Board Notes for Judaism
- Biblical History (until 70 C.E.)
- establishment of homeland
- exile in Babylon 568 B.C.E.
- Rabbinical Judaism
- development of rabbinical judaism
- 1800 C.E. reform
- Torah/Pentateuch
- Nevi'im
- Ketuvim
- Origin
- creation
- Cain and Abel
- Flood
- Tower of Babel
- Patriarchs and Matriarchs
- Abraham
- Isaac
- Jacob
- Joseph
- women
- Moses and the Law
- Egypt
- monotheism
- Passover
- 10 Commandments
- Judges and Kings
- Joshua
- Saul
- David
- Solomon
- Exile
- Babylon
- Sabbath and Synagogue
- Zoroastrianism
- Second Temple
- Maccabees and Hanukkah
- Factions
- Sadducees
- Pharisees
- Zealots
- Essenes
- destruction of temple
- Bar Kokhba and diaspora
- midrash
- Mishnah
- Talmud
- Spain to Iraq
- Saadia
- Maimonides
Christianity and Medieval Judaism
Questioning and Reform (Hasidism)
- emigration
- Holocaust
- State of Israel
- Maimonides
- God
- prophets
- Moses' Law
- Messiah
- resurrection
- humans have special place
- orthopraxy rather than orthodoxy
- Sabbath
- Holy Days (lunar calendar)
- Rosh Hashanah
- Yom Kippur
- Sukkot
- Hanukkah
- Purim
- Passover
- Yom Hashoah
- Feast of Weeks
- Tisha Be-Av
- Dietary Practice (kosher)
- Other Religious Practices
- daily prayer (tefillim, talit, yarmulke)
- mezuzah
- circumcision
- bar mitzvah/bat mitzbah
- Sephardic (Ladino)
- Ashkenazic (Yiddish)
- others
- Orthodox
- Conservative
- Reform
- Reconstructionist
Contributions of Judaism
Jewish Identity and Future