Rosh Hashanah
What is the Hebrew date for Rosh Hashanah?
1st-2nd of Tishrei
What is the Hebrew date for Yom Kippur?
10th of Tishrei
When does Sukkot begin? What is the Hebrew date?
15th of Tishrei
The circling around with the Torah on Simchat Torah is called what?
Hakafot
What is Chol HaMoed?
Weekdays of a festival. The intermediate days of Sukkot (and Passover)
What is the main mitzvah of Rosh Hashanah?
Hearing the Shofar
What five things are prohibited on Yom Kippur?
Eating/drinking, wearing leather-soled shoes, bathing, anointing, tashmish mitah
Recite the Beracha for the Mitzvah of sitting in the Sukkah
בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה ה' אֱלֹהֵינוּ מֶלֶךְ הָעוֹלָם אֲשֶר קִדְּשָׁנוּ בְּמִצְוֹתָיו וְצִוָּנוּ לֵישֵׁב בַּסֻּכָּה
What two parshiot are read on Simchat Torah?
V’zot HaBracha/Beresheit
How did they let the people in Babylonia know when Rosh Chodesh was so they could fix the Holidays appropriately?
They lit fires on the tops of mountains until they reached Babylonia.
What is another name for Rosh Hashanah?
Yom HaZikaron, Yom Teruah, Yom Ha’arat Olam
What Haftarah is read on Yom Kippur afternoon?
Yonah
Name five of the seven ushpizim.
Avraham, Izchak, Yaakov, Yosef, Moshe, Aaron, and David
In the Land of Israel Shemini Atzeret is combined with what other Holiday?
Simchat Torah
When is the last day to do Tashlich?
Hoshana Rabbah
What is the day after Rosh Hashanah called?
Tzom Gedaliah
What is the Hebrew word for confession
Viduy
What is the minimum height of a Succah?
10 tefachim
What special prayer is recited (exclusively) on Shemini Atzeret?
Geshem
On which two days is the Yizkor prayer recited during the month of Tishrei?
Yom Kippur and Shemini Atzeret
What date on the Lunar Calendar was the first day of Creation?
The 25th of Elul
Recite the 13 attributes of Hashem
What is the Etrog called in the Torah?
Pri Etz Hadar
What is the Mitzvah that is associated with Shemini Atzeret? Example: Shofar on Rosh HaShanah
There is no Mitzvah
Why do we shake the lulav during Sukkot?