Torah Rocket • Part 13v6.4.114 OFFICIAL QUESTIONS
Jewish History
Patriarchs, matriarchs, kings, prophets, Sinai, tribes and major Jewish teachers.
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Official questions
1. Name the patriarchs and matriarchs.
Your study note: Avraham, Yitzchak, Yaakov; Sarah, Rivka, Rachel, Leah.
2. Name three important kings.
Your study note: Shaul, David, Shlomo.
3. Name three important prophets.
Your study note: Yirmiyahu/Jeremiah, Yechezkel/Ezekiel, Yeshayahu/Isaiah.
4. Which Biblical book did King David write?
Your study note: Tehillim/Psalms.
5. When and how did we get the Torah?
Your study note: At Har Sinai through Moshe. Notes place it in Hebrew year 2448 after Exodus; Hashem spoke directly to people and Moshe transmitted the rest.
6. How many Jews were at Mount Sinai to receive the Torah?
Your study note: About 600,000 males over age 20; note adds possible total around 3 million.
7. Who led the Children of Israel out of Egypt?
Your study note: Moshe.
8. Who was the first High Priest?
Your study note: Aharon.
9. What are the main teachings of Chassidism?
Your study note: Serving Hashem with joy and loving a fellow Jew.
10. Name some Biblical tribes of Israel.
Your study note: Examples: Judah, Dan, Ephraim, Menashe, Issachar.
11. What are Ashkenaz and Sephardi?
Your study note: Ashkenaz associated with France/Germany and Yiddish customs; Sephardi with Spain/Mediterranean communities such as Syria/Morocco, Ladino and different customs.
12. Who was Moses Maimonides and what was his major accomplishment?
Your study note: Rambam, 12th-century scholar, lived in Spain then Egypt, physician; Mishneh Torah major codification of halachah.
13. Who was Rashi and what was his major accomplishment?
Your study note: Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, 11th-century French rabbi; essential commentaries on Tanach and Gemara/Talmud.
14. Who was the Chafetz Chaim?
Your study note: Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan of Radin; work on Lashon Hara and Mishnah Berurah.