| DAY 3 | Chanukah Quiz - Are You Smarter than a 7th Grader? |
by: Daniel Steinberg, 7th grade, Baltimore, MD. With the assistance of Aliza Steinberg, 4th grade, Baltimore, MD
QUESTIONS:
1. What were the names of Matityahu’s five sons?
2. Where did Matityahu live?
3. Why do we have a shamesh? (2 answers)
4. What is the 25th word of the Torah and how does it relate to Chanukah?
5. What day of the week can the first day of Chanukah never fall out on?
6. We say in Maoz Tzur “קץ בבל זרובבל” – who was Zerubavel?
7. Who wrote Maoz Tzur and how do we know?
8. On Chanukah, when can you read from three different Sifrei Torah?
9. Why don’t we read a Haftorah on Chanukah?
10. Why is there no Musaf on Chanukah?
11. Why isn’t there any Seudah on Chanukah like there is on Purim?
12. Why don’t we have 9 days of Chanukah in חוץ לארץ (Diaspora)?
13. Why don’t we mention anything about Chanukah in “Al HaMichya” like we do in Birkat HaMazon (Grace after Meals)
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QUESTIONS:
1. What were the names of Matityahu’s five sons?
2. Where did Matityahu live?
3. Why do we have a shamesh? (2 answers)
4. What is the 25th word of the Torah and how does it relate to Chanukah?
5. What day of the week can the first day of Chanukah never fall out on?
6. We say in Maoz Tzur “קץ בבל זרובבל” – who was Zerubavel?
7. Who wrote Maoz Tzur and how do we know?
8. On Chanukah, when can you read from three different Sifrei Torah?
9. Why don’t we read a Haftorah on Chanukah?
10. Why is there no Musaf on Chanukah?
11. Why isn’t there any Seudah on Chanukah like there is on Purim?
12. Why don’t we have 9 days of Chanukah in חוץ לארץ (Diaspora)?
13. Why don’t we mention anything about Chanukah in “Al HaMichya” like we do in Birkat HaMazon (Grace after Meals)
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Please elaborate on question # 5. Why Tuesday - is it because of the fifth day falling on Shabbot?
Mike posted on 12/24 at 11:33 AM.
Re question #6: Zerubavel ben Shealtiel and Nechemiah ben Chachaliah were very clearly two different people. See, for instance, Nechemiah 12:47.
Zerubavel went up to Yehudah in the 1st year of Koresh, while Nechemiah didn’t go up until the 20th year of Artachshasta. Zerubavel was the pecha of Yehudah from the 1st year of Koresh until the 7th year of Artachshasta, when Ezra took over from him. Nechemiah took over from Ezra 13 years later. It is impossible for them to be the same person.
(I am aware of the gemara Sanhedrin at the top of 38a, but that is clearly fanciful, since it contradicts many pesukim.)
Zev posted on 12/24 at 12:36 PM.
on question No 12, perhaps you need to be past 7th grade for another answer. ignoring the derabbanan reason, by 25 of any month, even Tishrei, the beth din messengers would have arrived anywhere and the question would never be posed. The proper day for Rosh Hodesh would have been common knowledge.
Have a great Hannukah
Aharon Soudry posted on 12/25 at 02:49 PM.
Like Mike, I would like to know why Tuesday is the answer to question 5.
A Soudry posted on 12/27 at 03:09 PM.