Relationship between god and israel, enacxted on Mt. Sinai, based on Israels acceptance of gods torah
100
Exodus
Deliverance of israelites from egypt under moses leadership
100
Hasidim
Popular mystical and devotional jewish movement beginning in the sevententh century in eastern Europe
100
Karaites
Jewish sect that rejected oral torah (Talmud), relying on scripture alone
200
Bar mitzvah
ceremony in which a thirteen-year old boy becomes an adult member of the jewish community
200
Diaspora
The dispersion of Jews away from the jewish homeland, to live as minorities in other lands
200
Gemara
Comments on the mishnah; aded to the mishnah to form the jeiwsh talmud
200
Hebrews
Ancestors of the Israelites
200
Kashrut
Ritual fitness, suitable for use according to jewish law; applies especially to dietary laws, what foods can and cannot be eaten, and how to prepare them
300
Bat Mitzvah
Equivalent of bar mitzvah ceremony for girls in reform and conservative jewish congregations
300
dietary law
Jwiesh laws pertaining to the proper preparation and eating of food, and the avoidance of certain animal food
300
Ghetto
Special Jewish quarter in certain european cities
300
Holocaust
Ancient israelite ritual meaning "all consuming sacrificial fire" used in modern times to denote the destruction of jews and others under the nazis
300
Maimonides
Great medieval Jewish phiosopher
400
Brit Milah / Circumcision
Boys initiation ritual that occues on the eighth day after birth and is called brit milah
400
essenes
Ascetic jeiwsh movement around the dead sea area from the century B.C.E to the first century C.E
400
Ha;akhah
Jewish legal tradition based on the talmud
400
Israel
He strives with god; name given to jacob and there after to the covenant people; name of modern jewish state
400
Marranos
Spanish jews who were outwardly christianized but many of whom secretly continued jewish tradition
500
conservative judaism
movement attempting to adapt judaism to modern life by using principles of change withing the traditional laws; occupies middle ground between reform and orthodox judaism
500
Exile
The jewish captivity in Babylon, especially the period from the fall of jerusalem in 538 BCE until the first return to jerusalem in 538 BCE
500
Hanukkah
festival of lights in december, celebrating rededication of the temple in Maccabean
500
Kabbalah
"Tradition" especially the medieval mystical jewish tradition, of which the Zohar is a central text
500
Masada
Moutain fortress near the dead sea where jewish zealots made a last stand against the romans