Building a Nation
Values: The Jewish nation started was founded on a covenant between God and Abraham. In Hebrew, this covenant is called the ?
Brit
What does the acronym TaNaKh stand for?
Torah
Nevi'im
Ketuvim
What Jewish holiday comes around every single week?
Shabbat
Yochanan Ben Zakai fled Jerusalem before it was destroyed and felt that although the Beit Mikdash was important, the new and movable center of Judaism would now be this:
The Torah
What year was the 1st Temple destroyed and by who?
586 BCE by the Babylonians
Peoplehood: The new Pharaoh, (which didn't know Joseph) enslaved all of the Israelites because they were becoming too what?
numerous
Name the five books of the Torah (in English)
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Dueteronomy
What are the three pilgrimage holidays?
Sukkot, Shavuot, Pesach
The Tanan (rabbi) Gamaliel the 2nd, created prayer services to replace what?
What year was the 2nd Temple destroyed and by who?
70 CE, by the Romans
Saul, David, Solomon
Which Jewish scroll is the only Jewish text that DOESN'T mention God?
The Scroll of Esther
What are the four steps of T'shuvah?
(According to Maimonides)
Stop
Reflect
Apologize/Confess
Make a Change
This Tanan (rabbi) was said to have understood God's Torah so well that he could even derive meaning from the crowns above the letters.
He developed more of the Mishnah than any other single rabbi.
Rabbi Akiva
Approximately how many years passed between the destruction of the 1st Temple and the rebuilding of the 2nd?
70 years
Government: The Kingdom of Israel based their laws of government on the 613 commandments found in this book/scroll.
The Torah
According to the Rabbis, which Torah was given to us at Mt. Sinai, the Written or the Oral Torah?
Both
The story that we are commanded to tell every Passover is found in which book of the Torah?
Exodus
This man was NOT the messiah, but rather a warrior that refused to surrender Jerusalem to the Romans
Bar Kochba
Approximately how many years passed between the destruction of the 2nd Temple and the Bar Kochba rebellion?
65 years
Power: When you are autonomous you have permission from the ruler to live by your own rules. But when you are the one calling the shots, you are this:
Sovereign
This book (tractate) of the Mishnah is the only one that does not contain laws, but rather..... advice from our forefathers.
Pirkei Avot
The Greeks did not actually destroy the Beit HaMikdash, but they did desecrate it. That's why the word "Hannukah" means this:
Rededication
Judah HaNasi had the Oral Laws written down in
200 CE because the Jews were now spread out throughout the world in the ....
Diaspora
Approximately how many years ago was there a sovereign, Jewish Kingdom in the land of Israel?
3,000 years ago