1. INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM RELI 3310 @ UT TYLER SPRING SEMESTER 2016 Instructor Rabbi Neal Katz

2. REVIEW

3. HEBREW BIBLE TEXTS PROPHETS Joshua Judges Samuel (I & II) Kings (I & II) Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi TORAH Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomy WRITINGS Psalms Proverbs Job Song of Songs Ruth Lamentations Ecclesiastes Esther Daniel Ezra Nehemiah Chronicles (I & II)

4. SECOND TEMPLE

6. RABBINIC JUDAISM

7. PARDES P’SHAT - LITERAL REMEZ - HINTED D’RASH - SERMONIC SOD - SECRETIVE

9. Alexander the Great Maccabees Great Revolt Against Rome Judea defeated / Temple destroyed 332 200 162-165 66-69 70 200 500 0 Pharisee/Rabbinic Period Begins Mishna Talmud

10. MISHNA

11. Deuteronomy 6:4Listen, Israel, God is our Lord, God is One. 6:5Love God your Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. 6:6These words which I am commanding you today must remain on your heart. 6:7Teach them to your children and speak of them when you are at home, when traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 6:8Bind [these words] as a sign on your hand, and let them be an emblem in the center of your head. 6:9[Also] write them on the doorposts of your houses and gates.

12. Mishnah Berachot 1.1 From what time may one recite the Shema in the evening? 1) From the time that the priests enter [their houses] in order to eat their terumah until the end of the first watch, the words of Rabbi Eliezer. 2) The sages say: until midnight. 3) Rabban Gamaliel says: until dawn. 4) Once it happened that his sons came home [late] from a wedding feast and they said to him: we have not yet recited the [evening] Shema. He said to them: if it is not yet dawn you are still obligated to recite. 5) And not in respect to this alone did they so decide, but wherever the sages say “until midnight,” the mitzvah may be performed until dawn. a) The burning of the fat and the pieces may be performed till dawn. b) Similarly, all [the offerings] that are to be eaten within one day may be eaten till dawn. c) Why then did the sages say “until midnight”? In order to keep a man far from transgression.

13. HILLEL / SHAMMAI

15. PALESTINE 200-400 BABYLON 200-500

16. MISHNA + GEMARA (COMMENTARY) = TALMUD

18. OVEN OF ACHNAI

19. 500 CE

20. MIDRASH= BIBLICAL STORIES/LESSONS

21. 2 MIDRASH TEXTS

22.  Midrash from Midrash Rabbah

23.  In his generation: There was a disagreement between Rabbi Yehudah and Rabbi Nechemiah. Rabbi Yehudah said: In his generation he was considered a righteous man, but if he would have lived in the generation of Moses or in the generation of Samuel then he wouldn't have been considered a righteous man. In the market where the blind cry out, the one-eyed man is called clear-sighted. There is a story of an individual who opened up one barrel of wine and found it had turned into vinegar. The same thing with the second barrel. The third barrel he found to be only sour (and so he took it). The others said to him, "That barrel is sour!" He answered back, "Is there any better?"MosesSamuel

24.  Rabbi Nehemiah said: If he was considered a righteous man within his own generation, then surely he would have been considered a righteous man had he lived in the generation of Moses and Samuel. This could be compared to a tightly closed flask of expensive perfume placed within a graveyard that still produced a pleasant smell. If it was outside the graveyard it would produce a smell that much better! This could also be compared to a virgin that frequented a marketplace of prostitutes, and she didn't receive a bad name. How much more so if she was among better company!

25.  Midrash from Midrash Rabbah

26. Look…my master. Her said to her, “I am afraid. The first man [Adam] violated a minor commandment, which he was commanded and he was banished from the garden of Eden; the one [sin] you want to violate is a major son, sexual immorality, how much more so! Look…my master. “I am afraid of my father in Canaan. Reuben, about whom it is written ‘Reuben went and lay with Bilhah’ (Gn 35:22), had his birthright taken away and given to me. If I listen to you, my birthright will be given away!” Another interpretation. Look…my master. “I am afraid of my master.” She said to him, “I will kill him.” He said to her, “Isn’t it enough that I would be counted in the assembly of adulterers, that I should be in the assembly of murderers? If this is what you what you want, ‘Look…my master.’ Here he is, go to him (that is, go to the one who is permitted to you, your husband).” Rabbi Yitzchak said, “The milk of white goats and the milk of black goats are the same.“

27.  https://books.google.com/books?id=8lOwjFsV vu0C&pg=PA151&lpg=PA151&dq=midrash+dri ven+leaf+stumble+leviticus&source=bl&ots=K GeahVv1gG&sig=F9koWHFuYxO2F9vMVvLU- eyWc78&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjVidX9-- _KAhUBbSYKHVnxAQoQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage &q&f=false

28. Alexander the Great Maccabees Great Revolt Against Rome Judea defeated / Temple destroyed 332 200 162-165 66-69 70 200 500 0 Pharisee/Rabbinic Period Begins Mishna Talmud

29. Bar Kochba

30. Alexander the Great Maccabees Great Revolt Against Rome Judea defeated / Temple destroyed 332 200 162-165 66-69 70 200 500 0 Pharisee/Rabbinic Period Begins Mishna Talmud

31. Shulchan Oruch (Shulchan Orech) Universal Code of Jewish Law http://www.shulchanarach.com/

32. RESPONSA (online examples)

34. 1. LINE OF DAVID 2. RESTORE SOVEREIGNTY TO ISRAEL 3. RETURN ALL JEWS TO ISRAEL 4. ESTABLISH FULL OBSERVANCE OF TO LAW 5. BRING ABOUT AN ERA OF WORLD PEACE

35. Alexander the Great Maccabees Great Revolt Against Rome Judea defeated / Temple destroyed 332 200 162-165 66-69 70 200 500 0 Pharisee/Rabbinic Period Begins Mishna Talmud

36. Bar Kochba

37. Shulchan Oruch (Shulchan Orech) Universal Code of Jewish Law

38. RESPONSA (online examples)

40. ASHKENAZI SEPHARDI

45. YEHUDA HALEVI POET THE KUZARI

46. YEHUDA HALEVI http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/halevi.html

47. RABBI MOSES BEN MAIMON MAIMONIDES RABBI MOSES BEN MAIMON RAMBAM

48. MAIMONIDES HTTP://WWW.MYJEWISHLEARNING.COM/ARTI CLE/MAIMONIDES-RAMBAM/#

49. MAIMONIDES HTTPS://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/ WATCH?V=_A2KUKZ-N3E

50. SPANISH INQUISITION

52. CRUSADES