Things in a Synagogue
Where the Torah is kept
The two kinds of food that are kept separate
What are meat and milk?
When a boy turns 13 and is called up to the Torah.
What is a Bat Mitzvah?
There are five of them.
How many books of the Torah are there?
The Bima
What is the raised platform from where the Torah is read?
The holiday were silverware and dishes used during the year are put away and only special silverware and dishes are used.
What is Passover?
Traditionally (not modern) the age a girl is considered a Bat Mitzvah.
What is twelve?
What Bershit (often referred to as Genesis)means?
What is "In the beginning"?
It hangs above the ark and is never off.
What is the Eternal Light?
The letter K or the letter U inside of a circle
What are symbols that certify food is kosher
when people come to your house to mourn for eight days after a death.
What is a shiva?
On Rosh Hashana
When do we start to re-read the entire Torah?
It's used because your hands cannot touch the actual Torah scroll.
What is a Yad?
Quickly, humanely, and without pain
How are animals slaughtered to be consider kosher?
The canopy under which a Jewish couple marries
What is a chuppah?
Has to be burned re-written by hand it all over again from the start
What happens if there is a mistake in the handwritten Torah?
Because there was only one, and it is in Jerusalem.
Why Orthodox Jews won't use the word "Temple" but call it a "Synagogue" or "shul".
Pork (animals with hooves), shellfish, and birds of prey to name a few.
What are food which are forbidden in a kosher diet?
prayer said for the dead
What is the Kaddish?
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How many letters are there in the Torah?