Shofar
The animal most commonly used for a shofar
Ram
What is the literal meaning of the words Rosh Hashanah?
Head of the Year
What is something we eat that symbolizes that we will have a sweet year?
Apples and honey
How many days we celebrate Rosh Hashanah?
2 days
Rosh Hashanah we celebrates the birthday of?
The world
When we are NOT allowed to blow the shofar on Rosh Hashanah?
What is Shabbat
What is the Hebrew new year's greeting?
Shanah Tovah
What can we send to friends and relatives to wish them a good year?
New Year's cards
What is the color we switch the Torah cover and Aron Kodesh curtain to?
White
Torah reading on the first day of Rosh Hashanah is about the birth of?
Isaac
What is the name for one long blast of the shofar?
Tekiah
What is the Hebrew month in which Rosh Hashanah falls?
Tishrei
What is something special about the challah we serve on Rosh Hashanah?
Round Challah
What is the number of days from Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur including Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?
10 days
What is the names of 3 Hebrew months?
Tishrei, Cheshvan, Kislev, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul
What is the name for 3 short blasts on the shofar?
Shevarim
What is what the word "Teshuva" means?
Repentance (turn or return)
What is the ceremony in which we symbolically throw away our sins?
Tashlich (going to a body of water preferable with fish and saying the Tashlich prayer)
What is the name of the special prayer book we use on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur?
Machzor
What is the minor fast day that occurs the day after Rosh Hashanah?
Tzom Gedalia (the fast of Gedalia)
What is the name for 9 very short blasts on the shofar?
Teruah
What is another Hebrew name for Rosh Hashanah?
Yom Hazikaron or Yom Teruah
What is the name of the service held early in the morning for the whole month before Rosh Hashanah?
Selichot
What is the Hebrew year that we will celebrate this year?
5785
The haftarah on the first day of Rosh Hashanah is about this woman who prays for a child?
Hannah