Blessings/prayer
Activities
Values
Myths and Legends
Food
100

The Most important prayer in the service, it involves closing our eyes. 

What is the Shema

100

Typically around the time of their 13th birthday, Jewish kids are called up to lead a Torah service for the first time in this special celebration. 

what is a bar/bat/b'nei mitzvah

100

This word is typically one of the first that hebrew language learners learn. It can mean "hello," "goodbye," or "peace," depending on context. 

what is shalom

100

In the story of exodus, Moses supposedly led the Israelites out of this country

what is Egypt

100

This holiday is typically associated with apples and honey and marks the end of the hebrew calendar. 

what is Rosh Hashanah

200

After each meal, we say this blessing to say thanks for our food. 

what is Birkat hamazon

200

On purim, it is traditional to give your friends and family baskets of fruit, hamentachen and goodies known as...

what is mishloach manot

200

this term has been used in study and in music and means we do things in the image of god. 

What is b'tzelem elohim

200

This was the ancient name found in the torah for the place that is now called Israel and Palestine

what is canaan

200

Each Purim, we make delicious triangle-shaped cookies called hamentaschen. The cookies get their name from the villain of the Purim story, Hamman, and their shape from this article of clothing.

What is a hat

300

This is typically the last prayer that signifies the end of a service. 

what is Adon Olam

300

Put these holidays in order from earliest on the calendar (January 1) to latest on the calendar (December 31) 

Passover, yom kippur, tu b'shevat, hanukkah, purim. 

what is tu b'shevat, purim, yom kippur, hanukkah. 

300

When finding a lost item, we typically decide whether to find the owner by checking the item for...

what are name tags/identifiers/signs of ownership

300

The story of Purim is said to have taken place while the Israelites were in exile, living in this ancient kingdom. 

What is Shushan/Persia

300

This boiled, donut-shaped version of bread was invented by jews in Eastern Europe and has since become iconic in places such as New York City, California, and Montreal, Canada. Erez also likes this food a lot <3

What is a bagel

400

the blessing for tree-based foods, ground based foods, and grapes all have the same Baruch atah adonai beginning but they each end differently. name two of the three endings (bonus 50 points for getting all three)

what are borei pri haetz, borei pri ha'adamah, and borei pri hagafen

400

This game what first invented in Israel in the 1970s and is widely played in summer camps across the United States. It involves players pushing a ball around a sandpit until the ball hits a player's leg, at which point they are eliminated. 

what is Gagaball

400

These are four examples of mitzvot/good deeds. (20 second time limit)

open-ended. 

400

On Mount Sinai, Moses received the first ten commandments. The rest of the Torah gives us many more commandments, which add up to this many in total. 

what is 613

400

Kosher law says that foods of these two types must be separated. 

what are meat and dairy

500

We need a certain number of people to lead prayers. 

what is a minyan

500

during weekdays and occasionally at festivals, jews will put these (usually leather) wrappings around their head and arms and say a prayer. 

what are tefillin

500

_____ are central to Judaism. Two of them in the story of Adam and Eve, they have their own dedicated celebration and their fruits like ___ which appear in stories like noah's ark and ______ which appear in holidays like Rosh Hashanah.  

What are trees, Olives and Apples

500

This creature is famous in jewish foklore for protecting the jewish people if Prague. The story goes that the creature was built from clay and when finished, god breathed life into the clay statue, making it come alive. 

what is the Golem

500

This is the direct translation of the word Challah

What is, "burnt offering"

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