Shofar
Hebrew Terms
Rosh Hashanah Customs
Rosh Hashanah Facts
Rosh Hashanah
Odds & Ends
100
The animal from which we get the shofar.
What is a ram
100

The literal meaning of the words Rosh Hashanah.

What is Head of the Year?

100
Something we eat to symbolize a sweet year.
What are apples and honey
100

The number of days that we celebrate Rosh Hashanah.

What is two

100

Rosh Hashanah celebrates the birthday of what.

What is the world?

200

The name for the longest shofar blast.

What is "teki'ah gedolah"?

200

The Hebrew greeting we say to one another on Rosh Hashanah.

What is Shanah Tovah

200
What we send to friends and relatives on Rosh Hashanah.
What is New Year's cards
200

This is one of the names of the forefathers or foremothers we read about on Rosh HaShanah.

Who is Abraham, Isaac, and Sarah.

200

The Torah reading on the first day of Rosh Hashanah is about the birth of ________.

Who is Isaac?

300
The name of one long blast on the shofar.
What is Tekia
300

The name of the Hebrew month in which Rosh Hashanah falls.

What is Tishrei

300
Something special about the challah on Rosh Hashanah.
What is that it is round
300
The number of days from Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur.
What is ten
300

This is the name of the person who sings for the congregation.

What is a "cantor"?

400
The name of three short blasts on the shofar.
What is Shevarim
400

This means Our Father, Our King.

What is Avinu Malkeinu.

400
The ceremony in which we symbolically throw away our sins.
What is Tashlich
400

What we call the special prayer book used on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

What is the Machzor

400

This is the name of the book we ask to be written into on Rosh HaShanah.

What is the "Book of Life"?

500
The name of nine short blasts on the shofar.
What is Teruah
500

This phrase is how we greet someone on the Sabbath.

What is "Shabbat Shalom"?

500

The name for Rosh HaShanah Eve in Hebrew

What is "Erev Rosh HaShanah"

500

Rosh Hashanah will begin this Hebrew year.

What is 5785?

500

The Haftarah on the first day of Rosh Hashanah is about this woman who prays to God for a child.

Who is Hannah?

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