Define these
Yiddish Words
Yiddish Words
Schlep
to drag, haul, or carry something heavy and cumbersome
Which holiday commemorates the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai?
Shavuot
What is the neutral food category in kosher law that is neither meat nor dairy called
Pareve
What are the long, curly sidelocks worn by some Orthodox Jewish men called
Payot
Name 3 former Presidents of the JSA
Nilli Fox
Eytan Kent
Ella Buchsbayew
Sonya Kest
Noam Karger
Kvetch
To complain or whine a lot.
What holiday begins on the 15th of the Hebrew month of Shevat and is considered the New Year for Trees?
Tu Bshvat
If I buy a brand-new metal pot from a non-Jewish store, what must I do before using it for kosher food
Tovel it
What is the name of the ritual bath used for spiritual purification in Jewish law
Mikvah
Name all the Weiss Brothers
Yosef
Ephraim
Mordechai
Meshuga
Crazy
Name the things on the Seder Plate
Maror (bitter herbs)
Charoset (sweet mixture of fruit/nuts/wine)
Karpas (vegetable, usually parsley)
Z’roa (roasted shank bone)
Beitzah (roasted egg)
Chazeret (second bitter herb, often romaine lettuce)
If a small amount of non-kosher food accidentally falls into kosher food, what ratio is generally required for it to be nullified?
1/60
What is the name of the custom where a chicken (or money) is swung over someone’s head before Yom Kippur as a symbolic atonement ritual?
Kaparot
Name of the Toaster that is brought out at Bagel Brunch
Ava
Shmata
Rag
What is the minimum number of food items and minimum number of people you must give mishloach manot to on Purim?
2 food items to one person
A dairy knife was used within the last 24 hours (ben yomo). It was then cleaned with water so that no dairy residue is on the knife. The person then goes and cuts a raw carrot on a clean dairy cutting board. The carrot is immediately added to a meat pot and cooked with meat. What is the status of the pot and food?
Answer:
Both the carrot and the meat pot remain permitted.
What is the ceremony called where a firstborn Jewish boy is symbolically “redeemed” 30 days after birth?
Pidyon Haben
Jack Appelbaum's middle name
Henry
Shver un Shvigger
Father-in-law and mother-in-law
What are the minimum number (Extra Credit (types of sounds required when blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah
A minimum of 30 sounds (three sets of Tekiah–Shevarim–Teruah–Tekiah), according to Ashkenazi custom
You want to make a cup of tea on Shabbat using a tea bag. You have hot water available from a Shabbat-approved urn. How should you properly make the tea according to halacha? Be very specific!
1️ Pour hot water from the urn into a cup — this cup becomes a kli sheni (not a kli rishon).
2️ Pour the hot water from the kli sheni into another cup — this second cup becomes a kli shlishi.
3️ Only in the kli shlishi do you place the tea bag or pour the water over the tea bag.
What is the name of the Ukrainian city that many Jewish pilgrims travel to for Rosh Hashanah
Uman
Who was the Italian Speaker (Who wore extremley tight pants) at Hillel. Also, he is forever memorilized in FFB Films.
Lugi Toscano