Lesson video

Hi everyone.

I'm Rabbi London.

Today, we are going to deliberate practise.

Before we get started, please turn off any apps or notifications if you're able to, and try to end any conversations you might be in the middle of.

Try to find a place where you're going to find the least amount of distractions.

And today you're going to need to have a pen or pencil or some paper and some paper or something to write on or something to write with.

Today we're going to do a few quick fire questions.

We're going to learn a few key quotations, and then we're going to link quotations to beliefs.

As I said, you're going to need to have a pen or pencil and some paper.

If you don't already have those things, press pause.

And when you're ready to begin, just press play.

Okay, quick fire questions.

Which word means an agreement or a promise? Olam HaBa.

Covenant, mitzvah or Torah? Covenant.

The word covenant means an agreement or a promise.

Which word means all powerful? Omnibenevolent, omniscient, omnipotent, or omnipresent? Omnipotent.

Omnipotent means all powerful.

Omnipotent.

Who do some Jews believe receive the Torah from God? Aaron, Abraham, Moses, or Jacob? Moses.

Some Jews believe that Moses received the Torah from God.

What was my Maimonides' his goal for writing the mission of Torah? To create a guide to practising Jewish law, to create a new Torah, to become a famous author or to start a new religion? To create a guide to practising Jewish law.

Maimonides' goal for writing the mission of Torah was to create a guide to practising Jewish law.

Another name for Jacob in the Torah is? Joseph, Kobi, Israel, or Isaac.

Israel.

Another name for Jacob in the Torah is Israel.

Which are characteristics of Deborah from Tanakh? Was she known as a mother and teacher, a great rabbi and leader, a shopkeeper and a baker or a prophet and a judge? A prophet and a judge.

The characteristics of Deborah from Tanakh were that she was a prophet and a judge.

Which Jewish ritual is performed today to remember the covenant with Abraham? A Brit Milah, a bar mitzvah, a shiva or Yizkor.

Brit Milah.

The Brit Milah is a Jewish ritual performed today to remember the covenant with Abraham.

Which word do Jewish people use informally to mean good deed? Shabat, Tanakh, Shiva or mitzvot? Mitzvot.

Mitzvot is a word that Jewish people use informally to mean good deeds.

True or false? Monotheistic means to believe in many gods False.

Monotheistic means to believe in one god.

All Jewish people have the same customs and traditions.

False.

There are many customs and traditions that many different, many Jewish people have.

People have ancestry or are from themselves, all countries around the globe.

The destruction of the first and the second temple changed Jewish practise.

True.

The destruction of the temples changed the way in which Jewish practise and worship happened.

One major change was went from worshipping by giving sacrifices to worshipping through prayer.

We spoke a bit about the 13 principles of faith according to Maimonides.

Let's go over them together.

So one, God exists, That there is a God in the world.

Two, God is one, that there is only one God.

Three, God is transcendent and has no form.

God is above human understanding and can't be touched or felt because there's no form there.

Four, God is eternal.

There was never a time that existed without God and there will never be a time without God.

Five worship God, and God is the only one to be worshipped.

Six, there were prophets and what they said is true.

Seven, Moses was known as the greatest of the prophets.

According to Jewish tradition, Moses spoke to God face to face, which was different than any other prophet Eight, God gave the Torah at Mount Sinai.

This was given by God to Moses.

Nine, the Torah is God's law and there will never be another Torah.

10, God is omniscient.

God is all knowing.

God was everything that happened, will happen and is happening.

11, God will give for word and punishment based on one's actions.

12, there will be a time of Mashiah or Messiah and 13, there will be a resurrection of the dead.

So these are the 13 principles, the 13 ideas that Moses Maimonides compiled to answer the question of what does it mean to be a faithful Jewish person? As I've said, there are many Jewish people who believe all 13 of these, and there are some who don't believe all 13, and there are other people who have come up with different lists.

But we're going to base ourselves here on the 13 principles of faith according to Maimonides.

