Rosh Hashana
Yom Kippur
Customs
Food
Vocabulary
100

We think of this holiday as the birthday of whom?

What/who is the world?

100

In English if we want to say Yom Kippur we call it this.

What is the Day of Atonement?

100

This is the natural item that it is a mitzvah to hear on Rosh Hashanah

What is the shofar?


100

In hopes of having a sweet new year we eat this delicious combo of food.

What are apples with honey?

100
The Hebrew word for the booths we live in for 7-8 days.

What are sukkot?

200

We can blow the shofar on any day except this

What is Shabbat?

200

In Hebrew we call this special prayer chanted the evening as Yom Kippur starts as

What is Kol Nidre?

200

This is one of the common greetings we say to one another on Rosh Hashana

What is Shana Tova Umekuka/Tikatavu

200

On Yom Kippur, adults usually eat this.

What is nothing?

200

The Hebrew word for the lemon type fruit that we use symbolically?  

What is an etrog?

300

We read about Abraham almost sacrificing his son, Isaac, in the Torah, but instead he sacrifices...

What is a ram?

300

There are this many days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

What is 10?

300

Many people wear this color for the High Holy Days.

What is white?

300

During these holidays we eat a special fruit that has 613 seeds.

What is a pomegranate?

300

Hebrew for the special natural covering we use for our sukkot?

What is Shach?

400

The rabbi and cantor wear this special garment for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services

What is a kittle

400

On Yom Kippur we want our names to be written in which book?

What is the Book of Life?

400

On Simchat Torah we do this fun activity 

What is dance around with the Torah

400

On this holiday some people like to bake letters out of sweet dough in order to symbolize that the words of Torah should be sweet in your mouth?

What is Simchat Torah?

400

Hebrew for the spiritual guests that we symbolically invite to visit our sukkot?

What are ushpizim/ushpizot?

500

These are the four different sounds made by a shofar

What are

T'kiyah

T'ruah

Sh'varim

T'kiyah Gidola?

500

This is the name of the closing service of Yom Kippur.

What is Neilah?

500

Instead of using a siddur for prayer during the holidays we use this book.

What is a machzor?

500

For the Holy Days our challahs might look a little different - what shape are they often in?

What is round?

500

The name of the Hebrew month that starts the High Holy Day season?

What is Tishrei?

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