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for a sweet year

Apple and honey

100

It is traditional not to wear these on Yom Kippur.

Leather shoes

100

Number of shofar blows on Rosh Hashanah

100

100

What is the name of the prayer book used on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?

Machzor

200

Symbolizes the year

Round Challah

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Mitzvah to hear on the High Holidays

Blowing of the shofar

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Days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

10

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This is traditional to do when you recite the Al Chet (when we recite our sins) on Yom Kippur.

Gently beat our chest.

300

The name of the meal after Yom Kippur

Break fast

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Traditional color of clothes to wear on Yom Kippur

White

300

Different calls of the shofar

T'kiyah, Teruah, and Shevarim

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The Torah portion read on the second day of Rosh Hashanah tells this story.

The binding of Isaac (the akeida).

400

Has 613 seeds

pomegranate

400

This instrument is used on Rosh Hashana and at the conclusion of Yom Kippur.

Shofar

400

Number of days we celebrate Rosh Hashanah

Two

400

This Haftorah is read at mincha (the afternoon service) on Yom Kippur

Jonah 

500

On Rosh Hashanah it's traditional to put this on your holiday table with the hope that we are likened to a head, and not a tail.

Head of fish

500

This blessing is for a fruit which you haven't eaten in the new Jewish year.

The shehecheyanu

500

Name of the days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur

Yamim No Ra'im or the Days of Awe

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These are the three centerpieces of the Unetaneh Tokef prayer recited during the Musaf Amidah (afternoon service) on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

Teshuvah, tefillah, and tzedakah (repentance, prayer and charity)