{"id":60530,"date":"2026-09-15T20:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/?p=60530"},"modified":"2026-09-15T20:16:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T20:16:29","slug":"why-are-some-words-special-judaism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/why-are-some-words-special-judaism\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are some words special? Judaism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\">Y3LP have recapped our knowledge of the Jewish religion. We have learnt that the Torah is the Jewish holy book and we have explored two stories from this text. We listened to the stories of Jonah and Samuel and considered how these tales teach Jews about the big questions. We thought about what lessons Jewish people could learn from these stories and then linked the events to our own lives.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"1080\" data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.birkwood.org.uk\\\/website\\\/why-are-some-words-special-judaism\\\/&quot;,&quot;likes_blog_id&quot;:49611673}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 1080px; height: 541px;\" data-original-width=\"1080\" data-original-height=\"541\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 720px; height: 541px;\" data-original-width=\"720\" data-original-height=\"541\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/why-are-some-words-special-judaism\/why-are-some-words-special-judaism1\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"716\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"537\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"60531\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.birkwood.org.uk\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Why-are-some-words-special-Judaism1.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"800,600\" data-comments-opened=\"\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Why are some words special? 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