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Jewish tradition depicts the universe as being governed by an all-powerful personal God who intervenes in history to reward the righteous and punish the unjust.
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“Israel” refers to all those who answer the call and who acknowledge and strive to obey the one God, through the Torah…given to the patriarchs, Moses, and the prophets.”
Israel also means “one who struggles with God”.
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Brief History• Begins with Tanakh –
The Old Testament
• Creation of the world by God
• Moses spoke to God-- received the Ten Commandments
• After 70 CE.– Talmud evolved
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The Pentateuch
• Five books of the Old Testament
• Given by Moses
• Assumed its final form in the days of Ezra the Scribe in the fifth century BCE.
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Four Views of the Old Testament
• Traditional view – texts dictated by God to Moses
• Or… Moses divinely inspired, but not dictated by God
• Or…Moses inspired like poet or artist• Or…there were different texts written
by four different authors
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Old Testament Timeline
• 1250 B.C. – oral history of the conquest of the land of Caanan
• 1000 – united tribes under King David, stories written by J-author (Judah view)
• 900 – death of Solomon sees kingdom split into Judah & Israel (10 tribes north). The northern view written by E-author that emphasize Moses
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• 722 B.C. – Assyria conquers Israel and some flee back to southern Judah. Two versions combined into JE version document. Thus two creation stories, two Ten Commandments, etc.
• 650 – Temple rites given in P-document, most is in Torah today
• 609 – “lost” scroll of Moses found, called the D-document, book of Deuteronomy
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• 580 – Judah conquered by Babylon and exiled for 50 years.
• 450 – A “Redactor” with lots of cuts and pastes, combines JE, P, and D into one smooth flowing narrative. The five books of Moses are assembled. There have been no more changes since that time.
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Two Creation Stories
• Genesis 1 – poetic account of creation in seven days, man & woman placed as masters of the earth (Priestly source)
• Genesis 2 – Earlier version, supreme male diety, woman is offshoot and cause for man’s trouble (Yahwist source)
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Abraham• Born Ten generations
after Noah, • Has son with Egyptian slave woman
Hagar – Ishmael is Arab ancestor that gives birth to the Arab world and Islam
• Wife Sarah has son when 90 – Isaac , father of Jacob, who gives birth to Judaism and eventually Christianity
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Fork in the road…
Abraham – the common source
Ishmael: birth to Islam
Isaac: birth to Judaism & Christianity
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Jacob re-named Israel
• Twelve sons• Left for Egypt during famine• Four centuries later had many
descendants• Too powerful so Pharaoh makes
them slaves
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Moses orders 3,000 killed who worshipped the idol.
Moses
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David – The First King
• after centuries of wandering
• Captures Jerusalem
• Begins Israelite empire
• Grandson is Solomon
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King Solomon• Gains great personal
wealth• Built altars to wives• 10 tribes leave to
create Kingdom of Israel
• Solomon creates Kingdom of Judah
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Ten Tribes of Israel• Corrupt government
• Assyria captures Israel
• Many return to Judah
• Judah is eventually captured by King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia
• People taken from Judah were thenceforth known as Jews
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Return to Jerusalem• 50 years of exile in Babylon• Rebuilt temple in 515 BCE• Those who did not return were said
to be living in the “Diaspora”• Ezra “redacts” or edits the
Pentateuch for the last time• The Torah established as the
spiritual foundation for a dispersed people
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Zoroastrianism
Satan, hierarchy of angels, reward or punishment in an afterlife, final resurrection of the body, and the Day of Judgment influence Judaism
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Roman General Pompey
The last independent Jewish nation was conquered by Roman General Pompey 63 years before the birth of Jesus. It would take another twenty centuries before there would be another Jewish state.
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Three Sects of Jews
• Sadducees – priests & business people
• Pharisees – liberal citizens from all classes
• Essenes – the mystics and strict living at Qumran
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
• 2,000 year old scrolls
• Spiritual disciplines
• Ready for the Messiah…Jesus?
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Bible Scholarship
• Look at the facts verses myth or symbolism
• Understand the time period each piece was written
• Understand the purpose of the writing
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Book of Ruth
• Jews recovering from defeat by Babylon
• Thought Judah was punished because lack of purity
• Started “ethnic purification”• Ezra said must be full-blooded Jew
back to 10th generation
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Story of Ruth
• Ruth married Moab, a Jew. His mother was Naomi
• Jewish men all die, Naomi tries to get Ruth to leave to find safety
• Ruth swears her allegiance to her mother-in-law…
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Ruth
Ruth acted in the highest standards of the Jewish Torah by caring for her mother-in-law. Ruth eventually re-married and had a son Obed. Obed had a son Jessie………the father of the future King David.
(David was not full-blooded Jew!)
“…for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God…” (Ruth 1:16)
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Jesus was born
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Romans destroy the Jews
• 70 CE - the Roman army slaughter the Jews
• They destroy the Temple in Jerusalem
• All that was left was the Western Wall today called the “wailing wall”
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The Jews are dispersed again
• Judaism could have died then
• Many turn to the rabbis and the Torah
• Some turn to Jesus as the Jewish Messiah
• Both groups build on Hebrew Bible
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The Talmud
A vast compendium of laws.
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Maimonides 1200 CE
“What is man’s singualr function here on earth? …to contemplate abstract intellectual matters and to discover truth… And the highest intellectual contemplation that man can develop is the knowledge of God and his unity.”
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In the Middle Ages Jews tended to dominate international trade between Muslim and Christian realms because of their facility with languages and ability to find supportive co-religionists in virtually any community.
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Jews expendable
The literacy still belonged to the Church in the Middle Ages. Eventually Christians took over financial institutions and the Jews were expendable. The Jews of Spain in 1492 were forced to leave a country where they had lived for over a thousand years. The next 500 years they were taxed heavily and often isolated in ghettoes all over Europe.
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Holidays• Bar Mitzvah – coming of age at 13
• Rosh Hahanah – spiritual renewal
• Yom Kippur – renewing covenant with God
• Hanukkah – celebration of ancient victory resulting in right to worship
• Passover – liberation from bonds of slavery in Egypt
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Hebrew Teachings – Three Levels
Law & The Prophets
The Torah
And………
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The Holy
Kabbalah
Crown
Wisdom
Mercy
Glory
Under-standing
Strength
PowerBeauty
Intuition
The World
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• “Kabbalah subscribes to the idea of reincarnation, called Gilgulim or the Turnings in Hebrew. Our free will, leading to willful, will-less or willing actions, generates what in India is called karma, and in Kabbalah reward and punishment (unto the third and fourth generation).”
Kabbalah Tradition of Hidden Knowledge, Z’ev ben Shimon Halevi
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The Holy
Kabbalah
Crown
Wisdom
Mercy
Glory
Under-standing
Strength
PowerBeauty
Intuition
The World
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The Tarot Connection
Many use 22 cards of the major arcana of The Tarot to study and meditate on the 22 paths within The Holy Kabbalah. The following few slides give some indication of how this process can be useful.
(The remaining material requires a lengthy oral presentation.)
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The Fool
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The Magician
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Outward & Return Journey
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The Holy
Kabbalah
Crown
Wisdom
Mercy
Glory
Under-standing
Strength
PowerBeauty
Intuition
The World