The Synagogue and Prayer Quiz

Siddur

Beth Ha-Knesset: House of AssemblyBeth Ha-Midrash: House of StudyBeth Ha-Tefillah: House of Prayer

Most synagogue services are led by a rabbi and a cantor.Can be led by lay people. 

Torah scroll, written in black ink in straight lines with a quill. The sheets on which the text is written must be parchment from a spiritually clean animal. Generally sheepskin.

An Eternal Light that hangs above every synagogue. It is often associated with the menorah, the seven branch lamp stand which stood in front of the temple in Jerusalem. Ner Tamid is a symbol of God's eternal and imminent presence in both our lives and communities.

A head covering that conveys the wearer's sense that there is a force in the universe above him. Wearing a kippah is a custom, not a law. A kipah is usually made of cloth and is several inches in diameter.

A group of ten adults or more, required to form a community for prayer. Many of the important prayers in the synagogue cannot be recited without a perfect minyan.

One of the greatest honors a Jew can receive in the synagogue. An aliyah is the act of a member of the congregation being summoned to bless the Torah. Four life cycle events to which the aliyah applies are (1) Bar and Bat Mitzvah, (2) the Sabbath before one's wedding, (3) after the birth of a baby girl, and (4) on the Sabbath before observing Yahrzeit.

Phylacteries that a Jew puts on eery morning except Shabbat

The text from the first and second paragraphs of the Sh'ma, including the commandment concerning the mezuzah. This text is written on parchment.

At the upper third of their entrance doorpost at a slant facing inward.

Reminds us to observe all of the commandments.

1. Kohen - fall into the category of the descendent of Aaron. Given the first aliyot..2. Levi - fall into the category of descendents of the tribe of Levi. Given the second aliyot.3. Yisrael - fall into the category of 'all other Jews beside Kohen and Levi'

Three times. Morning, afternoon, and evening.

Seven lights