Tel Aviv & Yafo
This ancient port city next to Tel Aviv gave its name to a famous orange.
What is Yafo (Jaffa)?
Tzfat is in this northern region of Israel.
What is the Galil (Galilee)?
The Beit Hamikdash stood in this holy city.
What is Jerusalem?
This is the name of the hut we eat and sit in on Sukkot.
What is a sukkah?
The Torah praises Israel for this number of special foods.
What is seven?
In 1909, families picked these items from the beach to decide who got which plot of land in the new city.
What are seashells?
Artists in Tzfat are famous for making these wax items, which we light on Shabbat.
What are candles?
This king built the First Beit Hamikdash.
Who is King Solomon (Shlomo)?
Sukkot reminds us of the booths the Israelites lived in for 40 years in this place.
What is the desert (midbar)?
These are the two grains among the Seven Species.
What are wheat and barley?
The prophet Jonah boarded a ship in this port city.
What is Yafo?
Tzfat is known as the center of this mystical part of Jewish learning.
What is Kabbalah?
These are the priests who served in the Beit Hamikdash.
Who are the Kohanim?
The sukkah's roof is covered with branches or leaves called this.
What is schach?
This fruit is pressed to make oil, which was used to light the Menorah.
What is the olive?
In 1948, Israel's independence was declared in this city.
What is Tel Aviv?
Rabbi Yosef Karo, who wrote the Shulchan Aruch ("The Set Table"), lived in this city.
What is Tzfat?
The holiest room in the Beit Hamikdash was called this.
What is the Kodesh HaKodashim (Holy of Holies)?
These are the Four Species we shake on Sukkot.
What are the lulav, etrog, hadas, and aravah?
This red fruit is said to have 613 seeds, matching the number of mitzvot.
What is the pomegranate?
Tel Aviv's name, meaning "Hill of Spring," comes from a book by this man, the founder of modern Zionism.
Who is Theodor Herzl?
This famous Kabbalist of Tzfat, Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, goes by this nickname.
Who is the Ari (Arizal)?
On these three festivals, Jews traveled to Jerusalem to bring offerings.
What are Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot (the Shalosh Regalim)?
These "special guests" are invited into the sukkah each night.
Who are the Ushpizin?
The "honey" mentioned in the Torah's description of Israel is traditionally understood to come from this sweet fruit.
What are dates?