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According to the first book of the Torah, a famine forced many Israelites to flee from Canaan to Egypt.
What is 1800 BCE?
Judaism’s most sacred text, consisting of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
What is the Torah?
Considered the father of Judaism.
Who is Abraham?
The belief in only one God.
What is monotheism?
An agreement or promise.
Covenant
Abraham and his family moved out of Mesopotamia to Canaan.
What is 1950 BCE?
The Ten laws and teachings given to Moses by God.
What is the Ten Commandments?
Considered the mother of Judaism, the wife of Abraham.
Who is Sarah?
The collection of ancient Jewish writings, or commentaries, that interpret the laws and teachings of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh.
What is the Talmud?
The escape of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery to freedom.
Exodus
The Israelites had set up the kingdom of Israel in Canaan.
What is 1000 BCE?
The modern buildings that are Jewish houses of worship.
What are synagogues (aka Temples)?
The liberator of the Hebrews from Egypt.
Who is Moses?
A holy day, a day of rest and prayer.
What is the Sabbath?
An early name for the Jewish people.
Israelites
Moses leads the Hebrew people out of Egypt/enslavement.
What is around the 1300s B.C.E?
The holiest city in the world for Jews.
What is Jerusalem?
Israel’s greatest king, the defeater of the Giant, Goliath.
Who is David?
A religious teacher.
What is a Rabbi?
To banish or expel from one’s own country or home.
Exiled
Solomon built a magnificent temple in Jerusalem to house the Ark of the Covenant and to serve as the center of Jewish worship.
What is 965 BCE?
The only thing remaining of the Temple grounds in Jerusalem, this is the holiest site in the world for Judaism.
What is the Western Wall?
Son of David, builder of the First Temple.
Who is Solomon?
The scattering of the Jewish people outside their homeland, beginning in 586 B.C.E.
What was the Jewish Diaspora?
An ancient city in Israel that became a center for Jewish learning.
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