RELIGST 1B06- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 22 pages long!)
11 Oct 2017
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Bar mitzvah: ceremony in which 13 year old boys become an adult member of the jewish community. Bat mitzvah: equivalent of a bar mitzvah ceremony for girls in reform & conservative jewish congregations. Circumcision: boys" initiation ritual that occurs on the eighth day after birth and is called brit milah (covenant of circumcision) Conservative judaism: movement attempting to adapt judaism to modern life by using principles of change within the traditional laws; occupies middle ground between reform and. Covenant (berith): relationship bw god and israel, enacted on mt. Sinai, based on israel"s acceptance of god"s torah. Disapora: the dispersion of jews away from the jewish homeland, to live as minorities in other lands. Dietary law: jewish laws pertaining to the proper preparation and eating of food, and the avoidance of certain animal food; see kashrut. Essenes: ascetic jewish movement around the dead sea are from the second century b. c. e. to the first century c. e.
