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100

The age at which you are required to start fasting.

What is 12 and 13?

100
The name of the prayer book we use on Yom Kippur.
What is Machzor?
100

This is where most people spend their day on Yom Kippur.

What is synagogue?

100

If you are old, pregnant, or sick you do not need to do this on Yom Kippur.

What is Fast?

200

The number of prayer services on Yom Kippur.

What is 5?

200

The name of the book from the Torah we read on Yom Kippur.

What is Jonah?

200

This is the color some people wear on Yom Kippur.

What is white?

200

The name of the meal you eat after Yom Kippur.

What is Breakfast?

300

The number of hours we don't eat or drink for.

What is 25?

300

This is what you may hear at the end of the day on Yom Kippur.

What is a shofar blast?

300

The material of shoes we don't wear on Yom Kippur.

What is leather?


300

This is the name of the ceremony where we throw bread into a moving body of water to symbolize casting away our sins.

What is Tashlich?

400

The time of day that Yom Kippur begins.

What is before sundown? (18 minutes before to be exact)

400

The name of the prayer we say on the eve of Yom Kippur. (hint: The name of the prayer is the same as the name of the evening service.)

What is Kol Nidrei?

400

The common greeting on this holiday.

What is "have an easy fast" or "gmar chatima tova"?

400

The name of the war that took place on Yom Kippur in Israel in 1973.

What is the Yom Kippur war?

500

If Rosh Hashanah starts on the 1st day of Tishrei, what day of the month does Yom Kippur fall?

What is day 10?

500
The final words we say after the shofar blast.
What is "Next Year in Jerusalem?"
500

Yom Kippur is the only time during the year that this is worn at NIGHT.

What is a Tallit?

500

Major League Baseball player who did not play in Game 1 of the World Series because the game was on Yom Kippur.

Who is Sandy Koufax?

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