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Name the pilgrim festivals.
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Pesach (Passover), Weeks or Shavuot (Pentecost), and Sukkot (Tabernacles).
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Name the High Holy Days and say what they are for.
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Rosh Hashanah, the New Year, and Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement and repentance. Fasting expresses repentance.
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What does the guide say the central Jewish experience is?
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History, religiously interpreted — so most festivals, weekly and annual, seek to recreate the Jewish experience.
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Why is Pesach worded "God brought us out of Egypt"?
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Because the festival recreates the experience rather than commemorating it; those present are counted among the ones brought out.
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Which movements hold all ritual mitzvot binding?
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Orthodoxy and Ultra-Orthodoxy. The rest hold that the ethical mitzvot are binding and that ritual mitzvot may be modified or abandoned if they do not serve their original purpose.
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Why can Orthodox women not lead prayer as rabbis or cantors?
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Because they are exempt from positive time-based mitzvot, notably communal prayer at set times, and a person not bound by an obligation cannot discharge it for others.
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What is the Reform position on gender in ritual?
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Sexual equality, so a girl becomes bat mitzvah and participates in the synagogue ceremony as religiously adult, usually reading the Torah portion; women can become rabbis and cantors.
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How does the language of prayer differ between movements?
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Orthodoxy: Hebrew, except a vernacular prayer for the head of state. Reform: about half Hebrew, half vernacular. Liberal: tends to be more vernacular. All siddurim print Hebrew with translation opposite.
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Where did Reform Judaism come from?
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Cultural influences in nineteenth-century Germany; the Jewish enlightenment led some to reject belief in God's giving the entire Torah, written and oral, to Moses on Sinai.
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What cultural difference does the guide name within Jewish worship?
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Music differing between Ashkenazi and Sephardi cultural origins, arising from different migrations.
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