Hard Yom Kippur Quiz 2

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1. Why do we avoid wearing leather shoes on Yom Kippur?

Wearing soft shoes is more comfortable when fasting
Leather represented luxury in ancient times
The Torah states that for this day leather may not be worn
An animal had to be killed to make the leather

2. Yom Kippur atones only for sins between man and God. It is essential for sins between man and his fellow “to be righted.” How is this done?

Fasting an extra hour
Asking forgiveness from the injured party
Giving tzedakah in the name of the injured party
Appealing to a bet din for forgiveness

3. Viddui is inserted into each of the five shemoneh esrei prayers on Yom Kippur. What does viddui mean?

Confession of the sins
Prayer for teshuvah
Annulment of vows
Prayer for life

4. On what days of the year is the Yizkor, the special memorial prayer for those who have lost close family, recited?

Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, and Shemini Atzeret
Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and the last days of Sukkot, Pesach, and Shavuot
Yom Kippur and the last days of Sukkot, Pesach, and Shavuot
Rosh Hashanah and the last days of Sukkot, Pesach, and Shavuot

5. During which prayer does the ba’al tefillah prostrate him (her)self in the same way as the community gathered in the Temple did when they heard the Divine name pronounced?

Unetaneh tokef
Aleinu
Viddui
Al chet

6. The Book of Yonah is read during the mincha service on Yom Kippur. How long was Yonah inside the fish?

three days and nights
six days and nights
seven days
forty days

7. According to tradition, what happened on Yom Kippur?

The Israelites made the Golden Calf
Moses descended from Mount Sinai with the second tablets of stone
Moses broke the tablets
The scouts returned from Canaan with their bad news

8. How does the rabbinic punishment for not fasting on Yom Kippur differ from eating non-kosher food?

Lashes were given for not fasting; a fine was imposed for eating non-kosher food
Eating on Yom Kippur results in spiritual excision which isn’t incurred with non-kosher food
The rabbis banished those who failed to fast and fined those who didn’t keep kosher
It doesn’t differ, the same punishment applies

9. How did the people of Nineveh react when they heard Yonah’s prophecy? They ...

(a) covered themselves in ashes and sackcloth
(b) fasted and repented
(c) returned all stolen property
both (a) and (b)
all of (a), (b), and (c)

10. During the time between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur it is customary to do an accounting of one's life. The Hebrew phrase for this is ...

Heshbon hanefesh
Orlah
Viddui
Neshamah yetera

11. The preamble to the Kol Nidre service was developed to ...

ease people’s guilt over not carrying out all the vows and promises they made
enable sinners and forced converts to be able to pray with the Jewish community
center the observance of the holiday within the Jewish community
emphasize sin and repentance as a theme of the day

12. After the Temple was destroyed, a rabbinic discussion in which of these works described how atonement for the people’s sins could be achieved since sacrifices could no longer be offered in atonement?

Talmud
Midrash
Gemarah
Tosefta

13. The explicit connection between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is first made in the ...

Mahzor
Torah
Talmud
Tosefta

14. On Yom Kippur, we read a long medieval poem that describes in painful detail the deaths of famous rabbis during ancient Roman persecutions. What is it called?

Avodah
Unetaneh tokef
Ashamnu
Eleh ezkerah

15. One of the reasons that Yonah originally tried to escape from delivering God’s prophecy to the people of Nineveh was that he ...

was afraid the people would kill him.
didn’t want to go give the Ninevites a chance to save themselves.
would be thought to be false prophet because if the people repented the city wouldn’t be destroyed.
knew it was a very large city and spreading God’s word would be a huge job.