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Jewish Holidays Flashcards

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God does this on Rosh Hashanah

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He writes your name in the Book of Life

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Piyyut (Jewish poem) that is recited on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur

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Unetanneh Tokef

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Days at the beginning of Tishrei devoted to introspection and repentance

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Days of Awe

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Meanings of alternative names to Rosh Hashanah - Yom Hadin, Yom HaziKaron, Yom Truah

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Day of Judgement, Day of Remembrance, Day of Shouting respectively

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Name for the tradition of throwing bread crumbs into the water to symbolize cleansing the old habits and sins of the gone year

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`Tashlikh

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What are She’varim, Teruah, and Tekiah

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Three types of Shofar blasts

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Who is the person who plays the Shofar 100 times on Rosh Hashanah

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Ba’al Tekiah

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Fast day on the third day of Tishrei (right after Rosh Hashanah) to honor the assassinated governor of Judea during the Babylonian times

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Fast of Gedaliah

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These prayers, including Pizmon, Akeidah, Chatanu, and Techinah are recited in the days leading up to Rosh Hashanah

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Selichot

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Happy New Year in Hebrew

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Shanah Tova!

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Bible book that is read in its entirety on Yom Kippur

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Book of Jonah (coz forgiveness)

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God does this on Yom Kippur

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He seals the Book of Life

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Name for the practice of swinging a chicken around one’s head and then butchering it and giving it to the poor on Yom Kippur

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Kapparot

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Name for the two confessions that take place on Yom Kippur, the short confession and long confession both of which are made up of series of phrases in hebrew alphabetical order

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Ashamnu (short confession) and Al Cheyt (Long confession)

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Name for the recital at the beginning of a Yom Kippur evening service that is often used to describe the entire evening service

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Kol Nidrei

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On Yom Kippur, a lot is drawn to select one goat to be sacrificed to god and another goat to be used as a ‘scapegoat’ for the sins of the community and sent into the wilderness to die to what fallen angel?

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Azazel

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On Yom Kippur, at evening services married men wear a white robe called ______

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a kittel

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Number of Yom Kippur regulations

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5 (no eating/drinking, no leather clothes, no marital relations, no perfume, no bathing)

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Name for Yom Kippur’s concluding service

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Ne’ila

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Jewish Feast of Tabernacles, a harvest festival and historical holiday celebrating the 40 years in the desert that the first Jews spent before reaching Canaan

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Sukkot

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Make shift three walled huts that Jews sleep in during Sukkot

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Sukkah

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Collective name for the plants that are waved in six directions to symbolize the omnipresence of god on Sukkot. They include the Aravah (willow) and Hadass (Myrtle).

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Four Species (Arba Minim)

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Longest of the four species that is sometimes used as a name for the four species collectively when bound together. Closed frond of the Palm Tree.

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Lulav

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24
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Citron fruit that is also part of the Four Species.

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Etrog

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Prayers that are said in order to bring into the Sukkah the seven exalted (Abraham, Moses, David, Jacob etc) for dinner, one each night

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Ushpizin

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Name for the seventh and final day of Sukkot on which Jews attend a synagogue service where the congregation recites the special ‘Hoshanot’ prayer and beat a bundle of five willow branches on the ground to symbolize cleansing of sins

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Great Supplication (Hoshana Rabbah)

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Day of celebrating the Torah which often takes place the day after Hoshana Rabbah, which is why this holiday is sometimes called the eighth day of Sukkot.

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Shemini Atzeret

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28
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Sukkot Ritual originating from a temple era practice. It has been revived in recent days. A time of great joy.

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Celebration of the Water Libation or Rejoicing of the Water-Drawing House

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Jewish name for the middle days of both Passover and Sukkot

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Chol HaMoed

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30
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Some Jews eat cheese and other dairy on Hanukkah to commemorate this event

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Judith’s beheading of Holofernes

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Chocolate money given to kids on Hanukkah

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Gelt

32
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Jewish poem commonly sung on Hanukkah

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Ma’oz Tzur

33
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Side candle often used to light the other candles on Hanukkah

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Shamash

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This phrase about miraculous deeds is added to the Amidah (daily prayers) on Hanukkah and Purim

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Al Ha Nissim

35
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Name for the last day of Hanukkah

