The Story of Yonah

The haftarah for Yom Kippur afternoon is known as...…?

• Maftir Rut

• Maftir Shmuel

• Maftir Kohelet

• Maftir Yonah

Yonah is read on Yom Kippur because?

• It is a story about not eating food

• It is a story of teshuvah

• It is a story about wearing white

• It is a story about not wearing leather

Why was Yonah instructed by Hashem to travel to the non-Jewish city of Nineveh?

• Yonah was to warn them that if they did not do teshuvah, then the city would be destroyed.

• Yonah was to tell them good news.

• Yonah was to help them build a tower

• Yonah was to tell them Hashem was happy with them

Jonah decided to escape and run away from who?

• His home

• His job

• His wife

• Hashem

The ship Yonah boarded, where was it going too?

• Tarshish

• Tyre

• Alexandria

• London

Once Yonah had set sail on the ship, Hashem caused a what?

• a rainbow

• a headache

• A storm

• A leak

The captain of the ship, seeing the sleeping man, went over to him and told him off for sleeping during a storm, instead of...….. what?

• getting the life boats

• helping the captain

• Praying to his G-d

• Helping the sailors

Meanwhile the sailors drew lots to find out whose fault it was that this storm had been brought upon them. Who's name was it?

• the sailors

• the captain

• Yonah

• the other travellers

Meanwhile the sailors drew lots to find out whose fault it was that this storm had been brought upon them. The lot fell upon Jonah. When the sailors questioned him as to who he was, where he had come from, and what his business was, he told them what?

• that he was a Jew

• a servant of Hashem the Creator of heaven and earth

• that he was a prophet

The sailors asked what they should do in order to quiet the raging sea and save their ship. What did Yonah tell them?

• all they had to do was to throw him overboard

• Continue praying

• get the life boats ready

• abandon ship