Mesorah
Who wrote the Mishna?
Rabbi Yehudah HaNassi
Whose passing do we commemorate on Lag Baomer?
Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
Date for Rosh Hashanah
Date for Yom Kippur
Date for Sukkot
1st Tishrei
10th Tishrei
15th Tishrei
What does every creation need to have in order to exist?
Nitzutz Eloki - G-dly spark
What Bracha do we make upon seeing a rainbow?
Zocher habrit v'neeman b'rito v'kayam b'maamaro
Names of the major Yeshivot in Bavel during the period of the Gaonim?
Sura and Pumpedisa
What date do we celebrate Purim?
What date do they celebrate Purim in Israel?
14th Adar
15th Adar
4 different names for Rosh Hashana
Rosh Hashana
Yom HaDin
Yom HaZikaron
Yom Teruah
What are the 4 categories of creation?
Domem - Inanimate
Tzomeach - Plants
Chai - Animals
Medaber - Humans
The four holiest cities of Israel:
Yerushalayim
Chevron
Tzfat
Teveriah
Who wrote Shulchan Aruch HaRav?
What else did he write?
Provide 2 names for him.
Alter Rebbe
Tanya
R' Shneor Zalman
At least three other names for Shavuot:
Zman Torateinu
Chag HaBikkurim
Chag HaKatzir
Atzeret
What is the 3rd of Tishrei, and what does it commemorate?
Tzom Gedaliah.
Gedaliah ben Achikam, the last Jewish sovereign of Israel after the destruction of the 1st Bhmk, was assassinated by Yishmael ben Netaniah, who wanted to be the leader.
This led to the last remnants of the Jews in Israel to be exiled.
Who named all the animals and how was he able to do so?
Adam HaRishon. Saw the alef-beit that created that animal, and enabled its existence, and used them to form the name .
Three people in Tanach whose names are palindromes:
Dovid דוד
Yishai ישי
Natan נתן
What was the Chofetz Chaim's name, and what did he write?
R' Yisroel Meir Kagan
The Mishnah Berurah
4 sets of 4 things connected to Pesach:
1. 4 sons (chacham, rasha, tam, she'eino yodeia lishol)
2. 4 expressions of freedom (vehotzeiti, vehitzalti, vegaalti, velakachti)
3. 4 cups of wine
4. 4 exiles (mitzrayim, bavel, yavan, edom)
What is the Shabbat between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur called, and why?
Shabbat Shuvah.
The Shabbat of 'returning' = Teshuvah
We read the Haftorah "Shuvah Yisrael ad Hashem Elokecha"
Terms for:
- Arrogance
- Humility
- Arrogant person
- Humble person
- Yeshus/Gaavah
- Bitul/Anivus
- Yesh/Baal Gaavah
- Anav
Avraham's father:
Moshe's father:
Rambam's father:
Rabbi Akiva's father:
Terach
Amram
Maimon
Yosef
What are Shu"tim? שו"תים
Provide an example of a famous Sefer Shu"tim.
Who wrote it?
She'eilot u'Teshuvot. Sefer on Halachic questions and answers . Responsa.
Igrot Moshe
R' Moshe Feinstein
Explain the Mashal/Nimshal of the radio in conjunction with Yom Tov.
Each Yom Tov, if we realise and understand the special power and extra G-dly energy that enters the world again, and tune into the correct station, ie: do the specific Mitzvot for each Yom Tov, we can connect to the special energy and use it to grow and improve.
5 things from which we abstain on Yom Kippur, and at least 2 things that they correspond to:
1. Food/drink
2. Leather shoes
3. Creams/ointments
4. Washing our body
5. Marital relations
Corresponding to:
- 5 books of the Torah
- 5 levels of the soul
- 5 Tefillot we daven on Yom Kippur
- 5 times the Kohen Gadol went to the Mikvah on Yom Kippur
Quote from the Gemara that shows us how very much Hashem dislikes the trait of arrogance:
Ein ani vehu yachol ladur bemakom echad
He and I cannot live in the same place
When did the following occur?
The year the Jews left Mitzrayim:
The days Esther fasted:
The year the 2nd Beit Hamikdash was destroyed:
The date for Lag B'aomer:
Fire was created:
2448
Pesach
70 CE
18th Iyar
Motzei Shabbat