Rosh Hashanah
On Rosh Hashanah we dip apples in this.
What is honey?
This is the prayerbook that we use on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
What is the machzor?
The shofar is made from this animal’s horn.
What is a ram?
We dip apples in this to hope for a sweet new year.
What is honey?
This is how many days Rosh Hashanah is celebrated for.
What is 2?
This is who's birthday Rosh Hashanah celebrates.
What is the birthday of the world?
This is what we say to ask God to forgive our mistakes.
What is a prayer for forgiveness?
This is the total number of shofar blasts traditionally heard on Rosh Hashanah.
What is 100?
On Rosh Hashanah, some people eat this dried fruit stuffed with nuts and honey.
What are dates?
This food is baked in a round shape to symbolize the cycle of the year.
What is challah?
This is the traditional greeting on Rosh Hashanah.
What is Shanah Tovah?
This is the prayer where we thank God for being the King.
What is the Amidah?
These are the three main types of shofar sounds.
What are Tekiah, Shevarim, and Teruah?
Some families eat the head of a fish or lamb to symbolize being this.
What is “a head and not a tail”?
This fruit, full of seeds, is eaten for a year full of mitzvot and blessings.
What is a pomegranate?
This Rosh Hashanah, we will celebrate this year.
What is 5786?
This is the book where God writes who will live and be blessed.
What is the Book of Life?
The shofar is not blown when Rosh Hashanah falls on this day of the week.
What is Shabbat?
Sweet foods like honey are eaten to wish for this kind of year.
What is a sweet year?
Rosh Hashanah is part of this 10-day period leading up to Yom Kippur.
Rosh Hashanah is part of this 10-day period leading up to Yom Kippur.
Rosh Hashanah does not actually mean New Year in Hebrew. Instead, it means this.
What is the head of the new year?
This word means “holy” and is said many times during Rosh Hashanah prayers.
What is Kadosh?
The shofar reminds us of this biblical event, when Abraham was tested.
What is the Binding of Isaac (Akeidat Yitzchak)?
Some families put this vegetable on the table because its name sounds like the Hebrew word for “increase,” symbolizing a year of growing blessings.
What are carrots?
During Tashlich, Jews symbolically cast away sins into this.
What is a river, lake, or other body of water?