Judaism Practices

The law

The Law

  • Tenakh (the written law)
  • Talmud (the oral law)
  • their study, use and significance in daily
    life

Dietary laws and their significance

  • kosher and trefah
  • separation of milk and meat.including different Jewish views about their importance
The law
Name two books of the Tenakh. (2)

2019

• Genesis / Exodus / Leviticus / Numbers / Deuteronomy / Joshua / Judges / Samuel / Kings / Isaiah / Jeremiah / Ezekiel / The Twelve (the minor prophets) / Psalms / Proverbs / Job / Song of Songs / Ruth / Lamentations / Ecclesiastes / Esther / Daniel / Ezra and Nehemiah / Chronicles
• Accept Hebrew names of any books above Note: Accept responses which treat the divisions of the Tenakh as ‘books’ in the collective sense, ie Torah (Teaching) / Nevi’im (Prophets) / Ketuvim (Writing), whether given in Hebrew or in English

The dietary laws
Explain two contrasting ways a Jewish family might keep dietary laws in the home. (4)

2019

  • An Orthodox family would have separate utensils for preparing meat and milk / they would have separate sinks / and storage areas for foods / they would have separate plates
  • Some families may have separate kitchens for dairy and meat / different fridges / different ovens
  • The family would only eat Kosher animals / such as beef and chicken / they would avoid trefah animals which are forbidden / such as shellfish, pork and rabbit
  • The meat the family eats would have been killed according to Jewish law / the blood of the animal would have been drained / and the killing done by a shochet
  • Some Progressive Jews might observe food laws by following a vegetarian or vegan diet / they may not have separate kitchens
  • Some Jews may observe the laws surrounding Pesach by clearing out all chametz (leaven) from their home, etc

Note – do not credit not keeping dietary laws in the home

Explain two ways in which dietary laws are important to Jews. (5)

Spec 2

  • the Torah prescribes what foods Jews are allowed to eat/for instance Leviticus 11:3 states that Jews may only eat meat from animals which chew the cud and have split hooves/only certain birds are considered Kosher (Leviticus 11:13–19, Deuteronomy 14:12–18)/seafood must have fins and scales (Leviticus 11:9,
    Deuteronomy 14:19/insects are treyfah/the animals must have no flaws or disease etc
  • the Torah prescribes how food is to be prepared/animals that are permitted must be killed in accordance with Jewish law/there should be no blood in the meat (Leviticus 17:10–4)/certain parts of permitted animals are forbidden/Exodus 23:1 commands Jews not to boil a kid in its mother’s milk/for this reason meat and milk are not consumed together etc
  • keeping Kosher demonstrates obedience to God/Jews are following Jewish laws by keeping Kosher/keeping Kosher demonstrates selfcontrol/eating is considered a religious ritual in Judaism etc.

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