FOUNDATIONS of JUDAISM: JEWISH TIME CALENDAR QUESTIONS Gavriel Z
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FOUNDATIONS OF JUDAISM: JEWISH TIME CALENDAR QUESTIONS Gavriel Z. Bellino 1. What is the Jewish calendar based on? 2. What is "Rosh Chodesh"? For how many days is it celebrated? 3. Name all the Jewish months in chronological order. 4. How many months are there in a Jewish leap year? 5. Which month is added to the calendar in a leap year? 6. When does the Jewish year begin? Why? 7. When does the Jewish year end? 8. What is the present Jewish year? 9. When does the Jewish day begin? When does it end? 10. When are the four special Shabbatot? From how many Torah scrolls do we read? 11. When are "Shabbat Bereshit", "Shabbat Tshuvah" and "Shabbat Hagadol"? 12. Name all the holidays in chronological order. 13. Define "Chol Hamoed". What is not permitted in those days? 14. What is the Jewish holiday of "Tu B'Shevat"? 15. Why do we celebrate "Tu B'Shevat"? How is it celebrated? 16. Name the seven kinds of fruit the land of Israel is praised for; what verse describes them? 17. What makes the 7th day of Adar a special day? Why is it observed by the "Chevra Kaddisha"? 18. What is the Jewish holiday of Yom Haatzmaut? 19. What does "Yom Hashoa" commemorate? What is the full name of the holiday (as used in Israel)? 20. Which holiday(s) do we celebrate in Israel for one day, but in the diaspora for two days? Give reasons. 21. What are names of the three pilgrim festivals? Give the Jewish date of each one. 22. Name all fast days in chronological order, starting from after Rosh Hashana. 23. What do individual fast days commemorate? 24. Which are the two most important fast days? 25. When do we read "Eichah", Lamentations from the book of Jeremiah? 26. What is special about "LAG-BA-OMER"? 27. Why is the 17th of Tammuz observed as a fast day? 28. When do the "Three Weeks of Mourning" begin? When do they end? 29. How do we observe the three weeks? 30. What are the names of the two Shabbatot before and after Tishah B'Av? Why are they called that? 31. How do we observe Tisha B'Av? 32. Why do we fast on Tisha B'Av? .