Starter quiz
- During Rosh Hashanah, it is traditional to eat apples dipped in ...
- chocolate.
- honey. ✓
- bitter herbs.
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- 'Shana Tovah!' means ...
- 'goodnight!'.
- 'Good Year!'. ✓
- 'good morning!'.
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- The festival to mark the beginning of the Jewish New Year is called ...
- Hogmonay.
- Rosh Hashanah. ✓
- Chinese New Year.
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- Why are pomegranate seeds an important symbol in Judaism?
- they remind Jews of the hundreds of laws in the Torah ✓
- they remind Jews to be healthy
- they are round like challah bread
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- Rosh Hashanah marks the __________ of the Jewish New Year.
- beginning ✓
- middle
- end
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- The bread eaten during Rosh Hashanah is called ...
- mitzvah.
- Torah.
- challah. ✓
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Exit quiz
- Yom Kippur is ...
- the Day of Atonement, ✓
- a New Year's resolution.
- a ram’s horn that is blown like a trumpet.
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- Which of these Jewish festivals are about new beginnings and a fresh start?
- Shabbat
- Rosh Hashanah ✓
- Yom Kippur ✓
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- How is a shofar blown?
- like a trumpet ✓
- like a balloon
- like a bubble
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- Put these parts of the story of Jonah in the correct order.
- 1⇔God told Jonah to go to Ninevah.
- 2⇔Jonah decided to flee on a boat to another place.
- 3⇔A terrible storm blew in.
- 4⇔Jonah was thrown overboard.
- 5⇔He was swallowed by a gigantic fish.
- 6⇔God made the fish spit Jonah out. He then went to Ninevah.
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Key learning points
- Rosh Hashanah is followed by ten days of penitence, leading to the festival of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement.
- People reflect on the past year asking forgiveness for things that they have done wrong.
- They also think about the year ahead and what is important.
- Special readings and prayers are said at services and the shofar horn is blown.
Common misconception
All festivals are times of celebration and joy.
Yom Kippur is about reflection and penitence.
Keywords
Penitence - the feeling of regret for one's wrongdoing
Shofar - a ram’s horn that is blown like a trumpet
Yom kippur - the Day of Atonement
Rosh hashanah - festival to mark the beginning of the Jewish New Year
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