Location
What is the Jewish place of worship?
Synagogues
A game played during the festival of Hanukkah.
Dreidel
Judaism is based on a covenant between who?
God and the Jewish people
What was their text mostly written in?
Hebrew
Who founded Judaism
Abram
In what two countries is Judaism most practiced?
Israel and the United States
What is the coming of age ceremony marking the transition at age 12/13
Bar/Bat Mitzvah
Greatest prophet of them all
Moses
What is their sacred text called?
Tanakh/Talmud
Candles used in the ceremony of Havdalah
Havdalah Candles
The mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God.
Mount Sinai
What is the holiest day in the year of Judaism?
Yom Kippur
Sephardic Rabbi/Philosopher and He was the first person to write a systematic code of all Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah;
Maimonides
The books of old testament
What is the central belief about God in Judaism?
Monotheistic - the belief in one God and the covenant God made with the Jewish people, originating with Abraham.
Located in Jerusalem. Thousands of people from around the world visit this place to offer prayers, often inserting written notes into the cracks between the stones.
The Western Wall
What is the weekly day of rest from Friday evening to Saturday evening?
Shabbat
Best known for his influencial commentaries on the Hebrew Bible
Isaac Abarbanel
What are the first five books called?
The Torah
Shabbat/any major Jewish Holiday
The most sacred site in Judaism. It is the location where both the First Temple, built by King Solomon, and the Second Temple, rebuilt after the Babylonian Exile, once stood.
The Temple Mount
A 2 day holiday marking the creation of the world?
A great commentator on the Bible/Talmud, and wrote many books that contained interpretations
Rashi
Pentateuch
What is the cabinet in a synagogue that houses Torah Scrolls?
The Ark