Shofar
Hebrew Terms
Rosh Hashanah Customs
Rosh Hashanah Facts
100
The animal from which we get the shofar.
What is a ram
100

The literal meaning of the words Rosh Hashanah.

What is Head of the Year?

100
Something we eat to symbolize a sweet year.
What are apples and honey
100

Rosh Hashanah celebrates the birthday of what.

What is the world

200

The name of one long blast on the shofar.

What is Tekiah

200

The Hebrew greeting we say to one another on Rosh Hashanah.

What is Shanah Tovah

200
What we send to friends and relatives on Rosh Hashanah.
What is New Year's cards
200

The number of days from Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur.

What is 10 days

300

The name of nine short blasts on the shofar.

What is Teruah

300

On Rosh Hashanah we eat Apples and Honey. What is the hebrew word for Apple?

What is Tapuchim

300

The shape of the challah on Rosh Hashanah.

What is that it is round

300

The days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are called:from Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur.

What is Days of Repentance 

400

The name of three short blasts on the shofar.

What is Shevarim

400

The meaning of the word Teshuvah.

What is repentance OR to turn

400
The ceremony in which we symbolically throw away our sins.
What is Tashlich
400

What we call the special prayer book used on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.

What is the Machzor

500

There are 4 shofar blasts that we hear on Rosh Hashanah. Name them in order 

What is Tekiah, Shevarim, Teruah, Tekiah Gedolah

500
Another Hebrew name for Rosh Hashanah.
What is Yom HaZikaron (Day of Remembrance), Yom Teruah (Day of sounding of the shofar) OR Yom HaDin (Day of Judgment)
500

The name of the special service held at midnight the Saturday before Rosh Hashanah.

What is Selichot

500

The shofar is sounded ___ times during a traditional Rosh Hashanah service.

What is 100 times