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Elul/Rosh HaShanah 5769 Quiz

By Rabbi Yonatan Kaganoff

- A. It has 9 brachot
- B. It is recited three times
- C. There is no Chazarat Hashatz
- D. We recite piyyutim during the Chazarat Hashatz
- E. All of the above
- A. Saying Selichot for the entire month of Elul through Erev Yom Kippur
- B. Saying Selichot from the Motze’ai Shabbat before Rosh ha-Shanah through Erev Rosh haShannah, but not during Aseret Ymei Teshuva
- C. Saying Selichot from the Motze’ai Shabbat before Rosh ha-Shanah through Erev Yom Kippur
- D. Selichot only from the Motze’ai Shabbat before Rosh ha-Shanah through Erev Sukkot
- E. None of the above
- A. After Maariv
- B. After Sunset (sh’kiyah)
- C. After Tzeit ha-Kochavim (when the stars come out)
- D. Before dawn
- E. After sunrise
- A. Meat from animals
- B. Sharp acidic foods
- C. Matzah
- D. Whiskey or other alcoholic beverages
- E. All of the above
- A. Erev Rosh ha-Shanah
- B. Rosh ha-Shanah
- C. All the days on which Selichot were said
- D. Erev Yom Kippur
- E. None of the above
- A. When the congregation is sitting down
- B. When the Baal Tokayah sits down
- C. During the month of Elul
- D. During mussaf
- E. After Yom Kippur
- A. The first night of Selichot
- B. Erev Rosh ha-Shanah
- C. Tzom Gedaliah
- D. Erev Yom Kippur
- E. None of the above
- A. Blowing the Shofar after Shacharit and Mincha every day
- B. Planting a tree at Rosh Chodesh and then uprooting it at the end of the month
- C. Saying L’Dovid Hashem Ori after Shacharis and Mincha every day
- D. Beginning the Teshuva (repentance) process
- E. Picking apples in the orchard to eat the first night of Rosh Hashanah
- A. A reminder of creation
- B. A reminder of Akeidat Yitzchak
- C. A reminder of Matan Torah
- D. A reminder that Rosh ha-Shanah is a day of judgement
- E. To wake up the people who fell asleep during the Haftorah
- A. 1
- B. 10
- C. 30
- D. 60
- E. 100
- A. Marriage
- B. Divorce
- C. Kiddush Levana
- D. Bar Mitzvahs
- E. Court cases
- A. Birchat haChamah
- B. Rosh Chodesh
- C. Weddings
- D. Ibbur HaShanah
- E. The grape harvest
- A. “Who will live and who will die?”
- B. “Who will rest and who will wander”
- C. "Who by thirst, who by storm"
- D. "Who will be impoverished and who will be enriched"
- E. "Who in the sunshine and who in the nighttime”
- A. Masechet Rosh Hashanah
- B. Masechet Sukkah
- C. Sefer Cheshbon Hanefesh
- D. Rambam’s Hilchos Teshuva
- E. Sefer Hayashar of Rabbeinu Tam
- A. Say it twice the next Tefillah
- B. Say it twice in two Tefillot (e.g. if you forgot at Maariv, say it twice the next maariv)
- C. Nothing
- D. Say it after the next Mincha
- E. None of the above

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