UNIVERSALLY DESIRED VALUES from JUDAISM

1- ____________________________________________________________The Christian Author of A History of the Jews. 2- ____________________________________________________________The Jewish Author of World Perfect. *3- The 6 ostensibly Universal Values that Judaism (the Mosheic faith of Yisrael) contributed to world civilization.

(God-HaShem revealed these values to the whole world via the Yisraelite people who recorded them in the Tanakh- Bible; these virtues were then promulgated around the globe by Jewish people & Christian missionaries):

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*a- ___________________________________________________________________________________________ *b- ___________________________________________________________________________________________ *c- ___________________________________________________________________________________________ *d- ___________________________________________________________________________________________ *e- ___________________________________________________________________________________________ *f- ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 4- The 3 Ancient Reasons for Infanticide: a- ___________________________________________________________________________________________ b- ___________________________________________________________________________________________ c- ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 5- In cultures which practiced widespread infanticide, __________________________ were considered valuable &

__________________________ were considered disposable. 6- Aristotle: Every maimed or imperfect newborn child should be ___________________________. 7- ____________________________ The people who practiced the most human sacrifice (for theological reasons). 8- ____________________________ The people who had the worst motivation for human sacrifice (for human entertainment). 9- The 3 traditional ancient reasons for war: a- ____________________________________________________________________________________________ b- ____________________________________________________________________________________________ c- ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 10- The ancient Golden Rule: Whoever has the ________________, makes the rules. 11- The great Roman Empire was _________% illiterate. 12- Hellenic-Greek (& Nipponese Samurai) philosophers & rulers promoted _____________________________ among the ranks of the

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military. 13- Palladas: Marriage gives a man only 2 happy days, the day he takes his bride to _____________________________

& the day he lays her in her _____________________________.

14- Propertius: I wish that all my enemies would fall in love with _________________

& that all my friends would fall in love with __________________.

15- Suetonius: Julius Ceasar was every woman’s ________________ & every man’s ___________________. 16- Genghis Khan: greatest happiness is to ________________ your enemies & to rape their ___________________ & ______________________. *17- The Talmud: To save 1 life is tantamount to saving the whole _____________________________. 18- Jewish kings had to copy & carry a copy of the Torah to remind themselves that there is a ________________________ of kings. 19- The 3 Qualifications for Membership in the Yisraelite Sanhedrin: a- ____________________________________________________________________________________________ b- ____________________________________________________________________________________________ c- ____________________________________________________________________________________________ *20- The 11th Commandment of Judaism: Thou shalt go to ____________________________. *21- Rambam/Maimonides: _____________________ or _____________________ any Jewish city that doesn’t have schools for children. 22- Jewish men are obligated to mate with their wives; to do otherwise is a ground for ____________________. 23- Denis Prager: The Jewish-inspired boundaries/limitations on sexual activity (that is, monogamous heterosexual marriage)

made the development/advancement of ______________________________ civilization possible.

*24- Leviticus-Vaykhra 19:16b: Do not stand by your neighbor’s __________________. In other words, don’t stand still &

allow someone else to ______________________. In more words, you must actively do _____________________. *25- Leviticus-Vaykhra 19:18: The Greatest Commandment: Love your ________________ as you _____________ yourself. *26- Thomas Huxley: The Bible is the Magna Carta of the _____________________ & ________________________. *27- The single, greatest Jewish contribution to the world: Ethical _____________________________.

*This consists of 1 __________________ & 1 Standard of __________________________ for everyone, instead of Polytheism in

which different, competing deities often demand contradictory things from the same believer. 28- God’s expectation for the Chosen People: the responsibility to _____________________ the world (tikkun olam). 29- God calls the Chosen People to be: a ______________________ to the nations (Yeshayahu-Isaiah 42:6b; 49:6b).