Vocabulary
The Hebrew word for "Son" (there are two right answers)
What is Ben or Bar?
What is a Kippa or Yarmulke?
This is a common ceremony for newborn Jewish baby boys.
What is a Brit Milah?
What is the word for having ten Jewish adults present for a ritual, ceremony, or service?
What is a Minyan?
What book / reading did these sayings that we studied early in the class derive from?
Thirteen is the age for observing commandments
Fifteen is the age for the study of Talmud
Eighteen is the age for the wedding canopy
What is Pirkei Avot
The Hebrew word for "Daughter"
What is Bat?
You will be presented with and wear this for the very first time at your b'nai mitzvah service.
What is a Tallit?
When (how many days, weeks, months, years old) will the ceremony for Jewish baby boys take place?
What is on the 8th day?
Give at least one way that ceremonies are different for newborn boys and newborn girls.
* There is no specific standard ceremony for girls.
* Boys have a procedure done on their bodys where girls do not.
Name at least three things that need to happen when going through a conversion to Judaism:
Including:
Studing
Being Approved by a Beit Din
Mikveh
Ceremonies
(there will be more than these)
This is a more accepted and modern term for "Conversion to Judaism"
What is "Jews / Jewish by choice?"
This is the prayer one says the first time something is done in Jewish life.
What is the Shehechianu?
What is a Seudat Mitzvah?
This is a practice where you pay coins for your newborn child.
During the newborn's ceremony, a special chair is set up for which special guest?
Who is Elijah?
This is the professional who performs the ceremony for newborn Jewish boys.
What is a Mohel or Mohellet?
What is the word for the fringes at the corners of the prayer shawl?
What are Tzitzit?
What is the honor called of being called to bless the Torah reading?
What is an Aliyah?
True or false? Wearing a Kippa is a Halachic (Jewish law) requirement for all Jews.
False.
These are a few of the mentioned challenges/ controversies about performing a circumcision on a newborn Jewish Boy:
* bodily autonomy of the child - no consent
* Is it possible to makea covenant on behalf of another person without their consent?
* Should a covenant be made before the child's b'nai mitzvah?
* Questioning medical benefit
This is the Hebrew word for "redeeming the first born:
What is Pidyon Ha Ben / Ha Bat?
How many Shekels is needed for the Pidyon Ha Ben/Bat ceremony?
Five shekels
This service can be held for a newborn Jewish girl.
What is a Brit Bat or Simchat Bat?