Sweet Foods
The Shofar
Greetings & Wishes
Customs & Traditions
Rosh Hashana Facts
100

We dip this fruit in honey.

What is an apple?

100

This is the horn we blow on rosh hashana

What is a shofar

100

We say this Hebrew greeting to wish someone a good year

What is Shana Tova?

100

We go to this holy building to pray on Rosh Hashana

What is synagogue/shul?

100

Rosh Hashana celebrates the birthday of the whole ___ —

What is the world?

200

This sticky golden food we eat for a sweet new year.

  What is honey?

200

The shofar is made from this animals horn

What is a ram?

200

Shana Tova means “Have a ___ ___” in English

What is a good year?

200

We throw bread crumbs into water for this tradition

What is Tashlich?

200

This is the season of the year when Rosh Hashana happens

What is fall/autumn?

300

This round bread has no beginning or end, just like a new year

What is challah?


300

This is what we do to the shofar to make sound

What is to blow it?



300

We wish that everyone’s name is written in this good book

What is the Book of Life?

300

Tashlich helps us let go of these

What are our mistakes/sins?

300

On this holiday, we think about being kind and doing better

What is Rosh Hashana?

400

We eat this seedy red fruit and wish for as many good deeds as its seeds

What is a pomegranate?

400

The sound of the shofar is like this, waking us up

 What is a wake-up call/alarm?

400

This is the Hebrew word for “new year”

What is Rosh Hashana?

400

This holiday starts a season of 10 special days for saying sorry

What are the Days of Awe?

400

We light these on the holiday, just like Shabbat

What are candles?

500

We eat sweet foods on rosh hashana because we want   the new year to be this

What is sweet / good?

500

This is the short, choppy sound the shofar makes (say it 3 times fast!)

What is Teruah?

500

Rosh Hashana literally means “Head of the ___”

What is the year?

500

These 10 days end with this serious holiday

What is Yom Kippur?

500

This is the number of days many people celebrate Rosh Hashana

What is two (2)?

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