Fast Days
This is how long we fast for on minor fast days.
What is Sunrise to Sunset?
These two Festival holidays bookend the Omer.
What are Passover & Shavuot?
How we represent the theme of hiddenness on Purim.
What is dressing up?
This is the translation of the term Rosh Chodesh.
What is Head/Beginning of the month?
This is the prayer section we sing on all holidays.
What is Hallel?
This fast honors the bravery of a woman who fasted before risking her life to save her community.
What is the Fast of Esther?
This is the number of days we count the Omer for.
What is 49 Days?
These Ashkenazi cookies are said to represent a hat, but recent reporting has connected them to persian fertility cookies!
What are Hamentaschen?
This heavenly event brings on a Rosh Hodesh.
What is the new moon?
This holiday celebrates the new year of the trees.
What is Tu'Bishvat?
This is the only other 24 hour fast day aside from Yom Kippur.
What is Tisha Ba'Av?
Some people follow a spiritual path of the Omer, assigning week each day of the Omer to a Kabbalistic Sefirot. This is how many Sefirot we work with in that time.
What is Seven?
This is the name of the king of Shushan from the story of Esther.
Who is Achashverosh?
These are the possible number of days in a lunar month.
What are 29 or 30 days?
Mimouna is a North African Jewish holiday that celebrates the end of this holiday.
What is Passover?
This is the book of Torah we read on Tisha B'Av
What is Eicha/Lamentations?
This is the day of the Omer on which we Celebrate Lag Ba'Omer.
What is the 33rd Day?
This is the Hebrew date we celebrate Purim!
What is the 14th of Adar?
This month is celebrated twice on a Jewish leap year.
What is Adar?
This holiday is called the Jewish Valentines, and is rooted in a Talmudic story.
What is Tu B'Av?
Most minor fast days have to do with this major and devastating Jewish event in History.
What is the Destruction of the Temple?
What is the first Sefirah we study during the Omer?
What is Hesed (loving kindness)?
These are the gifts we give to our friends on Purim.
What is Mishloach Manot?
This month is considered the new year of months.
What is Nissan?
This Ethiopian holiday celebrates the recieving of Torah the month after the High Holidays.
What is Sigd?