Chapter 10

Question 1

Regarding circumcision (Hebrew bris) what does the Hebrew word bris mean?

Answer 1

covenant

Question 2

Instructor’s note: In Israeli Hebrew, the act is referred to as brit milah

Answer 2

ok

Question 3

Who pronounces the blessing at the ceremony (also called bris) of circumcision?

Answer 3

the father

Question 4

What is a mohel (in the US, often pronounced ‘moyl’)?

Answer 4

circumciser

Question 5

What does the term bar-mitzva mean?

Answer 5

son of commandment

Question 6

How old is a Jewish boy, at the minimum, when he becomes bar-mitzva?

Answer 6

13

Question 7

What does the term bat mitzva (bas-mitzva) mean? Who is the ceremony for?

Answer 7

daughter of commandment; it is for girls

Question 8

The two major Jewish movements (other than orthodoxy) are … what and what?

Answer 8

conservative and reformed

Question 9

Traditional Jewish separation of men and women in worship goes back to … when?

Answer 9

temple times (almost 2000 years ago)

Question 10

The ban on musical instruments in the orthodox synagogue is linked to … what?

Answer 10

it has been linked to the custom of mourning for the destruction of the temple (Ninth of Av)