Rosh Hashanah
Rosh Hashanah is one of the Jewish High Holidays or High Holy Days?
High Holy Days
The enter key on PC computer keyboards replaced this key on the electric typewriter.
What is return? When using a manual typewriter, you had to use a handle to return the carriage.
This is the spookiest date of the year for children.
What is October 31? Halloween is full of ghosts, goblins, and trick-or-treating. It began as a Celtic tradition marking the end of summer.
This is the pseudoscience of how stars and planets influence our lives.
What is astrology? Astrologers rely on the positions of the planets and the signs of the zodiac to interpret your horoscope
True or False
During Rosh Hashanah, challah bread is served in rounds rather than braided.
True. Round challah represents the circle of life on Rosh Hashanah.
This audio tape format preceded the cassette format.
What is 8-track? There are still 8-track enthusiasts today, and a few independent artists still release on the large format.
This Jewish High Holy Day, which is the day of atonement, begins on October 4 at sundown in 2022.
What is Yom Kippur? The High Holy Days run for 10 days, starting with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and ending with Yom Kippur.
This is where astronauts from many nations live and conduct experiments during extended visits to space.
What is the International Space Station (or ISS)? The longest stay on the station has been 355 days.
True or False
Laughter has long had a place during Rosh Hashanah in the form of Hebrew puns told about the food eaten on Rosh Hashanah.
True. In Hebrew there are several puns surrounding the foods of Rosh Hashanah. The tradition can be upheld in English by saying things like, “Lettuce eat now,” or “Please pass the challah before I beet you to it.”
The national animal of Scotland is this mythical animal with the body of a horse.
What is unicorn? Scotland reveres its myths, and this mythical symbol stands for purity and innocence as well as masculinity and power
This month is the meteorological equivalent of October in the southern hemisphere.
What is April? The seasons are reversed in the southern hemisphere.
At sunset, the sky can appear to be this primary color.
What is red? During sunrise and sunset, the sun’s light must travel a longer distance and the blue light rays scatter, allowing red, orange, and yellow colors to be seen more easily
Between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur there is a 10-day period of introspection known as the
____ __ ___
The Days of Awe
The Days of Awe are a time to think about the past year and prepare to atone for wrongdoings on Yom Kippur
This is the reason a banana is curved.
What is to reach sunlight? Bananas grow downward, but they curve upward to get more sun.
This is one of October’s birthstones.
What is opal or tourmaline? Most people consider opal the October birthstone, and it derives from the Greek word opallios, which means “to see a change of color.”
This is the study of the entire universe beyond Earth—planets, stars, dark holes, and galaxies.
What is astronomy? According to Merriam-Webster, it is “the study of objects and matter outside Earth’s atmosphere.”
True or False
Pomegranates are a popular fruit to eat on Rosh Hashanah.
True. Pomegranates are often eaten during the holiday both for their sweetness and because their many seeds are said to correspond with the number of laws in the Torah. The seeds happen to be packed with antioxidants, which are known to decrease inflammation.
This is the strongest muscle in the human body if you apply the Times of India’s definition of strongest as “the ability to exert force on an external object.”
What is jaw? It is used as a lever to apply its force. Using other definitions of strongest, you could argue the glutes in the buttocks or the quadriceps in the thigh are the strongest muscles.
This is one of the zodiac signs ruling October.
What is Libra or Scorpio? Libras are born in the earlier part of the month, and Scorpios are born in the latter part of the month.
The sky is the brightest blue at one of these times during the day.
What is twilight or just before sunrise or just after sunset? It’s called the “blue hour.”