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This is what we dip the apples into on Rosh Hashanah.
What is honey?
This is how you say Happy New Year in Hebrew.
What is Shanah Tovah?
What do we do during the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?
What is reflect on your year and apologize for anything bad you have done in the past
Rosh HaShanah is the start of a new....
What is year?
Yom Kippur is also called 'The Day of ---'
What is Atonement
What is the item that we blow into to make a loud noise on Rosh Hashanah called?
What is a shofar?
Rosh Hashanah literally means this.
What is 'head of the year'?
The Days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are called the Days of...?
What are the Days of Awe?
Rosh Hashanah happens on the first day of this Hebrew month
What is the month of Tishrei.
Between Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur we are supposed to go around to the people in our lives and do this...
Apologize to them
A shofar comes from this animal
What is a ram?
The special prayer book we use on the High Holidays is called this.
What is a Machzor?
Why are pomegranates often associated with Rosh HaShanah? (The main reason, there are several others which I will accept)
What is, because they have 613 seeds (approximately), which is the number of mitzvot or good deeds/commandments that we are supposed to perform.
Why do we blow the shofar? (there are multiple answers, any of these get a point)
What is:
It's the way holiday's were announced during biblical times
The loud sound is a wake up call for our souls
Remembering The Binding of Isaac
To announce the conclusion of Yom Kippur
Because we are commanded to in the Torah
We don't say 'Happy Yom Kippur' in any language, instead we use any of these holiday greetings (you get points for any of them, and you can answer with Hebrew, English or Yiddish)
Gut Yuntif (good holiday), G'mar chatimah tovah, Tzom kal (צוֹם קַל) (An easy fast), Ah gut gebentsht yohr, “A good and blessed year” (א גוט געבענטשט יאהר)
The challah we eat on Rosh Hashanah looks different. Instead of being a long braid, it's shaped like this.
What is round?
What does the word teshuva mean? Hint: It's one of the things you are supposed to do between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
What is repent (acknowledge and apologize for what you have done wrong) or to return
What is the number of times a shofar can be heard during a Rosh Hashanah service?
Hint: It is between 20-200 times
What is 100 times
This is the name for the event where we cast away our sins into the water
Tashlich
People who fast on Yom Kippur don't eat or drink for this many hours
What is a traditional food that some jews eat/put on the Rosh HaShanah dinner table to symbolize the head of the year?
What is fish (particularly fish heads)
This is how we say 'Have a happy and sweet new year'
Shanah Tovah u'metukah
*Bonus Points Question*
Name at least one of the sounds that are called off when the shofar is blown (you get a point for each that you can name, and imitate the noise of)
What is Tkiah, Teruah and Sh'varim
BONUS POINTS QUESTION:
There are 7 fruits or vegetables listed in the bible called the Seven Species of Israel. One point for each one that you can name.
What is wheat, barley, grape, fig, pomegranates, olives and dates?
When someone tells you “Gmar Chatimah Tovah" There are saying this
What is, "May you be inscribed in the Book of Life for good."?