Vocab
The land of Israel
This important figure helped lead the Jews out of Egypt and had "a heavy tongue"
Who is Moses?
There are ten _______ in the Passover story.
What are plagues?
The holiday where we celebrate the Jewish new year
What is Rosh Hashanah?
We recite this blessing while covering our eyes.
HINT: We are supposed to say it in the morning right when we wake up, before we even open our eyes, and right before we go to bed.
What is the shema?
The people of Israel
What is Am Yisrael?
Moses's brother and right hand man
Who is Aaron?
These materials were placed in two different bowls in this fable/story about how Moses got his "heavy tongue"
What are gold and burning coals?
Two holidays celebrated with a festive seder meal
What is Passover and Tu B'Shevat?
This "sea" in Israel is not a sea at all, and is known for it's saltiness and healing mud. It's so salty you can only float in it!
What is the Dead Sea?
Hebrew word for "commandment"
What is mitzvot?
This guy got eaten by a giant fish!
Who is Jonah?
It is said that this mountain (in the desert) bloomed with green and flowers when God offered the Israelites the Ten Commandments
What is Mount Sinai?
We celebrate this holiday by dressing up in costume, putting on "shpiels" and eating hamentashen.
What is Purim?
The man who founded the Zionist movement and convened the first World Zionist Convention
Who is Theodore Herzl?
Hebrew for "Acts of loving kindness"
What is "G'milut Hassadim"?
The Persian Queen who hid her identity as a Jew and saved her people.
Who is Esther?
The Israelites were forced to wander in the desert for 40 years after this event
Some variation of "When the 12 scouts came back from Canaan, and only 2 of them had faith"
Two holidays that last for more than one day
The first six hebrew words of every blessing
What is "Baruch ata Adonai elohainu melech ha olam"
"Evil Speech" or "evil tongue"
What is L'shon Harah?
The two spies (out of twelve) who reported back to Moses and Aaron with faith that the Israelites could win back the land of Canaan.
Who are Joshua and Caleb?
One of the ten (out of twelve) spies who did not have faith that the Israelites could take back the land of Canaan forcefully said this quote.
HINT: It's one of my favorite in the Torah
What is "we must look like grasshoppers to them"
The hebrew name of the holiday where we celebrate Israel's Independence Day
HINT: It's one of the "Yom's"
What is Yom Ha'atzmaut?
The five books of Moses (name them individually)
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy