The Jewish museum follows a model of three major themes that run throughout Jewish history. One of the themes is tradition and the reinterpretation of traditions. We have seen this in our class when it came to the Rabbinate's & Karaites, the Pharisees, Sadducees and Essenes, and the different Rabbi interpretations or the Torah, Talmud, or Mishnah such as Rabbi Rashi or Rabbi Akiva. Throughout the museum, there were copies of the Torah in different structures such as the scroll made of parchment or a codex. There was a Torah that was on a scroll made of parchment written in ink from Tunisia in 1837. The Torah did not have any punctuation and it only had spacing between it to identify a new passage beginning. In addition, there was the detail
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This theme follows our studies in classical Jewish text an example of this would be the Crusades, Philo in Alexandria, Sephardic Jews, Ashkenazic Jews, and Alexander the Great. A large artifact in the museum was a giant Star of David called Warsaw; a Michael David made Warsaw, in 1981 using a combination of pigment and wax. The Star of David ignites different meaning throughout history. The image of the Warsaw Star of David causes a person to correlate it to the largest ghetto, which was in Warsaw, Poland during the Holocaust. Jews were made to wear a yellow Star of David so the German Nazi could easily recognize the Jews. I remember seeing the Star of David as a yellow thick star in films depicting the Holocaust, such as La Vita è Bella and The Boy in Stripped Pajama. Both show the star in a negative depiction because of its correlation of the Holocaust. However, now the Star of David has more of a positive correlation again. The Star of David is once again a symbol of proud Judaism. I live right next a dominantly Jewish neighborhood and I see the Star of David displayed proudly outside of different establishments especially synagogues. The symbol was at first a sign of Judaism, then a symbol to represent the Holocaust and now once again it is restored to its original …show more content…
Some of the topics we covered in class that follows this theme would be Moses covenant, Abraham covenant, the Babylonian exile, and the exile from the Iberian Peninsula, Genomic period, and the destruction of the first and second temple. In the museum, there were four slates each presenting a different verse from the Hebrew bible. The first slate had Genesis 17:7, the second Exodus 20.2, Deuteronomy 30:16, and Deuteronomy 26:9. Genesis 17:7 were the covenant between God and Abraham where Abraham said he and his descendants would follow God and his descendants were the Jewish people. On the second slate was Exodus 20.2, which discusses the exile of the Jews to Babylonia. The Babylonian exile was after the destruction of the first temple. The temple symbolizes three major aspects of the Jewish people. It first is viewed as where God dwells on Earth, second as a symbol to pray towards, and third where heaven meets earth. After its destruction, it was a lost period of the Jewish people. The other two slates from Deuteronomy discuss the Jews agreement to the land with God. All four biblical quotes set the foundation of Jewish history and the historical events would shape the Jewish people future. If the convenient were not made between Abraham and God, there would be no Jewish people. If the Babylonian exile never occurred there could be no
This theme follows our studies in classical Jewish text an example of this would be the Crusades, Philo in Alexandria, Sephardic Jews, Ashkenazic Jews, and Alexander the Great. A large artifact in the museum was a giant Star of David called Warsaw; a Michael David made Warsaw, in 1981 using a combination of pigment and wax. The Star of David ignites different meaning throughout history. The image of the Warsaw Star of David causes a person to correlate it to the largest ghetto, which was in Warsaw, Poland during the Holocaust. Jews were made to wear a yellow Star of David so the German Nazi could easily recognize the Jews. I remember seeing the Star of David as a yellow thick star in films depicting the Holocaust, such as La Vita è Bella and The Boy in Stripped Pajama. Both show the star in a negative depiction because of its correlation of the Holocaust. However, now the Star of David has more of a positive correlation again. The Star of David is once again a symbol of proud Judaism. I live right next a dominantly Jewish neighborhood and I see the Star of David displayed proudly outside of different establishments especially synagogues. The symbol was at first a sign of Judaism, then a symbol to represent the Holocaust and now once again it is restored to its original …show more content…
Some of the topics we covered in class that follows this theme would be Moses covenant, Abraham covenant, the Babylonian exile, and the exile from the Iberian Peninsula, Genomic period, and the destruction of the first and second temple. In the museum, there were four slates each presenting a different verse from the Hebrew bible. The first slate had Genesis 17:7, the second Exodus 20.2, Deuteronomy 30:16, and Deuteronomy 26:9. Genesis 17:7 were the covenant between God and Abraham where Abraham said he and his descendants would follow God and his descendants were the Jewish people. On the second slate was Exodus 20.2, which discusses the exile of the Jews to Babylonia. The Babylonian exile was after the destruction of the first temple. The temple symbolizes three major aspects of the Jewish people. It first is viewed as where God dwells on Earth, second as a symbol to pray towards, and third where heaven meets earth. After its destruction, it was a lost period of the Jewish people. The other two slates from Deuteronomy discuss the Jews agreement to the land with God. All four biblical quotes set the foundation of Jewish history and the historical events would shape the Jewish people future. If the convenient were not made between Abraham and God, there would be no Jewish people. If the Babylonian exile never occurred there could be no