WORLD PERFECT = UNIVERSALLY DESIRED VALUES from JUDAISM
(http://www.aish.com/sem/wp/)
(http://www.aish.com/sem/wp/Part_1_Key_Values_for_a_Perfect_World.html)
(http://kenspiro.com/article/world-perfect-the-jewish-impact-on-civilization/)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QqsA6aqRzo)
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRqfd34ZaB8)
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 TanakhBible; these virtues were then promulgated around the globe by Jewish people & Christian missionaries):
*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
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 Caesar 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)
