Rosh Hashanah
This instrument is sounded on Rosh Hashanah.
What is a shofar?
On Yom Kippur, we abstain from food and drink.
What is fasting?
During Sukkot, we have a mitzvah to eat in this temporary hut.
What is a sukkah?
This holiday is one of the happiest days on the Jewish calendar.
What is Simchas Torah?
He is the rabbi of Chabad at USC.
Who is Rabbi Dov Wagner?
On Rosh Hashanah, we traditionally dip challah into this sweet food.
What is honey?
This famous prayer is recited at the beginning of Yom Kippur.
What is Kol Nidrei?
These are the two items we commonly refer to when performing the mitzvah of the Four Species.
What are the lulav and esrog?
Come to Chabad USC on Simchas Torah and you may discover the answer to just how much of this people drink. 😉
What is l’chaim?
This huge annual USC Shabbat dinner brings together approximately 1,000 students.
What is Shabbat 1000?
During this Rosh Hashanah custom, we gather by a body of water—or, at Chabad USC, perhaps a fish tank—and recite prayers associated with casting away our sins.
What is Tashlich?
This final prayer service of Yom Kippur culminates with the shofar blast marking the end of the fast.
What is Ne’ilah?
Despite looking a bit like a lemon, this citrus fruit is one of the Four Species.
What is an esrog?
On Simchas Torah, we dance while holding these sacred scrolls.
What are Torah scrolls?
Rabbi Dov and Runya Wagner have this many children.
What is 11?
On the second night of Rosh Hashanah, it is customary to eat one of these—preferably something you haven’t eaten yet that season.
What is a new fruit?
Yom Kippur is especially devoted to this process of seeking forgiveness and returning to G-d.
What are atonement and teshuvah?
The lulav and esrog mitzvah actually consists of this many species.
What is four?
During the hakafot of Simchas Torah, we make this many circuits around the bimah.
What is seven?
These are the first names of the two bearded guys working at Chabad USC this year who cruise campus in the golf cart, wrap tefillin and hand out flyers.
Who are Mendel and Yisroel?
Although many more are traditionally sounded in synagogue, this is the minimum number of shofar blasts one is required to hear on Rosh Hashanah.
What is 30?
Its the most prayers done on a single day from the beginning of Yom Kippur until the Very end
What is five?
According to Chabad USC lore, Rabbi Dov is VERY particular about doing even this inside the sukkah.
What is drinking even a small sip of water?
We celebrate Simchas Torah as we finish this annual cycle and immediately begin it again.
What is the Torah-reading cycle?
The Daily Trojan recently featured this new Chabad USC attraction.
What is the new rooftop restaurant?