Discuss at least four key Biblical events and their significance to Jewish Scriptures

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Jessica Rubens        Jewish Scriptures                                                                                 Mr Marcus        12B

Discuss at least four key Biblical events and their significance to Jewish Scriptures (25)

There are many Biblical events that have taken place, which have become stories we still tell today. They are around now to help prove G-d’s existence and all that he has done for the Jewish People. Our generation learn about these events to teach us lessons and morals from the past and what their relationship with G-d was like, and what it should still involve today, to help build a connection to Him. Even though these morals are challenged and criticised, it is people’s faith that keeps the religion going and it’s enhanced through Jewish scriptures.

One key Biblical event that is taught today is the Noachide Covenant and the flood. G-d created the world and everything in it, including mankind as Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit and were exiled from the Garden of Eden, Cain kills Abel because he was jealous of his brother’s sacrifice being accepted over his own and then G-d regretted creating man and as a result, G-d was seen as wicked. However, Noah found grace in the eyes of Hashem. G-d instructs Noah to build an ark, fill it with animals and take refuge to it whilst he floods Earth to destroy the corruption of humanity. Noah and his family are the only ones who survived. In Bereshit it says ‘I have placed my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be a sign of the covenant which is between me, and you, and every living creature’. This is the sign of the covenant that G-d set up between Him and all the flesh that is on the Earth. G-d realises that in some respects humans are incapable of perfection and need more specific laws to give them direction of morality. He also said that He ‘will no longer curse the earth because of man, for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his stirrings’. G-d is accepting what He has created and seeing what the power of man’s free will can do/is capable of, is willing to tolerate human weakness more than before so He introduced the 7 Noachide Laws and 4 extra commandments. They are a set of moral rules that humanity must keep as their side of the covenant and as a result, Judaism says that any non-Jew who keeps these laws are righteous and has a place in the world to come. Overall, the Noachide Covenant is very significant to Jewish Scriptures because it teaches Jewish people today that not everyone is perfect and it teaches us how to behave morally and if you use your free will wisely, you can become righteous enough to go to heaven, as long as our side of the covenant is still kept.

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Secondly, the Sinaitic/Mosaic covenant, the giving of the Torah, is another key Biblical event that is significant to Jewish Scriptures today. G-d remembered the covenant he had with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and he brought their descendants out of slavery in Egypt. While they were on their way to the land of Canaan, G-d made a covenant with them at Mount Sinai. As their ruler, he gave laws, and they agreed to keep them. In Shemot it says ‘If you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession’. The Sinaitic ...

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