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SOURCE-LOCKED • PART 3
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Festivals — General
General Yom Tov rules, prayers, candle lighting, transitions between festival days and cooking. Question 6 is absent in the supplied official numbering and stays absent here.
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Official questions
1. What is the Hebrew word for festival?
Your study note: Chag (Hag).
2. Name two main activities that are forbidden on Shabbat but allowed on a holiday.
Your study note: Cooking and carrying.
3. a) When does a festival begin and end?
b) How can we find the exact time?
Your study note: Begins at sundown; ends when three medium stars are visible. Use a Hebrew calendar/app for exact times.
4. a) What are the brachot for kindling festival lights?
b) What do we say if the holiday falls on Shabbat?
c) If Chol Hamoed falls on Shabbat?
Your study note: Yom Tov wording: “lehadlik ner shel Yom Tov.” When Yom Tov is on Shabbat: “lehadlik ner shel Shabbat v’shel Yom Tov.” The supplied note also records the Chol Hamoed/Shabbat wording in this section.
5. On which holidays is Shehecheyanu omitted and why?
Your study note: The note says it is omitted on the seventh/last day of Pesach because it is not a new Yom Tov, unlike a separate new holiday.
7. List all Jewish holidays and for each give the date, duration and what it celebrates.
Your study note: The written note specifically summarizes: Pesach — Exodus from Egypt; Shavuot — giving of Torah; Sukkot — Clouds of Glory. It notes Pesach as 7 days in Israel / 8 in the Diaspora. Use the dedicated holiday Parts for the complete dates and durations.
8. What is a Machzor?
Your study note: A specific prayer book for the holidays.
9. What is the Hallel prayer and from which book is it taken?
Your study note: Praise of Hashem from Tehillim/Psalms; said on holidays and Rosh Chodesh according to the note.
10. Which special prayer do we say on Rosh Chodesh?
Your study note: Mussaf.
11. On which days do we insert Ya’aleh V’Yavo in the Shemoneh Esrei and Birkat Hamazon?
Your study note: Yom Tov, Rosh Chodesh and Chol Hamoed.
12. On which days and festivals do we pray Mussaf?
Your study note: Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh and Chol Hamoed are listed in the supplied note.
13. How does a man fulfill the mitzvah of simcha on a holiday for himself, his wife and his children?
SOURCE GAP/CHECK: No direct written answer/comment was found in the supplied study-notes chapter. Add the teacher/rabbi’s exact answer before memorizing it.
14. Yom Tov terms: explain the differences between Kaddish/Kiddush/Kedushah; Siddur/Seder; Tefillah/Tefillin; Purim/Yom HaKippurim; Challah/Kallah; Chatan/Chazzan; Erev/Eruv.
Your study note: Kedushah — holiness / prayer in repetition of Shemoneh Esrei. Kiddush — blessing over wine before Shabbat meal. Kaddish — mourner’s prayer. Siddur — prayer book. Seder — Pesach meal/order. Tefillah — prayer. Tefillin — phylacteries. Purim — holiday, “lots.” Yom HaKippurim — Day of Atonement. Challah — bread. Kallah — bride. Chatan — groom. Chazzan — prayer leader. Erev — day before. Eruv — halachic boundary/fence.
15. What is forbidden at the end of the first day of Yom Tov from sunset until dark?
Your study note: Do not prepare from the first day for the second during the sunset-to-dark transition; the source specifically says not to cook then for the next Yom Tov day.
16. What formula does one say after dark to begin activities?
Your study note: After Yom Tov: “Baruch HaMavdil bein Kodesh leKodesh.” After Shabbat: “Baruch HaMavdil bein Kodesh leChol.”
17. What is not muktzeh on Yom Tov but is muktzeh on Shabbat?
Your study note: Fire, such as a candle flame, is the example in the note.
18. What special precaution must we take in candle lighting on the second night?
Your study note: Use an existing flame, such as a 24-hour/yahrzeit candle, to transfer the fire.
19. What is an Eruv Tavshilin?
Your study note: Used when Yom Tov comes before Shabbat. Take a cooked item and a baked item and make the declaration that this begins preparation for Shabbat.
20. What precautions must we take in using our stove or oven on Yom Tov?
Your study note: Do not adjust the flame or oven temperature; use the heat as set before the holiday.
21. What is done differently when the second night of the holiday is on Friday night?
Your study note: Light in the way required for Shabbat because Yom Tov and Friday night coincide; the note contrasts this with ordinary Yom Tov lighting.
22. For whom are we not allowed to cook on Yom Tov?
Your study note: The source note says not to cook on Yom Tov for non-Jewish people.