Brit Milah/Simchat Bat
This is the name of the person who has the honour of holding the Jewish baby boy during the Brit Milah
What is a sandak?
Kallah and Chatan.
What is the Hebrew name for a bride and groom?
A Get.
What is the name of the Jewish divorce document in Hebrew?
This is a special ceremony for a firstborn male Israelite son to redeem him from working in the Temple. It happens when he is 30 days old.
What is a Pidyon HaBen and when does it take place?
This is the circumcision of a Jewish boy at 8 days old.
What is a brit Milah?
A chuppah.
What do the chatan and kallah stand underneath at a Jewish wedding?
or
What is the wedding canopy called in Hebrew?
An Agunah - A Chained Woman
What is the a Jewish woman called who has been refused a Get from her husband?
5 Silver Coins
What is symbolically given to the Kohen to redeem an Israelite firstborn son in a Pidyon Haben?
Kiseh shel Eliyahu
What is the name of the chair that the Sandak sits on to hold the baby for the Brit Milah?
A cup is broken at a Jewish wedding ceremony reminding us of the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem. This reminds of that we should never forget the tough times even when we are in a moment of true happiness.
What is broken at a Jewish wedding ceremony and why?
This is the name of the ceremony where if a married man dies childless the widow is to marry her dead husband's brother.
What is a Yibum?
Orlah is when you wait three years before picking the fruit off a tree to eat it. This is connected to waiting 3 years before you cut a baby boy's hair at an Upsherin ceremony.
How is the Orlah connected to an Upsherin?
Their Hebrew name: either _______ben (fathers name in Hebrew) or _____ bat (mothers name in Hebrew)
What is given to the baby boy and girl during the Brit Milah and Simchat Bat ceremonies?
The name of the weekend before the wedding is known as the Shabbat Chatan (where the Chatan is called up to the Torah) and Shabbat Kallah. In Yiddish this call up to the Torah is known as an Aufruf.
What is the name of the weekend before the wedding in Hebrew and Yiddish?
But if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, the brother's wife shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother has refused to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel he does not wish to perform the obligation of a husband's brother with me." Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and he shall stand up and say, "I do not wish to take her." Then his brother's wife shall approach him before the eyes of the elders and remove his shoe from his foot. And she shall spit before his face and declare, "Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother's household! And that family shall be called in Israel 'the household of the one whose shoe has been removed.'" --
What does the ceremony of Chalitzah entail (as written in the Torah)?
Lag BaOmer on Mount Meron in Israel.
In Israel, what is the traditional time of year to do an Upsherin and where?
These six customs are carried out during a Simchat Bat ceremony
When are the following the customs practiced: washing the baby girls feet, lighting a candle, giving an aliyah to the parents, naming the baby, saying the birkat cohanim and drinking from the cos Miriam/Cos Eliyahu?
The Sheva Brachot - the Seven Blessings
What is said during the wedding and for 7 days after the wedding?
A Beit Din is the Hebrew name for the place where a Jewish woman (and her husband) would go to get a Get.
What is the name of the Rabbinic court that a woman must go to to get a Get?
Other than a haircut, traditionally a three year old boy is given a tzitzit or a tallit katan (they are the same thing) and a kippah during his Upsherin.
What is traditionally given to a baby boy on his Upsherin other than a haircut?