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FESTIVALS Flashcards

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What is Shabbat?

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Day of Rest, God’s day of rest on the 7th day after the account in Genisis 1

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Lighting Candles

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Usually mom, 18 minutes before sunset lights the candles and welcomes Shabbat. Prays asking God to bless her family.

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When does Shabbat begin?

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Sunset on Friday and ends at the sunset on Saturday

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Preparation for Shabbat

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Before Shabbat home is cleaned, and food is prepared, none of this should be done during Shabbat. No using electrical equipment. Some may attend a short service in the synagogue before Friday evening.

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Friday Meal

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Father blesses the children and recites Kiddush (blessing). Everyone washes their hands. The head of the family uncovers Challah.

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When is Rosh Hashanah

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Early September-early October

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What do Jewish people do during Rosh Hashanah

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Reflect on the previous year and set things straight with other people and God, People go and apologise to those they’ve wronged. Take place over two days. Throw bread crumbs into water to symbolise throwing away bad habits.

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Rosh Hashanah

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Head of the Year, Jewish new year, and festival of repentance

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Shabbat in the synagogue

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The congregation stands when the ark is opened. Torah is taken from the ark, covered in a crown and a belt. Torah is held in front of the congregation while everyone chants verses and parades around the synagogue the Jews touch it with their prayer book or tassels of their tallit and then touch their lips.

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Rosh Hashanah Customs

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A musaf and Shofar are blown several times accompanied by special prayers, may have up to 100 blasts of the shofar, read story of Issac and Abraham.

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What is Teshuvah

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Hebrew term for repentance

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What is Tashlich

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Throw small pebbles/bread into rivers of streams, symbolizing throwing away bad habits and casting away their sins.

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Challah

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Continuity, round shapes

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Foods in Roshanah

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Apples dipped in honey, pomegranate, Challah, honey cakes, fish (head), couscous (7)

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Pomegranate

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seasonal produce, being alive and allowing us to taste all the delicious fruit the world has to offer

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Fish

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fertility, abundance, ever swimming fish promote a new year of awareness and hard work.

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Honey Cakes

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desire for a sweet, positive upcoming year

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Couscous with 7 veggies

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A fortuitous, multitude of couscous beads represents a number of blessings you hope to have.

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Yom Kippur

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Day of Atonement, at one with God, holiest day

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What do they do on Yom Kippur

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Upcoming days they apologize to those they’ve hurt, so God can forgive them on that day as well.

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Yom Kippur synagogue services

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Five prayer services in the synagogue. Service focuses on asking God for forgiveness to restore
their relationship with him. During this service, they are given a final
chance to confess their sins. Then the doors of the ark are closed,
showing God’s judgment is now sealed.*At the end of the day the priest blows the shofar to tell people that
Yom Kippur is finished

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What do Jews do during Yom Kippur

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No work, no wearing, perfume makeup or leather, no sex, fast, and wear white as a symbol of purity.

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Who doesn’t fast?

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ill, taking certain medications, pregnant , breastfeeding, elderly,
or too young

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What is done before Yom Kippur starts?

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Lavish meal to prepare for fast, Kol Nidre sung thrice a prayer

13
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When is Pesach?

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Every year, march/april for eight days

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Passover/Pesach

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Pesach is Hebrew for feast of Passover

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Pesach story

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God sent 10 plagues as a
punishment for Pharaoh’s refusal to let the slaves leave Egypt. It was the last plague that changed his mind. The Hebrew slaves were protected from the death of their firstborn by putting the blood of a sacrificed lamb on their doorposts. As a result the
‘angel of death’ passed over their homes and their children were safe.

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Seder Meal

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They remember the story and have a proper meal. Haggadah is read. This is a book containing the story of the Israelite’s freedom from slavery. This is the most important part. 15 parts to the Seder meal, there are hymns, readings, and prayers.

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Seder Plate

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Bitter herbs, maror, Matzah, lamb bone, salt water, charoset, parsley, roasted egg

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Bitter herb, maror

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bitter times as slaves

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Matzah, unleavened bread

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no time in the escape to let it rise

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Lamb’s bone

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sacrifice on the last night

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saltwater

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tears of slaves

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Charoset

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making bricks as slaves

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What do they do in Sukkot

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Dance with the Torah for two days, and stay in a hut to celebrate harvest. Make shelters out of wood and branches, inside must be decorated with four species of plants.

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Parsley

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new life

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roasted egg

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new life after egypt

23
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Sukkot

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festival of tabernacles, sukkot means tents or shelters

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Importance of Pesach

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The birth of the Jewish nation, being freed from slavery, Entering the promised land, Being given the law that made the Jews God’s chosen people

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Shavuot

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Festival of weeks, originally a wheat harvest festival but now more focused on the delivery of the Torah to Israel

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Importance of SS festival

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Shows how god protected them while they crossed the desert. Unity is the main theme of Sukkot. Say a special blessing with Lulav

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Simchat Torah importance

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Reflect the importance and ambition for Jewish people to develop a deeper understanding of God’s word each year.

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Explain Shauvot

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Seven weeks after Passover, celebrate God giving the Torah and stay awake to show appreciation.

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Simchat torah

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Follow Sukkot, rejoicing the Torah

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What do they do on Simchat Torah

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Complete the yerly cycle of reading the Torah and preparing for the cycle to start over the next year.

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Simchat Torah’s key practices

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Removed from the ark paraded seven times around the synagogue in front of the congregation. Children receive sweets, people sing and dance

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Simchat Torah celebration

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Happy festivals represents the joy felt by Jewish people that the word of god is given to them and they observe his law as his people.

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