The Law
These are the Basic laws that guide the Israelites' behavior.
What are the Ten Commandments?
The Shema is the closest thing that the Jewish people have to this statement of belief.
What is a creed?
All the Jewish laws are centered on this verse from Leviticus.
What is "Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy"?
These are the three criteria that make a land animal clean.
What are hoofs, cloven-footed, and chews the cud?
This is a burnt sacrifice of an animal.
What is a holocaust offering?
This is the number of laws that God gave the Israelites.
What is 613?
Jewish people often place a scroll of the Shema in this container posted to their door.
What is a mezuzah?
This is the Hebrew word meaning "holy."
What is "qodesh"?
These are the two criteria that make a sea creature clean?
What are fins and scales?
This Jewish feast day commemorates their 40 years of wandering in the desert.
What is the Feast of Booths?
This biblical book is sometimes called "the law of the priests."
What is Leviticus?
Orthodox Jews sometimes pray with boxes containing the Shema, that is strapped to their forehead and arm.
What is a tefillin?
These are the two meanings that "holy" meant to the Jewish people.
What is good and set apart/different?
These are two examples of unclean sea creatures.
What are shrimp and crawfish? (Other responses could correctly apply.)
On this day, the priest places all the sins of the community on the head of a goat and drives it into the wilderness.
What is the Day of Atonement?
This is the origin of the Book of Leviticus' name.
What is the tribe of Levi - or Jacob's son, Levi.
This is the first line of the Shema spoken in English.
What is “Hear O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone!”? (or "...the Lord is one!"
Following these dietary laws helped the Israelites be holy.
What are the kosher laws?
These are two examples of clean land animals.
What are cows and sheep? (Other responses could correctly apply.)
This is the Hebrew name for the Sabbath day.
What is Shabbat?
When he was asked about the greatest commandment, Jesus responded with these two quotes from the Old Testament.
What is the Shema ("You shall love the Lord, your God...") and "Love your neighbor as yourself"?
This is the Shema spoken in Hebrew.
What is "Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Elohaynu Adonai Echad"?
Touching this would make an Israelite unclean.
What is blood? (or a dead body, or a sick person, or...)
This kosher law from Exodus guides Jewish people in their practice to cook meats and dairy products separately.
What is "You shall not boil a kid in its mother's milk"?
This is the Hebrew name of the Day of Atonement.
What is Yom Kippur?