Warm-up

1. Warm-up • Copy HW • Write down the following 4 holidays on your graphic organizer: • Passover • Rosh Hoshana • Yom Kippur • Hanukkah • Make this page 6

2. Time of Year • April • Passover • December • Hanukkah • Sept./Oct. • Rosh Hoshana (could vary months and Yom Kippur

3. Length 7 days Passover 2 days Rosh Hoshana 25 hours Yom Kippur 8 days Hanukkah

4. Reason for the holiday • Celebrate the New Year • Rosh Hoshana (head/year) Victory over the Greeks got temple in Jerusalem back Hanukkah To make amends for sins of the past year Yom Kippur Celebrate God passing over Jewish homes during the final plague in Egypt Passover

5. Customs • No work, fasting, pray at the synagogue, apologize for wrongs of the past year • Yom Kippur • Light candles each night, eat fried foods, dreidel games, give gifts… • Hanukkah • Limited work, some fasting, sell certain foods not to be eaten or owned during the holiday • Passover • Plan changes for the New Year, no work, shofar (horn) blown at the synagogues • Rosh Hoshana

6. Education • Rabbis- teachers of the Torah • Talmud-record of Jewish law

7. Education • Sabbath- Holy day • Synagogue-place or worship • Hazan-minister of the synagogue • “Graduation”-at 13 bar/bat mitzvah

8. Diet • Kashrut-dietary laws • No pork, smooth skinned fish • Kosher-way to prepare food

9. Clothes • Men-tunics made of linen, sandals, turbans • Women –draped long dresses and shawls on their heads Skull cap Kippah- Hebrew term • Yarmulkes-Yiddish (European version of Hebrew- Portuguese and Spanish)

10. Closure • Please complete a practice quiz for Tuesday • Remember you don’t know, what you don’t know, until you actually discover what you don’t know

11. Practice Quiz Answers • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 • 11 • 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 20.