Rosh Hashana 02 - Foods

It's time to get ready for Rosh Hashana. How much do you remember?

Take this assessment to find out.
(Stay calm! You won't get a grade for this. It's just for finding out.

Multiple Choice

REFRESHER:

Why is the time of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur a serious time of the year?

• The Beis Hamikdash was destroyed

• We are being judged

• Because summer is over

• The Romans surrounded the walls of Yerushalayim.

Multiple Choice

Why do we eat Apples and Honey on

Rosh Hashana?

• Because we are hungry

• To thank Hashem for the fruits and the bees

• To ask Hashem for a Sweet New Year

• To remember how important trees are

Drag and Drop

What is the only way to get a good judgment for a good new year?

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Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

Do Teshuva

Pick up your garbage

It makes the streets cleaner

Sing

It makes us happy

It erases our bad deeds

Multiple Choice

If TESHUVA is the only way to make bad deeds go away, then why do we eat apples and honey and ask for a sweet new year?

• Because you daven better when you are full

• Because an action strengthens a prayer

• Because we share them with our friends

• Because eating sweet things will a sweet new year

Multiple Choice

When we eat a pomegranate on ROSH HASHANA,

we ask Hashem to...

• give us a year filled with mitzvos just like a pomegranate is filled with seeds

• Let us multiply just like fish have many many babies

• get rid of all our enemies

• make us a head of our enemies

Multiple Choice

When we eat fish on ROSH HASHANA,

we ask Hashem to...

• give us a year filled with mitzvos just like a pomegranate is filled with seeds

• Let us multiply just like fish have many many babies

• get rid of all our enemies

• make us a head of our enemies

Multiple Choice

When we eat dates on ROSH HASHANA,

we ask Hashem to...

• give us a year filled with mitzvos just like a pomegranate is filled with seeds

• Let us multiply just like fish have many many babies

• get rid of all our enemies

• make us a head of our enemies

Multiple Choice

When we eat a fish head on ROSH HASHANA,

we ask Hashem to...

• give us a year filled with mitzvos just like the many seeds

• Let us multiply just like fish have many many babies

• get rid of all our enemies

• make us a head of our enemies

Multiple Choice

What kind of Challah do we have on ROSH HASHANA? Why?

• In the shape of the shofar, because that is the mitzvah of Rosh Hashana.

• Flat, so that Hashem will flatten and smash all evil in the world.

• In the shape of a scale, because we are being judged.

• Round, so that we go around the year and return in health.

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What is eaten on

ROSH HASHANA

when we ask for a

sweet new year?

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What is eaten on

ROSH HASHANA

when we ask for the Jewish people to multiply and have lots of babies?

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What is eaten on

ROSH HASHANA

when we ask Hashem to take away all of our enemies?

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What is eaten on

ROSH HASHANA

when we ask Hashem to fill our year with Mitzvos?

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What is eaten on

ROSH HASHANA

when we ask Hashem that we should be a head of our enemies?

Multiple Choice

If TESHUVA is the only way to make bad deeds go away, then why do we eat all of these things?

• Because you daven better when you are full

• Because an action strengthens a prayer

• Because we share them with our friends

• Because it is a mitzvah to try new foods, even if they are weird

Match

Which food goes with which Tefillah?

(Don't forget, an action strengthens a prayer!)

We should multiply

Give us a year filled with mitzvos

Make our enemies go away

Make us a head of our enemies

Bring us around next year in health

• We should multiply

• Give us a year filled with mitzvos

• Make our enemies go away

• Make us a head of our enemies

• Bring us around next year in health

Poll

Let's take a POLL of what YOU guys THINK

(there are no right answers)

Of all the PRAYERS that were mentioned so far,

which one do YOU think is the MOST IMPORTANT?

Draw

See if you can draw one (or all) of the Simanim (foods) on the ROSH HASHANA table.

Congratulations!
That was a lot of
brain work!

Later, we'll get to see what questions YOU have
about this special time of year!