Letters of the Week
This letter located on a Chanukah dreidel allows the spinner to get all the money
"Siddur"
What is "Prayer book"?
This is the person (or people) who sing the first line of the Bar'chu during Tefilah.
What is the Leader of the service?
This is the person, place or thing that Jews declare is "one" when they recite the Shema prayer.
What is "God"?
This must always be seen in your "zoom square" during our classes.
What is your face?
This letter makes the "H" sound.
What is "Hay"?
"Melech"
What is "king"?
This is the meaning of the first word of both the first and second lines of the Bar'chu
What is "Bless" or "Blessed"? The word Bar'chu and Baruch...
The word "Shema" in Hebrew means what in English?
What is "listen" or "hear"?
Because it is distracting to the rest of the class, this should never be changed during class
What is your background?
This letter is silent
What is "Aleph"?
"Echad"
What is "One"?
This is the second line of the Bar'chu (recite or sing the second line)
What is "Baruch Adonai Hamvorach L'Olam V'aed"?
The Ayin in the first word of the Shema and the Daled in the last word of the Shema are bold and larger than the other letters. There are two reasons why. Explain one.
What is the Ayin and Daled spell "Ayd" which means witness.
Or, the Ayin and Daled are bigger so that people don't misspell or mispronounce those words.
You use this Zoom feature to ask questions or to respond to instructions or questions from the teacher, but not for any other purposes.
What is the chat feature (or the messaging feature)?
This letter is the first letter of the Hebrew word for "hello", "goodbye" and "peace".
What is "Shin"? (The word for hello, goodbye and peace is "Shalom").
"Baruch"
What is "Bless" or "Blessed"?
This is the physical action that the congregation does while singing the second line of the bar'chu.
What is bending your knees and bowing?
Recite or sing the SECOND line of the Shema.
What is "Baruch Shem Kavod Malchuto L'Olam Va'ed"?
This Zoom feature is used to make sure that only one person speaks at a time.
What is the "mute" button?
In addition to "Sin" this is the OTHER Hebrew letter that makes the "S" sound.
What is "Samech"?
"Yeladim"
This word, which comes from the same root as "baruch" meaning "bless or blessed" is the Hebrew word for knee, which is why Jews bend their knees and bow during the Bar'chu.
What is "Berech"?
Yud-hay-vav-hay is pronounced Adonai in the Shema. It is actually not a real Hebrew word, but is an acronym. What does the acronym stand for?
It stands for "Yihye" (to be), "Hoveh" (is) and "Haya" (was), the three tenses of the word "to be".
This is the time period that you need to be logged into our Zoom session each week.
What is the ENTIRE class period?