--- title: Judaism — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Judaism», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Judaism is the faith of the Jewish people, who believe in one God who made a covenant with Abraham and gave the Torah to Moses. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Judaism # Judaism Lesson 30 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/30-judaism/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/0/) — Judaism is the faith of the Jewish people, who believe in one God who made a covenant with Abraham and gave the Torah to Moses. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/1/) — Christianity grew out of Judaism: Jesus, Mary and the first disciples were Jewish, and Christians read the Hebrew Bible as their Old Testament. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/2/) — Jewish life has its own rhythm: Shabbat each week from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, Passover in spring with the Seder meal, Hanukkah with eight nights of lights, and Yom Kippur, the holiest day, for fasting and saying sorry. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/4/) — Jewish people have suffered terrible hatred, called antisemitism, including the Holocaust; for a child today this means learning the truth, never joining in mocking, and standing up for Jewish friends. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/5/) — Judaism is the faith of the Jewish people, who believe in one God. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/6/) — Jews believe God made a covenant with Abraham and gave the Torah to Moses. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/7/) — Jesus was Jewish, and Christianity grew out of Judaism. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/8/) — The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, handwritten on scrolls that are read in the synagogue with great respect. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/9/) — The synagogue is the Jewish place of prayer and study, and a rabbi is a teacher and leader. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/10/) — Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, lasts from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, with candles, a family meal and prayer. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/11/) — Passover, or Pesach, is a spring festival remembering the Exodus from Egypt, with the Seder meal and matzah, a flat bread made without yeast. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/12/) — At the Seder the story is told to children, who ask questions about why this night is different. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/13/) — Hanukkah is the eight-day festival of lights, with one more candle lit each night. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/14/) — Yom Kippur, in autumn, is the holiest day of the Jewish year, a day of fasting and saying sorry. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/15/) — The Shema says: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one." - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/16/) — Kosher means allowed by Jewish food law; kosher food laws include no pork and not mixing meat and milk. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/30-judaism/17/) — Antisemitism is hatred of Jewish people; it led to the Holocaust, in which about six million Jews were murdered. - ← previous: [Churches of the English-speaking world II](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/29-churches-of-the-english-speaking-world-ii/) - next →: [Islam](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/31-islam/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)