First Review Session

Question 1

Shabbat

Answer 1

weekly Sabbath on Saturday (stems from words to cease and seven)

Question 2

Rosh HaShana

Answer 2

New Year (Fall)

Question 3

Yom Kippur

Answer 3

Day of Atonement (Fall)

Question 4

Sukkot

Answer 4

Feast of Tabernacles (Fall)

Question 5

Hanukkah

Answer 5

Winter

Question 6

Pessach

Answer 6

Passover (Spring)

Question 7

Shavu’ot

Answer 7

Feast of Weeks (Summer)

Question 8

When is the Sabbath?

Answer 8

Friday sunset to Saturday sunset

Question 9

Kiddush

Answer 9

Blessing or Sanctification of the Sabbath (ceremony)

Question 10

Challah (Hallah)

Answer 10

Kiddush bread (braided bread); usually 2 loaves of it

Question 11

Havdalah

Answer 11

Separation; Ceremony on Saturday night to end the Sabbath

Question 12

How many candles are on the dinner table Friday night to welcome the Sabbath?

Answer 12

2 (Kiddush candles)

Question 13

Kiddush cup

Answer 13

wine

Question 14

Why 2 loaves of bread?

Answer 14

represents the 2 portions of Manna that God allowed Israelites to collect on the Sabbath

Question 15

Habdalah candle

Answer 15

braided; usually has 6 very skinny strings (6 work days)

Question 16

Shofar

Answer 16

horn that you blow on RoshHashana

Question 17

Mezuzah

Answer 17

little box placed at door entry with scripture inside

Question 18

Tefillin

Answer 18

black boxes that men wear on head and arm during morning prayer with verses inside

Question 19

priestly blessing

Answer 19

Numbers 6

Question 20

Sabbath is considered a _____

Answer 20

bride

Question 21

House of Israel is considered a _____

Answer 21

groom

Question 22

Kashrut

Answer 22

noun; system of Kosher eating

Question 23

Kosher

Answer 23

adjective; fit for Kashrut

Question 24

Treif

Answer 24

Torn; killed in a manner that is forbidden to eat (animal dies of sickness, killed by another animal, etc) &laquo_space;comes from Exodus 22:31

Question 25

Pareve

Answer 25

Neutral (usually colored green; fruit and vegetables and grains and eggs and fish as well)

Question 26

Foods that are forbidden

Answer 26

(pork, shrimp, carnivorous birds) &laquo_space;comes from Leviticus 11

Question 27

Separation of milk foods and meat

Answer 27

Exodus 23:19 & Deutoronomy 14:21

Question 28

Blood

Answer 28

forbidden to eat blood &laquo_space;Genesis 9:4 & Leviticus 3:17

Question 29

Kasher

Answer 29

soaking meat in a salt water solution to remove excess blood