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Today

-Finish the Big kindness experiment assignment

-Start: Judaism and Christianity

End of the Experiment – Questions

1. What did you think of the kindness experiment? Explain in 50 words.

2. What does kindness/helping mean for other people? Explain in 50 words.

Think about people you meet directly and indirectly.

3. What does kindness/helping mean for yourself? Explain in 50 words.

4. Did you learn something from this task for the future? What do you want to improve? Explain in 50 words. 

Booklet Judaism & Christianity

Lesson 1: Today

What do you already know about Judaism and Christianity?

Judaism (sources 1 to 6)

Goals of the lesson

• I know that Judaism and Christianity are monotheistic religions.

• I can explain that Christianity came from Judaism.

• I know the geographical location of some places that are important in the history of Judaism.

Judaïsm and Christianity?

What's the definition of believing in one God?

If you know that monotheism means the belief in one God, what would polytheism be?

A

Believing in two Gods

B

Believe in multiple Gods

C

Believing that God doesn't exist

D

You are God

And Atheïsm?

A

Believing in two Gods

B

Believe in multiple Gods

C

Believing that God doesn't exist

D

You are God

Some theory 

• Monotheism, Trinity?

• Nomad tribes

• Jewish people

• Caught between powerful empires

• Continuously expelled

• Darkness in WWII

You have now learned the theory about the history of Judaism. What stands out to you about how Jewish people were treated in history?

Own State

• Low point in the Holocaust

• 1948: independence of Israel

• Palestinians were already living in that area.

Homework

1. Read source 3 tm 6

2. Assignment 4 tm 8 

Lesson 3 Judaism

Goals

I can explain the idea of a covenant between God and the Jewish people.

I can explain what is meant by the word “nomad god.”

I know about the most important Jewish religious writings: the TeNaCH and the Talmud.

I know that the Torah consists of the five most important books of Judaism.

Jewish belief in God

Ancestors of the Jews (the Hebrews) traveled around:

They felt that God showed them the way through the tribe leader and gave them protection.

They also felt that God showed the way when the temple was destroyed and people were taken to Babylon, and later when the Jews were spread all over the world.

God is everywhere, no matter where you are.

Image: one invisible God who cannot be seen and of whom you may not make any image or picture. (still true today — also in Christianity and Islam)

What is not true about Judaïsm

A

They belief in one God

B

It was always one folk

C

Jews finally got their own country: Israel.

D

One wall of the temple is still standing

Make assignment 9 en 10 

And BOL 2.4

Convenant God and the Jews

Agreement between God and the Jewish people: God protects the people and will give the Jews their own land: the Promised Land.

To receive this, the Jews must follow God’s commandments. These are written in the Jewish scriptures.

Kingdom of God: a perfect reality. It will come, but first the Messiah, a savior, will come. The Jews are still waiting for this.

Jewish scriptures

God speaks through texts, through people, but the words are from God. When you read the text, you hear the words of God.

TeNaCH: Word of God, the Old Testament for Christians

1. Tora: teaching or instruction (5 books: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, 2. Numbers, and Deuteronomy)

2. Nevi'im: 21 books of the prophets

3. Ketuvim: 13 books of writings

Talmud: study or teaching; explanation and interpretation of the Torah

Make assignment 

BOL 2.4

Lesson 4

10 commandments

Jewish rituals

Goals

I can explain in my own words what the 10 commandments are.

I can explain in my own words what important Jewish rituals are.

Which of the 10 commandments do you like the most?

Rituals and symbols

A practice that is done in the same way and at the same time.

For example, in daily life, but also in a religion: birth, becoming an adult, marriage, and death.

Synagogue

In the year 70 the Jewish temple was destroyed, and no new temple was built.

Now people meet in synagogues (places of learning).

They pray, study, discuss, and make decisions about what is right.

A synagogue is also called shul (school).

The teacher is the rabbi, and in the service the leader is the chazzan.

Jewish rituals

• Bar Mitzvah: A boy becomes an adult according to Jewish law at 13 years old. First time reading from the Torah. Wears a tallit.

Bat Mitzvah: A girl becomes an adult at 12 years old. Reads from the Torah. Just like boys, it ends with a celebration.

• Jewish wedding blessing under the chuppah: Symbol for the house where the couple will live.

Homework

Assignment 13 tm 16

BOL 2.4

Lesson 5

Goals

I can explain in my own words which important Jewish symbols exist and what they mean.

I know which Jewish holidays exist and can explain what they mean.

Jewish symbols

Star of David

Menorah

Yarmulke

Torah scroll

Yarmulke

Torah scroll

Star of David

Menorah

Jewish festivals

• Sabbath: Day of rest: dedicated to God. From sunset on Friday evening to sunset on Saturday.

• Rosh Hasjana: Jewish New Year: September or October

• Yom Kippur: Day of Atonement: at the beginning of the new year: to express regret for sins and remember the dead.

• Sukkot/Feast of Tabernacles: 5 days after Yom Kippur: 7 days. Recall the journey through the desert to the promised land. Special huts are built: sukkah (sukkah) from branches and leaves (sukkah).

• Passover: celebrates the liberation from Egypt

Make assignment 9,10 and 11

BOL 2.5