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Guided Reading Questions

1. What does the woman do before entering her house?
2. What is the most important aspect of Jewish religious life?
3. What is the Jewish Bible often called? What are its parts?
4. Define henotheism.
5. How has God been defined during and after the Babylonian exile?
6. What does YHWH mean?
7. Describe the two parts of being a "chosen people" of God.
8. Define Sheol.
9. When does the doctrine of Resurrection arise in Judaism?
10. According to the author, what do most Jews hold about entering heaven?
11. How do Orthodox, Reform and Conservative traditions differ in their understandings of concerning life after death?
12. How do majority of Jews understand the claim that human beings are created in the "image of God"?
13. What make yetzer hatov evil?
14. How many commandments are found in the Torah?
15. What did the compilation of Mishnah and Gemara do?
16. What is halakhah?
17. Define the two fundamentally different types of relationships as noted by Martin Buber.

Guided Reading Questions

1. How many men are usually required to hold a service?
2. Where is the Torah usually kept, and what are some of the prescribed rituals concerning its use?
3. When does Sabbath begin and end?
4. What is the holiest day of the year?
5. What does Passover celebrate?
6. List the type of unclean animals specified in Leviticus 11.
7. Is kosher food exclusively sold to Jews?
8. What is bris milah, and what biblical passage calls for it?
9. "What does it mean to become a bar/bat mitzvah?"
10. Since when did Ashkenazi Jews practice monogamy? How about Sephardic Jews?
11. List some requirements for burial/funeral.
12. Which brank of Judaism is the only one recognized by the Israeli government?
13. Describe the understanding of Scripture/bible for 1) Orthodox, 2)Reform, and 3) Conservative.