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All about JudaismAll about Judaism

Stories of Origin

• The burning bush • God trying to talk to Moses

• Moses parting the Red Sea • Helping the Jewish people escape

from Egypt

• Old testament • The five books of Moses

Holy Writings and Core Beliefs• Torah

• holds the first five books of Moses or the Old Testament

• Shabbat • Resting day starts sunset Friday to sunset Saturday

• Keeping Kosher • Only eating prepared food that has a K in a circle on it

Symbols and Objects

• Mazuzah • Put on side of door

• Kippah • Jewish men wear and some Jewish women

• Shofar Rams horn• Tallit

• What Jewish Boys and some girls get at their Bar or Bat Mitzvah for a sign that the ten commandment are on their shoulder

Holy Places and Places of Worship• Temple/ Synagogue

• Where Torahs are kept• Where Jewish people go to pray

• The Western Wall• One of the walls of the first Temples

• Jerusalem • The land that God promise Moses

Rites of Passage

• Marriage • Ketubah Jewish marriage contract

• Bar or Bat Mitzvah • Jewish boy or girls 12th or 13th

Birthday

• Circumcision • baby boy eight days old foreskin cut

off penis

Celebrations and Holidays

• Rosh HaShanah • Jewish New Year• Eat apples and honey • Throw bread into a river

• Passover• Angel of Death was going to kill first born • Doors with lamb blood, the Angel passed over

• Hannukah• Last for eight days• Eight days because the light only had enough oil to

burn for one day, but then oil last for eight days

History to Modern Day

• Jewish women arrested over shawl • Israeli police have arrested a Jewish

woman for wearing a prayer shawl at Western Wall

• A kid was arrested for wearing a Tefillin on a plane • a lot of military were called in to

investigate

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