Board Notes for Judaism

Overview of History

• 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

Hebrew Bible (Tanakh)

• Torah/Pentateuch
• Nevi'im
• Ketuvim

Biblical History

• 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

Cultural Conflict and the Second Temple Era

• Maccabees and Hanukkah
• Factions
• • Sadducees
  • Pharisees
  • Zealots
  • Essenes

Rabbinical Judaism

• destruction of temple
• Bar Kokhba and diaspora
• midrash
• Mishnah
• Talmud

Medieval Judaism

• Spain to Iraq
• Saadia
• Maimonides

Kabbalah

• gematria
• Zohar

Christianity and Medieval Judaism

Questioning and Reform (Hasidism)

Modern World

• emigration
• Holocaust
• State of Israel

Jewish Belief

• Maimonides
• • God
  • prophets
  • Moses' Law
  • Messiah
  • resurrection
• humans have special place
• orthopraxy rather than orthodoxy

Practice

• 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

Cultural Divisions

• Sephardic (Ladino)
• Ashkenazic (Yiddish)
• others

Observance-Based Divisions

• Orthodox
• Conservative
• Reform
• Reconstructionist

Contributions of Judaism

Jewish Identity and Future