Parsha
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Who sang it?
What country am I from?
Laws of Blowing the Shofar
100

If you find your friends animal and dont know where they live, what should you do with it?

Bring it home and care for it until you find out

100

May, June, April, August

Months that are names

100

Rolling in the Deep

Adele

100

Ryan Gosling

Canada

100

Which one of the common shofar sounds is not explicitly mentioned in the Torah — tekiyah, teru’ah, or shevarim?

Shevarim — it was introduced later to cover the doubt about what “teru’ah” really means.

200

If someone performs the mitzvah of Shiluach HaKen- sending away the mother bird- what is the reward promised to them?

Long life

200

Times, Trafalgar, Tienamen, Red

Famous "squares"

200

Imagine

John Lennon

200

Cillian Murphy

Ireland

200

How many total shofar blasts (tekiyot and teru’ot) are we obligated to sound based on the Torah? (the minimum)

Nine blasts—three sets of (tekiyah, teru’ah, tekiyah)

300

These two nations can never marry into Am Yisrael because they showed cruelty to us as we passed through their land

Ammon and Moav

300

Koufax, Sheezel, Casspi, Greenberg

famous jewish athletes

300

Take me to church

Hozier

300

Novak Djokovic

Serbia

300

Which three sections of the Rosh Hashanah liturgy correspond with when the shofar is sounded?

Malchuyot (Sovereignty), Zichronot (Remembrances), and Shofarot (the Shofar-blast blessings).

400

There are six verses that we are supposed to remember every day- two of them appear in this week's parsha- what are they?

Remember what happened to Miriam

Remember what happened to Amalek

400

Hamburger, Frankfurter, Gouda, Dijon

foods named after the places they come from.

400

Somebody That I Used to Know

Gotye

400

Luka Dončić

Slovenia

400

What symbolic reason is given for the practice of sounding a tekiyah and teru’ah both while sitting and while standing during the pre-Mussaf blasts?

To "confuse the Accuser"—showing our devotion by going beyond the minimum blasts silences the Accuser (whether it's Satan or one’s own evil inclination) and humbles the heart.

500

How do the rabbis explain the connection between the mitzvah of Eshet Yefat Toar, the hated wife, and the Rebellious son?

If a man takes a woman captive, he will come to hate her, and then their children will be rebellious 

500
  • Taco

  • Pavlov

  • Liberty

  • Wedding

all types of bells

500

Respect

Aretha Franklin

500

Didier Drogba

Ivory Coast

500

Whose mother cried 100 times when her son did not return from war against Israel- leading to the practice to blow the shofar 100 time

Sisera’s mother