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In this year the Second Temple was destroyed.
What is 70 CE?
100
An intellect that believed study was more important than praying, but he believed that you should study through a Jewish perspective.
Who is Vilna Gaon?
100
Challenge: Dispersal of the Jews had made communication of the oral tradition difficult.
Adaption: What is Oral tradition was recorded in the Mishnah.
100
A language used by Jews in central and Eastern Europe
What is yidish
200
This is the year that there was the golden age if Spain
What is 950
200
The first king of Israel.
Who is Saul?
200
Challenge: Jews spoke Arabic, the primary language in Babylonia after the Islamic conquest, and many of them forgot Hebrew.
Adaption: What is The Bible and a prayer book were translated into Arabic; the Judeo-Arabic language was developed.
200
The chief text of the Jewish Kabbalah
What is zohar
300
In this year the temple was purified by the Maccabees.
What is 164 BCE?
300
The harsh Roman prosecutor who made the crucifixion of Jesus possible.
Who is Pontius Pilate?
300
Challenge: The general principles of the Mishnah did not present practical laws to guide real-life situations.
Adaption: What is The Gemara and additional commentaries were written.
300
The language of some Sephardic Jews
What is Ladino
400
In this year the first Jewish ghetto was founded in Venice.
What is 1516 CE?
400
The combination of Greek culture with local cultures.
What is Hellenism?
400
The temptation to assimilate was great.
What is Jewish leaders focused on Judaism’s strengths.
400
Christinized Jews to avoid persecution
What is Marranos
500
In this year there was the first charge of blood libel in England
What is 1148?
500
The man believed to be the Messiah by Christians.
Who is Jesus?
500
Some Jews saw conflict between the law of the land and Judaism.
What is The geonim declared that as long as the civil laws were just, Jews must honor them.
500
A country. In Western Europe that persecuted Jews
What is Spain