Everything On the Table
Something we eat to symbolize a sweet new year.
What is apples and honey?
Shofars originate from this farm animal.
What is a ram?
What is Rosh Hashanah?
What is the beginning of the Jewish new year?
This body of water, located in Israel, is the lowest point on Earth at 430 meters below sea level.
What is the Dead Sea?
What is to hear the shofar?
Shape of challah for Rosh Hashanah.
What is round?
Name or imitate one of the three sounds a shofar makes.
What is: Tekiah, Teruah and Sh'varim?
Common greeting wishing someone a Happy Rosh Hashanah in Hebrew?
What is Shana Tova Umetukah?
This popular mobile navigation app was invented in Israel and later purchased by Google.
What is Waze?
Something you CANNOT do on Yom Kippur.
What is eating, drinking, wearing leather shoes, showering, putting on perfume etc.
Table centrepiece to symbolize being the 'head' of the new year.
What is a fish head?
Blowing the shofar is supposed to remind us to...
What is "wake up" and apologize for all the things we did wrong throughout the year?
This fruit, eaten on Rosh Hashanah, is filled with seeds and symbolizes abundance and righteousness.
What is a pomegranate?
This coffee company tried to open branches in Israel and failed, despite their massive success practically everywhere else in the world.
What is Starbucks?
Colour of clothes traditionally worn on Yom Kippur.
What is white?
Two of the seven fruits or vegetables listed in the Torah - also called the Seven Species of Israel.
What is: wheat, barley, grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives and dates?
During the Jewish month of _, the shofar is blown every day leading up to Rosh Hashanah.
What is Elul?
Definition of the word 'teshuvah'.
What is: repent or return?
On this day of the year, the roads in Israel are basically empty the entire day.
What is Yom Kippur?
A story read on Yom Kippur about a man who gets swallowed by a fish.
What is the Book of Jonah?
One of the foods we do NOT eat on Rosh Hashanah.
What are nuts?
According to tradition, the shofar from a ram's horn specifically symbolizes this event in Jewish history, where a ram was sacrificed in place of someone. (Hint: we read this story on Rosh Hashanah)
What is the story of Akeidat Yitzchak (Sacrificing Isaac)?
There are _ days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, referred to as the Days of Awe.
What is 10 days?
Every year, this number of notes are left in the Kotel (Western Wall) and are cleaned out before every Passover and Rosh Hashana.
What is one million?
Ritual of "throwing away your sins" that involves throwing bread into water, traditionally done on the second day of Rosh Hashanah.
What is Tashlich?