PHL 110 - Judaism Activity Name: Anne Phillips

Listen to the video clips; complete; save; and submit to “Submit Judaism Activity Here”.
West Wing Video clip
Discuss the two minute West Wing episode.
What are the Hebrew Bible / Christian Old Testament chapters and verses that describe the
following from the video:
• Planting different crops side by side being punishable by death
• Burning people for wearing clothes made of more than one fiber (i.e. a cotton / poly
blend) Leviticus 19:19
A.J. Jacobs
1. A. J. Jacobs set out to Live Biblically
2. Three laws he was more successful at keeping were.
Observing the purity laws
Wearing all white clothes
Not shaving corners of his beard
3. Jacobs say he was astounded by not lying as a parent, telling the truth made parenting more
difficult for him? Some of examples he used to lie were TV is broke, the toy store is closed.
4. Two insects that Jacobs ate and are considered kosher were Crickets and Locusts
5. Jacobs observed a purity laws by not sitting anywhere an impure woman had sat and not to
touch impure women.
6. According to Jacobs some Jews interpret the “eye for an eye” passage in the Torah, meant
paying the blood money equivalent to an eye if you pluck it
7. In the Torah, what does the passage say that became the basis for not mixing dairy and meat?
He resisted eating baby goat that is boiled in its mother’s milk interprets not
mixing dairy and meat