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Judaism: A Very Short Introduction

AR Uncategorized March 26, 2025November 21, 2025 1 Minute

Author: Norman Solomon

Book length: 168 pages

Excerpt: ‘Tohar hanesheq’ demands that any fighting force take special risks to avoid harm to non-combatants and to minimize enemy casualties.

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1. According to the supplied text, under the traditional rule dating back to Roman times, who is considered Jewish by birth? A person born to a Jewish mother. A person is Jewish if either parent is Jewish, without need for conversion. A person born to a Jewish father regardless of the mother's status. A person is Jewish only after formal conversion, regardless of parentage.

2. What best describes Rabbinic Judaism's view of the Torah as presented in the text? It rejects the written Torah in favour of legal reasoning (Halakha) alone. It recognizes only the written Torah (Hebrew scriptures) as authoritative. It treats the New Testament as the primary interpretive guide for the Hebrew scriptures. It recognizes both a written Torah and an oral Torah by which the written is interpreted and supplemented.

3. Which of the following statements about Yom Kippur is accurate according to the text? Yom Kippur is described as a minor festival with no special restrictions on behavior. Yom Kippur forbids work and also prohibits eating, drinking, anointing, sexual relations, washing for pleasure, and wearing leather shoes. On Yom Kippur the maxim ‘I shall sin and repent, I shall sin and repent’ is explicitly permitted as a pathway to repentance. Yom Kippur is primarily celebrated with a Passover Seder and four cups of wine.

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