Background of Shabbat | Blessings | Special Havdalah Items | Havdalah Service | Other |
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What are Friday and Saturday?
Shabbat starts and ends on these days
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What is a female/woman?
Traditionally this gender is in charge of lighting candles on Shabbat
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What are spices?
A box of these is smelt during the Havdalah service
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What is four?
The number of blessing recited during the Havdalah service
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What is rest?
We are commanded to do this on Shabbat
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What is "Shabbat Shalom"?
The typical greeting people use on Shabbat
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What is challah?
This is the special bread that is used for Shabbat and for which a prayer is recited
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What is wine (or grape juice)?
A cup of this is drunk during the Havdalah serice
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What is fire?
The reflection of this is often looked at in one's fingernails
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What is seven?
The word Shabbat comes from the Hebrew word for this number
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What is three?
You must be able to see this many stars in the sky for Shabbat to begin each week
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What is fathers and mothers?
Translation of avot v'imahot in English
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What is more than one?
The Havdalah Candle has this many wicks
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What is Eliyahu Hanavi?
This song is often sung at the end of the service
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What is a bride?
Shabbat is often compared to this wedding figure in prayers
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What is Genesis?
This is the first book of Torah in which Shabbat is mentioned
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What is Aleinu or the Mourner's Kaddish?
One of the two typical concluding prayers of a Shabbat evening service
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What is overlap?
If a braided candle cannot be obtained, two candles can be lit so that their wicks do this
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What is Passover
Havdallah is also recited at the end of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and this holiday
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What is three?
We must wash our hands this many times before eating bread on Shabbat
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What is sanctification?
Translation of "Kiddush" in English
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What is shehakol nih'yeh bid'varo?
The three words used in place of "borei p'ri hagafen" if wine or grape juice is not used on Havdalah
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What are cloves?
Ashkenazi Jews traditionally use these for their spices
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What are eyes?
At the end of the service, some Jews dip their fingers into the wine and touch these
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What is thirteen?
We skip this many blessings of the Amidah on Shabbat compared to on weekdays
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