Jewish beliefs and practices

1. 4. What do Jews believe?

2. Temple Destroyed 70 AD
• Sacri
fi
ces stopped
• Priesthood Ended
• Rituals ceased

3. Rabbinic Judaism
Priest Rabbi
Temple Synagogue
Sacri
fi
ces Prayers
Rituals Study

4. Beliefs
• God is One
• God is indivisible
• God is only spirit

5. Beliefs
• Written Torah (Law)
• Oral Torah
• Tanach (Old Testament)
• 613 Commandments

6. Beliefs
Unbroken chain of authority
from Moses to the Rabbis

7. Beliefs
• Heaven (Gan Eden)
• Hell (Gehenna)
• Temporary Hell

8. Beliefs
• Messiah is human
• Messiah is yet to come
• Messiah will bring peace
• Messiah will regather Jews

9. Beliefs
• Sin is act, not condition
• Judged according to our
deeds not our beliefs
• Good & bad inclination

10. Atonement for Sin
• Prayer
• Repentance
• Righteous Deeds

11. Sacred Texts

12. Torah Scroll
Five Books of Moses
Read each Saturday in Synagogue

13. Talmud
Commentary on the Law
Written 400 AD in Babylon
Not inspired, but authoritative

15. Siddur
Jewish Prayer Book
(Di
ff
erent ones for ea. Synagogue)

16. Sacred Times

17. Rites of Passage
• Circumcision (Brit)
• Bar/Bat Mitzvah (13)
• Marriage
• Death
Carrie’s Bat Mitzvah

18. Holidays Follow the Lunar Calendar

19. Holidays
• New Year (Sep-Oct)
• Day of Atonement (Oct)
• Feast of Booths (Oct)
• Hanukkah (Dec)

20. Holidays
• Purim (Jan - Feb)
• Passover (Mar - Apr)
• Holocaust Remem. (Apr - May)
• Pentecost (May - Jun)

21. Sacred People
• Rabbi
• Cantor