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Atheism - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔denies the existence of God Émile Durkheim - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔-religions are the most common source of the shared values essential to a functioning society.
- Religion orders life at all levels of society, from the family the nation- state Who was the American psychologist and philosopher who argued that the human mind does not function in the rational mode alone; there are other modes of consciousmness, which is where religion stems from? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔William James In ancient times, Jews were conquered by sequence of what four empires(must say in correct order) - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, Romans What German philosopher reasoned that deities are simply projections, objectifications of human qualities such as power, wisdom and love onto an imagined cosmic deity outside ourselves. - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Ludwig Feuerbach
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Sigmund Freud - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔famously argued that religion causes people to deal with psychological needs in an unhealthy immature manner, describing religion as a collective fantasy a "universal obsessional neurosis"- a replaying of our loving and fearful relationship with our parents. Karl Marx - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔religion functions in an unhealthy manner as an opiate that deters the suffering individual from attending to the true cause of affliction, Henotheism - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔plurality of gods but elevates one to special status
- some forms of Hindu such and Vishnu and Shiva Theism - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔belief in the existence of God Nontheistic Religions - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- do not believe in the existence of God
- forms of Buddhism such as Zen are Non-theistic Polytheism - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Belief in many gods
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Reductionism - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔explains religion In nonreligious causes Androcentrism - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Male centered; the belief that the male is the norm-males monopolize priestly/ teaching roles Patriarchy - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔responsible for taking certain aspects related to male and female physical biology (such as, men are stronger that woman, women have not penis) to construct gendered identities of maleness and femaleness and social arrangements that served to empower men and disempower women Feminism - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔an academic method and a social vision aimed at critiquing conventional norms and expectations and advocate some degree of change in social, academic, political, religion, and economic institutions to Forster greater equity between men and women Monotheism - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Because it teaches that there is only one God, Judaism is described as a ______ Religion.
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Globalization - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔The linking and intermixing of cultures Revelation - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔the expression of the divine will, commonly recorded in sacred texts Merneptah Stone - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔The earliest nonbiblical reference to "Isreal" can be found here Patriarchs - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob "The Patriarchs"
- physical and spiritual ancestors of Judaism/founders of the religion Ashkenazim - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Jews who lived in Europe Sephardim - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔]Jews who once lived in Spain and Portugal Orthodox - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔traditional beliefs and practices
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Seder - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- ritual meal- on the first two nights Pesach -recalls the Exodus from Egypt Kosher - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔in conformity to rabbinic standards of food selection and preparation
- drain blood of cows, goats, no fish without fins and scales. no meat and milk dish Sherma - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔one of the most powerful prayers recited during morning and evening services -Biblical verses that declare the unity of God and declare Israelites commitment to his services Hanukkah - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔The Jewish holiday that celebrates the Maccabean rebellion. Tanakh - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A term derived from an acronym standing for the entire Hebre Bible :Torah (The first 5 books of the
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Hebrew Bible) Neviim(or "Prophets," which include works pf both prophecy and history) and Khetuvim(or "writings" a miscellaneous gathering of works in poetry and prose) Taken together, the 24 books that make up this collection constitute the core "scripture" of Judaism. According to the Pew Research Center 2014 poll, what percentage of Americans believe in some sort of higher power? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔80-90% Torah - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Literally means "teachings" and in its most restrictive sense it refers to the first 5 books of the Hebrew Bible. Less restrictively, it signifies the totality of God's relations to the Hewish people, which includes not only the remaining books of the Hebrew Bible but also the writings contained in the Talmud. YHWH - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔The most sacred of names associated with the biblical God. The exact pronunciation of this name, according to ancient JewishTraditions, was known only to the High Priest , but after the destruction of the Second Temple the precise vocalization of these letters was lost-- only to be recovered in the days of the Messiah. Transcendence - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔the divine attribute of being above and beyond anything human beings can know or imagine.
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200 CE) and the Gemara (edited in its Babylonian version, around 500CE) Traditionally, Jews refer to these as the "Oral Torah" and regard it as an extension of sacred scripture. Halacha - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔An authoritative formulation of traditional Jewish law. Election - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔The belief that the biblical God "chose" the people of Israel to be God's "kingdom of priests" and a "holy nation". This biblical concept is logically connected to the idea of the Covenant, and it entails the belief that the Jews relationship with God obliges them to conform to His laws and fulfill God's purpose in the world. Covenant - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A biblical concept that describes the relationship between God and the Jews in contractual terms, often thought of as an eternal bond between the Creator and the descendants of the ancient Isrealites. Moses - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A legendary leader and prophet who led the Israelite slaves out of Egypt. He serves as a mediator between the people of Israel and God in the Torah, and is later viewed as Isreal's
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greatest prophet. It is to him that God imparts the Ten Commandments and the teachings that later become the Torah Exodus - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔The escape (or departure) of Isrealite slaves from Egypt as described in the Hebrew Bible Siddur - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔The prayer book that is used on weekdays and on the Sabbath. Synagogue - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Jewish house of worship. the focal point of which is the Ark, a large cabinet where scrolls of the Torah are stored. Tallit - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔prayer shawl that is worn during morning prayer (traditionally by men) the fringes of this shawl represent symbolically, the 613 mitzvah found in the Torah. Pesach - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔The early spring harvest festival that celebrates the liberation of the Israelites from Egypt (better known as Passover in English) is celebrated for seven days in Israel and 8 days in the Diaspora. The first 2 nights are celebrated within a family setting.
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Diaspora - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A Greek word in origin, it refers to those Jewish communities that live outside of the historical land of Israel. Eschatological - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Any belief in the "End time" of divine judgement and world destruction. Messiah - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔a possible supernatural figure who will judge and transform the world. Dead Sea Scrolls - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Religious literature hidden in caves near the shores of the Dead Sea (second century B.C.E to first century C.E.) Hasidism - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A popular movement within 18th century Eastern Europeans Judaism that stressed the need for spiritual restoration and peeped individual piety. In the course of the 19th and 20th centuries the movement spawned a number of distinctive communities that have physically separated themselves from the rest of the Jewish and non-Jewish worlds, and who are often recognized by their attire and their devotion to a dynasty of hereditary spiritual leaders.
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Holocaust - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔The genocidal destruction of approximately 6 million European Jews by the government of Nazi Germany during World War II. This mass slaughter is referred to in Hebrew as the Shoah. Zionism - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔a modern political philosophy that asserts a belief in Jewish national identity and in the necessarily of resuming national life within the historic Land of Israel Bar/Bat Mitzvah - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔A rite of passage for adolescents in Judaism, for 13 year old boys and for 12-13 year old girls, that signals their coming of age and the beginning of adult religious responsibility. Tefillin - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔Taken from the word "prayer" refers to 2 small boxes with leather straps attached to them. Traditionally, Jewish males at the age of 13 wear this during weekday morning prayer. Inside each box in a miniature parchment containing bible verses. one box is placed on the forehead and the other is attached to the left arm, signaling that the individuals mind and will are devoted to God.
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✔✔God chose Abraham to sacrifice his only soon, he obeys, the Israelites are now chosen to obey him and the covenant. Jewish people believe that their ancestors come from Abraham that's why they believe they are chosen. Christians believe in the Bible and the Bible says that they are the chosen ones. to be choses especially as a women meant it was passed down in their bloodline. What is the Jewish Bible, what significance does it have in Jewish ritual life, and how does it begin? - CORRECT ANSWER ✔✔- The Hebrew Bible is the Tanakh.
- significance: the account of God's dealing with the Jews as his chosen people, who collectively called themselves Israel
- It begins with the creation story and about how God created everything.
