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Lesson 6 of 10
  • Year 2

What do Jews believe about the Messiah?

In this lesson, we will be learning all about what Jews believe about the Messiah. We will understand that different Jewish people hold different beliefs about whether the Messiah will be a person, or an age and a world that we must all bring about.

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Lesson 6 of 10
  • Year 2

What do Jews believe about the Messiah?

In this lesson, we will be learning all about what Jews believe about the Messiah. We will understand that different Jewish people hold different beliefs about whether the Messiah will be a person, or an age and a world that we must all bring about.

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Key learning points

  1. Difference in interpretation of scripture
  2. Extracts from Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah
  3. The Messiah as a person and the idea of the Messianiac Age
  4. The concept of prophecy

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5 Questions

Q1.
Which of these is a Jewish festival? (Tick all that apply)

Christmas
Easter
Eid
Correct answer: Hanukkah
Correct answer: Passover
Correct answer: Yom Kippur

Q2.
Which of these foods represents the tears of the Jewish slaves.

Boiled egg
Lamb bone
Correct answer: Salt water
Sweet paste

Q3.
Which of these foods represents the clay that Jewish slaves used to make bricks?

Boiled egg
Lamb bone
Salt water
Correct answer: Sweet paste

Q4.
Why do Jews eat unleavened bread on Passover?

It represents how they rose up against the Pharoah.
It tastes better that way.
They did not have any yeast available to make the bread rise.
Correct answer: They did not have time for the bread to rise when escaping Egypt.

Q5.
How many days after Rosh Hashanah is Yom Kippur?

1 day
Correct answer: 10 days
30 days
40 days

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5 Questions

Q1.
Jews believe that Jesus was the Messiah who was promised.

Correct answer: False
True

Q2.
How did David defeat Goliath?

He beat him in a sword fight.
He tricked him.
He used a bow and arrow to shoot him.
Correct answer: He used a sling and hit him on the head with a pebble.

Q3.
Which of the following views about the Messiah are more likely to be held by an Orthodox Jew?

Correct answer: The Messiah will be a human.
Correct answer: The Messiah will defeat the enemies of Israel.
The Messianic Age will come when all people stop fighting.
There will be a Messianic Age
Correct answer: We should pray for the Messiah to come.
We should pray to bring about a Messianic Age.

Q4.
Which of the following views about the Messiah are more likely to be held by a Reform Jew?

The Messiah will be a human.
The Messiah will defeat the enemies of Israel.
The Messianic Age will come when all people stop fighting.
Correct answer: There will be a Messianic Age
We should pray for the Messiah to come.
We should pray to bring about a Messianic Age.

Q5.
The Messiah is promised and described in the Tanakh.

False
Correct answer: True