ROSH
Customs
SHANA
Shofar
Apples & Honey
100

How many shofar sounds do we hear on Rosh Hashana day?

100

100

What is the first month of the Jewish calendar?

Tishrei

100

What is the date of Rosh Hashana? (2 days)

Alef and Bet Tishrei

100

What is the last month in the Jewish calendar?

Elul

100

Rosh Hashana falls during the month of _______

Tishrei

200

Why do we eat an apply dipped in honey on Rosh Hashana?

We hope to have a sweet new year!

200

Why do we say Shehecheyanu and eat a NEW fruit on Rosh Hashana?

To start the NEW year off with a bracha and mitzvah of NEWNESS

200
Why do many people eat round challah on Rosh Hashana?

Round and round like the year!

200

Why do we eat a pomegranate on Rosh Hashana?

We want to have as many mitzvot as the seeds

200

What part of the fish do some people eat on Rosh Hashana? Why?

The head- we don't want to be like the tail!

300

The shofar must come from an animal that is ______.

kosher

300

What are 3 things we do during the month of Elul?

1. Teshuva

2. Tefila

3. Tzedaka

300

The shofar is a reminder to ____________

wake up and do teshuva.

300

How many sounds of the shofar are there?

4 (or 3)

300

When we greet people on Rosh Hashana we say _______

Shana Tova.

400

Another name for Rosh Hashana is Yom Hadin because it is the day Hashem is ____________.

judging us!

400

Another name for Rosh Hashana has to do with the mitzvah of blowing the shofar. It is ________.

Yom Teruah

400

Yom Hazikaron is one of the names for Rosh Hashana because it is the day that _________

Hashem remembers all of the people and all of the deeds of the last year. 

400

We imagine that Hashem has a scale and is weighing our mitzvot and aveirot. 

Which side do we hope is heavier?

Mitzvot!!

400

We pray to God as our ________ and our _______.

father and king

500
The letters in אלול stand for ___________

אני לדודי ודודי לי 

500

There are  ____ steps in doing Teshuva. 

3

500

Can you name all of the shofar sounds?

Tekiah _______________

Shvarim _______ _______ _______

Teruah - - - - - - - - - - - 

Tekiah Gedola ____________________________

500

On Rosh Hashana we go to the river and say _____. We ask Hashem to send our _______ down the river with the fish!

Tashlich

aveirot (or sins)

500

What is the most important thing to remember about Rosh Hashana?

Hashem is the king of the world!

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