Test Your Sefirat HaOmer IQ

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Test Your Sefirat HaOmer IQ

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Select the item from Column 2 that best fits the word(s) in Column 1. Indicate your answer by using the drop-down box in the middle.

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Column 1	Answer	Column 2
1. "Something Old" came from "Something New" by …		a. Then, an Offering; Now, a Day b. Then, a Day; Now, an Offering c. Then, "Something Borrowed"; Now, "Something Blue"
2. Causes for someone to take advantage of the "Pesach Sheni" were …		a. oversleeping b. intoxication above the 1.0 percent blood level c. ritual uncleanness or being far away
3. If Reuven listens to Shimon make the blessing for Sefirat HaOmer, and answers "Amen." Reuven continues to listen to Shimon perform the Counting, and both have in mind that Reuven should fulfill his obligation. Has Reuven fulfilled his obligation? …		a. Yes b. No c. Question's too complicated
4. If Reuven listens to Shimon make the blessings for the Reading of Megilat Esther, and answers "Amen." Reuven continues to listen to every word as Shimon reads the Megilah, and both have in mind that Reuven should fulfill his obligation. Has Reuven fulfilled his obligation? …		a. Yes b. No c. Question's too complicated
5. Why don't we use the principle of "the listener is equivalent to the speaker" in connection with Sefirat HaOmer?		a. because each counter has to count his or her "own" days, and it is analogous to someone else making a blessing over my ice-cream cone! b. We do! c. This is "Purim Torah"
6. Yom Yerushalayim commemorates the…		a) Building of the First Temple by King Solomon b. Building of Second Temple by Ezra and Nechemiah c. Jewish Re-conquest of Yerushalayim in Six-Day War of 1967
7. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai wrote the Zohar while he was …		a. Living in a villa in Rome b. Living in a cave in the Galil c. Vacationing in 16^th Century Safed
8. A census of the Jewish People began on …		a. The first day of Nisan in Egypt b. The first day of Iyar in the desert c. Lag BaOmer in the times of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
9. The Omer Offering was brought from …		a. wheat b. oats c. barley
10. The "Mapa," or Table-Cover, was written by the …		a. RAMBAM b. RAMBAN c. RAMA
11. If, at the time of Counting, one does not know the correct Count, he should …		a. listen to others to get the correct Count b. start the Count again from "One" c. guess the correct Count
12. The fortress city of Bar Kochba was …		a. Masada b. Yerushalayim c. Betar
13. Thirty-seven days in the "Omer" is		a. three weeks and seven days b. five weeks and two days c. two weeks and five days
14. The Baal Shem Tov founded Chassidut in the … Century		a. 6th b. 12th c. 18th
15. If counted, the Holiday of Shavuot would be the …Day of the Omer		a. forty-ninth b. fiftieth c. fifty-first
16. Shavuot is analogous to what in a different count? …		a. Yovel b. Yuval c. Kojel
17. In the counting of units of time, in many areas of Judaism, the basic unit is ...		a. seven b. ten c. eighteen
18. Sefirat HaOmer connects …		a. Physical Redemption to Spiritual Redemption b. Glory to Shame c. Matzah to Blintzes

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