JUDAISM

Kelvin Paul B. Panuncio

 ASSIGNMENT
What is your name?
What is in your name?
What is the meaning of your
name?
 Recite the Ten Commandments as stated in the Old
Testament (Exodus 20)
 Identify a Jewish custom or tradition demonstrated in a
movie ( Ten Commandments)
 Justify: The core teaching of Judaism is the covenant of one
God with a chosen people vs. other people with many gods.
 Identify a story from the Old Testament that demonstrates
the Jewish belief in one God (e.g. Story of Samson)
 BRIEF OVERVIEW AND
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
Briefly recount the history of Judaism as well
as problematize the identity of a Jew
Distinguish the different Jewish practices and
beliefs; and
Identify the different varieties of Judaism
The learner demonstrates understanding of the elements of Judaism:

Founders: Abraham (2000 B.C.)

and/or Moses (1391-1271 B.C.)
Sacred texts: Torah, Poetry, Prophets, Talmud,
Mishnah
Doctrines: Ten Commandments, 618 Rules
God: Yahweh/Jehovah
Sects: Orthodox, Conservative, Reform Liberal
Issues: Anti-Semitism, Zionism, Holocaust
 JUDAISM
Is the one of the world’s oldest religion

Hebrews refers to those who accepted Yahweh as their

God.

Israelites refers to the descendants of the Hebrew which

originated from Abraham.
ASSIGNMENT
Recite the 10
commandments
THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES MEANS
THE TORAH – “IN THE BEGINNING”
The Hebrew Bible also called TANAKH
collection of 24 books
Divided in 3 parts:
The Torah – teachings or law
Nevi’im – prophets
Ketuvim – writings
Genesis
TORAH
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

Moses is the most important prophet for the Jews

10 commandment in Mount Sanai
ELABORATION ON PRACTICES
Dietary Practices – one of the areas of
Jewish life heavily influenced by the laws
from Torah is their food.
Kosher means “ritually correct” and
particularly refers to food preparation and
consumption
The is no official Jewish creed.
 SABBATH
Veneration of the Sabbath day originated with the creation
story: God rested in Sabbath

Messiah or Savior will come, one of the most fundamental

Jewish belief

The follower of Jesus who they called the Christ, were

Jews, believed in him, and became the first Christians.
 The belief in the coming of the
Messiah is one of those doctrines
that have changed across different
versions of Judaism. Some believe
the Messiah will be a political
leader who will rule the Israel as a
model for the rest of the world.
 PASSOVER
The Jews have many Holy Days, throughout the year, but
perhaps the most important for the, is the Feast of the
Passover, which commemorates the liberation of the
Hebrew from Egypt.
Seder is the one of the part of Passover where in the
paschal meal shared by family on the eve of the first day
of the feast.
Matzah(bread) is the primary food ingested during the
Passover
 IN THE PHILIPPINES
 Marranos or Conversos is the first Jews in the Philippines
were converts to Christianity.
 Jorge and Domingo Rodriguez who arrive 1950’s.
 The rise of Adolf Hitler in 1933 as a German chancellor and
head of Nazi Party began a prolonged wave of Anti- Jewish
activity.
 Pres. Manuel L. Quezon opened its door and welcome Jewish
refugees escaping from the Nazi tyranny.
ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT
OF JUDAISM
When the temple of Jerusalem was
destroyed and when Babylonian
empire fell to the Persian empire,
thereby allowing the Jews to
rebuild the Temple.
THE DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF
JUDAISM
Bible comes from the Greek word
Biblia means book.
13 million Jews in the world as 2000
About 5.69 are in USA
4.55 million live in Israel
Canaan or Israel is the promised land
Apart of 80% citizen are Jews in Israel, 2.14% in the
US and other percent is in the rest of the world.
Hebrew remains to be the very important language
of the Jews.
There certain culturally based groups, such as
Sephardic Jews, who came from west Israel and
sometimes Spain, the Ashkemazic Jews who came
from central Europe, the Felashas who are in
Ethiopia(Molloy 2005, 327-328)
 SECT
Orthodox Judaism tries to observe the traditional practices
and beliefs of Biblical Judaism. They are strict in the
implementation of such laws and practices.
Reform Judaism aims to modernize Judaism a religion
without dogmas and subject to the criteria of reason
Conservative Judaism recognize that change has always
been part of religion
IN THE PHILIPPINES
Beit Yaacov Synagogue is the only
synagogue in the Philippines
They have a rabbi, who is Shochet.
 10 COMMANDMENTS
 And God spoke all these words:
 “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the
land of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me.  1“You shall
not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven
above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below.
 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I,
the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for
the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who
hate me, 6 but showing love to a thousand generations of those who
love me and keep my commandments.
3 “You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your
God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who
misuses his name.
4
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.  Six
days you shall labor and do all your work,  but the seventh
day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not
do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor
your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any
foreigner residing in your towns.  For in six days
the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all
that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore
the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
5“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live
long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
6 
“You shall not murder.
7 
“You shall not commit adultery.
8 
“You shall not steal.
9 
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
10 
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not
covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his
ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
THE CORE TEACHING OF
JUDAISM IS THE
COVENANT OF ONE GOD
WITH A CHOSEN PEOPLE
VS. OTHER PEOPLE WITH
MANY GODS.