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The Etgar Challenge May 15

Try this week's Jewish knowledge test

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1. How many years are there in a complete calendar cycle?

a.one

b.seven

c.12

d.19

e.23


2.Which country today is where Babylon used to be?

a.Israel

b.Iraq

c.Syria

d.Saudi Arabia

e.Lebanon


3. One of Bilhah’s children was:

a.Levi

b.Dina

c.Naftali

d.Asher

e.Zevulun


4. Which one of the following people lived in the rabbinic period?

a.Bruriah

b.Rambam

c.Ba’al Shem Tov

d.Golda Meir

e.Yehudah HaLevi


5. In Torah the first line of the Shema has two letters written larger than the others. What are those two letters?

a.shin and ayin

b.shin and dalet

c.ayin and dalet

d.ayin and heh

e.yud and heh


6.Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem, was originally a poem written by:

a.Chaim Nachman Bialik

b.Shaul Tchernikovsky

c.Israel Efros

d.Naphtali Herz Imber

e.Shaul Agnon

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 Answers: 1d, 2b, 3c, 4a, 5c, 6d
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