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Zot Hanukkah

36
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Day of Hanukkah on the Jewish Calendar

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25th of Kislev

37
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Another name for the Book of Esther, the book is often referred to by this name when talking bout Purim

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Megillah

38
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Fried Donuts eaten on Hanukkah

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Sufganiyot

39
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King who ruled Persia during the time of the Megillah Esther Story

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King Ahasuerus (Xerxes)

40
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Queen of Persia at the beginning of the Esther story, banished following her disobedience

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Queen Vashti

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Cousin of Esther who disobeyed Xerxes’ minister

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Mordecai

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Xerxes’ genocidal prime minister

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Haman

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Famous cookies eaten on Purim in a triangle shape, commonly thought to represent either Haman’s hat or ears

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Hamentaschen

44
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What happens when the name ‘Haman’ is recited during the reading of the Megillah during Purim

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The people in the congregation shake rattles to drown out the name

45
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What do the Song of Solomon and Esther not have that every other bible book has?

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They don’t mention god

46
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Purim tradition of giving baskets of gift foods to people

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Mishloach Manot

47
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Day of Purim

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14 Adar

48
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A lot of wine is drunk on Purim for this purpose

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To become unable to discern the phrases ‘Blessed Mordecai’ and ‘Cursed Haman’

49
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Special dinner that the Jews have on the first day of Passover

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Seder

50
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Special book detailing the story of the Exodus read during the Seder

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Haggadah

51
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What day does Passover begin?

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Nissan 15

52
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Practice beginning on the second day of Passover that ends 50 days later on Shauvot

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Counting of the Omer

53
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During Passover, the small Samaritan community gathers at this mountain

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Mount Gerizim

54
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Jews remove _____ from their house prior to Passover. ______ is the Hebrew term for leavened.

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Chametz

55
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Broken piece of Matzeh hidden during Seder so that a child can ‘steal’ it and eat it as dessert.

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Afikomen

56
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The youngest child does this at the Seder meal, a tradition that often starts with the phrase ‘What makes tonight different from every other night?’

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He asks the Four Questions

57
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At the passover Seder, three traditional foods are Zeroah, Beitzah, and Karpas. What are each of these?

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Zeroah - Lamb Shank Bone representing the temple Passover sacrifice
Beitzah - Roast Hard Boiled Egg representing the temple festival sacrifice
Karpas - Vegetable (usually parsley) dipped in salt water to represent the salty tears shed during their enslavement

58
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How many steps are there to a traditional Passover seder?

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15

59
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This happens twice during the Seder, the first is called Urchatz and the second is called Rachtzah

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(Ritual) Hand washing

60
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Chad Gadya, Adir Hu, and Dayenu are popular versions of what?

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Jewish Passover Songs

61
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Jewish Holiday celebrated 7 weeks after Passover (sometimes called the Festival of Weeks) which honors God giving the Torah, and is also a harvest festival for wheat

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Shavuot

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Shavuot is on the same day as this Christian holiday, which commemorates the date the holy spirit descended onto the followers of Christ

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Pentecost

63
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This is done all night during Shavuot

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Torah Study

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These foods are very often eaten on Shavuot because King Solomon once compared the Torah to the main part of these foods

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Dairy Foods (Solomon compared the Torah to honey and milk)

65
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Biblical Book whose reading is customary on Shavuot

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Book of Ruth

66
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During the Temple Era, Shavuot was the first occasion of the year that people could bring Bikkurim to the temple as an offering. What is Bikkurim?

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The First Fruits (Seven plants grown in Israel including olives and pomegranates)

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A Rabbi known as the Meir of Worms composed this poem praising god which is traditionally read on Shavuot.

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Akdamut

68
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Date of Shavuot

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Sivan 6

69
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Jewish Fast Day of Mourning

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Tisha B’av (9th of Av)

70
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Last of the 15 steps of Seder, a phrase uttered at the end of the meal

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‘Next Year in Jerusalem!’

71
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What happened on the 9th of Av

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Both the first and second temples were destroyed

72
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Book by the prophet Jeremiah which is traditionally read on Tisha B’av

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Book of Lamentations

73
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After Lamentations is read, these elegies lamenting the loss of the temple are read

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Kinnot

74
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Time period starting on 17 Tammuz which leads up to Tisha B’av

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The Three Weeks

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