Rosh Hashanah Exploration
A worksheet for 7th graders to learn about the history, traditions, and significance of Rosh Hashanah.
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Rosh Hashanah Exploration
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. This worksheet will test your knowledge of Rosh Hashanah.
1. What does Rosh Hashanah literally mean in Hebrew?
Feast of Lights
Head of the Year
Day of Atonement
Harvest Festival
2. What is the traditional food eaten during Rosh Hashanah to symbolize a sweet new year?
Matzah ball soup
Latkes
Apples and honey
Hamentashen
3. Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year and is also known as the Day of .
4. The Jewish calendar is a calendar, meaning it follows both the sun and the moon.
5. What is the significance of blowing the shofar during Rosh Hashanah?
6. Rosh Hashanah is a somber holiday with no celebrations.
True
False
Match the Rosh Hashanah custom with its meaning.
7. Tashlich
a. Round challah bread
8. Challah
b. Casting away sins into water
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