The first task I'd like you to do is to copy the list of Maimonides 13 principles of faith.

Press pause and complete this task and press resume when you're finished.

How'd that go for you? Here's the 13 principles of faith, again.

One God exists.

Two, God is one.

Three, God is transcendent and has no form.

Four, God is eternal.

Five, only worship God.

Six, there were prophets and what they said is true.

Seven, Moses was the greatest of the prophets.

Eight, God gave the Torah at Mount Sinai.

Nine, the Torah is God's law and there will never be another Torah.

10, God is omniscient, all knowing.

11, God will give rewards and punishments based on one's actions.

12, there will be a Messiah and 13, there will be a resurrection of the dead.

Now I'd like you to do is to write out each principle in your own words in a complete sentence.

This way, it's a way for you to come up with an explanation or use whatever terms make sense for you so you're able to remember these 13 principles.

Press pause to complete this task and then press play to resume.

So here we have the principles again.

How has that writing it out in your own words? I would love to see some of your explanations of what each of these principles are.

Let's go over them one more time.

One, God exists.

Two, God is one.

Three, God is transcendent and has no form.

Four, God is eternal, Five, only worship God.

Six, they were prophets and what they said is true.

Seven, Moses was the greatest of the prophets.

Eight, God gave the Torah at Mount Sinai.

Nine, the Torah is God's law and they will never be another Torah.

10, God is omniscient, all knowing.

11, God will give reward and punishments based on one's actions.

12, there will be a Messiah.

13, there will be resurrection of the dead.

Now I'd like you to pause the video and we're going to go over the 13 principles one more time.

I'd like you to try to write out the 13 principles of faith from memory.

So if you're already wrote them on one piece of paper, flip that piece of paper over, so you can't look at it.

Although if you need some extra help, feel free.

You can write down the 13 principles of faith in your own words.

Press pause to complete your task and then press play to resume.

Let's check how you've done.

One, God exists.

Two, God is one.

Three, God is transcendent and has no form.

Four, God is eternal.

Five, only worship God.

Six, there were prophets and what they said is true.

Seven, Moses was the greatest of the prophets.

Eight, God gave the Torah at Mount Sinai.

Nine, the Torah is God's law and there will never be another Torah.

10, God is omniscient, all knowing.

11, God will give rewards and punishments based on one's actions.

12, they will be a Messiah and 13, there will be resurrection of the dead.

How did you do with that? Did you get them all? Well, good job for all of the work that you've just put in.

This was really hard.

Now what we're going to do, now what we're going to do is we're going to learn a few key quotations.

I brought three quotations that have come up a number of times in the lessons we've learned.

We're going to read them together and then throughout the next few moments of our lesson, we're going to, I'm going to take out a few words and you're going to have to fill in the blank.

If it's useful for you, I put them into the worksheet and you can fill in the blanks on those papers if you're able to have access to printing.

If not feel free to write down the phrases on your piece of paper or, and then fill it out that way, whatever is easiest and most accessible for you at this moment.

So here are three phrases.

The first is the Shema prayer.

"Hear Israel, the Lord is God, "the Lord is one." This verse comes from Deuteronomy.

The second is the promise that God made to Abraham, the start of the covenant.

"And I will make you a great nation "and I will bless you "and make your name great.

"And you will be a blessing." And the third quote is from a book in the Mishnah, "Ethics of our Fathers." And this is talking about rewards and punishments that Jewish people believe they will get based on their actions.

But the rabbis worn, "Do not be like a servant "who only serves their master in order to receive a reward." What I'd like you to do is copy out the quotations and fill in the gaps.

I left a word bank.

Press pause and complete this action and press play when you're ready to continue.

So let's check your answers.

The first quote from Deuteronomy should read, "Hear Israel, "the Lord is God, "the Lord is one." The second quote from Genesis is, "And I will make you a great nation "and I will bless you "and make your name great.

"And you will be a blessing." The third from "Ethics of our Fathers," "Do not be like "a servant who only serves their master "in order to receive a reward." So how'd you do with that exercise? Let's read the verses again and I'm going to continue to increase the challenge.

