Vocab
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Stories (Torah, Midrash, Folktales and the Like)
Holidays
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100

The land of Israel

What is Eretz Yisrael?
100

This important figure helped lead the Jews out of Egypt and had "a heavy tongue"

Who is Moses?

100

There are ten _______ in the Passover story.

What are plagues?

100

The holiday where we celebrate the Jewish new year

What is Rosh Hashanah?

100

We recite this blessing while covering our eyes.

HINT: We are supposed to say it in the morning right when we wake up, before we even open our eyes, and right before we go to bed.

What is the shema?

200

The people of Israel

What is Am Yisrael?

200

Moses's brother and right hand man

Who is Aaron?

200

These materials were placed in two different bowls in this fable/story about how Moses got his "heavy tongue"

What are gold and burning coals?

200

Two holidays celebrated with a festive seder meal

What is Passover and Tu B'Shevat?

200

This "sea" in Israel is not a sea at all, and is known for it's saltiness and healing mud. It's so salty you can only float in it!

What is the Dead Sea?

300

Hebrew word for "commandment"

What is mitzvot?

300

This guy got eaten by a giant fish!

Who is Jonah?

300

It is said that this mountain (in the desert) bloomed with green and flowers when God offered the Israelites the Ten Commandments

What is Mount Sinai?

300

We celebrate this holiday by dressing up in costume, putting on "shpiels" and eating hamentashen. 

What is Purim?

300

The man who founded the Zionist movement and convened the first World Zionist Convention

Who is Theodore Herzl?

400

Hebrew for "Acts of loving kindness"

What is "G'milut Hassadim"?

400

The Persian Queen who hid her identity as a Jew and saved her people.

Who is Esther? 

400

The Israelites were forced to wander in the desert for 40 years after this event

Some variation of "When the 12 scouts came back from Canaan, and only 2 of them had faith"

400

Two holidays that last for more than one day

What is Passover, Sukkot, or Hanukkah?
400

The first six hebrew words of every blessing

What is "Baruch ata Adonai elohainu melech ha olam"

500

"Evil Speech" or "evil tongue"

What is L'shon Harah?

500

The two spies (out of twelve) who reported back to Moses and Aaron with faith that the Israelites could win back the land of Canaan.

Who are Joshua and Caleb?

500

One of the ten (out of twelve) spies who did not have faith that the Israelites could take back the land of Canaan forcefully said this quote.

HINT: It's one of my favorite in the Torah

What is "we must look like grasshoppers to them"

500

The hebrew name of the holiday where we celebrate Israel's Independence Day

HINT: It's one of the "Yom's"

What is Yom Ha'atzmaut?

500

The five books of Moses (name them individually)

Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy

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