5709 - Rosh Hashonah - 1948
CANADIAN   JEWISH   REVIEW
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Rosh Hashonah Quiz
From The Jewish Holidays, ^ By Dr. Mordecai Soltes
"The Jewish Holidays�A Guide to Their Origin, Significance and Observance," by Dr. Mordecai Soltes.
QUE ST I ONS.
1. What do the words "Rosh Hashonah" mean?
2. When is Rosh Hashonah observed?
3. What does "Yom Kippur" mean?
4. On what day in the Jewish calendar does Yom Kippur fall?
5. By what special Hebrew name are the High Holy Days called?
6. By what three names is Rosh Hashonah known?
7. What is a Shofar?
8* When is the Shofar blown?
9. By what Hebrew name is the person who blows the Shofar known?
10. Name three occasions in the life of the Jewish people on which the Shofar was sounded in ancient times.
11. What special greeting do worshippers extend to each other at the end of the Service, on the eve of Rosh Hashonah?
12. What are the Aseret Y'me T'shubah? '
13. Describe the ceremony known as "tashlikh."
14. What is the origin of the custom of "tashlikh."
15. What is the "Kol Nidre"?
16. What kind of oaths are annulled by the recital of KJl Nidre?
17. How is the Biblical admonition "Ye shall afflict yourselves" on Yom Kippur, interpreted traditionally in practice?
18. For what kind of transgression does Yom Kippur atone?
19. What two great Jewish personalities of ancient times are said
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20. When is the section of the Yom Kippur Service known as "Neilah" recited?
ANSWERS
1. Beginning of the year (literally, "head of the year").
2. On the fitst day of Tishri, the seventh month in the Hebrew calendar.
3. Day of Atonement.
4. On the tenth day of Tishri.
5. Yomin Noraim (Solemn Days or Days of Awe).
6. Day of Judgment (Yom Ha-din), Day of Remembering (Yom Hazikaron), arid Day of Blowing the Shofar (Yom T'ruah).
7. An old surviving wind instrument, usually made of the horn of a ram, which is blown in the synagogue on the High Holy Days.
8. During the morning service on Rosh Hashonah and at the concluding service on Yom Kippur.
9. A "Baal Tokeah."
10. To announce the new moon and festivals; to proclaim the jubilee or year of release; to issue a call to battle; tio communicate tidings of victory. (Any three)
11. L'Shanah Tobah Tikateb V'tehatem (May you be inscribed and sealed for a happy year).
12. The ten days of penitence which are devoted to earnest self-examination. They begin with the New Year (Rosh Hashonah), and end with the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur).
13. In the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashonah, if it does not fall on a Sabbath, many Jews assemble along the banks of a stream or river and recite verses from the prophets and appropriate penitential prayers.     !
14. It is based on the sentiment expressed in the following passage from the prophetic book Micah: "He will again have compassion upon us; He will subdue our iniquities. And Thou wilt cast (Hebrew, V'tashlikh) all their sins into the depth of the sea."
15. A special prayer which begins the Synagogue Service on the eve of the Day of Atonement.
16. Vows made in the heat of passion which an individual assumed for himself, alone, and which concern his relation to his conscience or Heavenly Judge.
17. By total abstinence from all kinds of food and gratification of other material desires.
18. For sins involving the individual's relation to God, but not for wrongs committed against another person, unless they are rectified
19. Isaac and Samuel.
20. At the conclusion of the Day of Atonement.
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