Q 01/05

What does the name Rosh Hashanah literally mean in Hebrew?

A) Feast of trumpets

B) Head of the year

C) Day of judgment

D) Season of return

Answer · why

B) Head of the year

Rosh means head, ha is the definite article and shana means year, so the phrase points to the top of the calendar rather than to any of the day's ritu...

Q 02/05

By what name does the Torah refer to the festival now called Rosh Hashanah?

A) Yom HaAtzmaut

B) Yom HaDin

C) Yom Tov

D) Yom Teruah

Answer · why

D) Yom Teruah

The phrase means day of blasting, and Leviticus 23 also calls it a memorial of blowing; the name Rosh Hashanah in its modern sense never appears in th...

Q 03/05

Rosh Hashanah begins on the first day of which Hebrew month?

A) Shevat

B) Tishrei

C) Adar

D) Nisan

Answer · why

B) Tishrei

The month name is Babylonian in origin and the Bible itself calls it Ethanim, or simply the seventh month.

Q 04/05

Rosh Hashanah falls in which month of the Hebrew religious calendar that counts from Nisan?

A) Sixth

B) Seventh

C) Twelfth

D) First

Answer · why

B) Seventh

Nisan, the Passover month, is the first month for numbering purposes, so the New Year arrives on the first day of the seventh month.

Q 05/05

According to tradition, Rosh Hashanah is the anniversary of the creation of whom?

A) Abraham and Sarah

B) Adam and Eve

C) Noah

D) Moses

Answer · why

B) Adam and Eve

Because it marks the birth of humanity rather than of the universe, one Talmudic view holds that the world itself was created a few days earlier.