S_SH+Vocabulary

=Sam Hughes VOCABULARY=

Rabbi - Teacher

Consistent - repeatedly agrees with the same facts over time.

Compelling- Overwhelming evidence that something happened.

etiological- explanation created after the fact to explain something we do not understand.

kosher- an item that is specially prepared for use, and is consistent with Jewish laws regarding food preparation. Scientific view about history. · A Jew that defends and acts for important humanistic and secular values. TALMUD- Made up of two parts- Mishnah- The Oral Law, all of the laws that the rabbis remembered and passed on to each other verbally for centuries until 200 CE when they finally wrote them down. Gemara- A fuller discussion and comments on the Mishnah, Finished in 500 CE. FolkshulEducation » S_SH Vocabulary Corroborate- To provide evidence to support an idea.
 * Word/Phrase || Short Definition || Long Definition ||
 * Dignity || A trust in who you are. || Someone who cares and is proud about who they are. They Would fight for what they've done. A Jew who has dignity is proud to be a Jew. ||
 * Documentary hypothesis || A hypothesis about how the Torah came into creation. || The Torah was not written by 1 person. Multiple peices of tradition were put together to make the Torah. The view most beleived is the documentary hypothesis. In this hypothesis, the Torah is seen conposed by 4 major traditions. These traditions are j (the Jahwist or Jerusalem source, written after 922 BCE) e (the Elost or Ephraimitic source, written after 922 BCE) D (The Deuteronomist, written after 722 BCE) and the P (The preistly source, written after 539 BCE). These 4 sources were combined after 539 BCE.__Source__: University of Pennsyvania web page on Judaism: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/2/Judaism/jepd.html ||
 * Secular ||
 * A person who has a scientific view about the history of the world and its people. Someone who needs evidence to confirm something. ||
 * Secular Humanist || A Person that thinks that others should be treated equally and that science is the basis of human knowledge. || Humanism is about peaceful negotiating. Each person is worth the same regardless of what they look like. A SECULAR Humanist is a person who regards human knowledge from a scientific point of view. A secular humanist uses scientific knowledge to improve relations between people in the world, to argue for peace and non-violence and to struggle for political and economic equality. ||
 * Secular Humanistic Jew ||
 * · A Secular Humanistic Jew is a Jew who stands up for important humanistic values. This includes- Equal rights, protecting the poor, non-violence, and their own personal values such as, in my case protecting the defenseless animals. Stopping world hunger. A secular humanistic Jew is committed to Jewish ideals and to celebrating Jewish holidays, and other cultural influences. ||  ||

Yiddishe Kop- Jewish head- To be very smart.

Goyishe Kop- Non -Jewish head- Not so bright, or intelligent. For example, a Republican.

Talmud- Comments, laws. and rules written down by Rabbis to interpret the Torah. The Talmud was written at about 200 ad. It was written in order to give religious Jews clear and specific regulations regarding how they should behave and act. The Talmud has thousands of rules that religious Jews believe represent what God wants them to do in specific circumstances.

Differences between Socialism Anarchism and Communism - In Socialism, all people are equal and that was what communism was supposed to be based on, but the state has all of the power. Anarchism is not liking any form of government whatsoever.

Practical knowledge - Knowledge that is gained by experience, and personal witness, or to have stood up for something.

Revealed knowledge - Knowledge that is revealed to you with anything but experience. ex. Text book

Objective knowledge - something that is not a personal fact, but is known through a group of people.

Subjective - something that is is a personal opinion, and cannot be proven, because other people think differently.

Egalitarian - a person who believes in the equality of all people.

Socialism - A system that lets all decisions fall to the people themselves, such as distribution, production and other important factors.

Anarchism - A group of people with intence dislikes with ANY government.

Communism - A system of government with all property belongs to the community and that they should all agree how to disperse it amongst the people.

P,B K,G  T,D  F,V S,Z Ch,J

Flog - to whip or beat badly

Pogrom - an organized massacre of Jews

Theodicy - The idea of a good God and evil in the earth.