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the questions Please read Learning Module of the week and REVEL Living Religions chapter 8 Judaism. Please post your answers on the following questions and respond to at least one of your classmate’s posts.
1. Various Jewish denominations differ in almost every aspect of Judaism except the calendar. Many of the Jewish holidays are celebrated – especially in Israel – by completely secular Jews. Circumcision still practised even by Jews who consider so many other biblical requirements no longer binding. What does this say about the nature of Judaism?
2.Why do you think it took centuries before girls became eligible to participate in Bat Mitzvah ceremony?
3.How do you understand the saying that in Judaism God represents Himself in history. Explain why and in which ways all Jewish holidays are linked to historical events.
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1. The jewish community has had a strong influence on both their religious and secular members. Due to their many changes in migration through out the centuries, the jewish community has had no problem adapting and progressing into modern culture. It is important, in the Jewish community to maintain order and preserve their culture and honour their commandments with God. This is why, non religious jews (secular jews) continue to honour their traditions in honour of their culture and God.
2. I think it took centuries for girls to become eligible to partcipate in Bat Mitzvah (coming of age) ceremonies because in the religious ideal, men and women have different roles to play in a communit and family unit. Women and girls are reserved individuals whom follow and respect their male figures, where as males had a higher social status. Now that times have changed and religions have adapted to the modern world, there is no separation between the two genders
3. Judaism is the first monotheistic religion, dating back centuries. Jewish communitites have migrated to many countries over the centuries, adapting to new environments while still preserving their own history and heritage. The jewish culture has a vast history with many ups and downs all found in the word of God. Because their holy books like the Torah are a compilation of God’s word through history, it can be concluded that all of their holidays are linked to historical events. some examples are; Sukkot, a celebration to commemorate the time jews dwelt in Sinai on their way to the promised land, as well as, Passover, which is a celebration of freedom that marks the Hebrew exodus from Egypt, facts in which we all know to be true.
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It is often been commented that every Jew, even secularized, knows that he or she is a Jew. Jewish identity is preserved and expressed through practice and participation in Sabath, rituals and holy days that connect Jews to their history.
In this module we will comprehend on the major religious events in a Jew’s life, the rituals and rites that accompany boys and girls, men and women, from birth to death.
Religious symbols play an important role in preserving Jewish identity and they are a part of the everyday life of a Jewish family.
There is also a Menorah – a sacred candelabrum with seven branches used in the Temple in Jerusalem. The words of the Shema are written on a slip of paper that fits into a mezuzah, hanging on a doorpost ( please see the picture below).The Bat mitzvah is the female equivalent of a boy’s Bar mitzvah, the ritual that signifies the entry into religious community at age of thirteen. To celebrate the occasion, in the synagogue the boy is called to read the Torah publicly for the first time. It is believed that the first Bat mitzvah to have occurred in the Unated States to the daughter of Rabbi M.Kaplan, Judith Kaplan in 1922.Reading from the Torah during the Bat Mitzvah
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Researchers identify four possible answers why Judaism has provoked anti-Jewish hostility known as anti-Semitism:
1. Jewish God as source of anti-Semitism:
The one and only God. Jews rejected the belief in Jesus’ divinity. The Jews’ strict monotheism, which dictated this denial has been the single most important factor in Christian anti-Semitism.
2. Jewish law/teaching as source of anti-Semitism:
The 613 laws ( the Torah) and the oral legal tradition (Talmud) legislate every aspect of Jews’ life.
The laws of rituals ensured that Jews act and even dress and eat differently from their non-Jewish neighbours. Scholars say that any group acting so differently from the majority culture is bound to elicit some hostility.
3. Jewish nationhood as source of anti-Semitism:
Israel, the biblical and historical name of the Jewish nation, is also the name of the modern Jewish state. The Jews constitute the only group in the modern Western world that is both an ethnic group and a religion.
4. The chosen people idea as a cause oanti-Semitism:
The Hebrew Bible , where the concept originated , neither states not implies that this concept means Jewish superiority or privilege.
The Hebrew Bible declares that the Jews were not chosen because of any positive qualities. God chose the Jews, “not because you are big; indeed you are of the smallest nations “ (Deuteronomy 7:7), but simply because they are descendants of the first ethical monotheist, Abraham (Genesis 18:19)
Hundreds of years of anti-Semitism culminated in Holocaust, Nazi Anti-Semitism – “Final solution” to the “Jewish problem”.
(adopted from Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin, The Reason for Anti-Semitism Why the Jew? New York: Simon and Schuster, 1983.)
Non –Jews, people all over the world who have been recognized by the State of Israel for saving Jewish people during Holocaust are called Righteous Among the Nations.
Most of them were ordinary people, men and women of all ages, educated, illiterate, farmers, diplomats, teachers, Christians from all denominations, Muslims, agnostics and atheists. Yes, bystanders were the rule, rescuers were the exception.
The Righteous Among the Nations from 42 countries and nationalities teach us that every person can and should make a difference. Rescuers and rescued lived under constant fear of being caught.
The main forms of help extended by the Righteous Among the nations:
- Hiding Jews in the rescuers’ home or on their property
- Providing false papers and false identities
- Assisting Jews to escape
- The rescue of children.
(source: www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/about.asp)
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