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Assignment 8 Jewish Identity

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Woodise Pierre
April 8th 2015

Assignment 8: Jewish Identity

A.What is the criteria for being Jewish? What does it mean to be Jewish?

When looking at Judaism, one has to go far back to biblical times to fully understand its origins. It started with the Hebrew people in the country of Israel. The bloodline of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob is what constitutes people as being Jewish. Being classified as a Jew, or a Jewish citizen has more to do with family ties, then what you believe in. The standard for being considered Jewish is that you have to be born to a Jewish mother. Some sects of Judaism like to include being born to a Jewish father as part of being Jewish. It can be looked at as more of a nationality or an ethnicity than a …show more content…

They still practice within the Jewish faith, and they have not adopted outside rituals, that go against Jewish law.

E. Do an internet search on Simeon Bar Kochba and Zevi Shabbatai and Lubavitch Hasidism. Did the Jews who believed in these movements continue to be considered Jewish?

Those who followed Bar Kochba, Shabbatai Tzv, and Lubavith strongly believed that they were the messiah. These people were rabbis, many of the Jewish faith strongly believed in the words that they were saying. They truly thought that they were the messiah. Many Jewish people still consider those who followed Bar Kochba and Shabbatai Zevi are still Jewish. They are called kidnapped or misguided children. They should not lose their inheritance, and not be considered Jewish. The same does not go for Lubavitch, those who followed him are said to be a disgrace to the Jewish

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