1. What are some practices and traditions of the Jews?

They have some place called synagogue, where they pray or

worship and study their religion. Their synagogue according to the boy who’s
speaking said that is full of reminders of the history of the Jewish people. It has a ten
commandments inside the synagogue. The stones of the ten commandments in the
Western wall were caps inside the holy temple and it is the last bits that’s left in
Jerusalem. You can write a note or post messages to God, you folded it up and puts
it in the cracks of the walls, and they believe that God reads them all.
Sabbath or Shabbat, is the most important day of the week for Jewish people
because they will rest or stop in their everyday busy life. It begins every Friday
sunset in last 25 hours. The Sabbath day is to keep it holy because it is one of the
ten commandments, you cannot use electronic gadgets. In the evening, to welcome
in Shabbat, they light two candles and say the blessing in Hebrew, then the whole
family gather for a blessing over the wine called Kadesh. With their blessing over the
bread called ojala, and then they will have a Shabbat meal and also sings a
traditional song.
Next is the Bat Mitzvah, Mimi the girl in the video shows that her religion is a Reform
Judaism, and will becoming a Jewish adult. Bat Mitzvah for girls and Bar Mitzvah for
boys. It happens at the age of 12 or 13 but it depends on the type of Jewish tradition
they belong. Mitzvah is a Hebrew word meaning commandment from God,
becoming a Bat Mitzvah means becoming the daughter of the commandment and
promising to follow God’s rules.
Next tradition is the Passover or in Hebrew Pasach, where the Jewish people only
eat eleven breads called Matzah. All the traces of normal bread called chametz must
be removed from the house. Passover Seder, that each piece of food on the Seder
plate reminds them on what it was like for the Jewish slaves in Egypt. Everyone
drinks wine or grape juice to symbolize the joy of the Almighty rescuing their people
from slavery. Next is the Chanukah or Hanukkah, the Jewish festivals of lights. They
also have traditional play game called trader, to always help them to to remember
the miracle of Hanukkah. The most important part of Hanukkah is lighting a special
lamp or menorah, where it holds eight lights to represent the eight days. A new
candle will be lit every night during the eight-day festival until it’s all glowing with
light. Every evening once the candles are lit the presents are opened. The last
practices or traditions is Rosh Hashanah, The Jewish New year instead of January it
will begin around September. During their Rosh Hashanah they spend a lot of time
in the synagogue. One of the rituals there is the blowing of the shofar.

2. What is that they put the door?

They put mezuzah in every door of their house, a parchment inside
containing one of the most important Jewish prayers.
3. What do you call the horn that they blow? What is it for?
Blowing of the Shofar horn it surrounds on and it’s one of the
world’s oldest known wind instruments. The shofar acts like an alarm clock, it wakes
everybody up in the synagogue and anybody that would hear it would remember to
do, to repent, to return to their maker for a good year ahead.

4. What are similarities that you see with Christianity/Catholicism?

 Their similarities between Judaism and Christianity is that both Jews and
Christians engage in worship and are praying to the same God, both religions
also have dedicated physical places of worship, namely churches in
Christianity and synagogues in Judaism. In addition, both faiths have
designated religious leaders, which are typically priests in Christianity and
rabbis in Judaism. For both religions, this is described in the Book of Exodus,
which is the second book of the Jewish Torah (Hebrew Bible) and the
Christian Old Testament. People should have no other gods.

5. What face of God do you see?

6. What did you find inspiring from Jews?

They have a very strong nation even though they’re not that many,
they hold together as one. They also have awareness of the presence of the divine
in our lives brings the knowledge that our lives are a precious gift. Jews believe that
humans were made as part of God's creation and in God's image. Therefore, human
life should be valued and considered as sacred and God-given. Due to these
attitudes towards the sanctity of life, Jews believe that only God can give life, and
only God should take life away.