שבת
How does שבת begin in many Jewish homes?
Candle lighting/ הדלקת נרות
What is the Hebrew date of Rosh Hashanah?
Opening ceremony prayer of Yom Kippur night
Kol Nidre
Single hut vs huts, in Hebrew
Sukkah, Sukkot
On Simchat Torah, we are celebrating:
The end and beginning of the reading of the Torah.
What are we declaring when we say קידוש on Friday night? Name 2 things:
God created the world and then rested on day 7.
God rescued us from Egypt.
God made the Shabbat day holy, as do we.
What does the Torah name יום תרועה mean?
The day of shofar blasts.
What is the Hebrew date of Yom Kippur?
10th of Tishrei
How many walls must a Sukkah have minimally?
3
What does the Hebrew word Simcha mean?
Joy, happiness.
How many חלות for שבת and why?
2, because God gave us 2 food portions on Friday so we wouldn't have to go out to collect one on Saturday.
What is the name of the 9 short blasts?
Teruah.
Hebrew name of the 10 days between RH and YK?
עשרת ימי תשובה
What is the Hebrew name for the Sukkah roof?
Schach
The Hebrew word for dancing with the Torahs is called:
Hakafot
How many times do we read the Torah on Shabbat?
2. Shabbat morning and afternoon.
What is the name of the 3 medium blasts?
Shevarim (broken blasts)
Name 3 Yom Kippur customs:
Wear white,
No leather shoes,
Fasting
How many kinds of branches is a lulav made from?
3
How many times do we carry the Torah around the synagogue/Temple (at least)?
7
What is the name of the ceremony that ends Shabbat?
Havdalah
What is the name of the long last blast?
Tekiah Gedolah
Closing ceremony on Yom Kippur with shofar blowing:
Neilah.
The etrog has a brown piece that must be present to be Kosher (on most etrogim).
Pitom
The only time we read the Torah at night
Simchat Torah
In the song Shalom Aleichem, the Malachei Hasharet are:
Angels
The ritual where you "throw away" your sins is called
Tashlich
The common salutation for YK is
G'mar chatimah tova
In the Mishna, the majority opinion about two floor sukkot is followed by Rabbi Yehudah's dissenting opinion. He says
If no one is living on top floor, bottom floor can be a kosher Sukkah
True or False: In Israel they say Yizkor (prayer for the dead) on Simchat Torah?
True