Jewish Holidays
Happening roughly 52 times a year, it's not technically a holiday, but keeping and remembering it is part of the Asseret HaDibrot (Ten Commandments), and it is attributed with creating the rhythm of Jewish life. Ahad HaAm famously said about it, "More than the Jewish people have kept it, it has kept the Jewish People."
What is Shabbat?
This Prayer comes from the Torah and begins with the words "Hear O' Israel, the Lord our G-d, the Lord is One"
What is the Shema?
This was the year the state of Israel was founded.
What is 1948?
Often used as a general word to describe any bit of wisdom or learning from the written or oral tradition, it's what the "Tuf" in "Tanach" stands for.
What is Torah?
Also a common Jewish Name, especially for girls, it's the hebrew word for blessing
What is Bracha?
This upcoming holiday is the second of the Shalosh Regalim, or "three legs" which would require a pilgramage to Jerusalem in the time of the temple for a special sacrifice to be eaten by your whole family. Though now is mostly celebrated with familys and guests coming together for a night of "order."
What is Passover?
It's the Number of Times of Jews Traditionally Pray each day with a Minyan.
What is Three?
Commemorated every year on Jerusalem Day (Yom Yerushalayim), the old city of Jerusalem, including the temple mount and the western wall was reunified with the new city of Jerusalem in this year or war.
What is 1967 and the Six Days War?
What the Nun stands for in "Tanach." These books document the stories of the Jewish People entering into the land of israel after the Exodus from Egypt.
What is the Navi or Prophets?
Not just the name of the ritual that ends Shabbat, It's also what holiness is all about.
What is Havdalah, Seperation, or specific dedication?
Celebrating the giving of the Torah and Mount Sinai, there is a custom on this holiday to stay up all night learning Torah.
What is Shavuot?
Sometimes read responsively, sometimes sung together, coming from Tehilim, the name of this prayer means wealthy.
What is Ashrei?
This sad day on the Jewish calendar sees Jews fast and marks the destruction of not just the first temple in 587 BCE, but also the second temple in 70 CE.
What is "Tisha B'Av" or the 9th of Av.
Though it sounds like something Pirates or Sailors might be doing with explosives and metal tubes, this word actually refers to when a written work is made an official part of the holy texts.
What is "Canonized?"
It's why Jews Argue & Debate.
What is "L'Shem Shamayim" - For the sake of heaven - to find truth?
A Rabbinic Holiday, it is the only Jewish Holiday that is not mentioned or talked about in the Tanach. Though there are some mentions and discussions of it in the Mishna and Talmud
What is Hannukah?
The English word for Mizrach, it's the direction on a compass Jews face when we pray.
What is East?
Not just the name of Morpheus' ship in the Matrix, it's also the name of the Babylonian king who destroyed the first temple.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
The Mishna is broken up into this many volumes or seders.
What is 6?
While Rosh Hashana is the Jewish new year, it is not the first month of the Jewish Calendar. This Month is.
What is Nissan?
Named after the governor who was murdered by a fellow Jew, this annual fast day after Rosh Hashanah marks the end of any kind of Jewish Sovereignty in the land of Israel.
What is the Fast of Gedalia?
Another Name for the Amidah, this is Hebrew for the number of Brachot in the Prayer.
What is Shmoneh Esreh?
Named after the governor who was murdered by a fellow Jew, this annual fast day after Rosh Hashanah marks the end of any kind of Jewish Sovereignty in the land of Israel after the first temple was destroyed by the Babylonians.
What is the Fast of Gedalia?
It's the language the Talmud is written in.
What is Aramaic?
It's what "Kosher" Means.
What is "fit for use?"