Rabbinic Leadership
Clue: Written answers by rabbinic authorities to halachic questions.
Answer: What is Responsa?
Clue: A Jewish sect that rejected the Oral Law.
Answer: Who are the Karaites?
Clue: An official order or law given by a ruler.
Answer: What is Edict?
Clue: People who have been taken prisoner, usually during war.
Answer: Who are Captives?
Clue: The land area containing modern Spain and Portugal.
Answer: What is the Iberian Peninsula?
Clue: The business of lending and managing money between different countries.
Answer: What is International finance?
Clue: A major Babylonian yeshiva and center of Jewish learning.
Answer: What is Pumbedisa?
Clue: A Jewish custom or traditional way of practicing religious laws.
Answer: What is Minhag?
Clue: Living with two identities or loyalties at the same time.
Answer: What is Dualism?
Clue: Money paid to free captives.
Answer: What is Ransom?
Clue: Jews from Spain became known by this name.
Answer: Who are the Sephardim?
Clue: A Roman emperor in the 4th century who made Christianity the state religion.
Answer: Who is Constantine?
Clue: The act or process of leadership passing from one person to another.
Answer: What is Succession?
Clue: A period when people return to and strengthen their traditions, language, and customs.
Answer: What is Cultural revival?
Clue: A term later used for Jews in Spain who outwardly acted as Christians but secretly practiced Judaism.
Answer: What is Marrano?
Clue: The act of saving or buying back someone from slavery or danger.
Answer: What is Redemption?
Clue: A Jewish term for Spain that originated in the Bible.
Answer: What is Sephard?
Clue: To spread widely.
Answer: What is Disseminate?
Clue: Twice-yearly gatherings for intensive Torah study.
Answer: What is Yarchai Kallah?
Clue: Descendants or those that come from an earlier source.
Answer: What is Progeny?
Clue: The biblical name referring to Spain; later used to describe Jews of Spanish and Portuguese descent.
Answer: What is Sephard?
Clue: A large public parade celebrating a military victory.
Answer: What is the Triumphal procession?
Clue: Some Jews outwardly converted to Christianity but practiced Judaism secretly.
Answer: What is Marrano?
Clue: A person or group whose descendants continue a tradition or lineage.
Answer: What is Progeny?
Clue: A famous historical letter explaining the development of the Oral Law.
Answer: What is Iggeret Rav Sherira Gaon?
Clue: A person’s family background or heritage.
Answer: What is Ancestry?
Clue: A state of moral decline or excessive luxury and self-indulgence.
Answer: What is Decadence?
Clue: The movement of people from one place to another to live there permanently.
Answer: What is Migration?
Clue: Jews who lived in Spain were proud of this, their family and historical lineage.
Answer: What is Ancestry?
Clue: Jews maintained customs and law while also being loyal to their country; this describes living with two identities.
Answer: What is Dualism?