Sometimes families pass down heirlooms. Other times, they pass down money. My dad recently passed down to me two large boxes of notes from his days as a Wexner Heritage Fellow. Joy.
Amongst the thousands upon thousands of pages, articles, maps, pictures and booklets, I found a two-hundred and some page list of Jewish key terms. The idea is that a knowledgeable Jew should know everything, or most of everything on there.
I put myself to the test. Hard stuff! And now I've compiled it all into a PDF.
There are forty five more days until we receive Torah at Mount Sinai. It's time to prepare our brains for that experience.
Ready to test yourself? No cheating. Good luck.
Click here to download. There are 500 terms. Post your results in the survey on the left column.
26 missed...those darn history terms
Posted by: Jmo | Sunday, April 08, 2007 at 04:52 PM
What a great list! Now, i can identify most of them briefly. How much detail should we know?
I have the next two whole days to figure them all out!
Posted by: Matt | Monday, April 09, 2007 at 12:22 AM
If you can write a sentence about each item, I'd say that counts. Contextualize it, date it if neccesary, and relate it to other items.
Posted by: David | Monday, April 09, 2007 at 05:00 PM
Do they hate ayins? They misspelled ערוך, עקדה .רצועה, עכשיו,צניעות, עמלק, עשרת, עמי
Posted by: BZ | Tuesday, April 10, 2007 at 09:57 PM
i'm baffled by the choice to include some of these on the list...
"shtender" is on there, but "schnore" isn't, for example.
does an educated jew really need to know what a shtender is?
Posted by: Barkin | Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 08:37 AM