J3 - Festivals, fasts, pilgrimages and historic places

Question 1

Shabbat

Answer 1

Day of rest, symbolise God’s day of rest on 7th day
Begins at sunset on Friday, end at sunst on Saturday
Specifically written in 10 commandments

Question 2

Preparation for Shabbat

Answer 2

Home cleaned before
Many Jews make preparations so that they do not use/at least switch on electrical during Shabbat

Question 3

Yom Kippur

Answer 3

Day of atonement (asking forgiveness to God)
Shabbat of Shabbats
10 days after Rosh Hashanah

Question 4

Pesach/Passover

Answer 4

pilgrimage festival in Jerusalem
Exodus story of the last plague(10th)

Question 5

Sukkot

Answer 5

feast of tabernacles (tents/shelters)
reminder of Israelistes used to live in shelfters

Question 6

Shavuot

Answer 6

festival of weeks (wheat harvest), but know focused on delivery of torah to Israel

Question 7

Simchat Tora

Answer 7

‘Rejoicing the torah’ (after sukkot)
celebration of finishing yearly cycle of reading the Torah, preparing new cycle

Question 8

Jerusalem - western wall

Answer 8

Only remaining wall of Teple/Mount

Question 9

Yad Vashem

Answer 9

Holocaust Memorial
difficial Hholocause