Rituals and Practice
For the High Holidays we change our Torah scrolls to this color.
What is white?
This famous baseball player refused to play on Yom Kippur.
Who is Sandy Koufax?
The word "Rosh" in Rosh Hashanah means...
What is "Head"?
Oh Rosh Hashanah, we eat this to symbolize a sweet new year.
What are apples and honey?
This is the number of days from Rosh Hashanah until Yom Kippur.
What is 10 days?
This animal's horn is used to make the shofar.
What is a ram?
This item, which usually is only worn in morning prayer, is worn Yom Kippur eve.
What is a tallit?
Yom Kippur is also known as this Day.
What is the Day of Atonement?
The word "Yom" in Yom Kippur means....
What is "day"?
This is the name of the Hebrew month in which Rosh Hashanah falls.
What is Tishrei?
This fruit reportedly has 613 seeds, which is said to remind us of the number of Mitzvot in the Torah.
What is a pomegranate?
The name of the longest shofar blast.
What is teki'ah gedolah?
Name two things traditionally not done on Yom Kippur.
What are eating and drinking, wearing leather, bathing, or wearing perfume?
What we call the meal eaten after Yom Kippur is over.
What is break fast?
Avinu Malkeinu translates to this...
What is Our Father, Our King?
Last week, we celebrated the beginning of this Jewish year.
What is 5786?
You'll hear this if you stay at the temple until the very end of Yom Kippur services.
What is the shofar?
The name of one blast of the shofar.
What is teki'ah?
The amount of days Yom Kippur occurs after Rosh Hashanah.
What is 10 days?
This is the name of the evening service that starts Yom Kippur.
What is Kol Nidre?
The typical greeting you'll hear on Rosh Hashanah is...
What is Shanah Tovah?
In this ceremony, we symbolically throw away our sins.
What is Tashlich?
The name of the special prayer book we read from on the High Holidays.
What is a machzor?
Shevarim is the name for this many blasts of the shofar.
What is 3?
The end of the Unetaneh Tokef prayer provides three ways to "transform the harshness of our destiny": teshuvah, tefillah, and tzedakah, which means...
repentance, prayer, and charity
We pray that we will be sealed in the Book of ____ this year.
What is Life?
The typical greeting you'll hear on Yom Kippur is...
What is "G'mar Chatimah Tovah" or "G'mar Tov"?
(May you have a good 'sealing')
Fill in the blanks: On ____ it is written, and on ____ it is sealed.
בְּרֹאשׁ הַשָׁנָה יִכָּתֵבוּן‚ וּבְיוֹם צוֹם כִּפּוּר יֵחָתֵמוּן
Bonus: What high holy day pray is this line a part of?
On Rosh Hashanah it is written, and on Yom Kippur it is sealed.
Bonus answer: Unetaneh Tokef
Leonard Cohen's 1974 song "Who by Fire" was a tribute to and inspired by this poignant High Holy Day prayer.
What is Unetaneh Tokef?
Teruah is the name for this many blasts of the shofar.
What is 9?