RS110 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Special Shabbat, Tishrei, Antiochus Iv Epiphanes
25 Nov 2017
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Chapter 8 ritual practices and the good life for jews. Shabbat comes: friday evening, sabbath family meal may include special guests, kiddush (special sabbath prayer) is said over a glass of wine. Minor festivals: hanukkah and purim: hanukkah feast of lights, popular minor festival that occurs at winter solstice, 8 days that recalls the victory of judah maccabeus and the jews over the. Sinai: yom hashoah, holocaust memorial day, observed in april, some christian churches also observe yom hashoah. In 20th century, the paris school of art included many jewish painters: marc chagall, known for vibrant jewish art, expressed spiritual themes of the jewish traditions in many paintings and stained glass windows. Impressive jewish literature has developed hebrew, hebraeo dialects (yiddish, Life of torah: jewish community and ethics: a jew should live as one who belongs to the kelalyisrael (the total community of israel), following the laws given by god in the torah.
