1. INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM RELI 3310 @ UT TYLER SPRING SEMESTER 2015 Instructor Rabbi Neal Katz

2. REVIEW

3. 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)

4. SECOND TEMPLE

5. Alexander the Great

6. PHARISEES SADDUCEES ESSENES DEAD SEA SECT Late Second Temple Jewish Sects

9. Modern Jewish View of Temple

10. MASADA

11. KAMSA / BAR KAMSA

12. SHECHINAH

13. RABBINIC JUDAISM

14. PARDES P’SHAT REMEZ D’RASH SOD

15. PARDES P’SHAT - LITERAL REMEZ - HINTED D’RASH - SERMONIC SOD - SECRETIVE

16. PARDES GEN 21

17. Pre-Temple Era King David Solomon’s Temple Northern Kingdom destroyed Southern Kingdom Destroyed - Exile to Babylon Exile Over Second Temple Built Alexander the Great Maccabees Great Revolt Against Rome Judea defeated / Temple destroyed 1000 986 722 586 516 450? 332 162-165 66-69 70 0

21. RABBI JUDAH THE PRINCE 200 CE

22. JEWISH LAW DEUTERONOMY 6 EXAMPLE

23. MISHNA

24. 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

26. MISHNA STUDY

27. Deuteronomy 6:4Listen, Israel, God is our Lord, God is One. 6:5Love God your Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. 6:6These words which I am commanding you today must remain on your heart. 6:7Teach them to your children and speak of them when you are at home, when traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 6:8Bind [these words] as a sign on your hand, and let them be an emblem in the center of your head. 6:9[Also] write them on the doorposts of your houses and gates.

28. Mishnah Berachot 1.1 From what time may one recite the Shema in the evening? 1) From the time that the priests enter [their houses] in order to eat their terumah until the end of the first watch, the words of Rabbi Eliezer. 2) The sages say: until midnight. 3) Rabban Gamaliel says: until dawn. 4) Once it happened that his sons came home [late] from a wedding feast and they said to him: we have not yet recited the [evening] Shema. He said to them: if it is not yet dawn you are still obligated to recite. 5) And not in respect to this alone did they so decide, but wherever the sages say “until midnight,” the mitzvah may be performed until dawn. a) The burning of the fat and the pieces may be performed till dawn. b) Similarly, all [the offerings] that are to be eaten within one day may be eaten till dawn. c) Why then did the sages say “until midnight”? In order to keep a man far from transgression.

29. HILLEL / SHAMMAI

32. GEMARA 200-400/500

33. PALESTINE 200-400 BABYLON 200-500

34. MISHNA + GEMARA (COMMENTARY) = TALMUD