Find the answer to each of these questions as it is given in the textbook before moving on to the next question. Some answers, drawn from the textbook alone, will be rather simplistic. They can, and should, be elaborated upon as your knowledge of the subject grows.

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  1. Where did the Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews come from? (*)

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  2. Are American Jews chiefly Sephardic or Ashkenazic? (*)

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  3. Are Jews in Israel chiefly Sephardic or Ashkenazic? (*)

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  4. What are "Falashas?"

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  5. Where are Jews mainly to be found in India and China?

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  6. Is divorce permitted in Judaism?

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  7. What is "levirate marriage?"

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  8. What is Yiddish?

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  9. What is the relationship between reason and revelation according to Jewish tradition?

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  10. How should Biblical passages which appear to be irrational be interpreted according to Saadia?

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  11. When did Toledo, Spain, come under Christian control?

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  12. What is meant by the nezah Yisrael? (*)

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  13. Who was "Rambam?"

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  14. Who were the Almohads, and when did they take control of Spain?

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  15. In what language was Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed written?

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  16. Did Maimonides believe that the time of the coming of the Jewish Messiah could be derived from scripture?

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  17. What Greek philosophy was well known to Maimonides and influenced his own religion?

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  18. How did rabbis read the narrative of the Garden of Eden?

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  19. What philosophical problem occupied both Jewish and Arabic philosophers and intellectuals in this period?

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  20. What is the relationship between the truly rational and the truly good person for Maimonides?

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  21. What did Maimonides (and other philosophers) mean by "accidental?"

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  22. What is the final end of studying the law (Torah) for those who follow Maimonides’ thought?

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  23. What was Maimonides great accomplishment (according to Segal)?

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  24. Did all Jews adopt Maimonides’ thought?

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  25. What is the Reconquista?

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  26. What is meant by the Shekinah?

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  27. What is the earliest and longest form of Jewish mysticism? (*)

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  28. What was most responsible for the decline of this form of mysticism? (*)

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  29. What is the Zohar?

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  30. What has sexual intercourse to do with Kabbalistic mysticism? (*)

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  31. How did God begin the creation according to Isaac Luria?

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  32. What is meant by tikkun?

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  33. Why should the year 1666CE "trigger millennialist expectations?"

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  34. Who was the Baal Shem Tov?

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  35. What is a tsaddik?