INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM RELI UT TYLER SPRING SEMESTER 2016 Instructor Rabbi Neal Katz

REVIEW

The Chosen (not on Netflix) (H) The Believer The Frisco Kid A Price Above Rubies (N) Crimes and Misdemeanors Keeping The Faith History of the World, Part 1 The Jazz Singer (Neil Diamond version) Paper Clips Keeping Up With the Steins (N) Ushpizin Yentl Walk on Water School Ties Driving Miss Daisy O Jerusalem Avalon (not on Netflix) Munich Defiance Everything is Illuminated Praying With Lior The Hebrew Hammer Zohan Arranged (N)

HEBREW BIBLE TEXTS PROPHETS Joshua Judges Samuel (I & II) Kings (I & II) Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi TORAH Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy WRITINGS Psalms Proverbs Job Song of Songs Ruth Lamentations Ecclesiastes Esther Daniel Ezra Nehemiah Chronicles (I & II)

SECOND TEMPLE

Rabbinic Judaism

Alexander the Great Maccabees Great Revolt Against Rome Judea defeated / Temple destroyed Pharisee/Rabbinic Period Begins Mishna Talmud

MISHNA + GEMARA (COMMENTARY) = TALMUD

MIDRASH= BIBLICAL STORIES/LESSONS

MESSIAH

RESPONSA (online examples)

YEHUDA HALEVI POET THE KUZARI

MAIMONIDES

SPANISH INQUISITION

CRUSADES

ASHKENAZI SEPHARDI

JEWISH CALENDAR & HOLIDAYS

TISHREI - ROSH HASHANAH, YOM KIPPUR, SUKKOT, SIMCHAT TORAH CHESHVAN KISLEV – CHANUKAH TEVET SHEVAT - TU B’SHEVAT ADAR - PURIM NISAN - PASSOVER IYAR – HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE, MEMORIAL DAY, ISRAEL IND. DAY SIVAN - SHAVUOT TAMMUZ AV - TISHA B’AV ELUL

SHABBAT

JEWISH BELIEFS

613 MITZVOT / COMMANDMENTS BEWTEEN GOD AND BETWEEN PEOPLE

NOAHIDE LAWS

RAMBAM’S LADDER

B’TZELEM ELOHIM / IN GOD’S IMAGE

TIKKUN OLAM

B’TZELEM ELOHIM / IN GOD’S IMAGE

TZEDEK TZEDEK TIRDOF/ JUSTICE SHALL YOU PURSUE

EYE FOR AN EYE

FOR YOU WERE STRANGERS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT

KIDDISH HA-SHEM / SANCTIFICATION OF GOD’S NAME

LASHON HARA/ AGAINST GOSSIP

WHOEVER SAVES A SINGLE LIFE…..

PIKUACH NEFESH / SAVING A LIFE

REDEEMING THE CAPTIVES

JEWISH VALUES