Rosh Hashanah
The name of the holiday celebrating the Jewish New Year.
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Rosh Hashanah
The name of the Jewish Holiday that comes right after Rosh Hashanah.
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What is Yom Kippur?
The temporary building we live in during Sukkot.
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What is a Sukkah?
The literal meaning of Simchat Torah.
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What is Happiness of the Torah?
The state of the world before Creation.
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What is tohu va'vohu, or chaos?
The name of the instrument sounded on Rosh Hashanah
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What is a shofar?
On Yom Kippur, we ask for this when we have done something wrong.
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What is saying sorry?
The four plants that make up the "four species". shake shake shake
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What are Lulav (palm branch), Etrog (citron), Hadas (myrtle), and Arava (willow)?
The special book we celebrate on Simchat Torah.
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What is the Torah?
The things that were created on the first day.
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What are light and darkness?
The combination of foods we eat to wish for a sweet new year.
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What are apples (dipped) in honey?
The meaning of teshuvah.
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What is turning back and trying to do better, or repentance?
Sukkot comes five days after this holiday.
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What is Yom Kippur?
We do this immediately after finishing the Torah.
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What is reading it over again from the beginning?
The thing that happened on the seventh day.
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What is 'G-d rested'?
Something we reflect on during Rosh HaShanah.
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What are ways we can do better in the coming year?
Many Jewish adults do this on Yom Kippur.
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What is fast, or not eating or drinking.
Sukkot is related to this season and/or agricultural activity.
What is autumn and/or the harvest?
The translation of Simcha.
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What is happiness?
Create an argument that something was created on the seventh day.
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Shabbat/rest didn't exist before this!
The meaning or translation of the phrase "Rosh Hashanah".
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What is 'Beginning or Head of the year'?
We read the story of this Prophet and his adventures with this big animal on Yom Kippur.
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Who are Jonah and the Whale (or Jonah and the big fish)?
Three things that Jewish people might do in a Sukkah.
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Eat, host guests, sing, study, do homework, sleep, sit...
The names of the last book of the Torah and the first book of the Torah.
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What are Devarim/Deuteronomy and B'reshit/Genesis?
State the order of what was created on what day.
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1. Light/Dark
2. Sky/sea
3. land/plants
4. sun/moon/stars
5. birds/fish
6. other animals and humans