Chapter 3 Self Quiz - Fill ins

. The _______ is the great commentary on the Jewish Torah.

. The Hasidic movement is one expression or strain of _______.

. Of the three major modernist forms of Judaism, the most liberal form in embracing modern secular life is _______.

. It is the _______ at Sinai that defines Jewish people religiously more than anything else.

. The Second _______ Period ended with the destruction of the temple by the Romans.

. A teacher of the Torah is called a _______.

. In a synagogue, the place where the Hebrew Bible is stored is called an _______.

. The Torah is also known as the _______, or five books attributed to Moses.

. _______ viewed Jewish possession of a state of their own as the only viable solution to persecution.

. Every Jewish male child is _______ and _______ when he is eight days old.

. Not until the end of the first century did the _______, the Bible of Judaism, come into existence.

. The students of _______ were the primary shapers of the Mishnah, the writings that form the core of the Talmud.

. In the new model of life for Jews after the destruction of the temple, the center of Jewish life shifted from priest to rabbi and from the temple to the _______.

. By the end of the nineteenth century, with a new secular definition replacing the old religious definition, Jews became defined as a _______.

. Only the _______ branch of Judaism has as its goal to deprivatize Judaism, so that its religious vision can shape all of public life.

. Christians call the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, the _______.

. The holiday of _______ celebrates the liberation and redemption of the Exodus.

. _______, deeply shaped by Kabbalistic mysticism, came into its own in Eastern Europe in the eighteenth century.

. The destruction of the temple in 70 CE brought to an end the _______ of the various movements and sects within Judaism that existed in the first century.

. _______ Judaism became, in many ways, the mirror image of Reform Judaism.

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