1. Which foods are customary to eat on Rosh Hashanah?
2. What are the other three names of Rosh Hashanah?
3. How does Leviticus 23 refer to the holiday of Rosh Hashanah?
4. Depictions of God as sitting upon a throne with books containing the deeds of all humanity displayed before Him for review are found where?
5. Which food is customary not to eat on Rosh Hashanah because the Hebrew letters of the word have the same numerical value as the Hebrew word for “sin”?
6. In what book of the Tanakh is the term “Rosh Hashanah” first used?
7. Some of the symbolic foods eaten at Rosh Hashanah are dates, black-eyed beans, leek, spinach, and gourd, all of which are mentioned where?
8. Which is the fast day that occurs immediately after Rosh Hashanah?
9. Over which fruit do we recite the phrase: “May it be your will ... that our merits be increased like [the seeds] of the ...”?
10. Over which fruit do we recite: “May it be your will ... that our foes be consumed”?
11. It is customary on Rosh Hashanah to eat a type of green bean whose Hebrew name means “to increase.” One recites “may our merits increase” while eating it. What is this vegetable?
12. According to the Mishnah, Rosh Hashanah is one of four days of judgment. What are the other three?
13. We all know the holidays can be either “early” or “late.” Due to the way the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars interact, what’s the earliest Rosh Hashanah can ever be?
14. The story of the binding of Isaac is read from the Torah on Rosh Hashanah. What Muslim religious festival commemorates that same event?
15. The use of apples and honey was a minhag of which group, though it is now almost universally accepted?