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Rosh Hashanah
Odds & Ends
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

The number of days that we celebrate Rosh Hashanah.

What is two

100

Rosh Hashanah celebrates the birthday of what.

What is the world?

200
The day on which we are NOT allowed to blow the shofar on Rosh Hashanah.
What is Shabbat
200

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

What is Shanah Tovah or Shanah Tovah UMetukah

200

What we send to friends and relatives on Rosh Hashanah.

What are New Year's cards

200

The color of the Torah covers on Rosh Hashanah.

What is white

200

The Torah reading on the first day of Rosh Hashanah is about the birth of ________.

Who is Isaac?

300
The name of one long blast on the shofar.
What is Tekia
300

The name of the Hebrew month in which Rosh Hashanah falls.

What is Tishrei

300
Something special about the challah on Rosh Hashanah.
What is that it is round
300
The number of days from Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur.
What is ten
300

Name any three Hebrew months.

What are Tishrei, Heshvan, Tevet, Kislev, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul?

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

400

Rosh HaShanah is 1 of how many New Years in the Jewish calendar?

What is 4? The 1st day of Elul, The 1st day of Tishrei (Rosh HaShanah), The 1st day of Nisan and the 15th day of Shvat (Tu B'Shvat)

500
The name of nine short blasts on the shofar.
What is Teruah
500

The meaning of the term "Tashlich"

What is "to cast out"

500
The name of the special service held at midnight the Saturday before Rosh Hashanah.
What is Selichot
500

Rosh Hashanah will begin this Hebrew year.

What is 5781 (Also will accept Fifty Seven Eighty Fun)?

500

Name one food typically eaten at a Sephardic Rosh HaShanah Seder

Fish Head, lettuce, pomegranates, dates, leeks, string beans and beets.