Shabbat and Calendar
Tu B'Shvat
Prayer & God
Torah & mitzvot
History
200
This is the name for the day that God rested after 6 days of creation
What is Shabbat
200
This Jewish holiday is known as the “Birthday of the Trees.”
What is Tu B'Shvat
200
This is something families do at home that helps children feel connected to being Jewish.
What is a Jewish practice or tradition?
200
The first book of the Torah, which tells the stories of creation, Adam and Eve, Noah, and Abraham, is called this.
What is Genesis (Bereishit)?
200
This country's national flag features a blue Star of David between two horizontal stripes.
What is Israel?
300
These four holidays are at the beginning of the Jewish calendar
Rosh Hashannah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Simchat Torah
300
Tu B’Shvat is traditionally connected to enjoying fruits, especially those grown in this place/land.
What is the Land of Israel?
300
Name one way someone might feel connected to God or show care for others in everyday life.
(open ended, no one correct answer)
300
In Judaism, actions like giving to the poor, visiting the sick, or helping a neighbor are examples of this type of Mitzvah.
What tzdakah (charity)?
Also acceptable: good deeds
300
This country is considered the historic and modern homeland of the Jewish people.
What is Israel?
450
This holiday celebrating exodus from Egypt.
What is Passover?
450
The name ט׳ו בשבת comes from Hebrew letters that together represent this number on the Jewish calendar.
What is 15?
(ט=9, ו=6)
450
This is an example of how a person can show kindness and responsibility toward people, animals, or the earth.
(open ended, no one correct answer)
450
The Torah is divided into these sections, read weekly in synagogue, with each one telling part of the story from the five books of Moses.
What are parashot (or weekly portions)?
450
This city is Israel’s capital, where the government works, and it is also a holy city for Judaism, with sites like the Western Wall.
What is Jerusalem?
600
(Recite) the three blessings said at the Shabbat table on Friday Night
...Boreh Pri HaGafen
...Lehadlik Ner Shel Shabbat
...Hamotzi Lechem Min Haaretz
600
Although it often falls in winter in the U.S., Tu B’Shvat reflects the time when this natural change begins in Israel.
What is the start of new tree growth (sap rising / new agricultural year for trees)?
600
Through stories, names, and questions, Judaism shows that there are many ways to think about this.
What are ways of understanding God?
600
Lighting Shabbat candles, giving charity on Yom Kippur, or eating matzah on Passover are examples of mitzvot that connect Jewish practice to this.
What are holidays and daily life?
600
In 1492, Jews were forced to leave this European country, and many also fled Portugal shortly afterward, spreading Jewish communities across Europe and the Ottoman Empire.
What is Spain?
700
This is the proper Hebrew greeting for during a holiday.
Chag Sameach
700
Bal tashchit is a Jewish value that reminds us not to waste or harm nature, including by doing this to trees.
What is destroying trees?
700
Name one way a person might act as a partner with God by helping make their community more just or caring.
(open-ended, no one correct answer)
700
Books like Shemot, Vayikra, and Bamidbar include both these kinds of mitzvot: ones that tell us to do something, and ones that tell us not to do something.
What are positive and negative mitzvot (do’s and don’ts)?
700
After being expelled from Spain and Portugal, many Jews found safety in this empire, where they built thriving communities in cities like Istanbul, Salonica, and Jerusalem.
What is the Ottoman Empire?