1. INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM RELI 3310 @ UT TYLER SPRING SEMESTER 2016 Instructor Rabbi Neal Katz

2. REVIEW

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. SECOND TEMPLE

6. Rabbinic Judaism

7. Alexander the Great Maccabees Great Revolt Against Rome Judea defeated / Temple destroyed 332 200 162-165 66-69 70 200 500 0 Pharisee/Rabbinic Period Begins Mishna Talmud

8. MISHNA + GEMARA (COMMENTARY) = TALMUD

9. MIDRASH= BIBLICAL STORIES/LESSONS

10. MESSIAH

11. RESPONSA (online examples)

14. YEHUDA HALEVI POET THE KUZARI

15. MAIMONIDES

16. SPANISH INQUISITION

17. CRUSADES

18. ASHKENAZI SEPHARDI

19. JEWISH CALENDAR & HOLIDAYS

21. 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

22. SHABBAT

24. JEWISH BELIEFS

25. 613 MITZVOT / COMMANDMENTS BEWTEEN GOD AND BETWEEN PEOPLE

26. NOAHIDE LAWS

29. RAMBAM’S LADDER

31. B’TZELEM ELOHIM / IN GOD’S IMAGE

32. TIKKUN OLAM

33. B’TZELEM ELOHIM / IN GOD’S IMAGE

34. TZEDEK TZEDEK TIRDOF/ JUSTICE SHALL YOU PURSUE

35. EYE FOR AN EYE

36. FOR YOU WERE STRANGERS IN THE LAND OF EGYPT

37. KIDDISH HA-SHEM / SANCTIFICATION OF GOD’S NAME

38. LASHON HARA/ AGAINST GOSSIP

39. WHOEVER SAVES A SINGLE LIFE…..

40. PIKUACH NEFESH / SAVING A LIFE

42. REDEEMING THE CAPTIVES

43. JEWISH VALUES