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the body of Jewish civil and ceremonial law and legend comprising the Mishnah and the Gemara. There are two versions of the Talmud: the Babylonian Talmud (which dates from the 5th century AD but includes earlier material) and the earlier Palestinian or Jerusalem Talmud.

The Jews believed that knowledge is important but just because you know everything doesn’t mean you know how to use it. in the passage in the “in my father’s court “by Isaac Bashevis Singer. The man that came to speak to the rabbi impressed him with his knowledge of the Talmud. “The man knew everything by heart. He remembered the exact pages on which certain passages were to be found.” The man had to have memorized and read all the passages of the Talmud to be able to impress the rabbi, but because the man could not reap the benefits from reading the Talmud he became a beggar and was accused as an unbeliever. “Father argued that an unbeliever had no share in the hereafter, but the visitor had cited Talmud passages to prove that

The Things They Carried is a collection of fictional stories inspired by Tim O’Brien’s time in the Vietnam War and the struggles young men had to face in one of the most controversial wars in U.S. history. After the Vietnam War was over, when the veterans came home, most of which were drafted, they shunned by the American public for fighting a war in which many did not support and many veterans were homeless due to the lack of support from the government. Therefore, O’Brien uses these stories to not only have a deeper meaning and understanding of what the soldiers had to endure (both during and after the war), yet to also keep the dead alive by telling their stories. To do so, Tim O’Brien effectively

People can learn something from a moral or a lesson learned. It teaches people something that someone would need to use in life. In Greek Mythology, some important lessons are never lie to others, don’t be selfish, and listen to your parents.

When you were younger, did you sometimes lie to deflate your punishment, but discovered how the truth became known eventually. In all reality, regardless of who you collaborate with, the number of internal good intentions you had for yourself, or how good it sounded to yourself; the truth was exposed in due time. The Scarlet Letter showed many failed attempts of these methods to only conclude the truth to be known at some point.

Once a faith centered on priesthood, sacrificial rituals, communal gatherings and oral traditions, the people of the Jewish religion decided to restructure the faith around written scripture. Although it is argued that rabbis began work on compiling the oral histories prior to the fall of the Second Temple, there was a marked resurgence in documentation of the important history and moral laws of Judaism after the fall (Molloy, 291). The Jewish people felt a sense of urgency to finish the written works. They believed the incorporation of written word into Judaism would help to solidify their place in the religious world, as well as make the faith easier to correctly interpret among their own vastly dispersed people (BBC, 2009).

The Church of the Holy Sepulcher ca. 345 CE Jerusalem, Israel. It was erected on the site of the hill of Calvary (also known as Golgotha), where Christians believe that Jesus was crucified. It also contains Jesus’s tomb, in which He was buried until His resurrection. The church has been damaged and restored several times, with the current main dome dating to 1870. Even though the structure today is not from Constantine’s era (it was destroyed, rebuilt, and expanded and embellished), one can still see the parts of the church that owe their design to Roman architectural models: a basilican plan is combined with a domed space that recalls the Pantheon in Rome.

The Mishnah, the 1st part of the Talmud, an important Jewish work compiled in A.D. 200 regarding Judaism's Oral Law

Judaism is a religion I knew absolutely nothing about before reading for this assignment. I am still trying to grasp everything and this was a little more complicated to understand then Islam. I did find many things interesting considering the only information I knew, was of the Jews and the Holocaust. This helped me to understand what a Jew was and the religion of Judaism.

The religion I decided to research is the Roman Catholic Church, because it is one that I’ve always wanted to familiarize myself with more because many of my friends are Catholics and I was raised in a Christian family which I’ve heard is very similar to Catholicism. I have been to church with friends in the past before, but have never really taken the time to research and study the history behind this religion.

The Torah, or the Pentateuch, is the central reference of the religious Judaic tradition and has a wide range of meanings. Most commonly, it refers to the first five books of the twenty-four books of the Tanakh, which usually includes the perushim . The term "Torah" means instruction and offers a way of life for those who follow it. It’s the continued narrative from the Book of Genesis to the end of the Tanakh, the totality of Jewish teachings, culture, and practice. In relation to all these meanings, Torah consists of the foundational narrative of Jewish peoplehood: their call into being with God, their trials and tribulations, and their covenant with their God. Their covenant involves following a way of life embodied in a set of moral and religious obligations and civil laws .

“Let the church always be a place of mercy and hope, where everyone is welcomed, loved and forgiven,” Pope Francis once said. The church where our home and family is. People like to know about the roots of their home and family. I think it’s important to know about the roots of your faith. When you know more about your faith you can be closer to it. In order to learn about the origins of the Roman Catholic Church, a person needs to know about the Catholic Church in general, how and when the church was formed, and how the word ‘Catholic’ came about so that one can discover the roots of his/her Catholic faith and its importance.

Wisdom Tradition is a term applied to the Old Testament books of Proverbs, Job, Sirach, Wisdom of Solomon, and Ecclesiastes. Wisdom Tradition books all share characteristics and points of view that are somewhat different than other biblical books. Wisdom tradition has very prominent characteristics from other books in the Old Testament such as a search for the goal of life, how to master it and questioning the problems of life, showing interest to human experiences that affect all people, joy of creativity and creation, and very little interest in the great acts of divine salvation. These qualities appear in a few books in the Old Testament. All of them show wisdom, but only some show both wisdom and tradition. Books such as Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes values the beauty of creation and the confidence of human life and nature. This was a new concept to Israel. They learned about wisdom tradition through other nations. They were influenced from Mesopotamian literature and took their ideas of meditations of sufferings and God’s justice into their Old Testament Books. Suffering can be seen in Job, but in the next essay and upcoming classes, we will be relating this to women suffering. The wisdom perspectives did not replace the other two major strands of thought in Ancient Israel, that of prophets and priests. It was simply a different focus that was complementary with the other perspectives presented in the Bible.

My fifteen minute drive to Marian every morning used to consist of two things: focusing only on what is in front of me and loud music. However, after learning about Sacramentality this semester, I have a new and improved routine which is better for me and my relationship with God and others. Going into my junior I could not even give you a slightest indication of what Sacramentality was. However, in just a few short months, I can go into great detail about what it means to me and how it has impacted my everyday life.

Most people do not have enough knowledge about the Jewish community and its traditions, and rules. I want to use this Awareness Report to emphasize the most important features of Judaism everyone should know.