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The People of the Covenant

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Covenant is defined as an agreement,


usually formal, between two or more
persons to do or not do something
specified.
Covenants can be conditional or
unconditional
Unconditional Noah
through the rainbow that signalled the end of the flood,
God promised to never flood the earth again
Conditional Moses on Mount Sinai
Israelites obey the Law/Torah/10 Commandments, then

they would be Gods treasured possessions

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Abrahamic Covenant:
Now the LORD had said to Abram:
Get out of your country, From your family
And from your fathers house,
To a land that I will show you.
2 I will make you a great nation;
I will bless you
And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
3 I will bless those who bless you,
And I will curse him who curses you;
And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed. 6Abram passed
through the land to the place of Shechem, as far as the terebinth tree of
Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. 7Then the Lord
appeared to Abram and said, To your descendants I will give this land.
And there he built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
Genesis 12:1-3,6-7
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Yahweh (YHWH)
a single, omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent,

transcendent God, who created the universe


and continues to govern it
YHWH is written, but considered too holy to be
spoken (The Lord, Master of the Universe)

Torah The Law


Written Torah
Pentateuch (first 5 books of the Tanakh/ Bible)
- Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
- Revealed to Moses on Mount Sinai

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Oral Torah
Moses received an oral as well as the written
Torah from God at Mount Sinai
The teachings of the rabbis

Rabbi teacher

Mishnah (200 A.D.)


Transcription of oral tradition

Talmud
Record of Rabbinic discussions and interpretations
Talmud is still being interpreted and reinterpreted to

this day

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13 Principles of Faith
1.

I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name is the
Creator and Guide of everything that has been created; He alone has
made, does make, and will make all things.

2.

I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name is One,
and that there is no unity in any manner like His, and that He alone is our
God, who was, and is, and will be.

3.

I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, has no
body, and that He is free from all the properties of matter, and that there can
be no comparison to Him whatsoever.

4.

I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, is the first
and the last.

5.

I believe with perfect faith that to the Creator, Blessed be His Name, and to
Him alone, it is right to pray, and that it is not right to pray to any being
besides Him.

6.

I believe with perfect faith that all the words of the prophets are true.

7.

I believe with perfect faith that the prophecy of Moses our teacher, peace be
upon him, was true, and that he was the chief of the prophets, both those
who preceded him and those who followed him.

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13.

I believe with perfect faith that the entire Torah that is now in our
possession is the same that was given to Moses our teacher, peace be
upon him.
I believe with perfect faith that this Torah will not be exchanged, and that
there will never be any other Torah from the Creator, Blessed be His
Name.
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, knows
all the deeds of human beings and all their thoughts, as it is written, "Who
fashioned the hearts of them all, Who comprehends all their actions"
(Psalms 33:15).
I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, rewards
those who keep His commandments and punishes those that
transgress them.
I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah; and even though
he may tarry, nonetheless, I wait every day for his coming.
I believe with perfect faith that there will be a revival of the dead at the
time when it shall please the Creator, Blessed be His name, and His
mention shall be exalted for ever and ever.

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Holidays
Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement)
Holiest day of the year
25 hour fast from sunset to nightfall
Public and private confession after which one is considered to be
absolved by God
Hanukkah (Festival of Lights)
Commemorates the Maccabee miracle of the day supply of oil
that lasted 8 days
Candles light for eight days on a menorah.
Pesach (Passover)
festival commemorating God sparing the Jews when He killed the
first born of Egypt.
Followed by the seven day Feast of the Unleavened Bread
No leavened food is eaten during the week of Pesach, in
commemoration of the fact that the Jews left Egypt so quickly that
their bread did not have enough time to rise.

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Sabbath
Day of rest
Begins before sundown on Friday night to

shortly after sundown Saturday night


During the Sabbath Jews are forbidden to
engage in any activity that falls under 39
categories of "work"
The activities banned on the Sabbath are not
"work" in the usual sense:
lighting a fire, writing, using money, carrying in the

public domain
The prohibition of lighting a fire has been extended
in the modern era to driving a car, which involves
burning fuel, and using electricity.

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Kosher
Jewish dietary laws
Abstaining from consuming birds, beasts that prey on

other animals, and creatures that roam the sea floor


eating the excretions of other animals.
prohibitions exist on eating pork (unclean animal) and
seafood (Animals with cloven hooves that 'chew the cud'*
are 'kosher'. This means Jews can eat sheep, cows,
goats and deer.)
Meat is ritually slaughtered
meat and milk are not eaten together
based on the biblical injunction against cooking a kid
in its mother's milk.
Jews should not put anything into their mouths that
involves spiritual "negatives" such as pain, sickness,
uncleanliness, or cruelty to animals.

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Yarmulke
Skullcap worn by male
"Cover your head in order that the fear of

heaven may be upon you (Talmud)

Bar/Bat Mitzvah
Jewish coming of age ceremony
13th birthday after which they undertake the

religious responsibilities of an adult

world population of Jews is 13.2 million

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According to traditional Jewish Law, a


Jew is anyone born of a Jewish mother
or converted to Judaism
Traditional Judaism maintains that a Jew,

whether by birth or conversion, is a Jew


forever

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The Holocaust (1933-1945)


The Final Solution of the Jewish Question

No accurate account of how many Jews


were slaughtered during the Holocaust, but
it is estimated at 6,000,000; 3 million at
Auschwitz alone
In total it is estimated that 9 15 million
people who did not fit into Hitlers ideal of
the master race were slaughtered
Auschwitz was operated by Heinrich
Himmlers SS;
Heinrich was hanged at the entrance of the

Auschwitz crematorium in 1947

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Define the following terms:
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Anti-Semitism
Covenant
Holocaust
Kabbalah
Sabbath

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Torah
Talmud
Rabbi
Tanakh
Yom Kippur

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