J3 Festivals, fasts, pilgrimages and places

Question 1

Shabbat

Answer 1

Day of rest, starts at sunset on Friday and ends at Sunset on Saturday

Question 2

Congregation

Answer 2

a group of people assembled for religious worship

Question 3

4 services over Shabbat

Answer 3

Shacharit, Musaf, Mincha and Ma’ariv

Question 4

kabbalat shabbat

Answer 4

commences just before sundown at the end of the day on Friday

Question 5

Shacharit

Answer 5

between sunrise and a third of the day

Question 6

Musaf

Answer 6

until the seventh Halachic hour of the day

Question 7

Mincha

Answer 7

beginning half an hour after halachic noontime

Question 8

Ma’ariv

Answer 8

Prayer generally recited after sunset

Question 9

Rosh Hashanah

Answer 9

The “head of the year”, Jewish new year and festival of repentance, pilgrimage festival

Question 10

Elul

Answer 10

Months

Question 11

Shofar

Answer 11

Ram horn blown as a trumpet by the ancient Hebrews

Question 12

Yom Kippur

Answer 12

“Day of atonement ”, they ask forgiveness and try to make things right, pilgrimages festival

Question 13

Pesach

Answer 13

Passover, pilgrim festival in Jerusalem

Question 14

Sukkot

Answer 14

Pilgrim festival, the feast of tabernacles

Question 15

Teshwah

Answer 15

Return, find yourself

Question 16

4 plants used to decorate the shelters

Answer 16

Etrog, lulav, hadass and aravah

Question 17

Shavuot

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Hoshana Robbah

Answer 18

7th day of Sukkot which includes a special synagogue service

Question 19

Minhagim

Answer 19

Customs

Question 20

Simchat Torah

Answer 20

A festival that follows Sukkot and is mostly translated to mea “rejoicing the Torah ”

Question 21

Ha-Kotel Ha-Maʿaravi

Answer 21

The western wall

Question 22

Yad Vashem

Answer 22

Is the official Holocaust remembrance centre or memorial