part 1( Hinduism and Buddhism ) has 9 questions that i need help with

The Story of the Mahabharata (brown.edu)

(2189) Peter Brook – Mahabharata 1 – YouTube the assignment from this video is as follows

1.11.18-1.33.56 (The Game of Dice) and

3.15.15-3.30.27 (The Rules of War, The Bhagavad Gita, The Battle Begins)

(2189) Joseph Campbell–The Mythic Symbology of Release – YouTube .

(2189) Tibet Dalai Lama The Soul of Tibet Biography Part 1 5 – YouTube View this video segment to understand how the Dalai Lama is chosen.

(2189) Intro to Buddhism (Hinayana, Mahayana & Tantrayana) Part 1/2 – YouTube

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This part assignment that i need help with

1. What are the fours Vedic varnas or castes? Who occupies these varnas?
2. What are the classic or traditional stages in the life of the ideal individual in Hindu thinking?
3. What is the lesson Lord Krishna delivers to Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita?
4. What is meant by the “Middle Path” in Buddhism?
5. What are the Four Noble Truths of Buddhism?
6. What is the “Eightfold Path” of Buddhism?
7. What was the most important belief that Mahavira, the founder of Jainism, taught?
8. Who is the Dalai Lama? Write at least a paragraph to answer this question.
9. How is the Dalai Lama selected? In your answer provide some detail about the transition from the Thirteenth to the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

Part 2 ( Judaism )

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(2189) Civilization & The Jews A People Are Born – YouTube

maimonides’ 13 Principles of Faith

MAIMONIDES’ 13 PRINCIPLES OF FAITH

13 Principles of Faith Summarized:

1. I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, is the Creator and Guide of everything that has been created; He alone has made, does make, and will make all things.
2. I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, is One, and that there is no unity in any manner like His, and that He alone is our God, who was, and is, and will be.
3. I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, has no body, and that He is free from all the properties of matter, and that there can be no (physical) comparison to Him whatsoever.
4. I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, is the first and the last.
5. I believe with perfect faith that to the Creator, Blessed be His Name, and to Him alone, it is right to pray, and that it is not right to pray to any being besides Him.
6. I believe with perfect faith that all the words of the prophets are true.
7. I believe with perfect faith that the prophecy of Moses our teacher, peace be upon him, was true, and that he was the chief of the prophets, both those who preceded him and those who followed him.
8. I believe with perfect faith that the entire Torah that is now in our possession is the same that was given to Moses our teacher, peace be upon him.
9. I believe with perfect faith that this Torah will not be exchanged, and that there will never be any other Torah from the Creator, Blessed be His Name.
10. I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, knows all the deeds of human beings and all their thoughts, as it is written, “Who fashioned the hearts of them all, Who comprehends all their actions” (Psalms (Links to an external site.) 33:15).
11. I believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, rewards those who keep His commandments and punishes those that transgress them.
12. I believe with perfect faith in the coming of the Messiah (Links to an external site.); and even though he may tarry, nonetheless, I wait every day for his coming.
13. I believe with perfect faith that there will be a revival of the dead at the time when it shall please the Creator, Blessed be His name, and His mention shall be exalted for ever and ever.

–Maimonides (Links to an external site.) [See Birnbaum at p. 157][34] (Links to an external site.)

Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides (Links to an external site.) or “The Rambam” (1135-1204 CE), lived at a time when both Christianity and Islam were developing active theologies. Jewish scholars were often asked to attest to their faith by their counterparts in other religions. The Rambam’s 13 principles of faith were formulated in his commentary on the Mishnah (Links to an external site.) (tractate Sanhedrin, chapter 10). They were one of several efforts by Jewish theologians in the Middle Ages to create such a list. By the time of Maimonides, centers of Jewish learning and law were dispersed geographically. Judaism no longer had a central authority that might bestow official approval on his principles of faith.

Maimonides’ 13 principles were controversial when first proposed, evoking criticism by Crescas (Links to an external site.) and Joseph Albo (Links to an external site.). They evoked criticism as minimizing acceptance of the entire Torah (Rabbi S. of Montpelier, Yad Rama, Y. Alfacher, Rosh Amanah). The 13 principles were ignored by much of the Jewish community for the next few centuries. (Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought, Menachem Kellner (Links to an external site.)). Over time two poetic restatements of these principles (Ani Ma’amin and Yigdal) became canonized in the Jewish prayerbook (Links to an external site.). Eventually, Maimonides’ 13 principles of faith became the mostly widely accepted statement of belief.

Importantly, Maimonides, while enumerating the above, added the following caveat “There is no difference between [the Biblical statement] ‘his wife was Mehithabel’ [Genesis 10,6] on the one hand [i.e. an “unimportant” verse], and ‘Hear, O Israel’ on the other [i.e. an “important” verse]… anyone who denies even such verses thereby denies God and shows contempt for his teachings more than any other skeptic, because he holds that the Torah can be divided into essential and non-essential parts…” The uniqueness of the 13 fundamental beliefs was that even a rejection out of ignorance placed one outside Judaism, whereas the rejection of the rest of Torah must be a conscious act to stamp one as an unbeliever. Others, such as Rabbi Joseph Albo and the Raavad, criticized Maimonides’ list as containing items that, while true, in their opinion did not place those who rejected them out of ignorance in the category of heretic. Many others criticized any such formulation as minimizing acceptance of the entire Torah (see above). As noted however, neither Maimonides nor his contemporaries viewed these principles as encompassing all of Jewish belief, but rather as the core theological underpinnings of the acceptance of Judaism.

Several Orthodox scholars write that the popular Orthodox understanding of these principles are not at all what Maimonides held to be true.

(( the 7 questions that i need help with on this part ))

1. Where does the story of the Jews begin, according to legend?

2. Why did the Hebrews migrate from the promised land of Canaan to Egypt?

3. What event led to the Covenant between God and the Hebrews?

4. What are the parts of the Hebrew Bible?

5. What is the Torah?

6. Describe the elements of the Jewish religious system.

7. What is the relationship between the Jews and the beginning of civilization (the answer is covered in detail in the film, Civilization and the Jews)..