Prayers & Blessings
This prayer declares the Oneness of God, and many Jews cover/close their eyes when reciting it.
What is the Sh'ma?
This is the number of Final Letters.
What is 5?
On this holiday, we tell the story of the Exodus from Egypt.
What is Passover?
The number of books in the Torah.
What is 5?
This is what Julia is studying to become.
What is a rabbi?
This is the "Call to Prayer", and we stand for it. It is also a call-and-response prayer.
What is the Bar'chu?
This is the sound an "ah" vowel makes when it is followed by a Yud (the Yud usually changes the sound!).
What is "ai" (like "eye")?
On this holiday, we read the Book of Esther, also known as Megillat Ester.
What is Purim?
Jacob's twin brother
Who is Esau?
This is Rabbi Rena's last name.
What is "Rifkin"?
Traditionally, in the Bar'chu, we bow at the words "bar'chu" and "baruch", and we straighten up again at this word.
What is "Adonai"?
The THREE meanings of the Hebrew word "Shalom".
What is "Hello", "Goodbye", and "Peace"?
This is the number of blessings we recite on the first night of Chanukah.
What is 3?
This is the foreign land in which Joseph rose to great power and saved everyone from a famine.
What is Egypt?
Also known as the "Vegan Capital of the World", this major Israeli city has skyscrapers and beaches.
What is Tel Aviv?
This is when we say the blessings that praise God for giving us the Torah (they end with "Baruch Atah Adonai, notein haTorah").
What is "before and after reading from the Torah scroll"?
When the T-shaped vowel is BOLD, it makes this sound.
What is "oh"?
This holy day is known in English as the Day of Atonement, and many Jews fast on this day.
What is Yom Kippur?
The Israelites received the 10 Commandments at this location.
What is Mount Sinai?
This is the national anthem of Israel.
What is HaTikvah?
The prayer Avot v'Imahot names these important ancestors.
Who are Avraham/Abraham, Yitzchak/Isaac, Ya'akov/Jacob, Sarah, Rivkah/Rebekah, Rachel, and Leah?
This is the meaning of "Elohei", as in "Elohei Avraham..." from Avot v'Imahot.
What is "God of"?
On Tisha b'Av, we mourn the destruction of this holy city in ancient times.
What is Jerusalem?
Moses and Aaron's sister
Who is Miriam?
This is how you say "see you later" in Hebrew.
What is "L'hitraot"?