Shoreshim
Potpourri
Temple Archives
Worship
Trivia
100
Writings, a wedding contract
from the shoresh 
100
Gift, Giver
Natan, Nathan
100
Marga Randall
The Holocaust survivor who conceived of and raised the money for the Holocaust Memorial Garden
100
Hagba
The Torah is held up so that the Torah portion that was just read is shown to the congregation
100
Yerushalayim, Yonatan, Yehudah, Yehudit
Jerusalem, Jonathan, Judah, Judith because there's no J sound in Hebrew
200
Technically it should be called a Sefer T'filot. This name for a prayer book has taken on its layout rather than its usage for its name.
Siddur
Bonus: what word/shoresh does it come from?
200
Aron haKodesh
literally "The Holy Closet" meaning the Holy Ark where the Torah is kept
200
Who were the first couple married at Temple?
Mrs. Freed's Parents
200
Son or Daughter of the commandments
Bar or Bat Mitzvah
200
to emigrate to Israel
Aliyah
300
Kiddush - wine blessing
Kaddish - mourner's prayer
Kodesh, as in Aron Kodesh - the Ark
Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh - we recite as we go up on tiptoes
All from the shoresh for holy or holiness
300
Kavod
Respect
300
Representing the 613 Mitzvot
The colored stones in the outside walls of the Torah Center and Beit Ha'Tfilah
300
Hakafah
When the Torah is paraded through the congregation before being read
300
"Pisher"
Yiddish for a child or someone who is new at school or in a company
Also a reference to the 11th person in a minyan (Ask Mrs. Freed to explain)
400
Barchu
Baruch
B'racha
Blessed or blessing
400
"G-d is with us"
What is the meaning of Emanu-el (as in Temple Emanuel).
400
David Weisberg
The current Temple President
400
To go up
Aliyah
400
Ben Yehuda
The man credited with inventing Modern Conversational Hebrew
A street in Jerusalem
500
Shiva
period of mourning immediately following a death
From the Hebrew number "sheva" meaning 7 as we used to sit shiva for 7 days. Reform Jews usually observe 3 days.
500
Your first time...and only Jews perform this ritual
Aliyah
500
What year was Temple Emanuel founded?
1952
500
Minyan
A worship service
BUT technically it's a quorum (minimum) of 10 Jews required to have a service and/or have a service in which the Torah is read and Kaddish is recited.
500
Cup O' Joe, a coffee shop in Jerusalem
The letter gimel ג has a little apostrophe-like symbol, called a geresh, appended to it, thus: ג׳
Mrs. Freed's favorite coffee house is Starbucks!
