Jewish Holidays

Question 1

God does this on Rosh Hashanah

Answer 1

He writes your name in the Book of Life

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Unetanneh Tokef

Question 3

Days at the beginning of Tishrei devoted to introspection and repentance

Answer 3

Days of Awe

Question 4

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

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

Answer 5

`Tashlikh

Question 6

What are She’varim, Teruah, and Tekiah

Answer 6

Three types of Shofar blasts

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Ba’al Tekiah

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Fast of Gedaliah

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Selichot

Question 10

Happy New Year in Hebrew

Answer 10

Shanah Tova!

Question 11

Bible book that is read in its entirety on Yom Kippur

Answer 11

Book of Jonah (coz forgiveness)

Question 12

God does this on Yom Kippur

Answer 12

He seals the Book of Life

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Kapparot

Question 14

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

Answer 14

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

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Kol Nidrei

Question 16

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?

Answer 16

Azazel

Question 17

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

Answer 17

a kittel

Question 18

Number of Yom Kippur regulations

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Name for Yom Kippur’s concluding service

Answer 19

Ne’ila

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Sukkot

Question 21

Make shift three walled huts that Jews sleep in during Sukkot

Answer 21

Sukkah

Question 22

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).

Answer 22

Four Species (Arba Minim)

Question 23

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.

Answer 23

Lulav

Question 24

Citron fruit that is also part of the Four Species.

Answer 24

Etrog

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Ushpizin

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Great Supplication (Hoshana Rabbah)

Question 27

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.

Answer 27

Shemini Atzeret

Question 28

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

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Jewish name for the middle days of both Passover and Sukkot

Answer 29

Chol HaMoed

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Judith's beheading of Holofernes

Question 31

Chocolate money given to kids on Hanukkah

Answer 31

Gelt

Question 32

Jewish poem commonly sung on Hanukkah

Answer 32

Ma'oz Tzur

Question 33

Side candle often used to light the other candles on Hanukkah

Answer 33

Shamash

Question 34

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

Answer 34

Al Ha Nissim

Question 35

Name for the last day of Hanukkah

Answer 35

Zot Hanukkah

Question 36

Day of Hanukkah on the Jewish Calendar

Answer 36

25th of Kislev

Question 37

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

Answer 37

Megillah

Question 38

Fried Donuts eaten on Hanukkah

Answer 38

Sufganiyot

Question 39

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

Answer 39

King Ahasuerus (Xerxes)

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Queen Vashti

Question 41

Cousin of Esther who disobeyed Xerxes' minister

Answer 41

Mordecai

Question 42

Xerxes' genocidal prime minister

Answer 42

Haman

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Hamentaschen

Question 44

What happens when the name 'Haman' is recited during the reading of the Megillah during Purim

Answer 44

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

Question 45

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

Answer 45

They don't mention god

Question 46

Purim tradition of giving baskets of gift foods to people

Answer 46

Mishloach Manot

Question 47

Day of Purim

Answer 47

14 Adar

Question 48

A lot of wine is drunk on Purim for this purpose

Answer 48

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

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Seder

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Haggadah

Question 51

What day does Passover begin?

Answer 51

Nissan 15

Question 52

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

Answer 52

Counting of the Omer

Question 53

During Passover, the small Samaritan community gathers at this mountain

Answer 53

Mount Gerizim

Question 54

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

Answer 54

Chametz

Question 55

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

Answer 55

Afikomen

Question 56

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?'

Answer 56

He asks the Four Questions

Question 57

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

Answer 57

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

Question 58

How many steps are there to a traditional Passover seder?

Answer 58

15

Question 59

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

Answer 59

(Ritual) Hand washing

Question 60

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

Answer 60

Jewish Passover Songs

Question 61

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

Answer 61

Shavuot

Question 62

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

Answer 62

Pentecost

Question 63

This is done all night during Shavuot

Answer 63

Torah Study

Question 64

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

Answer 64

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

Question 65

Biblical Book whose reading is customary on Shavuot

Answer 65

Book of Ruth

Question 66

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?

Answer 66

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

Question 67

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

Answer 67

Akdamut

Question 68

Date of Shavuot

Answer 68

Sivan 6

Question 69

Jewish Fast Day of Mourning

Answer 69

Tisha B'av (9th of Av)

Question 70

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

Answer 70

'Next Year in Jerusalem!'

Question 71

What happened on the 9th of Av

Answer 71

Both the first and second temples were destroyed

Question 72

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

Answer 72

Book of Lamentations

Question 73

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

Answer 73

Kinnot

Question 74

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

Answer 74

The Three Weeks