What is the name of the temporary building where people spend time, welcome guests, and shake the lulav and etrog?
A Sukkah
100
Etrog
What is the fragrant yellow fruit that accompanies the lulav?
100
What is the shape of the challah for the new year?
Round
100
Adults don't eat on Yom Kippur, what is this ritual called?
What is a fast?
100
What is the Torah written on?
A scroll (or parchment)
200
During Sukkot, we remember the story of how the Jewish people lived in the desert, after leaving slavery in what country, according to the Passover story?
Egypt
200
What is the Hebrew word for the pointer that is used while reading the Torah?
What is a Yad?
200
What is the fruit that is eaten on Rosh Hashanah, that tradition tells us has as many seeds as Mitzvot?
The pomegranate
200
The story of a prophet we share on Yom Kippur, who got stuck in the belly of a great big fish
What is Jonah?
200
Finish the lyric: "Roll It Back, Roll It Back, Roll the Torah back, We've..............."
What is "made it to the end, Roll It Back, Roll It Back, Roll the Torah back, Let's start it all again"
300
How many species of plants are gathered when a person shakes the lulav and etrog?
What is four?
300
Name at least 3 of the 4 species associated with Sukkot.
Hadas, Arava, Lulav, Etrog OR Willow, Myrtle, Palm, Citron
300
What is the ceremony during which people cast their sins away by throwing bread into water ?
Tashlich
300
What color is often work on Yom Kippur, to remind people of purity and angels.
What is white?
300
What is the translation of "Simchat Torah"?
What is "rejoicing with the law"? or "Happiness of Torah"?
400
Finish the lyric: "Shake, Shake, Shake the Lulav, Smell the Etrog so sweet........"
What is "Come and have a look-ah in my sukkah, and help yourself to something to eat"?
400
The name of the place where the Torah is kept
What is "Ark" or "Aron HaKodesh"
400
Finish the lyric: "Corn has got ears and potato has eyes, a river has a mouth and a chicken's got thighs, a bed has a foor and a bottle has a neck......"
What is "so why can't a year have a head?"
400
What do the Hebrew words "Yom Kippur" mean?
Day of Atonement
400
In our tradition and in a song we sing at the JCC by Dan Nichols, The Torah's words are compared to being sweet as ______ to learn.
What is honey?
500
With what is the roof of the Sukkah covered?
Schach- branches or natural resources that let the light of the stars shine through.
500
Name the 4 sounds the shofar makes
Tekiyah, Shevarim, Teruah, Tekiyah Gedolah
500
Name 5 Rosh Hashanah traditions or rituals:
What is (Meg, Elinor or Emily can judge appropriate answer)?
500
Define "repentance"
(open ended)
500
Name 5 things you know about the Torah.
Open Ended Question (Meg, Elinor or Emily to judge answers)