Simchat Torah
Simchat Torah Continued
Books of the Torah
Torah Basics
Reading the Torah
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Simchat Torah.

What is the day we celebrate finishing the Torah?

100

This is how Simchat Torah is celebrated.

What is by taking the Torah scrolls out of the ark and dancing with them around the synagogue 7 times?

100

There are this many books to the Torah.

What is 5?

100

What does the word Torah mean?

What is to instruct?

100

This is the language of the Torah.

What is Hebrew?

200

The length of time it takes to read the Torah.

What is one year?

200

This holiday is celebrated on the same day as Simchat Torah.

What is Shemini Atzeret?

200

This is the first book to the Torah.

What is B'reisheit (Gensis)?

200

This is what makes up the Torah.

What is the Pentateuch, or the first five books of the Bible?

200
This is the direction in which the Torah is read.

What is left to right?

300

This is when Simchat Torah begins.

What is after the conclusion of Sukkot?

300

This is read immediately after the last words of the Torah.

What is the beginning of Genesis-the story of creation?

300

This book of the Torah tells the story of Passover and the Israelite's exit from Egypt.

What is Exodus?

300

These documents make up the Bible.

The Bible is made up of the Old Testament and the New Testament.

300

This is the number of sections or stories in the Torah.

What is 54?

400

This phrase is chanted when the Torah is completed.

What is Chazak! Chazak venit'chazek! (Be strong!  Be strong and let us strengthen one another!)

400

This is the subject of the last part of the Torah that is read on Simchat Torah.

What is Moses's life and legacy.

400

This is the last book of the Torah, that we finish on Simchat Torah.

What is D'varim (Deuteronomy)?

400

These things make up the Tanakh.

What are the Torah, Nevi'im (book of Prophets), Ketuvim (book of Writings).

400

This is the name of each Torah section that we read weekly.

What is a parsha?

500

This is the translation of the phrase Simchat Torah

What is rejoicing with the Torah?

500

This is the reason we start the Torah over immediately following its end.

What is: to demonstrate the cyclical relationship between us and the Torah?

500
Name all five books of the Torah.

What are Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy?

500

This is what's known as the "Old Testament."

What is the first 5 books, that also make up the Torah, Nevi'im and Ketuvim?  (It is also known as the Hebrew Bible.)

500

This is what "Genesis 5:10" means.

It is the book of Genesis, chapter 5, verse 10.


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