Jewish Terms
A House of prayer and place of worship for Jews.
synagogue
When a Jewish person reaches 12 or 13 years of age, he or she traditionally receives this.
Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah
What Israelite kingdom consisted of two tribes that was conquered by the Babylonians?
Judah
The religious tradition Jesus observed while he was living on earth.
Judaism
This type of Judaism advocated full integration into the culture in which one lived.
Reform Judaism
A Jewish sect that believed they were descendants of Zadok the priest, held a strict position on the interpretation of the Torah.
Sadducees
Not able to have pork or shellfish or even have it in a dish or container with other foods.
kosher
A kingdom of Israel composed of ten tribes that fell to the Assyrians.
Northern Kingdom
True or False:
All ethnic Jews practice Judaism.
False
This type of Judaism counteracted Reform Judaism, only modifying Jewish tradition in a limited manner.
Conservative Judaism
This Jewish sect had a monastic nature and scrupulously followed the Mosaic Law.
Essenes
Hebrew for “weeks”, this was originally a harvest festival celebrating the first fruits of the 7 wheat harvest.
Shavuot
This is a place of pilgrimage for Jews for centuries because it is all that remains from the disaster of the destruction of Solomon’s Temple in 70 CE.
Western Wall
What we refer to as Job, Psalms, and Proverbs in the Christian Bible, Jews call the ____________________.
Ketuvim or Writings
This is another reaction against Reform Judaism and is the most traditional branch of Judaism, which insists that its members strictly follow the Torah.
Orthodox Judaism
The translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek in the third century BCE.
Septuagint
In Judaism, the first five books of the Bible are referred to as this.
Torah
The first three human kings of Israel.
Saul, David, and Solomon
Name the three sections of the Hebrew Bible.
Torah, Ketuvim, and Nevi’im
This type of Judaism began in the nineteenth century and sought the return of Jews to the Jewish homeland of Palestine.
This Jewish sect held a looser interpretation of the Torah, incorporating oral tradition and popular customs in their interpretation of the Mosaic Law.
Pharisees
This is known as the Feast of Tabernacles or the Feast of Booths.
Sukkot
A word describing the repercussions of Alexander the Great’s conquests of the original empire, including Judea. This conquest led to many Jews adopting Greek ways and speech.
Hellenization
An acronym for the names of the three sections of the Hebrew Bible.
Tanakh
This form of Judaism emerged from Conservative Judaism, and it advocates Judaism not only as a religious tradition but also as a culture.
Reconstructionist Judaism