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What is the holiday called which celebrates the New Year of the trees?
Tu B'Shvat
What is a shepherd?
A person who looks after sheep and guides them to the right pastures to graze.
List the heroes and villain of the Purim story
Esther, Mordechai, and Haman
What is the Jewish New Year called?
Rosh Hashanah
In how many days did God create the world?
On what day of the week did God rest?
Saturday = Shabbat
List 2-4 qualities of shepherds and explain
Kind, caring, patient, strong, smart, aware of surroundings, sensitive to pain, nomadic so they have respect for nature
List three foods that we eat on Passover (bonus +5 per food for explaining each's significance/what it symbolizes or commemorates. bonus +10 if you can list two more foods and +5 for each of their symbolisms)
Matzah = poor man's bread/no time to rise, marror/bitter herbs = to remember the bitterness of slavery, charoset = to remember how the jews had to make their own glue between the bricks, salt water = to remember the tears, egg = to mourn the Temple/round like the Earth, karpas/greens = for spring because Pesach is the holiday of the spring
List two of the parts of the thing that we shake on Sukkot (Bonus +10: what parts of the body do those two things represent? Bonus +10: list the other two parts OR what parts of the human body they represent)
Where in the sanctuary is the Torah kept?
the ark = aron kodesh
In what city were the Jewish Temples and is the Western Wall today? Point to the city on the map
Jerusalem
List two things that were in the mishkan (tabernacle) and/or the Temple
ark, menorah, spice alter, animal alter, water basin for washing, table for show bread
List three of the ten plagues (bonus +2 for every additional plague listed)
Blood, frogs, lice, wild beasts, death of cattle, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, death of first born
Why do we celebrate Yom Kippur?
To do teshuvah (returning) and ask for forgiveness from God and from other people
List three ways Jews are commanded to respect nature
Killing animals in respectful and least painful way, not waisting food or materials, saying blessings before eating, can't eat calf in mother's milk (can't eat milk and meat together), have to shoo the mother bird away when taking the eggs, hurting animals is not allowed, have to feed your animals before you feed yourself, tikkun olam, not supposed to destroy plants
What drink are you supposed to drink on Shabbat and what food are you supposed to eat on Shabbat? (Bonus +10: What is the blessing that we say on this drink? Bonus another +10: What is the blessing we say on this food?)
Wine or grape juice. Challah.
Blessing for wine or grape juice: baruch atah...borei pri hagafen.
Blessing for challah: baruch atah...hamotzi lechem min haaretz.
Name three members in Jewish history who were shepherds
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Rachel, Lot, Moses, King David
Why do we light the candles on Chanukkah for 8 nights?
To remember the miracle of the oil that lasted 8 nights instead of just 1
What does the holiday of Simchat Torah celebrate?
finishing reading the entire Torah and starting again!
How many stones are on the breastplate that is on the Torah? (Bonus +10: what do the stones symbolize? Bonus +10: who wore the same kind of breast plate?)
12 stones, representing the 12 tribes of the Israelites, the high priest wore the same breast plate
List 4 of the ten commandments
1. Hashem/God is the only God. 2. Do not worship other gods. 3. Do not say God's name in vain. 4. Keep the Shabbat. 5. Respect and fear your parents. 6. Do not kill. 7. Do not have forbidden relations. 8. Do not steal. 9. Do not bear false witness. 10. Do not be jealous/covet
Who were the priests for the Temple service (whose children were they)? (Bonus +10: What are they called in Hebrew?)
Kohanim, the children of Moses's brother Aaron
List two mitvot that Jews are commanded to do on Purim each year (bonus +5 for each additional one - there are four total)
Megillah = to hear the Purim story read from the scroll (twice), Mishloach manot = gifts to friends, Matanot Laevyonim = gifts to poor, Mishteh = party/feast
The four M's!
Give a possible reason for why we sit in the Sukkah on the holiday of Sukkot
to remember that God provided and still provides for us and protects us, to invite others into our home, to not value our physical possessions to much, to show that we're all part of the same people and it doesn't matter how rich or poor someone is - God loves us all, etc.
What is a prophet?
Someone who God talks to, usually in a dream. Leads the nation, sometimes in battle and politically but always spiritually and ethically. The prophet tells the people and the king what they’re doing wrong and how to become better people and more moral