Judaisim General Knowledge

Question 1

Shekinah

Answer 1

G-ds presence on earth

Question 2

Where are the Ten Commandments located?

Answer 2

Exodus 20
2-14

Question 3

What is mitzvot

Answer 3

Commandment

Question 4

Fancy word for messiah?

Answer 4

Maschiach

Question 5

Tendency to to good?

Answer 5

Yetzer ha tov

Question 6

And bad?

Answer 6

Yetzer ha rav

Question 7

What is olam ha ha

Answer 7

World to come

Question 8

What is the Talmud?

Answer 8

The Talmud is a holy source of Jewish text to explain the Torah
MISHNAH= Oral Torah, halakah (law) and
Haggadah (tradition and guidance)
GEMARA= comment on above and guidance (further detail)

Question 9

What is pikuach nefesh

Answer 9

Protecting life is more important than anything else

Question 10

What is the Mishnah?

Answer 10

Jewish oral traditions, halakah (law) and Haggadah (tradition and guidance)

• for example, it states ‘ the world is like a lobby before the olam ha ba. Prepare yourself in the lobby.’

Question 11

What is the Amidah

Answer 11

Key prayer with 18 blessings
• praise, requests and thanksgiving
• rabbi silent= G-ds presence
• step back= retreat from his holy presence

Question 12

What is the Shema?

Answer 12

Only like the most important prayer in Judaism!
Like the nicene creed, deceleration of faith

Question 13

What is the kiddush?

Answer 13

‘Sanctification’
• blessing, recited over wine to sanctify the shabbat or Jewish holidays

Question 14

What other prayers are involved in Shabbat services?

Answer 14

• haftorah
• sermon

(Also Shema, Amidah, Kiddush)

Question 15

What is the modeh ani prayer

Answer 15

The prayer Jews say when they awaken

Question 16

What is the Jewish prayer book called

Answer 16

SIDDUR

Question 17

Contains Shema prayer on the back of every door except toilet

Answer 17

Mezuzah case

Question 18

What are charity collections collected in

Answer 18

pushke box

Question 19

What bread can be consumed on Shabbat

Answer 19

Challot loaves

Question 20

What prayer is recited over wine

Answer 20

Kiddush

Question 21

What does the woman lighting the candles represent

Answer 21

• Zakhor (rememberence)
• shamor (observence)

Question 22

What candle shows distinction between Shabbat and the rest of the week

Answer 22

Havdalah candle

Question 23

What is the leather boxes with Shema prayer called

Answer 23

tefillin

Question 24

What is the garment called? What are the two varieties?

Answer 24

Tallith
• tallith gadol= prayer
• tallith katan= every day

Question 25

What is the hat thing called

Answer 25

Kippah

Question 26

What is the synagogue feature where a) the Torah is read b) the scrolls are kept c) the holy book

Answer 26

• bimah • Aron hakodesh • Torah scrolls

Question 27

Name the synagogue features : a) the eternal lamp b) the people sit c) the prayer leaders

Answer 27

• Ner Tamid • seating • minyan

Question 28

What does RITUAL stand for

Answer 28

• relationship established • identity re enforced • traditions kept • unity -> equality • affirms faith in G-d • lifecycle (life and death related)

Question 29

What does the child sit on in Brit Milah

Answer 29

Elijahs chair

Question 30

Whom performs circumcision

Answer 30

The mohel

Question 31

Who holds the child during circumcision

Answer 31

The sandek

Question 32

What might a girl read at a bat mitzvah/chayil

Answer 32

Aliyah/ speech about a topic

Question 33

What happens prior to a Jewish wedding

Answer 33

• kiddushin= not live together

Question 34

What is the contract signed in a Jewish wedding

Answer 34

Ketubah

Question 35

What is the veiling called

Answer 35

Bedeken

Question 36

What does the ceremony happen underneath

Answer 36

Chuppah

Question 37

Who is the Onan

Answer 37

The main mourner in a Jewish funeral

Question 38

Who are the Chevra Kaddisha

Answer 38

Look after body

Question 39

What is the Sloshim

Answer 39

30 day mourning period UNLESS PARENT= one year

Question 40

What happens each year to mark the death

Answer 40

Yahrzeit ceremony

Question 41

What is the Tenkah

Answer 41

Contains the Torah, neviim (book of prophets), ketuvim (psalms and behaviour)

Question 42

What is Kosher

Answer 42

What can be consumed

Question 43

What cannot be eaten

Answer 43

Trefah

Question 44

What are all food rules

Answer 44

Kashrut

Question 45

How must an animal be slaughtered

Answer 45

Shechitah by a Shocet using a chalif

Question 46

What can be eaten with milk or meat

Answer 46

Parev

Question 47

What is etrog

Answer 47

Citrus fruit used in Sukkot

Question 48

What is lulav

Answer 48

Palm willow myrtle in wood holder

Question 49

What is a sukkah

Answer 49

Like a booth

Question 50

What is Charoset

Answer 50

Sweet fruit and nut paste thingy

Question 51

What is Chametez

Answer 51

Swell grain

Question 52

What is the Mikvah

Answer 52

A pool of natural water for spiritual cleaning on Yom Kippur

Question 53

What is a shofar

Answer 53

HORN

Question 54

What is tashilkh

Answer 54

Away crumbs in pockets is sins cast away

Question 55

Who writes the Torah

Answer 55

Sofer

Question 56

What’s the pointer used on the Torah called?

Answer 56

Yad

Question 57

What are the two types of synagogue?

Answer 57

• Sephardic= orth/ trad • Ashkenazi= ref/modern

Question 58

What is the prayer recited each day during sloshim

Answer 58

Kaddish

Question 59

What is the seven day grieving period called

Answer 59

Shiva

Question 60

What’s the Kaddish prayer about

Answer 60

Goodness of G-d ‘ may there be abundant peace from heaven’

Question 61

Where are rules about kosher found

Answer 61

Leviticus 11: 1-23

Question 62

Briefly outline sukkot

Answer 62

• harvest • travels to promised land • etrog and lulav • no work 7 days • sukkahs

Question 63

Briefly outline pesach

Answer 63

• Freedom from slavery • exodus 12:14 • ‘festival of freedom’ • rid house of chamatez • Seder meal • Haggadah has prayers for the meal • door open and wine for Elijah

Question 64

Briefly outline Rosh hashanah

Answer 64

• day of creation • celebration • judgement • serviced evening • sweet food for sweet year • shofar blown 100 times • tashlikh • 10 days of repentance

Question 65

Briefly outline Yom Kippur

Answer 65

• ‘Day of anointment’ • holiest day of year • self denial and fast • synagogue day • give to poor • Mikvah • kol nideri sing and story of Jonah • single blast of shofar night