The Etgar Challenge October 4

1. The Shalosh Regalim are so called because:
a. they are the most important festivals
b. they happen regularly
c. people travelled on foot to Jerusalem
d. they were celebrated by messengers
e. they last three days

2. Which one of the following is one of the ushpizin, the guests that we invite to our succot?
a. David
b. Solomon
c. Joshua
d Hillel
e. Eliyahu

3.   How many branches of hadassim do we take as part of the arbah minim (the four species)?
a.   1
b.   2
c.   3
d.   4
e.   5

4.   In which country did Sephardi Jews not live?
a.   Spain
b.   Portugal
c.   Morocco
d.   Iraq
e.   Germany

5.   Who were Shifrah and Puah?
a.   wives of Jacob
b.   daughters of Dina
c.   mothers of the first two Kings of Israel
d.   Judges
e.   midwives in Egypt

6.   A Torah scribe is a sofer stam. What does “stam” signify?
a.   the parchment
b.   the sofer’s tools
c.   the prayers said by the sofer
d.   the ritual objects written by the sofer
e.   the three paragraphs of the Shema

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Answers 1c, 2a,3c, 4e,5e, 6d