3e_Night_Vocab_Judaic Tradition

Question 1

"Harsh Genus, spoke of the end of the world and the coming of the Messiah."

Accepted Answer

According to Jews, the Messiah is yet to come., According to Christians, Jesus was the Messiah., According to Jews, a messiah is a savior and deliverer., The Messiah is a piece of music by some German dude.

Question 2

"Selection" refers to a process in which...

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prisoners were sent either to forced labor or to be killed

Question 3

"On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the last day of that cursed year, the entire camp was agitated.."

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Rosh Hashanah is time of repentance, regret and resolutions., Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, occurs in autumn.

Question 4

What is the Torah?

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The Torah is a religious text like the Pentateuch., The Torah is associated with modern Judaism., The Torah is the first five books of Moses., The Torah is the first part of the Christian Bible.

Question 5

Hasidic Jews are...

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try to live a life of total dedication to God, part of a Jewish reform movement

Question 6

"I would weep over the destruction of the Temple." Reference to "THE Temple" means...

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the main center of worship in Jerusalem BCE., an old temple recalled in daily Jewish prayers, an actual building the Romans destroyed in 79 ACE.

Question 7

"By day I studied the Talmud..." What is the Talmud?

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derived from a word meaning 'study' or 'teaching', a commentary on the first five books of Moses, a collection of rabbinical teachings, a commentary on the Torah

Question 8

"The eight days of Passover" refers to a holiday that is...

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meant to recall the Jewish exodus from slavery in Egypt, celebrated for 8 days each spring

Question 9

A "Kapo" was...

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a prisoner forced to oversee other prisoners

Question 10

What is a concentration camp?

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prison camp in which detainees are held without due process, a camp like Auschwitz

Question 11

"I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job!" Who was Job?

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A biblical figure who questioned God, A biblical figure who thought God let the innocent suffer, A biblical figure who complained all the time

Question 12

What is the Zohar, also called "The Book of Splendor?"

Accepted Answer

A text containing the teachings of Kabbalah, A commentary on the Torah, compiled in the 13th century

Question 13

Josef Mengele was

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a senior member of the SS, a senior physician

Question 14

"Moishe the Beadle [...] was the jack-of-all trades in a Hasidic house of prayer, a Shtibl."

Accepted Answer

A beadle is a caretaker in a synagogue.

Question 15

In Kabbalah, followers believe that the Torah has...

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hidden meanings that link the spiritual world to daily life

Question 16

Which of the following is a commentary on a text?

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The Talmud, The Zohar

Question 17

"Some two weeks before Shavuot. A sunny spring day..." Shavuot

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a holiday commemorating revelation of the law on Mt. Sinai, a holiday about seven weeks after the end of Passover

Question 18

"He sang [...] of divine suffering, of the Shekhinah in Exile [...] according to Kabbalah."

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Kabbalah is Jewish mysticism.

Question 19

"Maimonides tells us that one must be 30 before venturing into the world of mysticism.

Accepted Answer

Maimonides was a 12th century Jewish scholar.

Question 20

Yom Kippur is....

Accepted Answer

the last day of Rosh Hashanah, a 10-day holiday.

Question 21

"In those days it was still possible to buy emigration certificates to Palestine." Palestine is

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divided into the states of Israel and Jordan in 1948, formerly ruled by Turkey, assigned to the British in 1920, the ancient homeland of the Jewish people

Question 22

What do we call a Jewish house of prayer?

Accepted Answer

Synagogue, Temple

Question 23

"I quickly unwound my phylacteries and ran to the window." Phylacteries are...

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a device to help someone focus entirely on God during prayer, small leather boxes containing 4 excerpts from the Bible, boxes strapped to the arm and the forehead during prayer

Question 24

"Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish..." Kaddish is...

Accepted Answer

a prayer in memory of a loved one, a prayer praising and reaffirming belief in God

Question 25

What is the difference between the S.S. and the Gestapo?

Accepted Answer

Gestapo are the secret police while S.S. are an elite guard.

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