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ANSWERS: HOLIDAYS
Some of the answers provided below are short, but t
he student may have to provide a bit more
elaboration.
Example: Question 29. What is Rosh Hashana?
The answer should be more than simply “The Jewish N
ew Year”. It should include some information
about Rosh Hashanah. “It is the beginning of a new
year. This year is (5775). We hope that the new
year brings health and happiness. We eat apples dip
ped in honey. The challah is sweet and round. In
the shul the Torah is covered in white and we wear
white kippot. It is a mitzvah to hear the shofar
being blown.”
BUT Example: Question 34: What are the shofar tones
called?
You may give short answers: 1. tekiah 2. teruah 3.
shevarim
29. The start of a new month.
30. The Jewish calendar is based on the lunar cycle
(movement of the moon) and is
integrated into our secular sun calendar.
31. New Year
32. Yom Hazikaron, Yom Teruah, Yom Hadin (Rosh Hash
anah)
33. During the services of Rosh Hashana, during Elu
l, at the end of the Yom Kippur
service.
34. Tekiah, Teruah, Shevarim (Tekiah gedolah)
35. The days preceding Rosh Hashana during which sp
ecial prayers are said.
Ashkenazi Jews: starting with Motze Shabbat before
Rosh Hashana till Rosh Hashanah
Sephardic: the whole month of Elul
36. The 10 days of 1–10 Tishri, beginning with Rosh
Hashanah & ending with Yom Kippur
37. Day of Atonement
38. Kol Nidre
39.
Sukkot. We build a sukkah. We sit and eat in the su
kkah. We wave the lulav+etrog.
40. Lulav (palm branch), Hadasim (myrtle branches),
Aravot (willow branches), Etrog
(fragrant smelling fruit that looks like a lemon).
Combining the lulav, 3 hadasim and 2
aravot, a bundle is formed. Together with the etrog
, this is “waved” in all directions.
41. Rejoicing over the Torah. This is when the last
portion of the Torah is read followed
immediately by reading from Bereshit, the first cha
pter of Genesis. The cycle of Torah
reading begins immediately.
42. The Dedication Holiday, to remember the re-dedi
cation of the temple (Bet
Hamikdash) in the days of the Maccabees.
43. The Feast of Lots. Commemorates the miraculous
saving of the Jewish people by
Esther and Mordechai. Haman, the king of Persia, wa
s planning on exterminating the
Jews of Persia.
44. Spring holiday, harvest festival, holiday to re
member the exodus out of Egypt
45. Charoset (cement/mortar), Paschal lamb bone (pe
sach lamb), parsley (spring),
salted water (tears), egg (Chagigah, holiday, sacri
fice), maror (the bitterness of slavery),
matza – the bread of affliction / wine glass for El
ijah.
46. Chametz: leavened foods that are forbidden on P
assover. Matza: unleavened bread.
47. The number of days between Pesach and Shavuot (
49 days)
48. The day of memorial for the 6 million Jews who
were murdered during World War II
49. Israel’s Independence Day
50. The 33rd day of Omer. The day that Rabbi Simeon
bar Yochai died
51. Feast of Weeks, Chag Matan Torah (the handing d
own of the Torah on Mount Sinai),
Chag Bikkurim (first fruits), Chag Ha’Katzir Chitim
(harvesting of grains)
52. The ninth day of Av. 586 B.C. the First Temple
in Jerusalem was destroyed. Fast Day.
3-week period of mourning. Second Temple destroyed
in 70 A.D.
53. The Three Pilgrimage Festivals: Pesach, Shavuot
& Sukkot. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
54. Rosh Hashana and Yom Hakippurim
Extra
:
C. Shir hashirim – Pesach; Ruth – Shavuot; Echa – T
isha B’av; Kohelet – Sukkot;
Esther – Purim.
D. Jonah + 1st day: The banishment of Yishma’el. 2
nd
day: Akedat Yitzhak(The Binding of
Isaac)