Traditions
We blow this leading up to the High Holidays and on the High Holidays--it wakes us up!
What is the Shofar?
What animals (name one) can a Shofar be made from?
Ram, Sheep, Antellope, Goat (any animal which has split hooves and chews its cud--Kosher)
The Jewish New Year!
What is Rosh Hashanah?
What fruit is dipped in what?
What type of clothes do we wear on Yom Kippur?
What are white clothes and no leather?
What are we supposed to do on Yom Kippur?
What is fast, wear white, repent, pray (special services)
We sit in the Sukkah! (Hut)
What is Sukkot?
What is Round Challah?
What is the Hut called?
What is a Sukkah?
When is the next Mensch Club meeting?
Wednesday the 17th or next week Thursday the 24th (most likely)
Holiest day of the Jewish year? "The Day of Atonement"
What is Yom Kippur?
This is a sweet cake we eat to celebrate a sweet new year!
What is honey cake?
What is Taschlich?
What is throwing bread into a moving body of water to cast away our sins etc?
What are we supposed to be inscribed into by God?
What is the Book of Life?
These are the special days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur in which we repent for our mistakes and are very introspective
What are the 10 Days of Awe?
This symbolizes the Head of the year and our strength (lowkey gross)
What is the Head of the Fish?
What is the evening service (on Yom Kippur) where we wear the prayer shawl--tallit (the one and only time) called?
What is the Kol Nidre?
What is the name of the Hebrew Month in which we prepare for the High Holidays by blowing the shofar? OR what is the name of the Hebrew Month in which the High Holidays fall?
What is Ellul? OR What is Tishrei?
This is the holiday celebrating the end of reading the Torah!
What is Simchat Torah?
There are symbolically 613 Arils in this fruit, it's delicious, and juicy.
What is a Pomegranate?