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100

There are this many books in the Torah

What is Five Books?

100

We go to this place every week for a half hour during religious school to pray

What is the sanctuary?

100

As Jewish people, we are asked to do these things, which are good deeds

What are mitzvot?

100

We celebrate this Jewish holiday starting on the 25th of Kislev, usually around November/December, which goes for a week

What is Hanukah?

100

We celebrate Hanukah for this many nights

What is eight?

200

It takes this amount of time to read through the Torah weekly

What is a year?

200

This prayer includes waiting for the leader to bow before bowing back and is the first prayer of our T'fillah service

What is the Barchu?

200

Giving money is one way we can do this mitzvah

What is giving Tzedakah?

200
The Jewish New Year is called Rosh Hashanah, which means this in English

What is "Head of the Year"?

200
On Hanukah, we spin a top called a dreidel, a word which comes from this Jewish language

What is Yiddish?

300

This is the agreement that God makes with the Jewish people in the Torah

What is the b'rit?
300

When we sing this prayer, we take three steps backward and three steps forward

What is Adonai Sefatai?

300

These are specific actions we have been told to take/not to take as Jewish people (there are technically 613 of them)

What are the 10 Commandments?

300

During this holiday, we are told not to eat leavened bread, to symbolize the Jewish peoples' fast escape from Egypt

What is Pesach/Passover?

300

"Ocho Kandelas" is a Hanukah song sung in this Jewish language

What is Ladino?

400

This older-than-old man parts the Red Sea for the Jewish people

Who is Moses?

400

This is an action we have to do when the ark holding the Torahs is opened

What is standing?

400

For one week a year, we put up three-walled structures outside as a way of celebrating this harvest-related holiday

What is Sukkot?

400

This group are the heroes of the Hanukah story

Who are the Maccabees?

500

This Torah figure is renamed Israel, giving the name to the Jewish people

Who is Jacob?

500

This is the Hebrew word for focus and intention when it comes to praying

What is kavanah?

500

Our next major Jewish holiday comes on the 15th of Shevat (February 2, 2026) and celebrates the birthday of the trees

What is Tu Bishvat?

500

On Hanukah, we traditionally make food with this ingredient to symbolize the central object of the Hanukah story

What is oil?