Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral Principles | AQA A-Level Religious Studies (7062)

Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral Principles

83 questions
6 subtopics
Component 2: Judaism, one religion of five
Component 2

Judaism: the principles governing conduct, and their application to life, war and the environment.

Part of Component 2, sat only by students who take Judaism as their chosen religion.

Sample questions from Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral Principles

Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.

The 613 Mitzvot

Which work of Maimonides lists and classifies the commandments?

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The Sefer HaMitzvot, his Book of Commandments.
The 613 Mitzvot

Give an example of a chok.

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The dietary laws, which are followed without any stated reason.
Free Will, Responsibility and Pikuach Nephesh

How is complete teshuvah traditionally tested?

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A person is judged to have repented fully when they meet the same temptation again in the same circumstances and refuse it.
Free Will, Responsibility and Pikuach Nephesh

Name the three commandments that may not be broken even to save a life.

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The prohibitions of idolatry, of murder and of forbidden sexual relations.
The Sanctity of Life in Judaism

State the status Jewish law gives to the foetus.

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It is developing human life deserving protection, but it is not treated as a full nefesh until birth.
The Sanctity of Life in Judaism

How does the Reform position differ?

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Reform Judaism leaves the decision to the woman in consultation with her doctor and her conscience, recognising wider grounds including serious foetal abnormality.
Healing, War and Bal Tashchit

What does bal tashchit forbid in wartime?

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The destruction of fruit trees around a besieged city, a rule the rabbis extended to all needless destruction.
Healing, War and Bal Tashchit

What argument is offered by Jews who defend nuclear deterrence?

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That possessing such weapons without using them may prevent war altogether, and that a state facing annihilation has a duty to protect the lives of its citizens.

The 6 subtopics

One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.

Subtopic	What it covers	Questions
The 613 Mitzvot	Recall questions on what a mitzvah is, how many the tradition counts, the division into positive and negative commands and the rabbi credited with the count.	12
Free Will, Responsibility and Pikuach Nephesh	Recall questions on the rejection of original sin, the yetzer hatov and yetzer hara, Maimonides on free will, teshuvah, the limits of responsibility, and the principle, source and applications of pikuach nephesh.	18
The Sanctity of Life in Judaism	Recall questions on the sanctity of life and the Mishnah on a single life, the status of the foetus in Exodus and the Talmud, Orthodox and Reform views on abortion, and embryo research.	17
Healing, War and Bal Tashchit	Recall questions on the duty to heal, the distinction between obligatory and optional war, the requirement before a siege and what bal tashchit forbids.	10
Dominion and Stewardship in Judaism	Recall questions on what stewardship means, the verses used to support and to qualify dominion, and the different attitudes they produce.	18
Shemittah and Modern Environmental Thought	Recall questions on what shemittah is and teaches about ownership of land, the changing meaning of Tu B'Shevat and the effect of climate science.	8

Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral Principles is 83 of the 3,683 questions in the guide.Get the guide, £8

How the guide is worked

Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.

Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.

Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.