Re Notes- Judaism pt2

Kosher

Food that is acceptable to Jews

Treifah

Unacceptable food

Kiddush

Prayer of sanctification said over wine, to sanctify the Sabbath

Modeh ani

'I give thanks', a prayer recited upon waking

Pikuach Nefesh

The principle that allows Jews to break most Jewish laws in order to save a person's life in life-threatening circumstances

Shekhinah

The divine presence of God within the created world

Rabbi

Jewish teacher or religious leader

Talmud

The 'Oral Torah', or the oral laws and traditions passed down from Moses, eventually written down as the Mishnah and the Gemara

Yeshiva

Jewish school of Talmudic study

Brit olam

'An everlasting covenant', the agreement between God and the Jewish people

Final Plague

God would pass over the land of Egypt, and kill the firstborn of both humans and animals. This event that prompted Pharaoh to allow Moses to leave with the Jewish people.

Reed Sea

A body of water that Moses and the Jewish people crossed to reach freedom, believed by some scholars to be a mistranslation of the Red Sea.

Covenant at Sinai

The agreement made between God and the Jewish people at Mount Sinai, where the Ten Commandments were given to Moses.

Chosen People

The Jewish people, identify as the chosen people of God, chosen for responsibility.

Ten Commandments

The set of commandments given by God to Moses on stone tablets, serving as the introductory instructions for the Covenant at Sinai.

Olam Ha-Ba

A term used for both the Messianic Age and a spiritual afterlife following physical death.

The Exodus

The event of the Jewish people leaving Egypt under the leadership of Moses.

Torah

The entirety of the Jewish religious teachings and laws given to the Jewish people by God, including the Ten Commandments.

Oral Torah

The teachings and interpretations of the Torah that were passed down orally and later written down as the Talmud.

Obedience and Punishment

The belief that Jews are bound to follow the teachings in the Torah due to the covenant made by Moses, with obedience being blessed and disobedience being punished.

Sanctity of Life- (Leviticus 24:17-18)

And a man - if he strikes mortally any human life, he shall be put

to death. And a man who strikes mortally an animal life shall make restitution, a life for a life.

Sanctity of life (Genesis 1:26-27)

And God said, "Let us make Man in Our image, after Our likeness. They shall rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and over the animal, the whole earth, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." So God created Man in his Image.

Tanakh

the Hebrew Bible, consisting of the Torah, Nevi'im, and Kethuvim

The Almighty (Genesis 2:7)

❝And Hashem God formed the man of dust from the ground, and He blew into his nostrils the soul of life; and man became a living being.

The Almighty (Isaiah 33:22)

For Hashem is our Judge; Hashem is our Lawgiver; Hashem is our King; He will save us.

Prayer- Shema, Modeh Ani (Psalms 4:5)

“Tremble and sin not; reflect in your hearts while on your beds and be utterly silent, Selah.”

Shabbat Prayer

“Evening, morning, and noon, I supplicate and moan; and He has heard my voice.” (Psalm 55:18)

The Covenant at Sinai

For you are a holy people to Hashem, your God; Hashem, your God, has chosen you to be for Him a treasured people above all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.

The covenant at Sinai (Exodus 19:8)

“The entire people responded together and said, “Everything that Hashem has spoken we shall do!" Moses brought back the words of the people to Hashem.”

Sanctity of Life (Sanhedrin 4:3)

❝he who destroys one soul of a human being, the Scripture considers him as if he destroys a whole world, and him who saves one soul of Israel, the Scripture considers him as if he should save a whole world. Mishnah

Sanctity of Life

And God said, "Let us make Man in Our image, after Our likeness. They shall rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and over the animal, the whole earth, and every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth." So God created Man in his Image.