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Moshe ben-Maimon was born in 12th century Spain, and is known by this abbreviated name.
Who was Maimonides?
Meaning "to receive" this word refers to the reception of the holy revelation.
What is Kabbalah?
The number of days it took for G-d to create the world.
What is 6?
This is the year that Israel was founded.
What is 1948?
It is all that remains from the second Temple built by King Herod.
What is the Western Wall?
According to Kabbalists, he wrote the Torah and is the most significant prophet of G-d.
Who is Moses?
The Hebrew word mashiach means "to anoint;" this word from the same root means anointed one.
What is messiah?
He was sold to the Ishmaelites for 20 shekels of silver by his brothers.
Who was Joseph?
Zionism existed before the modern state of Israel was founded; he was the founder of the modern zionist movement in 1897.
Who was Theodor Herzl?
Jerusalem was founded in 1010 BCE under this name.
What is the City of David?
This is the number of commandments found in the Torah.
What is 613?
Meaning "commandment" this word is often used to mean a good deed.
What is a mitzvah?
Before moving his entire family to Egypt when Joseph became leader of the land, Jacob settled in this land.
What is the land of Canaan?
The Holocaust was the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries attacks on the Jewish people in the Russian empire were known by this Slavic word.
What are pogroms?
Jerusalem is a walled city with 2.5 miles of wall standing 40 feet tall and 8 feet thick; there are 34 watchtowers and the gates to enter the old city number this many.
What is 7?
In the Amidah prayer these three "avot" or fathers are mentioned.
Who are Abraham Isaac, and Jacob?
Yarmulke is the Yiddish word for the skullcap that some Jews wear, this is the Hebrew word for it.
What is a Kipa?
We all know Adam and Eve's first two sons Cain and Abel, but he was their third son.
Who was Seth?
The conflict in 1967 when Israel routed the armies and air forces of Jordan, Syria, and Egypt in less than a week and is known by this name.
What was the Six-Day War?
It is the oldest active burial site in the world and home to more than 150,000 Jewish graves.
What is the Mount of Olives?
When we read the Amidah we add these "Emahot" or mothers to show they are just as important as the "Avot."
Who are Sarah, Rivka, Rachel, and Leah.
This is the Hebrew word for Torah.
What is Tanakh?
This is the first city mention in the Torah, built by Cain after he was forced to leave Eden and dwell in the land of Nod.
What is Enoch?
Cain named the city after his first born son.
Operation Moses was a secret mission that rescued Jewish refugees in 1984 from this country.
What is Ethiopia?
When he visited Jerusalem he said "I am more excited stepping on these stones than I was stepping on the moon."
Who is Neil Armstrong?