Torah
The weekly Torah reading
What is a Parshah?
The name of Abraham's firstborn son
Who is Ishmael?
Also known as the Festival of Booths
What is Sukkot?
To be called to recite the blessings before and after the reading of the Torah
What is an aliyah
The number of times is Hanukkah mentioned in the Torah
What is zero
This was created first by Adonai
What is light?
He traded his birthright to his brother for a bowl of stew
Who is Esau?
The name of this holy day translates to head of the year
A group of 10 Jewish adults required for certain religious obligations
What is a minyan
The modern ceremony to celebrate a birth when parents do not want a circumcision. Also for parents who do not want to have a gender specific ceremony.
What is brit Shalom?
A pointer used when reading from the Torah
What is a yad?
The two cities Abraham argued about with Adonai in an attempt to prevent their destruction
What are Sodom and Gomorrah?
The holiday on which we read the very end and the very beginning of the Torah
What is Simchat Torah?
The prayer book used on the High Holy Days
What is a machzor?
They are listed at the beginning of Avot v’Imahot
Who are the patriarchs and matriarchs?
A selection from the prophets read after the weekly parshah
What is a haftarah?
Jacob favored this son more than all the others
Who was Joseph?
What is ten?
A person trained in ancient and modern methods of circumcision
Who is a mohel?
Great Britain's pledge in 1917 to support a national home for the Jewish people
What was the Balfour Declaration?
Food provided by Adonai as the Israelites wandered the wilderness
What is manna?
Two midwives who defied Pharaoh's command to kill male Jewish children at birth
Who were Shifrah and Puah?
The total number of candles needed to light one hanukkiah for all the nights of Hanukkah
What is forty-four?
The ceremony in which a first born child is symbolically bought back from priestly service
What is pidyon haben?
The hebrew letters on a dreidel in Israel
What are נ ג ה פֹּ?
(nun, gimmel, hay, pey)?