PART I: WORLD RELIGION REVIEWER
• GOD is one of Judaism’s elements that emphasizes the relationship of the Jewish people with the Divine.
• SHOAH is a Hebrew term for the widespread and enormous genocide of the Jewish people brought by anti-
Semitism
• The early Hebrew’s understanding of God is that THE EARLY HEBREWS PRESERVE THE SINGULARITY
OF A SOVEREIGN GOD.
• CANAAN is known as the promised land in Jewish’ history which Jews’ intended to return to after their
enslavement in Egypt
• SOLOMON, King David’s son who built a Holy Temple in Jerusalem
• It is known in Judaism that God, Torah and Peoplehood are interrelated with each other.
• These are the accusations and/or events of the anti-Jewish reactionaries led to the formation of a new
political movement, anti-Semitism or the elimination of Jews from the society.
A. The accusations for disloyalty and of creating a state within a state
B. The doubt whether Jews, a non-assimilated community, can be incorporated into modern state
C. A Russian forgery circulated as the minutes of a meeting in which Jews conspired to take over the world
• A modern ideological movement of Jewish nationalism and the idea of the restoration of the Jewish
homeland in Palestine is called ZIONISM
• The movement born for the improvement of the Jews; the Jewish Enlightenment is called HAAKALAH
FALSE ASSUMPTIONS OR IDEAS ABOUT JUDAISM
• The Hebrews believe that God was an abstract concept or principle socially constructed by humanity.
• The Torah is a religious textual compendium developed over the history of the Jewish people.
• Geographical context was essential to the development of ancient Israelite monotheism.
• Kabbalah was the movement of the common folk, stressing populism and social welfare. (It is considered as
false Because Kabbalah is a term for the mystical tradition within Judaism)
• From the historical perspective, all Jews share a common ancestry descended from Abraham and his wife
Sarah.
FACTUAL INFORMATIONS OR IDEAD ABOUT JUDAISM
• The major Jewish holidays all originated as agricultural festivals.
• The vision of a universal, singular God is arguably one of the greatest religious innovations of the Jewish
tradition among the world’s historic religious systems.
• The repeated exile of the Jewish people from their homeland in Israel is called GALUT
• MITZVOT is a set of Jews’ Divine laws informing both ethical and ritual behavior
REMEMBER: JUDAISM IS CONCEPTUALIZED AS A TRIAD WITH THREE POINTS OF REFERENCE: GOD,
TORAH AND PEOPLEHOOD.
• The Jewish tradition of peoplehood have produced the modern ideological movement of Jewish nationalism
called ZIONISM
• The main goal of the movement, Reform Judaism, during the modern period is to RESHAPE
TRADITIONAL JUDAISM IN ORDER TO CONFORM MORE CLOSELY TO THE UNIVERSALIST
MODERNIZATION
• One of Judaism’s elements that includes customs and food, arts and music, dance and folkways is known
as PEOPLEHOOD
• The stream of Judaism which emphasizes concerns with ethics and morality is referred to as RABINNIC
JUDAISM
• THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MODERN JEWISH STATE IN ISRAEL was the greatest and most relevant
achievement of Zionism.
• DIASPORA is a Greek termed coined specifically for the dispersion of Jews throughout the Hallenistic or
Greek-speaking world.
• The consequence given for Jews to achieve civil equality and acceptance in European countries like
Germany and France is that the Jews should assimilate to modern, mainstream customs, shed their
particular customs and become members of the enlightenment society.
• The early Hebrew’s understanding of God states that UNLIKE IN MESOPOTAMIANS OR THE
EGYPTIANS, THE EARLY HEBREWS AFFIRMED THAT THEIR LAWS CAME DIRECTLY FROM GOD.
