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Vocabulary
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1. Torah
These rabbis are looking at a copy of the Torah.
http://www.3faiths1god.com/images/photos/hires_photos/jews_with_torah.jpg
13-year-olds read publicly from the Torah –
in Hebrew – at their Bar Mitzvah (for a boy)
or their Bat Mitzvah (for a girl) ceremonies.
http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00278/pg-20-bar-mitzvah-A_278474s.jpg
1. The Torah: the Jewish scriptures
(first 5 books of Old Testament)
http://www.thetruthsoflife.com/spiritual-wallpapers/judaism/torah_scroll-1280x1024.jpg
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy
2. Holocaust
During World War
II, the German
Nazi Party, led by
Adolf Hitler,
targeted several
groups for terrible
treatment.
http://www.cryonie.com/en/2009/images/hitler-speech.jpg
Groups targeted by the Nazis included
people with physical or mental
disabilities, gypsies (Romani), Jehovah’s
Witnesses (and any other religious groups said loyalty
to God was more important than loyalty to the Nazi Party),
homosexuals, and Jews.
http://www.corkfpc.com/holocaust%5B1%5D.jpg
They were killed or put in work camps,
where many died from starvation,
overwork, and sickness.
http://www.topnews.in/files/Australian-Holocaust.jpg
Hitler’s goal was to kill every Jew in
Europe. The Nazis killed over 6 million
European Jews before the end of the war.
http://www.theology.edu/QHST/Images/holocaust.jpg
http://billtammeus.typepad.com/.a/6a00d834515f9b69e20133ecaabbb8970b-800wi
2. Holocaust: the
killing of 6 million
Jews by Nazi
Germany in World
War II
Poland
Czech Republic
Germany
3. kosher: eating according to
ancient Jewish food laws
http://restaurantlaw.wordpress.com/2008/01/page/2/
4. monotheism: belief in only one
god
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
are all monotheistic religions.
5. polytheistic
The ancient
Romans and
ancient Greeks
were
polytheistic.
http://www.glogster.com/fornshells/greco-roman-polytheism/g-6m08n22amt0ue2462ta62a0
Jews are monotheistic.
So are Christians and Muslims.
5. polytheistic: believing in more
than 1 god
The ancient
Aztecs were
also
polytheistic.
http://tcmam.wordpress.com/2010/12/04/saturday-is-codex-day-5/
6. messiah
Jewish tradition and the Old Testament
talk about a “messiah” who would come
and liberate the Jewish people.
http://thegodmurders.com/IT%e2%80%99S%20BIBLICAL%20SHOWTIME.html
6. messiah: one who comes to
save
Christians
believe that
Jesus was the
Jewish
messiah. Jews
believe they are
still waiting for
the messiah.
http://enemylove.com/jesus-avoided-becoming-puppet-messiah/
7. resurrect: bring back to life
Many religions teach
that one or more of their
gods has been
resurrected from the
dead.
Christianity teaches that
Jesus was resurrected
by God from the dead.
http://scottwoodward.org/resurrection.html
8. gospel
In Old English (Middle Ages), this word
meant “good news.”
8. gospels: four
New Testament
book that
describe the life
& teaching of
Jesus
9. Protestant
There were no Protestant Christians until
Martin Luther protested against problems
in the Catholic Church in 1517.
http://www.aleteia.org/en/religion/q-a/was-the-reformation-justified-1071001
9. Protestant: Christians who are
not Catholic or Eastern Orthodox
10. relative location
This does NOT
have anything to do
with where your
crazy relatives are
located!
http://yahudi4.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/crazy-grandma.jpg
However, the
word “relative”
is specifically
about what the
relationship is
between people.
Those are our
parents!
She’s my
wife!
He’s my
husband!
These
people are
my parents
& sisters!
http://static.awkwardfamilyphotos.com/wp-content/uploads/cache/2013/10/image10e1380988101875/3287478981.jpg
Relative location also tells the
relationship between two people.
places.
“On Cue is
around the
corner and
a block
down from
my house.”
http://natsukoeguchi.com/s02-WYSIWYG/home-dot-com2/images/direction.gif
10. relative location: the location of
a place in relation to another place
“Lebanon is between
Israel, Syria, and the
Mediterranean Sea.”
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“Iraq is east of
Syria.”
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“Saudi Arabia is
south of Jordan and
Iraq.”
http://www.jhmeyer.net/New%20Folder/IsraelSyriaJordan.jpg