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125 questions

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125 Questions
These questions and answers are part of
the curriculum that Rimon- LJL has
developed for the Bar and Bat Mitzvah
classes at the Liberal Jewish
Communities (LJG).
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TORAH
1. What is the most important core of Judaism?
2. What is Chumash?
3. What are the Five Books of Moses called in Hebre
w?
4. What are the Five Books about?
5. What is a Sidra?
6. How many Sidrot are there?
7. How many Aliyot are there on Shabbat and how man
y are there on the
High Holidays?
8. What is the Haftorah?
9. What is the cupboard called where the Sifrei Tor
ah are kept?
10. What is the Torah-shebaal-peh?
11. What is the Torah-shebichtav?
12. What is Mishna?
13. What is Gemara?
14 .What is the Talmud?
15. Why is there a Talmud Bavli and a Talmud Yerush
almi?
16. What is Halacha?
17. What is the Midrash?
18. What is the Hebrew name for the “10 Commandment
s”?
19. Name the 10 Commandments (at least 8 of them).
20. On which days do we read from the Torah?
21. What is the Ba’al koreh/Ba’alat Kria?
22. What is the Maftir / Maftira?
23. When did we read – in public – from the Torah?
24. Why and with what do we dress the Torah?
25. What is Nevi’im?
26. What is Ketuvim?
27. What is Tenakh?
28. What is a Mitzva?
Extra:
A. What does this mean? “There is no Torah without
the Jewish people
and there are no Jewish people without the Torah.”
B. How many aliyot are there on Rosh Chodesh? on Yo
m Kippur? at the
Micha service?
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HOLIDAYS
29. What is Rosh Chodesh?
30. Why do our holidays occur on different dates ev
ery year?
31. What is Rosh Hashana?
32. State 3 different names for Rosh Hashana?
33. When is the shofar blown?
34. What are the shofar tones called?
35. What are the Selichot days?
36. What are the Aseret Yemei Teshuva?
37. What is Yom Kippur?
38. What is the name of the evening that Yom Kippur
starts?
39. What is the name of the third holiday in the mo
nth of Tishri and what
do we do then?
40. What are the four plant species that we use dur
ing Sukkot and what
do we do with them?
41. What is Simcha Torah?
42. What is Chanukah?
43. What is Purim?
44. What is Pesach?
45. What is on the seder plate and what do these it
ems symbolize?
46. What is chametz and what is matza?
47. What is Counting of the Omer (Sefirat Ha’Omer)?
48. What is Yom Hashoa?
49. What is Yom Ha’atsmayut?
50. What is Lag Ba’Omer?
51. What is Shavuot?
52. What is Tisha B’Av?
53. What are the Shalosh Regalim?
54. What are the Yamim Nora’im?
Extra:
C. Name the five Megilot and state on which holiday
s they are read.
D. Which Book of Prophets do we read during the Min
cha service on Yom
Kippur?
AND
What is the Torah portion on Rosh Hashana?
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SYNAGOGUE / SYNAGOGUE SERVICE
55. What is the tabernacle? (Mishkan)
56. What was the most important part of the service
in the Mishkan and
later in the temple?
57. What replaced the sacrifice?
58. Why does the Ner Tamid (eternal light) burn in
the synagogue?
59. What is there in every synagogue?
60. What are the two most important parts of the se
rvice?
61. How many times a day do you have to say (and ar
e you allowed to
say) these parts?
62.What is the Amida and how many brachot are in th
e Amida?
63. Which 3 kinds of brachot are there in the Amida
?
64. Name at least 2 other kinds of brachot.
65. How is the Shema structured in the evening and
in the morning?
66. How is the Friday evening service structured?
67. How is the Shabbat morning service structured?
68. What is Kaddish?
69. What is the prayer book called that we use for
Shabbat and days of
the week?
70. What is a Machzor?
71. What is a Drashah?
72. What is a Minyan?
73. What is a Aliyah?
74. Who is often first called up in the synagogue a
nd who is then called up
as second?
75. What are the three services of a day called?
76. Why does the Shabbat morning service begin with
Adon Olam?
Extra:
E. What is Kavanah?
F. How many brachot are in an Amida on Shabbat? on
Yom Kippur?
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Answers that the Bar and Bat Mitzvah students shoul
d know:
ANSWERS to the 125 Questions
These questions and answers are part of
the curriculum that Rimon – LJL has
developed for the Bar and Bat Mitzvah
classes at the Liberal Jewish
Communities (LJG).
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ANSWERS: TORAH
1. Torah
2. Torah in book form (the Written Law)
3. Bereshit, Shemot, Vayikra, Ba Midbar, D’varim
(Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)
4. The creation of the world and mankind, the patri
archs, the history of the Jewish
people, the exodus out of Egypt, Matan Torah, the e
ntering of the holy land of Israel.
5. The portion of the Torah that is read on the mor
ning of Shabbat
6. 54
7. Shabbat: 7+1. Holidays: 5+1 (unless Shabbat, the
n 7+1). +1 is mafter
8. Reading from one of the “nevi’im” (Prophetic Wri
tings)
9. Aron Hakodesh.
10. The Oral Law
11. The Written Law (5 Books of Moses)
12. Mishna = the written redaction of the Jewish Or
al Torah
13. The commentary of the rabbis on the Mishna
14. The book in which the Mishna and Gemara are pri
nted together.
