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| Torah | The primary source in Jewish religion is the Hebrew Bible, consisting of twenty-four books divided up into three sections. The Torah includes the first five books of the Bible. |
| Talmud | Next in importance to the Hebrew Bible is the Babylonian Talmud, a collection of teachings of early rabbis the 5th and 6th centuries |
| Cabbala | Hasidic Jews also read this mystical commentary (interpretations) on the Torah |
| Mysticism | is the pursuit of achieving a conscious awareness of ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth or God through direct experience, intuition, or insight; and the belief that such experience is an important source of knowledge. |
| Zohar | Widely considered the most important part of Cabbala, It contains a mystical discussion of nature of God, the origin and structure of the universe, the nature of souls, sin, redemption, good and evil, and related knowledge |
| Rosh Hashanah | Marks the new year of the Jewish calendar |
| Yom Kippur | This is the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. This is considered to be the day in which every individual is judged by God |
| Passover | An eight-day festival commemorating the freeing of the Irealites from Egyptian bondage |
| Synagogue | A Jewish place of religious worship |
| Rabbi | in Judaism it means "teacher", or more literally "great one"; a religious leader |
