The Basics
This holiday is known as the Jewish New Year.
What is Rosh Hashanah?
We dip apples in this sweet food.
What is honey?
The shofar is made from this animal’s horn.
What is a ram?
People often go to synagogue to do this.
What is pray?
We dip apples in honey to symbolize this kind of year.
What is a sweet year?
Rosh Hashanah lasts this many days.
What is two days?
Round challah is shaped like this to show the year goes on and on.
What is a circle?
We blow this instrument in synagogue on Rosh Hashanah.
What is the shofar?
During Tashlich, people throw bread into this.
What is water (a river, lake, or stream)?
Round challah represents this concept about time and life.
What is the cycle (continuity) of the year?
Rosh Hashanah usually happens in this season.
What is fall (autumn)?
This fruit has many seeds and is often eaten on Rosh Hashanah.
What is a pomegranate?
The loud, long final blast of the shofar is called this.
What is Tekiah Gedolah?
We think about our actions and try to do this for the new year.
What is improve / be better?
Tashlich is performed near a body of water to symbolically cast off this.
What are sins?
The Jewish month Rosh Hashanah begins in is called this.
What is Tishrei?
some families eat a fish head to “be like the ___ and not the tail.”
What is the head?
The story of this man and his son Isaac is connected to the ram’s horn.
Who is Abraham?
The 10 days from Rosh Hashanah to this holiday are called the Days of Awe.
What is Yom Kippur?
The pomegranate is said to contain this number of seeds, symbolizing the mitzvot.
What is 613?
The greeting people say means “Good Year.”
What is Shana Tova?
This sweet carrot dish is often served and is called?
What is tzimmes?
Rosh Hashanah is also called this in the Torah, meaning “Day of Blowing.”
What is Yom Teruah?
We ask God to write us in this for a good year.
What is the Book of Life?
This Hebrew greeting means “May you be inscribed and sealed for a good year.”
What is L’shanah Tovah Tikatevu v’Techatemu?