Customs
Name 1 thing we traditionally don’t do on Yom Kippur.
What is:
Eat
Drink
Shower
Wear leather
The type of animal that was sent out into the desert to carry the people’s sins.
What is a goat?
The creature that swallowed Jonah.
What is a whale/big fish?
This sports player refused to play in the World Series on Yom Kippur in 1965.
Who is Sandy Koufax?
What we hope to be written into for the coming year.
What is the Book of Life?
Name 1 thing we traditionally do on Yom Kippur.
What is:
Go to services
Fast
Wear white
Pray
Ask God for forgiveness
Repent
Another name for Yom Kippur (in English or Hebrew).
What is Day of Atonement? Yom HaDin?
The city where God sends Jonah.
This war started in Israel on Yom Kippur in 1973.
What is the Yom Kippur War?
The names of the 4 shofar calls.
What is Tekiyah, Shevarim, Teruah, T'kiyah Gedolah?
This is the color a lot of people wear on Yom Kippur to symbolize spiritual purity.
What is White?
The Hebrew month Yom Kippur is in.
What is Tishrei?
What Jonah was tasked to have the people do.
What is repent?
The person who brought down the second set of tablets on Yom Kippur in the Torah.
Who is Moses?
A fruit typically eaten on Rosh Hashanah that symbolizes the 613 mitzvot (commandments).
What is a pomegranate?
This is the delicious way we end the holiday.
What is break-fast?
What it’s called when we cast away our sins into the water before Yom Kippur.
What is Tashlich?
Jonah was a person sent by a God, in other words a:
What is a prophet?
The name of the 50-year biblical cycle that started on Yom Kippur.
What is the Jubilee?
The process of repair and return we go through around this time of year.
What is teshuva?
A common shoe material/type of shoe worn on Yom Kippur.
What is canvas or tennis shoe/sneaker/gym shoe?
The traditional greeting for Yom Kippur (and its meaning).
What is G'mar Hatimah Tovah/May you be sealed for a year of blessing?
The service/time of day Jonah is traditionally read on Yom Kippur.
What is Minchah/Afternoon?
This rabbi who famously didn’t start learning Torah until he was 40 was said to have been killed on Yom Kippur by the Romans.
Who is Rabbi Akiva?
Three things we can do in the coming year as written in the Unetaneh Tokef prayer.
What are Tefilah, Teshuva, and Tzedakah/praying, repenting, and righteous giving?