Ivrit
These are the first and last letters of the Hebrew alphabet
Alef and Tav
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth...what did God do on the 7th day?
Rested...it was Shabbat!
Name the 4 Fall Holidays on the Jewish Calendar
Rosh Hashanah (The New Year) , Yom Kippur (The Day of Repentance), Sukkot (Festival of Booths), & Simchat Torah (Happiness of the Torah)
Who was the person to lead the Jewish people out of Egypt?
Moses
"Shimon Omer - put your hand on your ROSH"
Hand on your HEAD
Read this word in Hebrew
רֶגֶל
Leg (Regel)
Noah had to build an ark to hold a lot of animals. How many of each kind of animal did God tell Noah he had to bring with him?
2 pairs of each non-kosher animals
7 pairs of kosher animals
What are three foods traditionally eaten on Rosh Hashanah?
Round Challah, Apples, Honey
Also accepted - pomegranates, fish (heads), carrots, dates
Moses had 2 siblings. What were their names?
Aaron & Miriam
Put your HANDS on your STOMACH
Read this word in Hebrew:
הַבְדָלָה
Havdalah
In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve ate from which tree?
The tree of knowledge
1. Not wearing leather shoes on Yom Kippur
2. No bathing or washing
3. No putting on lotions or oils
4. Wearing white
Miriam was Moses's older sister. She did two major things in the Passover story. Name one.
-put Moses in the basket and guarded him as he went down the river until he was found by the Egyptian princess
-sang songs with the other women to lead the people after they went through the sea of reeds to celebrate their freedom
"Shimon Omer - put your YADAYIM on your BERCHAYIM"
Put your HANDS on your KNEES
Read these two words in Hebrew:
גֶשֶׁם שֶׁמֶשׁ
Geshem (rain) Shemesh (sun)
Rebecca ended up being married to Isaac, the son of Abraham and Sarah. What did Rebecca do to make Eliezer (the servant of Abraham) think she was the perfect wife for Isaac.
She got water from the well for all 7 of the camels after they had been walking in the desert for a long time. (That's A LOT of water!)
During Sukkot one of the mitzvahs done on this holiday is to build a sukkah (booth). What is the name of the top of the sukkah? (hint...it's Christina's favorite Hebrew word!)
Bonus 200 points if you can tell us what it should be made of...
S'chach
Bonus answer: S'chach has to be made from things that have "grown from the ground", such as palm leaves, bamboo sticks and pine tree branches.
What challenge did Moses have that his brother Aaron helped him with?
He had a stutter, so Aaron helped speak to people with Moses.
Put your HANDS on your EARS
How many final letters are there in the Hebrew alphabet and name them.
5 final letters: final mem, final tzadee, final chaf, final nun, and final fey
Abraham and Sarah
At Simchat Torah the tradition is the celebrate the Torah. The Torah is danced with and then unrolled around the entire room with people holding it up. What is the tradition done once the Torah is unscrolled?
In one big breath, a person reads the final line of Torah and then runs to the beginning of the Torah and reads the first line. That way the cycle of reading the Torah is never broken.
How many plagues were there in the Passover story and list them.
10 plagues: blood, frogs, lice, wild animals, flies/ pestilence, boils, hail, locusts, darkness, death of the first born
Put your YAD on your PEH
You shouldn't have moved! I didn't say Shimon Omer!