JUDAISM

KELVIN PAUL B. PANUNCIO

The learner demonstrates understanding of the elements of Judaism:

Founders: Abraham (2000 B.C.)

and/or Moses (1391-1271 B.C.)
Sacred texts: Torah, Poetry, Prophets, Talmud,
Mishnah
Doctrines: Ten Commandments, 613 Rules
God: Yahweh/Jehovah
Sects: Orthodox, Conservative, Reform
Liberal
Issues: Anti-Semitism, Zionism, Holocaust
ASSIGNMENT
◦Recite the 10
commandments
 JUDAISM
◦Is the one of the world’s oldest religion

◦Hebrews refers to those who accepted

Yahweh as their God.

◦Israelites refers to the descendants of the

Hebrew which originated from Abraham.
The five books of Moses means the
TORAH – “In the beginning”
The Hebrew Bible also called TANAKH
collection of 24 books
Divided in 3 parts:
The Torah – teachings or law
Nevi’im – prophets
Ketuvim – writings
 TORAH
◦Genesis
◦Exodus
◦Leviticus
◦Numbers
◦Deuteronomy

◦Moses is the most important prophet for the Jews

◦10 commandment in Mount Sanai
ELABORATION ON PRACTICES
◦Dietary Practices – one of the areas
of Jewish life heavily influenced by
the laws from Torah is their food.
◦Kosher means “ritually correct” and
particularly refers to food
preparation and consumption
◦The is no official Jewish creed.
 SABBATH
◦Veneration of the Sabbath day originated with the
creation story: God rested in Sabbath

◦Messiah or Savior will come, one of the most

fundamental Jewish belief

◦The follower of Jesus who they called the Christ, were

Jews, believed in him, and became the first
Christians.
◦The belief in the coming of the
Messiah is one of those
doctrines that have changed
across different versions of
Judaism. Some believe the
Messiah will be a political
leader who will rule the Israel as
a model for the rest of the
world.
 PASSOVER
The Jews have many Holy Days, throughout the
year, but perhaps the most important for the, is
the Feast of the Passover, which commemorates
the liberation of the Hebrew from Egypt.
Seder is the one of the part of Passover where in
the paschal meal shared by family on the eve
of the first day of the feast.
Matzah(bread) is the primary food ingested
during the Passover
 In the Philippines
◦ Marranos or Conversos is the first Jews in the Philippines
were converts to Christianity.
◦ Jorge and Domingo Rodriguez who arrive 1950’s.
◦ The rise of Adolf Hitler in 1933 as a German chancellor
and head of Nazi Party began a prolonged wave of
Anti- Jewish activity.
◦ Pres. Manuel L. Quezon opened its door and welcome
Jewish refugees escaping from the Nazi tyranny.
Origin and Development of Judaism

◦When the temple of Jerusalem

was destroyed and when
Babylonian empire fell to the
Persian empire, thereby
allowing the Jews to rebuild
the Temple.
The different varieties of Judaism
◦Bible comes from the Greek word
Biblia means book.
◦13 million Jews in the world as 2000
◦About 5.69 are in USA
◦4.55 million live in Israel
◦Canaan or Israel is the promised
land
◦Apart of 80% citizen are Jews in Israel, 2.14% in
the US and other percent is in the rest of the
world.
◦Hebrew remains to be the very important
language of the Jews.
◦There certain culturally based groups, such as
Sephardic Jews, who came from west Israel
and sometimes Spain, the Ashkemazic Jews
who came from central Europe, the Felashas
who are in Ethiopia(Molloy 2005, 327-328)
 SECT
◦Orthodox Judaism tries to observe the traditional
practices and beliefs of Biblical Judaism. They are
strict in the implementation of such laws and
practices.
◦Reform Judaism aims to modernize Judaism a
religion without dogmas and subject to the criteria of
reason
◦Conservative Judaism recognize that change has
always been part of religion
 In the Philippines
Beit Yaacov Synagogue is the only
synagogue in the Philippines
They have a rabbi, who is Shochet.
 ASSIGNMENT
◦What is your name?
◦What is in your name?
◦What is the meaning of
your name?
◦4.1. Recite the Ten Commandments as stated in
the Old Testament (Exodus 20)
◦4.2. Identify a Jewish custom or tradition
demonstrated in a video clip (e.g. Fiddler in the
Roof)
◦4.3. Justify: The core teaching of Judaism is the
covenant of one God with a chosen people vs.
other people with many gods.
◦4.4. Identify a story from the Old Testament that
demonstrates the Jewish belief in one God (e.g.
Story of Samson)
◦ The Ten Commandments
◦ 20 zAnd aGod spoke all these words, saying,
◦ 2 b“I
am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of
slavery.
◦ 3 c“You shall have no other gods before1 me.
◦ 4 d“You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in
heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the
earth. 5 eYou shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am fa
jealous God, gvisiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth
generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to thousands2 of those who
love me and keep my commandments.
◦ 7 h“You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him
guiltless who takes his name in vain.
◦ 8 i“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 jSix days you shall labor, and do all your
work, 10 but the kseventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any
work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your
livestock, or the lsojourner who is within your gates. 11 For min six days the LORD made
heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day.
Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
◦ 12 n“Honor your father and your mother, othat your days
may be long in the land that the LORD your God is
giving you.
◦ 13 p“You shall not murder.3
◦ 14 q“You shall not commit adultery.
◦ 15 r“You shall not steal.
◦ 16 s“You shall not bear false witness against your
neighbor.
◦ 17 t“You shall not covet uyour neighbor’s house; vyou
shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male servant,
or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or
anything that is your neighbor’s.”
◦ 18 Now when all the people saw wthe thunder and the flashes of lightning and
the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were
afraid4 and trembled, and they stood far off 19 and said to Moses, x“You
speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we
die.” 20 yMoses said to the people, “Do not fear, for God has come to ztest
you, that the fear of him may be before you, that you may not sin.” 21 The
people stood far off, while Moses drew near to the athick darkness where
God was.
◦ Laws About Altars
◦ 22 And the LORD said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the people of Israel: ‘You
have seen for yourselves that I have btalked with you from heaven. 23 cYou
shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves
gods of gold. 24 An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it
your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. dIn
every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you
and ebless you. 25 fIf you make me an altar of stone, gyou shall not build it of
hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it. 26 And you shall not
go up by steps to my altar, that your nakedness be not exposed on it.’
Recite the Ten Commandments
as stated in the Old Testament
(Exodus 20)
 The core teaching of
Judaism is the covenant
of one God with a
chosen people vs. other
people with many gods.
◦For the Jews, there is just one God,
the Creator, and Israel or the Jewish
people are His chosen people.
◦There is only one God , there are no
other gods, and God cannot be
subdivided into different persons.
 Identify a story from the Old
Testament that demonstrates the
Jewish belief in one God (e.g.
Story of Samson)
 ◦Samson, Hebrew
Shimshon, legendary
Israelite warrior and
judge, or divinely inspired
leader, renowned for the
prodigious strength that
he derived from his uncut
hair. He is portrayed in the
biblical Book of Judges
(chapters 13–16).