Rosh Hashanah Basics
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish _________?
New Year!
We dip apples into this sweet food on Rosh Hashanah.
Honey
This instrument is blown on Rosh Hashanah
Shofar
Shanah means this in Hebrew.
Year
Rosh Hashanah is a time to think about our actions from the past _____.
Year
Rosh Hashanah usually happens during what season?
Fall
Apples and honey represent our hope for this kind of New Year.
A sweet year
A shofar is usually made from the horn of this animal.
A ram
Peace
On Rosh Hashanah, we think about ways we can become _______ people in the New Year.
Better
The words Rosh Hashanah literally means __________?
Head of the Year
This round braided bread is often eaten on Rosh Hashanah
Challah
True or False: You blow into the shofar like a trumpet.
True
Shanah Tova means this.
Good year
This tradition involves symbolically casting away our mistakes, often near a body of water.
Tashlich
Rosh Hashanah begins a special period that ends with Yom Kippur. What is the period commonly called?
The Ten Days of Awe / Ten Days of Repentance
The round shape of Rosh Hashanah challah can remind us of this.
The circle/circle of the year
This shofar is one long, unbroken blast.
Tekiah
Finish the greeting: Shanah Tovah U'_______!
Metukah
During Tashlich, people have traditionally tossed small pieces of this into water.
Bread
Rosh Hashanah begins the Hebrew month of?
Tishrei
This fruit, with many seeds, is something eaten on Rosh Hashanah and represents abundance.
Pomegranate
This shofar sound is made up of many short, quick blasts.
Teruah
Shanah Tova U'Metukah wishes someone this.
A good and sweet year
Rosh Hashanah encourages us to think about people who may have hurt and try to do this.
Apologize / make things right / ask foregiveness