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Bible Studies
9th Grade
06/08/2008

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Aggadah
Definition

*Stories and legends

*The component of the Talmud that deals with non-legal subjects

*Touches on all facets of life ranging from birth to death to resurrection and branches out into many fields of knowledge

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Ammoraim

 

 

 

Definition

*Jewish scholars who interpreted the Midrash in Palestine and Babylonia between 200 and 500 AD

*They had legal discussions and debates that were codified in the Gemara 

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Apocrypha 

Definition

*Writings and books after time of canonization

*Not part of the Bible

*Example: Dead Sea Scrolls 

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Babylonian Talmud

Definition

*A record of rabbinic discussions pertaining to Jewish law, ethics, customs and history

*The Central text of Judaism, second to the Hebrew bible

*Written in Arabic

*Edited in 500 CE 

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Bet HaKnesset

Definition
*The Synagogue
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Bet Hamidrash

Definition

*The House of Study

*People learn halacha and study midrash 

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Bet Hillel

Definition

*School study that was open to new ideas and thoughts

*Had more flexible interpretations 

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Bet Shammai

Definition

*School of study that interpreted laws more literally

*Strict and prejudiced 

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Canonization

Definition

*Closing off of the Bible

*Anything written after was not part of the bible 

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Cyrus

Definition

*King of Persia (559-529 BC)

*Liberated the Jews from Babylonian Exile

 

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Eschatology

Definition

*concerned with the final events in the history of the world

*ultimate destiny of humanity

*end of the world 

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Exegesis

Definition
*Explanations of aggadah or halachah
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Ezra & Nehemiah

Definition

*Ezra brought the Jews back to Jerusalem

*Nehemiah rebuilt and governed Jerusalem 

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Gemara

Definition

* One half of the Tamlud

*Rabbinical commentaries

*Analysis of the Mishnah 

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Geon/Geonim

Definition

*Means genius

*The philosophers in Babilonian yeshivot 

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Halachah

Definition

*Jewish law

*Literally means, "the path" 

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Hellenizer

Definition
*A person who wanted to become Greek
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 Hillel

Definition

*A man know know for his loose interpretations of the law

*Open to ideas

*Passionate and religious 

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 Homily/ Homiletical

Definition

*Preached by the ancient sages

*They were wordplays

*They were certain subleties that added to the complexity and created addtional problems 

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 Jerusalem Talmud

Definition

*Written in Aramaic and Hebrew

*Edited in 400 CE 

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 Ketuvim

Definition

*One of the sections in the Hebrew Bible

*Means "writings" 

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Machloket

Definition
*A dispute or argument between rabbis
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 Mesechet

Definition
*Section of the mishnah divided by the subject
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Midrash

Definition

*Writing that interprets the torah to fill in any gaps

*Uses aggadah or halachah to interpet things 

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Mishna v. mishna

Definition

*Mishna is the entire thing, with all the mishnayot

*mishnah is only one lesson inside the Mishna 

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Mishne Torah

Definition
*A code of Jewish law by Maimonides
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Nebuchadnezzar

Definition
*Expelled the Jews from Baylon
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Neviim

Definition

*The second division of the Hebrew Bible

*Means, "Prophets" 

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Perek

Definition

*Means chapter

*Section of Mishnah 

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Rabbinnic  Historiography

Definition
*Study of the process of obtaining Rabbinnical knowledge
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Rambam (Maimonides)

Definition

*A famous Rabbi, physician and philosopher

*He lived in the 12th Century

*Influenced everyone

*His thoughts are the cornerstone of Jewish Study 

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 Rav Sa'adiah

Definition
*the Most famous Gaon
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Rav Yehudah Ha'nasi 

Definition

*Edited the Mishnah

*Born in 10 AD, eighty years after the destruction of the Second Temple 

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Rav Yosef Karo

Definition

*Scholar living in the middle ages

*A shepard

*Born in Toledo,Spain in 1488 

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Remah

(Rav Moshe Isserles) 

Definition

*Ashkenazik scholar

*Born in Krakow, Poland in 1525 

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Seder

Definition

* Means "order"

*An order in the Mishnah 

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Shammai

Definition

*A man known for his strict interpretations of the law

 

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Sugya

Definition
*A lesson from the Talmud
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Talmud

Definition

* The rabbis' discussions on the Mishna's laws in a series of books

*Mishna and Gemara 

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Tanach

Definition

*The Collection of the Five Books of Moshe, Neviim, and Ketuvim

*The Hebrew Bible 

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Tannaim

Definition
*Teachers and Rabbis of the Mishnah
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Torah Shebealpeh

Definition

*Oral Torah

*Not written 

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Torah Shebichtav

Definition

*The Torah

*The written one 

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Torah 

Definition
*Holy scripture given to the Jews by God
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