Sources of Wisdom & Authority

• The Shema states "Hear O Isreal, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one. Worship him with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might"
• The Amidah concludes with thanksgiving to God and request for him to fulfill the spiritual and physical needs of humanity
• The Talmud recommends that men and women are separated for worship
• TOP TIP: remember that any of the ten commandments can be used as a source of wisdom and authority
• The Hagadah tells the story of passover and instructs Jews on the order of food on the Sedar plate
• Leviticus states that anyone who doesn't fast on Yom Kippur will be cut off from his people
• Jews rest on Shabbat because one of the ten commandments states that Jews must honour the Sabbath day by keeping it holy and not doing any work
• In the Torah, it describes how God commanded Abraham to circumcise himself and all his male descendants
• The Siddur is a prayer book used by Jews. It contains set prayers
• Psalm 55 says that Jews should pray morning, noon and night
• In Deuteronomy, it instructs Jews to not cook a baby goat in its mothers milk and says only eat fish with fins and scales

  -> DEUTERONOMY = MEAT/DAIRY AND FISH
• In Leviticus, it states that Jews should only eat animals which "chew the cud" and have a split hoof, and it says that all the blood must be drained before eating an animal.

  LEVITICUS -> CHEW CUD & SPLIT HOOF, ALL BLOOD
• Worship in the synagogue allows Jews to worship God with all their "heart" "soul" and "might"
• Leviticus says do not make cuttings of thef lesh
• Leviticus says Rosh Hashanah is a time for complete rest
• Rosh Hashanah remembers the creation of the world, and gives thanks for God creating humans. Jewish people remember how in Genesis, it states that God made man in his image