judaism test

Judaism places great emphasis on group identity.

true

Observant Jews avoid speaking God's name out of reverence.

true

The Mishnah is based directly on the Talmud.

false

The Pharisees focused on Torah, rather than on the Temple.

true

Judaism became the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century.

false

Jews lived in relative peace and prosperity in Muslim Spain and Poland during the medieval period.

true

The Kabbalah does not observe the basic forms of Jewish practice, such as keeping the commandments.

false

Jewish mystics are more focused on the ultimate transcendence of God than on the immanence of God.

false

Large Hasidic communities still exist today in North America and elsewhere.

true

Less than half of the world's Jews live in Israel.

true

Orthodox Judaism rejects all aspects of modernity.

true

Conservative Judaism is relatively relaxed regarding observance of traditional Jewish practices.

false

Judaism is far more concerned with correct practice than with correct belief.

true

In Judaism, males alone are required to wear certain ritual accessories during prayer.

true

The Sabbath, for all but some Reform Jews, begins at sunset on Saturday and lasts until sunset on Sunday.

false

With only about thirteen million adherents worldwide, Judaism is among the smallest of the world's major religions.

true

God's name appears in the Bible in the Hebrew equivalents of the letters

YHWH

The five books of the Torah are

a. traditionally believed to have been revealed directly by God to Moses

b. the central statement of Judaism's religious laws

Jews refer to the Hebrew Bible as the

Tanakh

He received the Law at Mount Sinai and is regarded as the Torah's author:

Moses

It is most accurate to think of the Jews as

an ethnic group that shares a common history and religion

Jews believe that God is

directly involved in history

The second large-scale revolt the Jews waged against Romans ended in 135 BC. when the Romans

a. leveled Jerusalem

b. decreed that Jews could no longer inhabit Palestine

The most important event in Israelite history was the

a. Exodus from Egypt

b. revelation on Mount Sinai

Israel was granted statehood in

c. 1948

Torah defines

a. worship

b. ethical conduct

It literally means "instruction" and refers to the will of God as it is revealed to humankind.

torah

A Greek term meaning "five books"; another name for the Torah.

pentateuch

The most famous of the 613 laws in the Torah, found in chapter 20 of Exodus.

Ten Commandments

A building for Jewish worship.

synagogue

Someone who is called to speak for God.

prophet

The starting point for rabbinic study of the oral Torah; it was written down in about 200 BC and contains teachings of the rabbis of the preceding four centuries.

Mishnah

The vast depository blending together the oral and written forms of Torah, based on the Mishnah with extensive rabbinic commentary.

talmud

The situation of Jews living away from their homeland, true of the majority of Jews since the classical period.

diaspora

The most famous text of Jewish mysticism.

Zohar

Jewish mysticism, which teaches that God can best be known with the heart.

kabbalah

A form of Judaism that arose in eighteenth-century Eastern Europe and emphasizes mysticism, a personal relationship with God and the community, and the leadership of the zaddik.

Hasidism

Originally this movement was committed to the re-establishment of a Jewish homeland; since 1948, this refers generally to the support of Israel.

Zionism

The persecution of the Jews by German Nazis from 1938 to 1945, resulting in the murder of nearly six million Jews; sometimes called Shoah.

Holocaust

A teacher of Torah and leader of Jewish worship.

rabbi

The high point of the Passover festival.

seder

What Yom Kippur emphasizes.

repentence

This physical feature distinguished the Israelites from people of other nations.

circumcision

A coming-of-age ritual for a Jewish girl.

bat mizvah

A prayer of mourning.

kaddish

They conquered Palestine and the surrounding area in the seventh century BC.

muslims

God called him to be the father of a great nation; the first patriarch.

Abraham

Abraham's grandson, also known as Israel.

Jacob

He helped free the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

Moses

Jews have always regarded this Israelite king as a prototype of the messiah.

David

He built the Temple in Jerusalem.

solomon

They conquered the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 AD.

assyrians

They conquered the southern kingdom of Judah in about 587 AD.

Babylonians

They destroyed the Jerusalem Temple for the second time in 70 BC.

romans

A Jewish philosopher who lived in Muslim Spain during the medieval period and who applied the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle to the biblical tradition and contributed Judaism's most famous statement of beliefs.

Moses Maimonides