Hebrew Terms
General Sukkot Questions
Lulav
100

The Hebrew name for the hut we sit in during the holiday.

What is a Sukkah?

100

The name of the holiday that we are in the middle of celebrating.

What is Sukkot?

100

The number of species that we use.

What is 4?

200

The name of the holiday that comes after Sukkot.

What is Simchat Torah?

200

The number of walls that a Sukkah must have.

What is 3.5?

200

The number of directions that we shake the lulav and etrog.

What is 6?

300

The English translation of Simchat Torah.

What is "Happiness of the Torah"?

300

The way that people make a Sukkah feel like a home.

What is decorating, eating, and/or sleeping in the Sukkah?

300

The body part that represents the lulav.

What is the spine?

400

The Hebrew name for the measurements of the Sukkah.

What are Tefachim?

400

The minimum measurements that sukkah must have.

What is 28 x 40?

400

The Hebrew name for myrtle branches.

What is hadasim?

500

The name of the Hebrew month that Sukkot falls in.

What is Tishrei

500
The reason we build these huts.

To remember the huts the Jewish people built when they wandered the desert for 40 years.

500

The name of the small piece on the end of the etrog.

What is a pitom?