Core Prayers
The central prayer of our people.
What is Sh'ma?
We bow in this song.
What is Bar'chu or Avot V'imahot?
These are the three things we do for shabbat.
What is light the candles, drink the wine, eat challah.
The Mi Chamocha celebrates this miracle.
What is the parting of the Red Sea?
This is the city we bow toward.
What is Jerusalem?
This prayer comes after the Sh'ma.
What is V'ahavta?
We face this way when we pray.
What is East?
This is the age when you have your bar, bat or b'nei mitzvah.
What is 13?
Fill in this blank:
"Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai ________"
What is "echad"?
True or False?
Every Torah has a special costume including a crown, dress, belt, etc. that are all different from the other.
What is True?
This prayer is a song of freedom that actually comes from the Torah.
What is Mi Chamocha?
The amount of circles we make with our hands when lighting the candles before covering our eyes.
What is three?
This is the name of the prayer shawl we wear starting at our b'nei mitvah.
What is a tallit?
This prayer is all about loving God with all of our soul and all of our might.
What is V'ahavta?
This story-based holiday has a separate scroll that the story is in called the Megillah.
What is Purim?
This prayer has a different line depending on the season, whether is it summer or winter.
What is the G'vurot?
We take three steps back and three steps forward to begin this prayer.
What is the Amidah?
This is the name of the prayer book we use.
What is Mishkan T'filah or siddur?
This is a Broadway musical all about Jewish tradition.
What is Fiddler On The Roof?
This prayer has a partner prayer called the G'vurot.
What is the Avot V'imahot?
One of the three things we are supposed to do before we enter the synagogue.
What is use the bathroom, wipe our feet, or look out a window?
This is the word we traditionally respond with in many prayers which means "I agree."
What is "Amen?"
When the Avot V'imahot recites names such as, Avraham, Yitzhak, Yakov, Sarah, Rifka, Rachel, Leah, it refers to this. It is also the direct translation for the title of the prayer.
What is our "Fathers and Mothers"?
This is one thing I learned in KESHER this year.
YOU NAME IT!