Rituals
Holidays
Holy Texts
Denominations
History
100
This is the coming of age ritual for a Jewish boy.
What is bar mitzvah?
100
The holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
What is Yom Kippur?
100
Can mean the first five books of the Bible, the Bible as a whole, or just generally "learning."
What is Torah?
100
Hasidic Judaism is part of this denomination.
What is Orthodox?
100
The second temple was destroyed in this year.
What is 70 CE?
200
All Jewish males have this ritual performed on them at eight days old as a sign of the covenant with YHWH.
What is circumcision?
200
The Jewish New Year
What is Rosh Hashanah?
200
Literally "five books."
What is the Pentateuch?
200
This denomination branched off from Orthodoxy around 1840.
What is Reform?
200
The modern State of Israel was established in this year.
What is 1948?
300
This ritual prayer shawl is worn during morning prayer and on Yom Kippur.
What is tallit?
300
The Festival of Booths
What is Sukkot?
300
The first ring of oral torah, it was completed around 200 CE.
What is the Mishnah?
300
This denomination rejects the mitzvoh that have no clear ethical reason.
What is Reform?
300
This Spanish rabbi is known as the Jewish Thomas Aquinas and intellectualized Judaism.
Who was Maimonides?
400
These straps are also known as phylactery.
What are tefillin?
400
The important meal served as part of Pesach/Passover.
What is seder?
400
This scroll contains the book of Esther and is used at Purim.
What is megillah?
400
The majority of American Jews are members of this denomination.
What is Conservative?
400
While many think that this movement, committed to a Jewish homeland, began after the Holocaust, it actually started in the late 1800s.
What is Zionism?
500
This is a ritual bath used for purification.
What is mikvah?
500
The holiday that commemorates the Maccabean Revolt.
What is Hanukah?
500
The Mishnah + the Gemara and other commentaries make up this holy text.
What is the Talmud?
500
This denomination still uses traditional dress, but only at services.
What is Conservative?
500
Jews tend to use this term (which literally means "calamity") for what we call the Holocaust.
What is Shoah?
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