INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISMRELI 3310

@ UT TYLER SPRING SEMESTER 2015

InstructorRabbi Neal Katz

REVIEW

HEBREW BIBLE TEXTSPROPHETSJoshuaJudgesSamuel (I & II)Kings (I & II)IsaiahJeremiahEzekielHoseaJoelAmosObadiahJonahMicahNahumHabakkukZephaniahHaggaiZechariahMalachi

TORAHGenesisExodusLeviticusNumbersDeuteronomy

WRITINGSPsalmsProverbsJobSong of SongsRuthLamentationsEcclesiastesEstherDanielEzraNehemiahChronicles (I & II)

SECOND TEMPLE

Alexander the Great

PHARISEES

SADDUCEES

ESSENES

DEAD SEA SECT

Late Second Temple Jewish Sects

GREAT REVOLT AGAINST ROME

DESTRUCTION OF SECOND TEMPLE

Modern Jewish View of Temple

MASADA

KAMSA / BAR KAMSA

SHECHINAH

RABBINIC JUDAISM

PARDES

P’SHAT

REMEZ

D’RASH

SOD

PARDES

P’SHAT - LITERAL

REMEZ - HINTED

D’RASH - SERMONIC

SOD - SECRETIVE

PARDES

GEN 21

TIMELINE

Pre-Temple Era

King DavidSolomon’s

Temple

NorthernKingdomdestroyed

SouthernKingdom Destroyed- Exile to Babylon

ExileOver

Second Temple Built Alexander

the Great

Maccabees Great Revolt Against Rome

Judea defeated /

Templedestroyed

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RABBI JUDAH THE PRINCE200 CE

JEWISH LAW

DEUTERONOMY 6 EXAMPLE

MISHNA

TIMELINE

Alexander the Great

Maccabees Great Revolt Against Rome

Judea defeated /

Templedestroyed

332 200 162-165 66-69 70 200 500

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Pharisee/Rabbinic Period Begins

Mishna Talmud

MISHNA STUDY

Deuteronomy6:4 Listen, Israel, God is our Lord, God is One.6:5 Love God your Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.6:6 These words which I am commanding you today must remain on your heart.6:7 Teach them to your children and speak of them when you are at home, when traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up.6:8 Bind [these words] as a sign on your hand, and let them be an emblem in the center of your head.6:9 [Also] write them on the doorposts of your houses and gates.

Mishnah Berachot 1.1From what time may one recite the Shema in the evening?1)      From the time that the priests enter [their houses] in order to eat their terumah until the end of the first watch, the words of Rabbi Eliezer.2)      The sages say: until midnight.3)      Rabban Gamaliel says: until dawn.  4)      Once it happened that his sons came home [late] from a wedding feast and they said to him: we have not yet recited the [evening] Shema. He said to them: if it is not yet dawn you are still obligated to recite.5)      And not in respect to this alone did they so decide, but wherever the sages say “until midnight,” the mitzvah may be performed until dawn.a)      The burning of the fat and the pieces may be performed till dawn.  b)      Similarly, all [the offerings] that are to be eaten within one day may be eaten till dawn.c)      Why then did the sages say “until midnight”?  In order to keep a man far from transgression.

HILLEL / SHAMMAI

GEMARA200-400/500

PALESTINE200-400

BABYLON200-500

MISHNA + GEMARA (COMMENTARY)

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