Rosh Chodesh
Calendar
A Little Bit of This
A Little Bit of That
By the Numbers
100

Rosh Chodesh is a new beginning for this object in the sky.

What is the Sun?

What is the Moon?

What is Mercury?

What is the Moon?

100

The Jewish calendar that we use now was created by this person.

Who is Morah Judy?
Who is Morah Zehava?
Who is Morah Marina?
Who is Rabbi Hillel?

Who is Rabbi Hillel?

100

To celebrate Rosh Chodesh, we may eat at least one food that has this shape.

What is square like a knish?

What is long like a hot dog?

What is round like the moon?

What is round like the moon?

100

“Chodesh” is the Hebrew word for this

What is cookie?

What is calendar?

What is month?

What is month?

100

The number of days in a Hebrew month.

What is between 18 and 28?

What is 29 or 30?

What is always 31?

What is 29 or 30?

200

What the Hebrew word “Rosh” means.

What is hand?
What is foot?
What is head?

What is head?

200

The Hebrew months are measured by this.

What are the waves in the ocean?

What are the stars in the Milky Way?

What are the phases of the moon?

What are the phases of the moon?

200

On the first night of the new month, you will see this if you look up at the sky

What is a full moon?
What is half of the moon?
What is almost no moon?

What is almost no moon?

200

This is one way to wish someone a Good Month.

What is Boker Tov?

What is Chodesh Tov?

What is Shanah Tovah?

What is Chodesh Tov?

200

The number of months is a typical Hebrew calendar year.

What is 10 or 11?

What is 12?

What is 26?

What is 12?

300

At the middle of the Hebrew month, the moon is this.

What is a perfect crescent?

What is new?

What is full?

What is full?

300

During a Hebrew leap year, there are two of this month.

What is Kislev?

What is August?

What is Adar?

What is Adar?

300

In the times of the Temple, Jews would offer this on Rosh Chodesh

What are sacrifices?

What is macaroni and cheese?

What is bagels and lox?

What are sacrifices?

300

When the Jewish Calendar was first created, this was the first month (hint: we don't consider this the first month of the Jewish year anymore!)

What is Adar?
What is Kislev?
What is Nisan?

What is Nisan?

300

The number of months in a Hebrew leap year.

What is 13?

What is 5?

What is 18?

What is 13?

400

We do this to celebrate Rosh Chodesh nowadays.

What is add a few special prayers to the daily services?

What is fast from eating and drinking?

What is dance the hora?


What is add a few special prayers to the daily services?

400

This is the Hebrew word for calendar.

What is lunch?

What is luach?

What is luau?

What is luach?

400

The Jewish Calendar is a ___ calendar adjusted to better fit a ___ calendar

What is circle?  What is square?

What is lunar?  What is solar?

What is fun? What is boring?


What is lunar?  What is solar?

400

This holiday is the “head” of the Hebrew year.

What is Rosh HaShanah?

What is Chanukah?

What is Purim?


What is Rosh HaShanah?

400

This is how often Hebrew leap years occur.

What is once in every 4 years?

What is 18 times in every 120 years?

What is 7 times in every 19 year cycle?

What is 7 in every 19 years?

500

The only month for which Rosh Chodesh in not observed.

What is Elul?

What is Nisan?

What is Tishrei?

What is Tishrei?

500

This month has no holidays.

What is Cheshvan?

What is Nisan?

What is Tishrei?

What is Cheshvan?

500

This is the reason that the lunar calendar was adjusted to fit the solar calendar.

What is so that the Jewish holidays fall at about the same time every year?
What is so that we don't get too confused?
What is so that it's easier to remember your Hebrew birthday?

What is so that the Jewish holidays fall at about the same time every year?

500

There are this number of days in the Jewish year
(hint: 11 days less than a secular year)

What is 365?

What is 354?

What is 31?


What is 354?

500

These are the first three numbers of this year's Jewish year.

What is 6-1-3?

What is 5-7-8?

What is 1-8-8?

What is 5-7-8?

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