To describe different Jewish food purity and Sabbath Laws with examples To explain why it was important to keep these laws To evaluate how difficult it is to keep Sabbath Laws Why would any religion have purity laws to follow ID: 285340
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Purity Laws, Food Laws and Sabbath Laws
To describe different Jewish food, purity and Sabbath Laws with examplesTo explain why it was important to keep these lawsTo evaluate how difficult it is to keep Sabbath Laws
Why would any religion have “purity” laws to follow?Slide2
3. Certain foods
1. Contact with some sorts of people5. Not washing before and after meals
4. idols or objects associated with idols
2. non-Jewish tableware
Cups and plates bought from the market
Fish without scales (
eg
prawns, eels),
milk+meat
together (
eg cheeseburger), pork, road kill.
Roman coins with the image of the “divine” Emperor
Washing hands before and after meals as far as the elbow
Menstruating women, lepers, corpses, the mentally ill
Write out each of the 5 things that makes a Jew unclean, and match it to an example. Explain why it would shock people if you didn’t follow these laws.**Read the cartoon. How does it criticise these laws?
Breaking the laws meant rejecting God’s authority over your life, and distancing yourself from God. No Jew would want that.
PURITY & FOOD LAWSSlide3
Sabbath Laws
The Sabbath is the 7th day on which God rested after the work of creation. (Saturday). All Jews must follow God’s example of rest. (the 3rd Commandment).There are 39 forbidden actions based around
4 forbidden activities of baking bread, making clothes, making leather and building something. The Old Testament laid down
death
as the penalty for breaking them.
Sowing
Plowing
Reaping
Binding sheaves
Threshing
WinnowingSelectingGrindingSiftingKneading
BakingShearing woolWashing wool
Beating woolDyeing woolSpinningWeavingMaking two loops
TyingUntyingSewing stitchesTearing
TrappingSlaughteringFlayingTanningScraping hideMarking hides
Cutting hide to shapeWriting two or more lettersErasing two or more lettersBuilding
DemolishingExtinguishing a fireKindling a firePutting the finishing touch on an objectTransporting an object between a private domain and the public domain, or for a distance of 4 cubits within the public domain.
Write
out the 4 categories of forbidden activities,
give
an example
for each forbidden activity.
Say what your examples mean you would not be able to do on the Sabbath. **How difficult would it be to keep these laws for a modern Jew? Give examples of what would be particularly difficult.
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Explain with 2 examples why the Sabbath laws could make life quite difficult for a Jew.
Explain why Jews would want to keep the Sabbath laws. Do you think it is a good idea to keep the Sabbath?**Read Mark 3:1-4 What was Jesus accused of? What do you think about the way he answered them?
Lev. 23:3 “There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the Lord.
In biblical times, breaking the Sabbath laws could be punishable by death. Breaking it meant you were rejecting God’s
authority over your
life and no longer wanted a relationship with Him. Slide5
Shabbat Do’s and Don’t
Going to the synagogue
CookingEnjoying food
and drink
Watching TV
Reading
Harry Potter
Reading
the Torah
Taking an afternoon nap
Making
phone calls
Going for a leisurely walk
Running a marathon
Making love with your husband or wifeChatting with your friends and family
Playing board gamesPlaying computer games
Listening to musicSingingreligious songs
Doing homework
Praying
Playing the saxophone
Going shopping
Shabbat is a day when Jews make an effort to rest –
draw 2 columns (allowed and Not Allowed)
put the activities into the right columns...Slide6
Allowed
•Going to the synagogue•Reading the Torah•Praying•Going for a leisurely walk•Playing board games•Taking an afternoon nap•Making love with your husband or wife (no sniggering please)
•Chatting with your friends and family•Enjoying food and drink•Singing religious songs
Not Allowed
•Cooking – Specifically forbidden in the 39
melakhah
•Watching TV – The
melakhah
that bans lighting a fire also covers completing electrical circuits, and the TV programmes themselves may upset the spirit of Shabbat, E.g. if they are noisy or violent... or both.
•Using a computer – Again, no electricity! Also computers are used for online shopping, e-mails that may be to do with work, and lots of other things that are forbidden on the Shabbat.
•Reading Harry Potter – Reading fiction is generally not allowed because it might contain violence or other things that are considered against the spirit of Shabbat.•Making phone calls – No electricity! Also the phone call may be to do with work or other non-Shabbat activities.•Running a marathon – No, definitely not restful.•Playing the saxophone – Too noisy and too creative.
•Doing homework – Too much like hard work and too much like the rest of the week. Teachers can’t mark it either.•Going shopping – It always involves money, money is to do with paid employment. It also forces other people to work which is forbidden.•Listening to music – Loud noise, and especially loud pop and rock songs are against the spirit of Shabbat, which should be a time of peace and tranquillity. The song lyrics might also be inappropriate for Shabbat
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Purity Laws
Food Laws
Sabbath Laws
Mindmap
3 laws for each of the types of Law.
**Which one do you think would have made the most difference to a Jew’s way of life?