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Teki'ah Gedolah
Rosh Hashanah 101
Fasting: Fun without Food
Random Jewish Facts
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What we eat that symbolizes a sweet new year

What are apples and honey?

100

The instrument we use on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

What is a shofar?

100

What Rosh Hashanah is

What is the beginning of the Jewish new year?

100

The holiest holiday in Judaism

What is Yom Kippur?

100

Why we put honey on our food on Rosh Hashanah

What is to symbolize a sweet new year?

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What we put on the Rosh Hashanah table to symbolize the holiday being the 'head' of the new year

What is the head of a fish?

200

What a shofar is made out of

What is a rams horn?

200

How you wish people a happy Rosh Hashanah in Hebrew? Hint: Translates to 'Have a sweet and happy new year'

What is Shana Tova Umetukah?

200

What we do during tashlich

What is throwing bread into a moving body of water to symbolize getting rid of our sins?

200

A ritual for a Jewish baby girl or boy

What is a brit milah or brit bat?

300

How many seeds we say that a pomegranate has Hint: It is the number of mitzvot or good deeds that a person can do throughout their lifetime.

What is 613?

300

Name one of the three sounds a shofar makes

What is Tkiah, Shevarim, and Teruah?

300

What you are supposed to do in the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

What is reflect on your year and apologize for anything bad you have done in the past?

300

How long the Yom Kippur fast lasts

What is from sunset to sunset (25 hours!)?

300

A Jewish ceremony you have when you are 12 or 13

What is a bar/bat mitzvah?

400

Name one of the 7 fruits or vegetables listed in the bible called the Seven Species of Israel

What is wheat, barley, grape, fig, pomegranates, olives and dates?

400

An animal's horn that cannot be used to make a shofar

What is a cow/bull?

400

What the word teshuva means Hint: It's one of the things you are supposed to do between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

What is repent or apologize?

400

The amount of days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

What is 10 days?

400

The time of day when Jewish holidays start

What is sundown on the day before?

500

Why we eat round challah on Rosh Hashanah (There are multiple right answers)

What is creation of the world/cycles of the year?

500

Why we blow the shofar (there are multiple answers)

What is the way holidays were announced during biblical times OR the loud sound is a wake up call for our souls

500

True or false: Rosh Hashanah is always in October

False! It changes every year because the Jewish calendar is different from the 12 month calendar we use.

500

Why we fast on Yom Kippur

What is concentrating on everything you've done in the past year and your relationship with God?

500

Say "Hi, I'm (name)" In Hebrew

What is "Shalom, ani (name)"