people of Israel who will inaugurate an age of peace |
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Midrash |
The work of interpreting Torach |
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Mishnah |
The legal prescriptions and precepts of the oral Torah |
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Moses |
A Hebrew prophet who grew up as in Egyptain and eventually rescued all the Hebrews from slavery and let them out of Egypt |
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Northern kingdom |
Part of the divided kingdom of Israel that was destroyed by the Assyrians because the Israelites practiced polytheism |
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Kabbalism |
A mysticism stress the experience of love and joy of God and maintains that Scriptures contain mystical teachings lying beneath the surface reading of the text |
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Messiah |
A future savior of the people of Israel who will inaugurate an age of peace |
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Midrash |
The work of interpreting Torach |
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Mishnah |
The legal prescriptions and precepts of the oral Torah |
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Moses |
A Hebrew prophet who grew up as in Egyptain and eventually rescued all the Hebrews from slavery and let them out of Egypt |
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Northern kingdom |
Part of the divided kingdom of Israel that was destroyed by the Assyrians because the Israelites practiced polytheism |
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Oral Torah |
The work of debate and commentary over the Hebrew Bible or Tanak |
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Kabbalism |
A mysticism stress the experience of love and joy of God and maintains that Scriptures contain mystical teachings lying beneath the surface reading of the text |
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Messiah |
A future savior of the people of Israel who will inaugurate an age of peace |
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Midrash |
The work of interpreting Torach |
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Mishnah |
The legal prescriptions and precepts of the oral Torah |
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Moses |
A Hebrew prophet who grew up as in Egyptain and eventually rescued all the Hebrews from slavery and let them out of Egypt |
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Northern kingdom |
Part of the divided kingdom of Israel that was destroyed by the Assyrians because the Israelites practiced polytheism |
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Oral Torah |
The work of debate and commentary over the Hebrew Bible or Tanak |
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Orthodox Judaism |
Reacted against reform Judaism insisting on faithfulness to the religious and ethical precepts of the Torah and Talmud |
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Kabbalism |
A mysticism stress the experience of love and joy of God and maintains that Scriptures contain mystical teachings lying beneath the surface reading of the text |
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Messiah |
A future savior of the people of Israel who will inaugurate an age of peace |
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Midrash |
The work of interpreting Torach |
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Mishnah |
The legal prescriptions and precepts of the oral Torah |
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Moses |
A Hebrew prophet who grew up as in Egyptain and eventually rescued all the Hebrews from slavery and let them out of Egypt |
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Northern kingdom |
Part of the divided kingdom of Israel that was destroyed by the Assyrians because the Israelites practiced polytheism |
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Oral Torah |
The work of debate and commentary over the Hebrew Bible or Tanak |
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Orthodox Judaism |
Reacted against reform Judaism insisting on faithfulness to the religious and ethical precepts of the Torah and Talmud |
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Passover |
A weeklong spring festival that commemorates the exodus of Hebrews from slavery in Egypt |
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Patriarchs and matriarchs |
The forefathers and foremothers of the Israelites |
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Patriarchs and matriarchs |
The forefathers and foremothers of the Israelites |
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Pharises |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups that was composed of the rabbis, the lawyers, and the scribes of the middle classes |
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Patriarchs and matriarchs |
The forefathers and foremothers of the Israelites |
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Pharises |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups that was composed of the rabbis, the lawyers, and the scribes of the middle classes |
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Post-exilic period |
Began about 540 BC E after the Persians conquered the Babylonians and permitted the Jews to return to Palestine and rebuild the wall of Jerusalem and the temple |
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Patriarchs and matriarchs |
The forefathers and foremothers of the Israelites |
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Pharises |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups that was composed of the rabbis, the lawyers, and the scribes of the middle classes |
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Post-exilic period |
Began about 540 BC E after the Persians conquered the Babylonians and permitted the Jews to return to Palestine and rebuild the wall of Jerusalem and the temple |
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Rabbi |
A Jewish teacher who is a scholar of the Torah or Jewish laws |
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Patriarchs and matriarchs |
The forefathers and foremothers of the Israelites |
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Pharises |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups that was composed of the rabbis, the lawyers, and the scribes of the middle classes |
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Post-exilic period |
Began about 540 BC E after the Persians conquered the Babylonians and permitted the Jews to return to Palestine and rebuild the wall of Jerusalem and the temple |
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Rabbi |
A Jewish teacher who is a scholar of the Torah or Jewish laws |
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Reconstructionist judaism |
Form of Judaism that affirms the primacy of reason and modern science and minimizes the importance of religious ceremonies and a ritual |
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Reform Judaism |
Form of Judaism that emphasizes the ethical teachings of the Torah and the Talmud and diminishes the importance of eating kosher dietary food |
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Reform Judaism |
Form of Judaism that emphasizes the ethical teachings of the Torah and the Talmud and diminishes the importance of eating kosher dietary food |
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Sabbath Day |
A day observed every week on the seventh day beginning at sundown on Friday to Sunset on Saturday night. it commemorates God rest from creation and refrain from work |
