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Term
Themes of Jewish History
Definition

Separation

Suffering

Success

Term
Daily Observances
Definition

Prayer

mainly for Orthodox rising, after meals, before sleep

Deuteronomy 6:4-5

 

Teflin

-Can't bind on Sabbath

Tallit - can only wear if there's an eruv (wire) boundary marker

 

Handwashing/Grace

  Modeh Ani -Thanks, then wash hands, then say Netilat Yadayim

Mayim Acharonim- final waters - washing after meals

Term
Grace after Meal
Definition
Only if with bread - Birkat Hamazon
Term

Start of the Month

 

Ritual Bath

 

Charity - Good deeds

Definition

Rosh Chodesh

 

Mikvah

 

Tzedakah

Term
Covenant of Circumcision
Definition
Brit Milah
Term
Death
Definition

Psalm 23

Chevra Kaddisha

Closed casket

Burial next day

Vahitzeit - light candle on death anniversary

Term
Talmud
Definition

Mishnah + Gemara

Term
Mishnah
Definition

how to apply the law

-repetition/teaching

 

six orders, 63 track dates, closed canon

Term
Gemara
Definition

Further legal discussions about Mishnah

Jerusalem and Babylonian

-completion, tradition

Term
Talmud
Definition

learning

Babylonian - 3 times longer than Jerusalem, 35 vol., more popular

Jerusalem - Not as indepth, II volumes

Term
Responsa
Definition

Rabbis from Spain, response to questions, 1,000 volumes

 

Term
Legal Codes
Definition

Shulkhan Aruch

-set table

how to apply laws to life, 1000 pages, Joseph Carro

 

Mishnah Torah

-Rambam tries to formulate every commandment in Talmud

Term
Targums
Definition
Paraphrase, Translation, Living Understanding of Scriptures
Term
Midrash
Definition
Search out, interpret. sermon - application emphasis, apply Scripture to everyday life, stories for application
Term
Medieval Commentaries
Definition

Rashi - Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki - commentartor 12th Century France

Radak- Rabbi David Kimchi - Grammarian

Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra

Term
Literary Forms
Definition

Halakha

How do you walk? Legal portions. Mishnah!

 

Aggadah

Midrash! Stories.

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