15. Talmud Bavli is the commentary on the Mishna by
the rabbis in Babylonia. Talmud
Yerushalmi is the commentary on the Mishna by the r
abbis in Israel.
16. The Jewish law
17. Educational and narrative interpretations of pa
rts of the Tenach
18. Aseret ha Dibrot
19. A. I am the Lord your God; B. You shall have no
other gods before me;
C. You shall not take the name of the Lord in vain;
D. Remember the Sabbath day to
keep it holy; C. Honour your father and your mother
; E. You shall not murder; F.
You shall not commit adultery; G. You shall not ste
al; H. You shall not lie; I. You shall not
covet your neighbour’s possessions.
20. Monday, Thursday, Shabbat (2x), Rosh Chodesh, P
esach (every day), Yom
Ha’atzmaut, Shavuot, Tisha B’Av (2x), Rosh Hashana,
Yom Hakippurim (2x) Sukkot
(every day), Shemini Atzeret / Simchat Torah, Chanu
kkah (every day), Purim, fasting
days
21. The reader of the Torah
22. The reader of the Haftorah. Maftir is also the
name of the portion of the Torah that is
read.
23. In the time of Ezra
24. To show respect for the Torah text
Ashkenazi Jews: Torah wrap (Mappa) or belt (Chagora
). On top of that a cover
(Me’il). On the wooden poles: 2 Rimonim (decorative
towers) or 1 Keter (crown). A Yad
(pointing stick). Sometimes a shield (Choshen).
Sephardic Jews: Rolls in wooden round cupboard, tri
mmed with silver. With or without
Rimonim.
25. The Prophetic Writings
26. Holy Writings, including: Ruth, Esther, Job, Ko
helet, Psalms, Shir hashirim
27. Torah, Nevim, Ketuvim
28. A commandment in Jewish tradition. Also the nam
e for doing a good deed. Also
honorary functions during the service.
Extra:
A. The Torah sustained and kept the Jewish people a
live and the Jewish people sustained
and kept the Torah alive.
B. Rosh Chodesh: 3
Yom Hakipurrim: 6+1 shacharit (Shabbat 7+1) and min
cha 3.
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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)
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ANSWERS: SYNAGOGUE / SYNAGOGUE SERVICE
55. The altar in the desert
56. Sacrificial service
57. Tefila (Amidah), prayer
58. As a memorial to the Menorah in the temple and
to symbolize God’s presence
59. Aron hakodesh, Bima, Ner Tamid, seats
60. Shema, Amidah.
61. Shema – twice during the services (shacharit +
arvit) and evening prayer. Amidah –
three times: arvit, shacharit and mincha on week da
ys. Four times when musaf is said.
Five times on Yom Hakipurrim.
62. Amidah = Silent Devotion. Shemoneh Esrei (Eight
een Benedictions) are said while
standing. 19, on Shabbat 7.
63. Praise, Plea, Thanks
64. Mitzva, before and after eating/ drinking, hear
ing / smelling / seeing things
65. Two brachot in the evening and in the morning:
1st Creation; 2nd Love/mitzvot: 3rd
parashot of the Shema: Deuteronomy 6:4-9; Deuterono
my 11:13-21; Numbers 15:37-
41: 3
rd
Redemption: only in the evening 4
th
sleep peacefully.
66. 1. Ma tovu, Shalom Aleichem; Kabbalat shabbat (
six psalms: 95-99, 29, lecha dodi,
two psalms: 92, 93); 2. Shema and the brachot that
go with it; 3. Amidah;
4. Kiddush; 5. Final prayers (Aleinu, Kaddish and A
don Olam / Yigdal.
67. 1. Adon olam; Birkot Hashachar (prayers of prai
se for the morning), Pesukei d’zimra
(Songs of Praise); 2. Shema and the brachot that go
with it; 3. Amidah (Shacharit);
4. Torah and Haftorah readings;[in some communities
Amidah (musaf)], 5. Final prayers
(Aleinu, Kaddish and Ein keloheinu).
68. Prayer in which God’s name is praised. Has vari
ous functions. After studying
rabbinical literature (Kaddish of Rabbanan). As sep
arating parts of the service (Hatzi/half
Kaddish), after the Amidah (Kaddish Titkabal) and w
hen commemorating those who have
passed away (Kaddish Yatom).
69. Siddur (LJG siddur Tov Lehodot)
70. Prayer book for the holidays (Rosh Hashana, Yom
Kippur, Pesach, Shavuot Sukkot).
71. A sermon based on the Torah and rabbinical lite
rature.
72. The required number of 10 adult Jews to be able
to hold a service.
73. To be called up to the Torah.
74. Kohan (plural Kohanim) and Levi.
75. Arvit, shacharit and mincha.
76. To connect the end of the arvit service of the
evening before: The morning service
begins where the evening service left off.
Extra:
E. The extra intention that one puts into prayer to
reach a higher level. It is the
difference between reading a text and praying.
F. Shabbat: 7. (Rosh Hashana Musaf: 9). Yom Kippur:
7 (+ widoei).
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