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Reform Judaism |
Form of Judaism that emphasizes the ethical teachings of the Torah and the Talmud and diminishes the importance of eating kosher dietary food |
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Sabbath Day |
A day observed every week on the seventh day beginning at sundown on Friday to Sunset on Saturday night. it commemorates God rest from creation and refrain from work |
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Sudducees |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups; they were Priestly aristocratic class |
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Reform Judaism |
Form of Judaism that emphasizes the ethical teachings of the Torah and the Talmud and diminishes the importance of eating kosher dietary food |
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Sabbath Day |
A day observed every week on the seventh day beginning at sundown on Friday to Sunset on Saturday night. it commemorates God rest from creation and refrain from work |
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Sudducees |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups; they were Priestly aristocratic class |
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Synagogue |
Type of building that replaced the temple and is a house of worship and serves as a center of spiritual and moral gravity for the community |
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Reform Judaism |
Form of Judaism that emphasizes the ethical teachings of the Torah and the Talmud and diminishes the importance of eating kosher dietary food |
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Sabbath Day |
A day observed every week on the seventh day beginning at sundown on Friday to Sunset on Saturday night. it commemorates God rest from creation and refrain from work |
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Sudducees |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups; they were Priestly aristocratic class |
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Synagogue |
Type of building that replaced the temple and is a house of worship and serves as a center of spiritual and moral gravity for the community |
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Talmud |
The compilation of the oral Torah in written form |
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Reform Judaism |
Form of Judaism that emphasizes the ethical teachings of the Torah and the Talmud and diminishes the importance of eating kosher dietary food |
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Sabbath Day |
A day observed every week on the seventh day beginning at sundown on Friday to Sunset on Saturday night. it commemorates God rest from creation and refrain from work |
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Sudducees |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups; they were Priestly aristocratic class |
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Synagogue |
Type of building that replaced the temple and is a house of worship and serves as a center of spiritual and moral gravity for the community |
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Talmud |
The compilation of the oral Torah in written form |
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Tanakh |
The Canon or standard list of books that comprise the authoritative basis of rabbinical Judaism |
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Reform Judaism |
Form of Judaism that emphasizes the ethical teachings of the Torah and the Talmud and diminishes the importance of eating kosher dietary food |
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Sabbath Day |
A day observed every week on the seventh day beginning at sundown on Friday to Sunset on Saturday night. it commemorates God rest from creation and refrain from work |
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Sudducees |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups; they were Priestly aristocratic class |
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Synagogue |
Type of building that replaced the temple and is a house of worship and serves as a center of spiritual and moral gravity for the community |
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Talmud |
The compilation of the oral Torah in written form |
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Tanakh |
The Canon or standard list of books that comprise the authoritative basis of rabbinical Judaism |
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Torah |
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible whose authorship tradition ascribes to Moses, and is of unknown origin or date |
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Reform Judaism |
Form of Judaism that emphasizes the ethical teachings of the Torah and the Talmud and diminishes the importance of eating kosher dietary food |
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Sabbath Day |
A day observed every week on the seventh day beginning at sundown on Friday to Sunset on Saturday night. it commemorates God rest from creation and refrain from work |
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Sudducees |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups; they were Priestly aristocratic class |
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Synagogue |
Type of building that replaced the temple and is a house of worship and serves as a center of spiritual and moral gravity for the community |
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Talmud |
The compilation of the oral Torah in written form |
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Tanakh |
The Canon or standard list of books that comprise the authoritative basis of rabbinical Judaism |
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Torah |
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible whose authorship tradition ascribes to Moses, and is of unknown origin or date |
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Zealots |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups that were the social rebels and revolutionaries whose goals were the overthrow of the Roman Occupiers |
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Reform Judaism |
Form of Judaism that emphasizes the ethical teachings of the Torah and the Talmud and diminishes the importance of eating kosher dietary food |
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Sabbath Day |
A day observed every week on the seventh day beginning at sundown on Friday to Sunset on Saturday night. it commemorates God rest from creation and refrain from work |
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Sudducees |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups; they were Priestly aristocratic class |
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Synagogue |
Type of building that replaced the temple and is a house of worship and serves as a center of spiritual and moral gravity for the community |
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Talmud |
The compilation of the oral Torah in written form |
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Tanakh |
The Canon or standard list of books that comprise the authoritative basis of rabbinical Judaism |
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Torah |
The first five books of the Hebrew Bible whose authorship tradition ascribes to Moses, and is of unknown origin or date |
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Zealots |
One of the four Jewish sectarian groups that were the social rebels and revolutionaries whose goals were the overthrow of the Roman Occupiers |
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