Berber Jews Summary

Question: Why should we keep the history of the Berber Jews with us?
When I was note taking, making my presentation, and writing out my note cards, I’d always thought I’d got my summary planned out. How wrong was I.
I’ve always considered answering questions like this easy for me, it needed little more research about life itself and a dose of reality to answer something like this, as I quote from my previous answer in MIT class:
“It is important that we maintain our history because we build onto what people have given us, if not we would never have a starting point for new ideas, and the day we forget where we’ve come from will be the day we fall apart”
Answering questions like these need a whole lot more than an opinion, they need fact. So here goes my best possible answer, I hope you like it:

The number of Berber Jews in Morocco have fell rapidly in the last hundreds of years, leaving only few to carry out their ancient traditions and keep passing on their stories, the rest of them are distant memories in history books, waiting to be forgotten. As time moves on it seems to be passing by faster and faster, and with new technology the turning point for our society, the worlds population seems to be more focused on moving forward than keeping to one success at a time. I don’t feel like we should rush moving on, because compared to what we have now, we’ve already lost so much past, holes in time lines that will never be filled. So why keep moving on even though we have everything we need right now? I can answer that: because we have to. But still, I know of no rule that necessity came with loss. Progress is important so we can do our bit to improve the world for the future generation, but I feel losing our ancestors and history in the process is a price that we should not be willing to pay. People who do not believe what I’m saying is right, I have no problem with. For they are the people who believe change is always the answer, and they hate it when they don’t get it. But when we’re all gone, and new people or species discover our past, I don’t want to be forgotten, I want to be remembered for my dedication to progress, and my memory for the ones who fell before me. And if we set this example, maybe they’ll want to do the same, and want to pass on this form of wisdom to the next people, and they might want to as well. History can be used to describe our past, but it can also describe how we benefit the ones who follow us.

By: Alice Marion Jiggins

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hey, so if you're reading this, your trying to comment on my Berber Jewish summary. Basically, I cant upload it until this afternoon because my summary was typed up on a Microsoft document, (same with my keynote) and I couldn't access them even though I had been told I would be able to do this. Sorry for any inconvenience, have a nice day.

Alice

Berber Culture

On week without walls, we noticed one of the biggest differences between our lives and the Berbers was our ways of life. This is culture. In some ways, people can look at our situation and say that our peoples are infact similar. We both have basic needs like water, food, shelter, clothing and many more simularities. But in key we are different. Down to our deepest thoughts. All the way up to our religion and the way we travel. My teacher asked me to write a paragraph about Berber culture. I have recently discovered that it is impossible to put culture on paper. It’s who we are. It’s what we believe. What you think of a person and what you think is culture is just aspects of life. You an only skim the surface of culture. No one can describe it. I can give you the over view though:

-It’s big

-It affects our children and it will affect our childrens childrens

-the way we wash

-the way we eat

-the way we talk

-the way we preech (if we do preech at all)

-our vacations

-our housing

-our personalities

-our ideas

I can’t keep going. The list is endless. I can however explain some of the stuff. So hear it goes:

1. Culture is endless. It’s on going. One major contributer to culture is religion. In present day, the majority of the Berbers are Muslim, following the Islamic faith. There for the Berbers follow Muslim aspects. They prey, preech to ALAH, do not eat pork or drink alcohol, respect and understand Islam is the third faith (first is Judasam second Christianity), and much more. So this affects what they do during a day, eat, wear, go, see, socialize with, again the list is endless.
2. Culture is endless. It will always keep going how ever we may change or evolve. Even Animals and and plants have culture.
3. In Islam people wash more than us. They wash every time they prey. But on the other other hand of life, the people we visited didn't have access to clean water 24/7, so it's debateable weather our acusation is correct or not.
4. Eating gives us are energy. The Berbers we visited ate with their hands and didn't use plates, instead they all ate from a big bowl. Things to remember are always eat with your right hand and use the first three fingers. Also the food that they eat. The Berbers eat alot of meat in Tajines and with cous cous. They also drink mint tea.
5. Berbers speak Arabic today but they also speak the ancient Berber language as well.
6. As I said a few paragraphs back, the Majority of the Berbers are Islam and they preech to ALAH. Hundreds of years ago, Berbers were Jewish and followed Judasum. Unfortunately, we didn't learn anything about the Berbers as Jews.
7. The Berbers in the villages don't necessarly have vacations. The students who go to school in the mountains don't have time of school much because their parents don't have much money to travel.
8. Berbers build their own settlements, and they aren't very permenant. They are mostly made out of clay.
9. My last two examples are hard to explain, so I can't really talk about them. But culture is who you are. I can't guess that.

Thank you for reading my work. Hope it's an eye opener for you. For more infomation about Berber daily life please contact me by making a coment. Bye.

Compare and Contrast of my Life!! :)

I was 7 when I left England to move out to Morocco, so I don’t remember too much about my life there. I remember leaving my friends though, thinking that it would only be a few years until I’d see them again. I only stay in contact with one of them and remember 6 of my friends names. Morocco has nice weather, that’s definitely one of the biggest bonuses about living in another country. When I go back to England, probably 99.9% of the time is spent holding an umbrella. Another big difference is the people I associate with. Everyone at my old school was English, and the majority of us shared the same religion. But hear, everyone has different backgrounds, cultures, beliefs, and more. You never realize how interesting different people are until you get to go to school with them. One thing that lots of people who come to visit us in Morocco think its a 24/7 desert country. But when they get to know it’s history and scenery, they can learn what a beautiful place it is with so many diverse people. but there are things I prefer about England. First of all it’s the food. I love going to traditional English Inns and having a Sunday carvary. Also you learn more about your home country at when your there. But over all, at the moment I’m quit happy with Morocco’s my home.

Hi there!

I'm Alice and I'm from England. I moved hear to Morocco 6 years ago because of my dads business. I now attend the Rabat American School of Morocco. my class has been assigned this project to create a blog about the Berbers of Morocco. The Berbers were the first modern people to colonize Morocco. Hope to see you soon and hope you enjoy my blog!!

Alice xx