Passover Quiz!
What is the name/term for the first five books of the Jewish Bible?
What is the name of the Jewish place of worship?
Synagogue
If something is not Kosher, it is ...?
Trefah
What is Shabbat? When does it begin and when does it end?
The Jewish day of rest/The Seventh Day/Sunset Friday - Sunset Saturday
What is brit milah?
initiation/circumcision/Jewish males/Abraham & Isaac/mark of the covenant
Why would a Jew not eat a cheeseburger?
Because it mixes meat and dairy
Two candles are lit for Shabbos that are said to remind Jews to "remember" and "observe" Shabbat. They are in Hebrew:
Z.......... & S............
Zachor and Shamor !
Why is a pig Trefah?
What is the Hebrew term for the Jewish Food Laws?
Kashrut
What are the five books of the Torah?
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
What is the little cap called worn by Orthodox Jewish men and all Jews who so wish in Reform/Progressive Judaism?
Kippah/Yamulke
What is the word beginning with 'D' which means the "scattering" of the Jewish people all of the world?
Diaspora
Tell me on meaning for the symbolic act of the stomping of the glass at a Jewish wedding...
(check with the teacher!)
7 X 80 + 53 = ?
(and tell me what this refers to...)
613 mitvot/mitzvah/commandments
What is the first and last day of the week in Judaism?
Sunday and Shabbat (Saturday)
Name (and give a brief description) of the protagonist and antagonist in the Hanukkah story...
Judah Maccabee and the Seleucid King Antiochus
(check story with teacher...)
Name a present-day country from where the Ashkenazi originated from.
Germany/Poland/Lithuania/Latvia/Ukraine/Belarus...
Where are the Torah Scrolls kept?
Holy Ark/Aaron Hakodesh
"I haven't been able to party to celebrate turning twelve because of the pandemic, I will have to wait now for the ceremony and party to become 'bat mizvah' :("
Why is this tweet wrong?
bat mitzvah is a 'state of being' you become once you turn 12 (boys 13 = BAR mitzvah) - no celebration necessary!
The Spanish government has offered citizenship to which group of Jews who were evicted in 1492 from this part of Europe?
Sephardic Jews/Sephardim
What is the name of the little capsule found in the wall at the entrance of Jewish homes containing a special prayer on parchment paper.
BONUS: what is the name of this prayer?
Mezuzah
(the name of the prayer is the Shemah)
The Torah Scrolls are not written on normal paper. What are they written on? What is the name of this material?
Parchment (animal skin)
Tell me the Hebrew for "Eternal Light" and tell me what this is and where you can find it.
"Ner Tamid"
What was the name of the two-letter region where Abraham was from, and in what present-day country is this!? (Clue: Pope's visit?)
Ur (in present day Iraq) Pope Francis visited the Muslim leader Ayatollah Al-Sistani this year.