While the Jewish world is busy preparing themselves for the hagim of Tishrei we thought this would be a great time to refresh our knowledge of Jewish prayer. Take our quiz below and you might learn a thing or two:

Jewish Prayer Quiz

Test your knowledge of tefillot!

The Talmud states that anyone who recites _______ three times a day is sure of life in the world to come (Ber. 4b) Shema Amidah Ashrei Aleinu

The Al Ha-Nissim thanksgiving prayer is added to the penultimate blessing of the Amidah and to the Grace after Meals on which two holidays?

Hanuakkah and Purim Purim and Pesah Pesah and Shavuot Rosh HaShana and Yom Kippur

When the rabbis of the Talmud refer to prayer, they are almost always referring which prayer?

The Shema Aleinu Ashrei The Amidah

Is prayer a Torah based commandment or a Rabbinic commandment?

Torah based Rabbinic

The Talmud Bavli gives a reason why there are three basic prayers:

To recall the daily sacrifices at the Temple in Jerusalem Because each of the Patriarchs instituted one prayer Both Neither

The _______ is arguably the rarest blessing in all of Judaism, recited only once every 28 years. Prayer for a Confusing Dream Blessing on Seeing 600,000 People Blessing on a Rainbow The Blessing of the Sun

Traditional Jews routinely sway back and forth during prayer, apparently a reference to Psalm __, which says "All my limbs shall declare, 'O L-rd, who is like You?'" 24 35 17 142

The obligation to pray three times a day, which was established by Ezra and codified in the Talmud (Berakhot 26b), is fulfilled by reciting which prayer?

Amidah Shema Aleinu Tahanun

There are three types of berakhot:

ones recited before enjoying a material pleasure ones recited before performing a mitzvah ones recited after performing a mitzvah ones recited at special times and events

Selichot must be said for at least ___ amount of days:

1 2 3 4