Teshuvah Month
What is the Hebrew name of the month we are in now?
אלול
What is the date of Rosh Hashanah?
Aleph and bet Tishrei
What special thing do some people do with the challah on Rosh Hashanah?
make it in the shape of a circle
or
dip it in honey
What are the three types of blasts we blow on rosh hashana? Please act it out.
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shevarim -------- ---------- ----------
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What special prayer do we add to both the Amidah and Birkat Hamazon on Rosh Hashana?
Yaaleh veyavo
What does the word Elul stand for?
אני לדודי ודודי לי - I am for my beloved as my beloved is for me
Rosh Hashana is the day _______ was created.
Adam
Name four simanim that we eat on Rosh Hashanah.
apple, honey, pomegranate, dates, leaks, carrots, head of a fish etc...
How many shofar blasts are blown each day of Rosh Hashanah?
100
What do we express or symbolize at tashlich?
emptying ourselves of our sins
What additional tefilla do Ashkenazim say during the entire month of Elul?
לדוד ה' אורי וישעי
List three out of four names for Rosh Hashanah?
Yom Hadin
Yom Hazikaron
Yom Teruah
Hayom Harat Olam
We try not to __________ on Rosh Hashanah.
sleep
What brachot do we make on shofar blowing?
Lishmoa Kol Shofar and shehechiyanu
During Aseret yemei teshuva we switch from Ha'el Hakadosh to ________ and from Melech ohev Tsedaka Umishpat to _________?
Hamelech Hakadosh
Hamelech Hamishpat
What tefilla do Sephardim add during the entire month of Elul (that ashkenazim don't add until the end of the month)?
סליחות
How many days are there between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur? What are these days called?
10, Aseret Yemei Teshuva
Since we have a "safeik" if we should recite Shehechiyanu during Kiddush on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, we do our best to eat a new __________ to validate making the shehechiyanu even according to those that say there is no need.
fruit
Which animal's horn do we use as a shofar AND WHY?
Rams horn
It reminds us of Akeidat Yitzchak
Name two out of four other additions to the Amidah?
(besides for the hamelech additions)
Zochreinu Lechaim
Kotveinu Lechaim
Ubesefer Chaim Bracha Veshalom
Oseh Hashalom
When do Ashkenazim usually begin Selichot?
Motzei Shabbat before Rosh Hashanah
What are the names of the three special sections of mussaf on Rosh Hashana?
מלכיות
זכרונות
שופרות
On which day of Rosh Hashanah do we usually say tashlich? (unless it is Shabbat)
the second day of Rosh Hashanah
What is the name of the tefillah we say before blowing shofar?
Lamnatzeach livnie Korach Mizmor
What is the Halacha if someone didn't switch to Hamelech Hamishpat? (According to Ashkenazim or Sephardim)
Ashkenazim-continue (don't repeat)
Sephardim- If you finished the amidah you must repeat. if you did not you go back to that bracha.