S_WH7-12+Assignment

Grade 7 Lesson 12 - Rabbinic times (Popular Religion) (All Assignments)
 * 7th Grade Curriculum
 * History
 * Jewish popular culture(ie what is believed and practiced by many Jews) is often different from what is declared to be proper Judaism by the religious leaders of the times. Often, the popular culture becomes incorporated into the "official" religion at a later time. After the exile from Judah in -597, there were radical changes in the beliefs of Jews.
 * Read [|Post Exilic Religion] and list the new ideas from Zoroastrianism that were first incorporated into popular Jewish culture and later into the Jewish religion.
 * __//**Dualism**//__
 * __//**Eschatology and Apocalypticism**//__
 * __//**Otherworldliness**//__
 * Holidays - on your Holidays page, for each holiday below, write a short secular description (1 sentence - 200 characters max) of what the holiday celebrates and a longer description (1 paragraph - 800 characters max) which also includes its origin and its importance to both secular and religious Jews.
 * Passover
 * Rewrite the short description of this holiday so that it begins with "Secular Jews celebrate passover because..."
 * The exodus from Egypt is a myth. Please rewrite the long description to reflect that
 * The Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazi's began on Passover - Why?
 * __//**Because the Jews worked together to escape the Nazi's concentration camp. I think it was a coincidence that when the german arrived it happened to be the first day of passover, it also happened to be Hi--ler's birthday.**//__
 * How was the myth of the Jewish exodus from Egypt used by abolitionists during the civil war?
 * __//**The abolitionists in the US during the Civil War used to say that God did not want people enslaved if he did not want the Jews enslaved**//__.
 * Does a story such as the exodus lose its power if you know it is a myth?
 * __//**To some people Yes, Some people No. If the extremely religious people believed that it was a myth then they would not pay any attention to it. But we as secular Jews still celebrate passover even though we think that it is a myth. We still celebrate it because of the Power of the moral lessons which is that it is important for all people to be free.**//__
 * Culture
 * Read the Wikipedia entry on [|Jewish Mythology]. Be prepared to discuss the myths about golums.
 * What is the Hamsah hand? __//**It is an amulet that depicts a large eye in the middle of it. It is called the hand of god or the Evil Eye, or the protecting Hand.**//__ How is it used by Jews? __//**They are used as charms for good luck and for decoration.**//__
 * FAQs - on your FAQ Page, for each question below, write a short answer (1 sentence - 200 characters max) and a longer description (1 paragraph - 800 characters max). Add any questions about shJ you have or are asked by your friends.
 * Heroes/Heroines - on your Heroes page, for each person below, write a short description (1 sentence - 200 characters max) and a longer description (1 paragraph - 800 characters max) about who s/he is and why s/he was important.. Also add any heroes/heroines you would like to know about.


 * **Vocabulary - on your Vocabulary page, for each word/phrase below, write a short definition (1 sentence - 200 characters max) and a longer definition (1 paragraph - 800 characters max).Also add any vocabulary that you would like defined.**
 * **Hamsah**
 * **Folklore**
 * **Myth**
 * **Legend**
 * **Philosophy and Values**
 * **Pick another of the Philosophical Foundations and be prepared to describe it in your own words. Write the name of the philosophical foundation below. __//I picked... Jewish Pluralism.*//__**