Test Your Sefirat HaOmer IQ

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Test Your Sefirat HaOmer IQ

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Instructions:

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.

All answers can be found at the From Ruin to Renewal Section

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Column 1	Answer	Column 2
1. Lag BaOmer is the … day of Sefirat HaOmer.		a. 3rd b. 33rd c. 333rd
2. What did the Romans want to do with Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai?		a. make him the Emperor of Rome b. appoint him Commissioner of Cave Maintenance c. kill him
3. One of the signs that Bar Kochba established an independent state was …		a. minted coins b. the shooting off of fireworks on Independence Day c. the discovery that all laws were abolished
4. A rainbow was never seen in the sky in the days of …		a. Hillel b. Shammai c. Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
5. The sect (group) which believed in the 100% literal interpretation of the Torah was the …		a. Anshei Chelm b. Anshei Knesset HaGedolah c. Tzedukim
6. According to the sect mentioned above, one could not have … on Shabbat		a. chulent b. cole slaw c. coca cola
7. The Jewish leader who Rabbi Akiva believed was the Mashiach was …		a. Bar Yochai b. Bar Mitzvah c. Bar Kochba
8. The author of the central work on Jewish Mysticism, the Zohar, was …		a. Bar Ilan b. Bar TeNura c. Bar Yochai
9. Oreo cookies would most likely be found in or on …		a. the Seder table b. a basket of "Mishloach Manot" c. the hidden "Afikoman" bag
10. Ten Days in the Omer would correspond to…		a. one week and no days b. one week and three days c. three weeks and one day
11. One of the reasons the time of Sefirat HaOmer is sad is…		a. 24,000 students of Rabbi Akiva died b. the Egyptians perished in the Red Sea c. Haman and his ten sons were hanged in Shushan
12. Rabbi Akiva is considered a "hero of the Sefira" mainly because …		a. he didn't start studying Torah till he was forty years old b. he could look at disaster and still have faith in Hashem c. he died a martyr's death
13. One counts the Omer while		a. sitting b. standing c. reclining on the left side
Match the descriptions in the right-hand column with the special days on the left-hand column:
14. Yom HaShoah VeHaGevurah (Holocaust and Bravery Remembrance Day) …		a. May 14, 1948
15. Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day)…		b. bows and arrows
16. Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel Independence Day) …		c. those who fell in defense of Israel
17. Lag BaOmer (33rd Day of Omer) …		d. "Kotel" (Western Wall) again in Jewish hands
18. Yom Yerushalayim (Day of Jerusalem)…		e. six million victims

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