Rosh Hodesh
The Jewish calendar is based on this element in the sky.
What is the moon?
Challah is made in this shape to represent the New Year.
What is round?
We wear clothes of this color (and the Torah is dressed in this color) to show we want to be pure and clean for the New Year.
What is white?
The last month of the Jewish year has this name in Hebrew.
What is Elul?
Rosh Hashanah is the first day of this Hebrew month.
What is Tishrei?
This fruit symbolizes the 613 mitzvot we aim to do in the New Year.
What is a pomegranate?
This is the holiday greeting for Rosh Hashanah.
What is "L'shana tova tiketeivu?"
Elul is our designated time to reflect on our actions and make plans to do better in the New Year. What is this process called in Hebrew?
What is Teshuvah?
Jewish women received this gift in reward for not contributing their jewels to the golden calf.
What is Rosh Hodesh?
We dip this fruit into this liquid to pray for a sweet New Year.
What are apples and honey?
On Rosh Hashanah we symbolically throw away our sins by throwing this item into water.
What are bread crumbs?
Elul stands for “I am my beloved and my beloved is mine.” How is this connected to the spirit of the High Holy Days?
?What is, because we want to be positive and loving to ourselves and others?
Starting on Rosh Hodesh, we blow the shofar every day during this month.
What is Elul?
In Sephardic families it is traditional to place the head of this animal on the Rosh Hashanah Table.
What is fish?
A kid favorite ritual that happens towards the end of the service on Rosh hashanah and the very end of the day on Yom Kippur.
What is blowing the shofar?
This is the Hebrew month after Elul.
What is Tishrei?