So the first verse, the Shema is, "Hear Israel, "the Lord is God, "the Lord is one." The second verse, the covenant between Abraham and God, "And I will make you a great nation "and I will bless you and make your name great.

"And you will be a blessing." And three about reward and punishment from "Ethics of our Fathers." "Do not be like a servant who only serves their master "in order to receive a reward." So copy out the quotations and fill in the gaps.

Press pause to do this, and then press play when you're ready to continue.

Check your answers.

The first should read, "Hear Israel, "the Lord is God, "the Lord is one." The second, "And I will make you a great nation "and I will bless you and make your name great.

"And you will be a blessing," and, "Do not be like a servant who only serves their master in order to receive a reward." Now, it's going to be a little bit more of a challenge.

I'd like you to copy out the quotations and fill in the gaps.

Press pause to do this task and press play to begin again.

How'd you do this time? The first verse should read, "Hear Israel, "the Lord is God, "the Lord is one." The second, "And I will make you a great nation "and I will bless you "and make your name great.

"And you will be a blessing." And the last, "Do not be like a servant "who only serves their master in order to receive a reward." Okay, one more time.

Copy out the quotations and fill in the gaps.

Press pause to complete this activity, this task and press play to resume.

"Hear oh, Israel." How'd you do? "Hear Israel.

"the Lord is God, "the Lord is one." "And I will make you a great nation "and I will bless you "and make your name great.

"And you will be a blessing." "And do not be like a servant "who only serves their master in order to receive a reward." All right, let's see.

We can do this another time.

You are doing great job.

So copy out the quotations and fill in the gaps.

Press pause, and then press play when you're ready to begin.

"Hear Israel, the Lord is God.

"the Lord is one." "And I will make you a great nation "and I will bless you and make your name great.

"And you will be a blessing." "Do not be like a servant "who only serves their master in order to receive a reward." Now, a big challenge.

I'd like you to try to complete the quotations from memory.

So the first one begins, "Hear Israel." The second one begins, "And I will make you." And the third one begins, "Do not be like." Press pause, complete the quotations from memory and press play to resume.

How'd you do? Let's read them out together.

The first verse, which is known as the Shema should read, "Hear Israel, "the Lord is God, "the Lord is one." The second which is the promise, the covenant between Abraham and God and God says, "And I will make you a great nation "and I will bless you and make your name great.

"And you will be a blessing." The third, a section from "Ethics of our Fathers," talking about reward and punishment, "Do not be like a servant "who only serves their master "in order to receive a reward." Now I'd like you to pause the video to complete the following tasks.

"Hear Israel, the Lord is God, "the Lord is one." Please finish these sentences.

This quotation links to the belief that God is.

This verse is known as.

Press play when you're finished.

The verse is, "Hear Israel, the Lord is God, "the Lord is one." This quotation links to the belief that God is one and that there is only one God.

This verse is known as the Shema prayer.

Please compl.

Now we're going to pause the video again and I'd like you to complete the explanation below.

"And I will make you a great nation "and I will bless you and make your name great.

"And you will be a blessing." These words were said by.

to.

This verse.

And Abraham would receive.

Press play when you're finished to resume the lesson.

"And I will make you a great nation "and I will bless you and make your name great.

"And you will be a blessing." These words were said by God to Abraham.

This verse is a promise God made to Abraham.

Abraham would receive these blessings if he followed God.

Well, let's look at this last verse.

"Do not be like a servant "who only serves their master in order to receive a reward." Complete the explanations below.

This quotation links.

It also shows God's quality of.

It teaches.

Resume the video when you're finished.

"Do not be like a master who only serves.

." Sorry about that.

Let me try that one more time.

"Do not be like a servant "who only serves their master in order to receive a reward." This quotation links the idea of doing mitzvot with reward or punishment.

It also shows God's quality of judging the Jewish people.

It teaches that a Jewish person should do good in order to do good in the world not in order to receive a reward.

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