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56 Cards in this Set
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How old is the Jewish people?
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over three thousand years
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Who does the Bible say Jews descend from?
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a mesopotamian nomad named Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
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Where did Jacob's family prosper and multiply?
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Goshen, a northern Egyptian province
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What was the name of the mountain where Moses received God's law?
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Horeb or Sinai
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What is the law of Moses called by the Jews?
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The Torah
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Who is a Jew (according to Wouk)?
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A man or woman who undertakes to worship the God of Abraham
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If a Jew converts to another faith, is he still a Jew?
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in the eyes of the world, he is a converted Jew
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What is the nearest thing to an encyclopedia that Jews have?
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The Babylon Talmud
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How many commandments does Judaism (the law) have?
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six hundred and thirteen
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What is the core of Judaism?
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Right conduct to other people
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What is the only strictly Jewish symbol in the 10 Commandments
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the Sabbath
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What does the Sabbath achieve?
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keeps fresh in people's minds the idea that visions could exist
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Under what conditions do the restrictions of Sabbath law vanish?
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in the presence of emergency
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What is the nature of the Jewish Calendar?
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a nineteen-year cycle with 7 leap months
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What is the spring festival of Judaism called? (two names)
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Passover and Pesakh
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What is a seder?
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a retelling of the Exodus story in dramatic pageant
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What holiday is it associated with?
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Passover or Pesakh
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What is Shavuos or Pentecost?
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summer festival celebrating harvest
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When is Pentecost?
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fifty days after the second day of Passover, when the barley is brought in
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What is Sukkos?
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The autumn harvest festival
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What is Sukkos called in English?
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Tabernacle
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When does Sukkos occur?
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The fifteenth of Tishri (autumnal equinox)
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What does a family build on Sukkos?
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a hut in your yard
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What are the High Holy Days?
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The Days of Awe--the period from Rosh Hashana to Yom Kippur
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What is Yom Kippur?
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The Day of Atonement
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What is Tisha B'Av?
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The Ninth of Av--like Pearl Harbor Day for Judaism
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What is Purim?
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Wild rioting like Mardi Gras--Haman-Hating
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What is Hanuka?
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a gloomy mid-winter commemoration of the Maccabean wars
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Who were the Maccabees?
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the people who cleansed the temple of the Greeks
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In the beginning, what was the function of the synagogue?
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a popular law school
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What is the main function of the synagogue today?
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the complete reading of the Torah, once every year
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What are the Sh'ma and Shmone Esrai?
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Sh'ma: Hear, Shmone Esrai: The Eighteen. They're prayers.
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In what language is Jewish prayer performed?
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preferably Hebrew, though sometimes it can be in native tongue
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Is Jewish prayer free-form or memorized?
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memorized
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What is one scripture every jew knows by heart?
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Deutoronomy 6:4p
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What does Kosher mean
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pure, or fit
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What is a mezuza?
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mini scroll, placed at entry to home or around girls' necks
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Jewish law on slaughter demands that the slaughter be:
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single-stroked, painless
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What laws discipline Israel to holiness?
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dieting laws
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What is a bris?
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the event of circumcision
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What is a mohel?
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a professional jewish circumcizer
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What and when is a bar mitzvah?
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a coming of age celebration at thirteen
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What is a Bas-Mitzvah?
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coming of age celebration for girls
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What is a Kaddish, and when is it said?
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Kaddish is a prose-poem praising God, and it's said at the funeral
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How long is Shiva, and what is done? How long is a shloshim?
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Shiva: 7 days, they sit on a stool and take phone calls. Shloshim: thirty days, except for mother or father--then it's one year.
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What do Jews call the Old Testament?
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It's split. The law is halakha, and the rest is hagada.
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What is the Talmud? What is the Mishna? What is the Gemara?
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Talmud = Mishna + Gemara. Mishna is a report of legal decisions of judges over 400 years. Gemara is commentary on that.
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What are the parables and allegories of the Talmud called?
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hagada
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The core of Jewish common law is __________
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The Talmud
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What kind of damages does "an eye for an eye" refer to?
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all kinds
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What is the slow veto in Jewish law?
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veto of a slow social process
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Who was Maimonides? Who was Rambam? Why is he important?
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Maimonides was Moses ben Maimon, called Rambam. He wrote the Mishna Torah at the end of the twelfth century
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What is the Shulkhan Aruch? Who produced this work?
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the blackstone of jewish law, produced by Joseph Caro.
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Who are Hassidim and what is the Cabala they practice?
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hard core jews who hold out against western influence, the cabala is a compilation of poems and such
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When and where did the reform movement start
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Germany, early nineteenth century
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Who are the Reform Jews?
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Jews who have pretty much justified almost no practice of traditional law
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