Shofar
Hebrew Terms
Rosh Hashanah Customs
Rosh Hashanah Facts
Rosh Hashanah
Odds & Ends
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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
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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 day on which we are NOT allowed to blow the shofar on Rosh Hashanah.
What is Shabbat
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
The color of the Torah covers on Rosh Hashanah.
What is white
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
Name any three Hebrew months.
What are Tishrei, Heshvan, Tevet, Kislev, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul
400
The name of three short blasts on the shofar.
What is Shevarim
400
The meaning of the word Teshuvah.
What is repentance OR to turn
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
It is the minor fast day that occurs right after Rosh Hashanah.
What is Tzom Gedalia (the fast of Gedalia)
500
The name of nine short blasts on the shofar.
What is Teruah
500
Another Hebrew name for Rosh Hashanah.
What is Yom HaZikaron (Day of Remembrance), Yom Teruah (Day of sounding of the shofar) OR Yom HaDin (Day of Judgment)
500
The name of the special service held at midnight the Saturday before Rosh Hashanah.
What is Selichot
500

It is now 2021, but Rosh Hashanah will begin what Hebrew year.

What is 5782

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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