RELI 2110 Lecture Notes - Sephardi Jews, Lulav, Babylonian Captivity
17 Feb 2014
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Time bound (shaking the lulav), not time bound (tzedakah charity) Standards: women are normally not required to observe positive time-bound commandments. If you have a bunch of kids running around, it doesn"t really make sense to have to run to synagogue day and night. Biblical period and temple-based israelite religion vs. rabbinic judaism. Sacred history starts at creation, and ends at the end of time god is active during this history sin wave. Torah talks about the time between creation and rabbinic. Talking about the growth of the nation: success and failure, god"s expectations, etc. Hebrew (biblical: abraham, esp. era of patriarchs until conquest of promised. Israelites (bible: jacob, northern tribes, most common jewish term) Jews (bible: judah son of jacob, southern judean tribe that survived babylonian captivity, roman, persian, greek and common modern term, modern hebrew: yehudit- Semites (bible: middle-easterners are shemites, modern: language family, anti- Semitism as a word used only since 1879)
