Jewish beliefs
Jewish Practices
Life and Death
Sin and Forgiveness
FCT Paper 1
100

What is the Shema? what is the key idea? 

Give a quote

A prayer recited twice daily that says that God is one. 

Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one.

100

What is brith mila?

circumcision ceremony

100

Define palliative care 

Symptoms and pain management

100

Define evangelisation

spreading of the good news (gospel)

100

Define privation

Absence of Good

200

Define Shekhinah. Haw can it be felt today?

God's divine presence. Study/Worship/Pilgrimage?prayer

200

Define Amidah

Means "standing" central prayer of Synagogue services 

200

Give 3 parables about Judgment

Rich man and Lazarus / Unforgiving servant / Sheep and goats

200

Name 4 aims of punishment

Retribution / Deterrence / rehabilitation / protection

200

What is the inconsistent triad? Who proposed it?

3 statements that cannot be all true at the same time. David Hume

300

Name the afterlife in Judaism and give a quote about it

Olam ha ba. This world is like a lobby before the Olam Ha Ba. Prepare yourself in the lobby so that you may enter the banquet hall 

300

define the Following terms

Siddur Tefillin Kippah Tallith Tzitzit Mezuzah


Prayer book / Leather boxes / Skull caps / Prayer Shawl / Knotted fringes of the tallith / Small parchment in a small case

300

Give the 3 types of Magisterium with examples

Ordinary ( laudato Si)

Extraordinary Conciliar ( Vatican II)

Extraordinary Pontifical ( Ex cathedra)

300

Give the 4 marks of the Church

One/Holy/Catholic/Apostolic

300

Give 3 symbols of the Tree of life mosaic

Chi ro / Doves/ Cross/Sheep/Lamb

400

Give the main promises and commitment of covenant with Abraham

Land/Great Nation/Blessings

Worship only one God

400
Name the key words for the following terms


burial society / Main mourner / Seven day period of mourning

Chevra Kaddisha / Onan / Shiva

400

Give 4 symbols/symbolic action of a funeral rite

Sprinkling holy water / White pall/ Paschal candle/ Incense/ Cross/ Gospel (bible) / White vestments/Mass

400

Give what St Augustine and Pope John Paul  II?

N/A

400

Define Natural Law

The moral Law of right and wrong which are universal and not dependent on human Laws 

500

Define these 3 key words:

Tikkun Olam

Gemilut hasidim

Tzedakah

Making the world a better place

selfless loving act

Justice/ Charity

500

explain how Jewish people celebrate Yom Kippur

N/A

500

Name the 4 main documents of vatican II

Dei verbum / Lumen gentium? gaudium and spes / sacrosantcum concilium

500

What is the Paschal Mystery?

Give the main stages

Palm Sunday / Good Friday/ Easter Sunday / Ascension

500

Define Catholic Social teaching and give 4 main ideas of CST

Dignity/Common good/ preferential option for the poor/Solidarity/Stewardship