Jewish Calendar
This is considered the first month of the Jewish (Hebrew) calendar.
What is Nissan?
This is the number of Jewish months in a year.
What are 12 or 13?
A new Jewish month begins when this appears.
What is a new moon?
This is the numeric value of יב
what is the number 12?
The Jewish calendar is based on the phases of what?
What is the moon? (The Jewish calendar is a lunar calendar)
There are this many days in a Jewish month?
what are 29 or 30 days?
This is the most important holiday of the year.
What is Yom Kippur?
There are this many Jewish new years within a Hebrew calendar year.
What are 4 New Years:
Tishrei - Rosh Hashanah Shevat - Tu Bi'shevat
Nissan - Kings & festivals Elul - for animal tithes
This is the Hebrew WORD representing the numeric value of 18.
What is the word חַי ?
This is the month which falls before Tishrei.
What is Elul?
This is how the Jews spread the news when it was Rosh Chodesh (the start of new month)?
What is lighting a fire on the tallest hill/mountain tops?
This is the name of the holiday that falls in the Springtime.
What is Pesach (Passover)?
This is the name of the leap month in the Jewish calendar.
What is Adar II? (Adar 2 or Sheni)
This is the numeric value of טו
What is 15?
The months Iyar, Tammuz, Elul, Tevet, and Adar all have this in common. (Hint: It's the # of days within each of those months)
What is 29?
We celebrate Israel becoming a state on this holiday?
What is Yom Ha’atzmaut or Independence Day
This holiday falls on the 15th of Shevat.
What is Tu Bi'shevat?
This is the name in Hebrew for the beginning of any given month.
What is Rosh Chodesh?
This is how the number 17 written using Hebrew letters.
What is יז?
This is how many days are in a standard Jewish year.
What are 354 days?
Name 3 Hebrew (Jewish) Months.
What are Tishrei Cheshvan Kislev
Tevet Shevat Adar
Nissan Iyar Sivan
Tammuz Av or Elul?
We celebrate this holiday on the 18th of Iyar which falls on the 33rd day of the Omer.
What is Lag Ba'Omer?
This is how many people are needed to see the new moon in order to establish the start of new month.
What are 2 people?
This is how 100 is written using the Hebrew Gematria system.
What is ק ?
This is the name of the time period of 7 weeks between Passover and Shavuot.
What is the Omer?