What's in a Name?
This is the English Name of the First Amidah Prayer
What are Ancestors?
What is the first thing one does when beginning the Amidah portion of the service?
Take three steps backwards and three steps forward
Who are the male identified ancestors listed in the first Amidah prayer?
Who are Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
When in the Jewish calendar year do we switch to the summer line?
What is the first day of Pesach / Passover?
What is the Hebrew word for “world” or “forever/eternity?”
What is עוֹלָם ?
What does the leader do when chanting the words:
“זֶה אֶל זֶה" ?
Bow left and right
This is the English Name of the Second Amidah Prayer
What is Divine Power?
Why does one take steps backwards and forwards when beginning the Amidah?
What is entering into prayer with intention/kavana/reverence (or similar)?
Who are the female identified ancestors listed in the first Amidah prayer?
Who are Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah?
When in the Jewish calendar year do we switch to the winter line?
What is the end of Sukkot?
What does נוֹרָא mean in English?
What is “awesome?”
What does the action that goes along with “זֶה אֶל זֶה" simulate?
Simulates angels greeting one another
This is the Hebrew name for the First Amidah Prayer
What is Avot V’Imot
What does the leader do after taking the steps but before chanting the first Amidah prayer?
What is silently reading the first line?
What do we ask for / indicate in the (seasonal) second line of the 2nd Amidah prayer?
What is “sending the dew?”
When singing the opening Bracha and closing bracha of the First Amidah prayer, what does the leader do physically?
What is bend the knees and bow?
What is the three letter Hebrew root (shorash) from where the word, “Hallelujah!” comes?
What is ה-ל-ל
What prayer ends the Amidah portion of the service?
What is the Kaddish Titkabal?
This is the Hebrew Name of the second Amidah prayer
What is Gevurot?
What is the purpose of the first line of the Amidah before chanting?
Asking G-d to prepare you/open your lips to declare their praise
What do we ask for /indicate in the (seasonal) third line of the 2nd Amidah prayer?
What is “wind to blow and rain to fall?”
What does this word mean in English: שְׂפָתַיִם
What are Lips?
This is the Hebrew word for “life.”
What is חַי ?
During the prayer that ends the Amidah portion of the service, what does one do to signify this closing? There are several parts to this answer.
One bows, takes three steps back, bows left, right, and center.
What is the approximate meaning of the word “Kedusha”?
What is “Make holy” (Holy/holiness is acceptable)
What physical movement do you make when singing Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh?
What is raise up on toes three times?
In the Kedusha, Who calls out/greets one another in the prayer?
Who are angels?
There are three separate incidents in the Kedusha where congregants do the same movement. What is the movement?
Raise up on toes?
What does the expression “L’dor Vador” mean?
From generation to generation
When closing out the Amidah portion of the service, what prayer / sentence / expression is recited at the very end of the prayer that begins the closing of the portion of the service? Three words or so will be a sufficient answer.
What is “Oseh Shalom Bimromav …”
What does the word “Amidah” mean?
What is “Standing”
At the end of the Kedusha, what does the leader and congregation do next?
Continues silently (while reading additional Amidah prayers or in their own silent meditation)
What is the Hebrew name for the heavenly beings mentioned in the Kedusha?
What are Seraphim שְּׂרָפִ֔ים
In what physical position is the congregation during the Amidah?
What is standing?
What is the three letter Shorash / root for “stand”
what is ע-מ-ד
What does the Rabbi or leader request of the congregation before entering into the Amidah portion of the service?
Not to enter or exit the sanctuary for the duration of the Amidah service