Ellul
The Jewish calendar is based on which elements?
What is the moon & the sun.
What do we say from Rosh Jodesh Elul until Yom Kippur?
What is Selijot?
What are the names of Rosh Hashana?
Rosh Hashana, Yom HaDin, Yom HaZikaron, Yom HaTeru'ah
During the month of Elul, we increase in three things:
Teshuva
Tefillah
Tzedakah
Rosh Hashanah is the first day of this Hebrew month.
What is Tishrei.
Elul is our designated time to reflect on our actions and make plans to do better in the New Year. What is this process called in Hebrew?
What is Teshuvah?
What is the reason we blow the Shofar after Tefillah?
To awaken people to do Teshuba
What are the sounds of the Shofar?
Tekiah, Shebarim, Teru'ah
The month of Elul is known as:
Chodesh HaRachamim
This fruit symbolizes the 613 mitzvot we aim to do in the New Year.
What is pomegranate?
What do pasuk is attributed to the Roshe Tevot (first letters) of Elul spell?
I am my beloved and my beloved is to me אני לדודי ודודי לי
On Rosh Hashanah we symbolically throw away our sins by doing this.
What is Tashlich?
Why do we use a rams horn for the Shofar?
What is a reminder of Akeidat Yitzhak?
Can one do the mitzvah of Shofar at night?
No, it must be by day. The source is the posuk, "יום תרועה יהיה לכם".
That our merits should increase
What is the meaning of eating רוביא?
Why are the days of Elul known as days of forgiveness?
Because on these days Moshe prayed that Hashem would forgive Bnei Yisrael for Het Ha'Egel (sin of Golden Calf)
What is the blessing we give to each other after shul on Rosh Hashana?
לשנה טובה תכתב/י ותחתמ/י לאלתר לחיים טובים ארוכים ולשלום
Which is the Parsha that falls always before R.H and why?
Nitzavim which means standing because we will stand in front of Hashem in the day of Din Judgement
What if I forgot and didn't say המלך הקדוש?
You have to start the Amidah again.
That our enemies should run away
What is the meaning of eating סלקא?
?איש לרעהו ומתנות לאביונים What is the Pasuk
Another description of Elul, because we should be doing Tzedakah on these days
In Sephardic families it is traditional to place the head of this animal on the Rosh Hashanah Table.
What is head of fish?
What is the reason women are exempt from hearing the Shofar?
Because it's מצות עשה שהזמן גרמא
What are the three berachot in Mussaf?
Malchuyot, Zichronot, Shofarot
That our bad decree should be ripped up and our merits should be read
What is the meaning of eating קרא/דלעת?