Bereshit and Shemot
Name the three forefathers in English and Hebrew
Who are Abraham/Avraham, Isaac/Yitzhak, and Jacob/Yaakov
What is Achashverosh and Haman?
Where the mishkan was built
What is in the desert?
The number of days in the Omer
What is 49?
The Hebrew word for verse
What is pasuk?
Where was Joseph thrown into and by whom?
What is a pit and his brothers?
This is the first holiday in the 7th month of the year (according to the Torah)
What is Rosh Hashanah?
What the mishkan was mostly used for
What is sacrifices?
What omer means
What is a measure of grain?
What Bamidbar means in English
What is in the desert/wilderness?
The names and defining traits of Isaac's twin sons
What are
Esau - outdoorsman, hunter
Jacob - domestic, "mama's boy"
The personalities of the four children in the Passover seder
What are the wise child, the wicked child, the simple child, and the one who does not know how to ask?
Name 2 objects that were found in the Mishkan
What is:
The copper basin
The altar
The menorah
The shulhan for the showbread
The keruvim
The parochet
The kaporet
The ark
The incense altar
The person whose book we read on Shavuot
What is Ruth?
The name of the 3rd book of the Torah
What is Vayikra or Leviticus?
The names of the midwives who disobeyed Pharaoh
Bonus: The names of the actual characters the commentators thought were the midwives
Who are Shifra and Puah?
Who are Yocheved and Miriam?
Name and briefly explain the concept of the Hebrew word for "repentance/return"
What is Teshuva?
We ask forgiveness from people we've hurt during the year and strive to do better
Name 2 objects we have in a sanctuary/chapel today that come from the mishkan
Ark - aron
Parochet
Menorah
Shulhan
Tablets/Torah
Ner Tamid
What was brought to the Temple on Shavuot
What are the first fruits of the harvest as an offering to God?
Explain B'tzelem Elohim (bonus points if you remember what context we talked about this in)
The idea that we are all created in God's image and deserve to be treated with respect
Name three things that happen in the book of Shemot
The Exodus
the burning bush
building the mishkan
receiving the torah
the golden calf
This holiday originally took place in the Mishkan
What is Yom Kippur?
The name of the back room in the sanctuary (the hidden room) and its significance to the ritual life of the Israelites
Kodesh HaKodashim - The Holy of Holies
Only Aaron would go there once a year on Yom Kippur to repent for the people's sins (and his own)
What is between people and God and between people?
Explain Shemita and Yovel
Letting the land rest in the 7th year and the jubilee in the 50th year