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Brit Milah/Simchat Bat
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This is the name of the person who has the honour of holding the Jewish baby boy during the Brit Milah
What is a sandak?
100
Kallah and Chatan.
What is the Hebrew name for a bride and groom?
100
A Get.
What is the name of a Jewish divorce in Hebrew?
100
This is a special ceremony for a firstborn male Israelite son to redeem him from working in the temple. It happens when he is 30 days old.
What is a Pidyon HaBen?
100
A Chevra Kadisha.
What is the place a Jewish dead person would go to to perform the burial rituals?
200
This is the name for a ceremony that involves circumcising a Jewish boy at 8 days old.
What is a brit Milah?
200
A chuppah.
What do the chatan and kallah stand underneath at a wedding?
200
An Agunah
What is the name of a Jewish woman that hasn't received a Get from her husband?
200
5 Silver Coins
What is offered to the Kohen to redeem the firstborn son in a Pidyon Haben?
200
Tachrichim
What is a Jewish dead person wrapped in before going into a coffin?
300
Kiseh shel Eliyahu
What is the name of the chair that the Sandak sits on?
300
A cup is broken at a Jewish wedding ceremony symbolising the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem. This reminds of that we should never forget the tough times even when we are in a moment of true happiness.
What is broken at a Jewish wedding ceremony and why?
300
This is the name of the ceremony where if a married man dies childless the widow is to marry her dead husband's brother.
What is a Yibum?
300
Orlah is when you wait three years before picking the fruit off a tree to eat it. In the same vein you wait 3 years before you cut a baby's hair at an Upsherin.
What does orlah have to do with an Upsherin?
300
This is sanctified or holy land designated for Jewish burials.
What is admat Kodesh?
400
A Hebrew name: either _______ben (fathers name in Hebrew) or _____ bat (mothers name in Hebrew)
What is given to the baby boy and girl during the Brit Milah and Brit lebat ceremonies?
400
The name of the weekend before the wedding is known as the Shabbat Chatan (where the Chatan is called up to the Torah) and Shabbat Kallah. In Yiddish this call up to the Torah is known as an Aufruf.
What is the name of the weekend before the wedding in Hebrew and Yiddish?
400
But if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, the brother's wife shall go up to the gate, to the elders, and say, "My husband's brother has refused to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel he does not wish to perform the obligation of a husband's brother with me." Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and he shall stand up and say, "I do not wish to take her." Then his brother's wife shall approach him before the eyes of the elders and remove his shoe from his foot. And she shall spit before his face and declare, "Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother's household! And that family shall be called in Israel 'the household of the one whose shoe has been removed.'" --
What does the ceremony of Chalitzah entail?
400
Lag BaOmer on Mount Meron in Israel.
What is the traditional time of year to do an Upsherin and where?
400
This is the period of 7 day mourning following the death of a family member.
What is a shiva?
500
Some of the customs include washing the baby girls feet, lighting a candle, giving an aliyah to the parents, naming the baby, saying the birkat cohanim and drinking from the cos Miriam/Cos Eliyahu.
What are some of the customs of a Simchat Bat?
500
The Sheva Brachot
What is said for 7 days after the wedding?
500
A Beit Din is the Hebrew name for the place where a Jewish woman would go to get a Get.
What is the name of the Rabbinic court that a woman must go to to get a Get?
500
Traditionally a baby boy is given a tzitzit or a tallit katan (they are the same thing) on his Upsherin.
What is traditionally given to a baby boy on his Upsherin other than a haircut?
500
A Minyan-This is a quorum (minimum number) of 10 men in an orthodox synagogue or 10 people in a progressive synagogue that is necessary to say Kaddish over a dead relative.
What is required for someone to say Kaddish over someone that has died?