Kindness
What is the Hebrew word for giving to the needy?
Tzedakah. When you become B'Mitzvah, you will be responsible to giving tzedakah in money, time, or other voluntary donations.
On Passover, we are not supposed to eat chameitz (food that is not kosher for Passover). What is one food that is not kosher for Passover?
Foods with leavened grains which can include bread, cookies, cakes, pies, cereals, and pastas.
What is one mitzvah you can do on Shabbat?
Rest, light Shabbat candles, say the Kiddush over wine or grape juice, eat challah, give tzedakah
What mitzvah do we do with the shamash and chanukiyah during Hanukkah?
The Talmud teaches that it is a mitzvah to care for animals and give them the things they need. What is one thing an animal might need from a person?
Food, water, shelter, kindness
Which of the following is a NOT a mitzvah mentioned in the 10 commandments: 1. Honor Your Parents 2. Do No Be Jealous 3. Celebrate Shabbat 4. Be Kind to Animals
4. Be Kind to Animals
Name one kind of food that is NOT Kosher to eat
Pork products, shellfish, most bugs, birds of prey, mammals that don't chew their cud, animals that don't have cloven hooves, fish that do not have fins and scales
During Shabbat services, the Rabbi, Cantor, or B'mitzvah does the mitzvah of reading from the ________.
Torah
On Yom Kippur, it is a mitzvah for Jewish adults to give up what?
Eating/food
The Talmud tells us that we have to give our animals a _______ if we want them to work for a long time.
A break! Judaism recognizes that animals have the same needs as people, including rest. As a Jewish adult, you have to give your pets the chance to rest and relax.
On Yom Kippur what do we do to correct for being unkind in the past?
On Tu Bishvat, do we drink white grape juice (or wine), red grape juice (or wine), or both?
Both! We even combine them in the same cup so the colors get lighter and darker during the service.
Why is it a mitzvah to rest on Shabbat?
Because in the Torah, when God creates the world, God rests on the 7th day
During Passover, it is a mitzvah for the youngest person at the seder to read the four what?
Questions
In the story of Creation, the Torah says that God gave the first two people the responsibility to name the animals and take care of them? Who were the people God gave this responsibility to?
Adam and Eve
The Hebrew phrase Hachansat Orchim means being ________ to guests.
Welcoming
There are two types of foods that the Torah tells us it is a mitzvah to not eat together. What two types of foods are those?
Dairy and meat
Havdallah
On Purim, it is a mitzvah to listen to someone read the Megillah outloud. Whose story is told in the Purim Megillah?
Esther, Mordechai, Achashverosh, and Haman
The Talmud teaches us that before we harvest eggs, we should shoo the mama bird away from her what?
Nest. This makes sure that the mother doesn't have to see the eggs get taken away so it won't upset her.
What is the Hebrew word for kindness?
Chesed
How many cups of wine or juice do we drink during a Passover seder?
4
The 10 commandments tell us it is a mitzvah to "shamor," and "zachor," on Shabbat. Zachor means remember. What does shamor mean?
Celebrate, protect, keep
What is it a mitzvah to do on Tu Bishvat?
Plant a tree
What is the Hebrew name for the mitzvah for taking care of animals?
Tzar Ba'alei Chayim (protecting the lives of animals)