Chapter 6

Question 1

On what day do many Jews, who might not attend any other time, go to synagogue?

Answer 1

Yom Kippur (day of atonement)

Question 2

What is the term for the Jewish new year?

Answer 2

Rosh Hashana (Jewish new year)

Question 3

What two days are the High Holy Days?

Answer 3

Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur (1st day of 7th month, 10th day of 7th month)

Question 4

What are two other “days of” names for the period of these holy days?

Answer 4

days of awe; 10 days of repentance

Question 5

On Yom Kippur, what are the five abstentions of the 24 hour fasting period?

Answer 5

eating and drinking, sex, bathing, anointing the body with oil, wearing of leather shoes

Question 6

In the metaphor of the High Holy Days, what is written in the scrolls of fate?

Answer 6

every man’s hand has written his deeds of the year past

Question 7

Which of the High Holy Days the day of “horn blowing”?

Answer 7

Rosh Hashana

Question 8

In the machinery of penitence, atonement begins with two things … what are they?

Answer 8

repairing the injury in full; then seeking God’s forgiveness

Question 9

In Judaism, what is there no machinery for? (two things)

Answer 9

for confession to man but not to God; for release from sin through an agency on Earth

Question 10

Jewish liturgy says three things can “dissolve the evil decree” … what are they?

Answer 10

repentance, prayer, good works