Take the Fish in Judaism Quiz

I am a Christian and I take all of your quizzes Rabbi Posner; I find them delightful! Some are more difficult, like this one about fish, but I got 7 out of 10 which I don’t think is that bad for a Gentile. I even got the Gefilte fish answer, and even though I didn’t know the Hebrew word for fish was dag, I will never forget again.😊Thank you for taking the time to prepare these; they are a blessing! Shalom. Reply

9/10 Wishing you a very Healthy, Happy and Safe Week.
Thank you, Rabbi. I am learning. Reply

Eliezer ben Yehudah should have had you to advise him. סוים-סוים, what a delightful idea. Reply

9/10 Great learning tools these quizzes. Sabbath Shalom 🤗 Reply

10/10 right thank you. Reply

8/10
As a vegetarian, fish aren't on my Speisezettel. I went entirely on instinct with this quiz. I missed which day Hashem created fish, and which ones Jacob said to be like fish.
Not being an activist, I don't preach or make a tsimmes of being a vegetarian. I do it for me. In another country I might not have the option, so I cannot judge anyone else's choice. I say eat what your conscience permits. As long as yours doesn't wander onto my plate we're fine.
I cannot be anyone's judge: I don't have the energy for it. I have bigger pancakes to fry! Reply

How was there no flip-over 'learn more' link for Question 6?? Surely chabad.org/233927 would have been the perfect reference! Please update! Thanks in advance. Reply

My thought regarding fish is more directed to blood, they don’t have blood to drain as other animals. Reply

10/10 Reply

Why can't I open the quiz?
The email comes to my inbox but the link never takes me to a quiz. Reply

Baruch HaShem!! 10 - I had to "finger count" to get Adar as the month of Pisces. Also, I'm going through my siddur writing in the references in Tenach where the parts of the prayers come from... I remembered the line "המלאך הגאל אתי מכל רע יברך את הנערים ויקרא בהם שמי, בשם אבתי אברהם ויצחק, וידגו לרב בקרב הארץ" - Ber 48/16 ... Reply

I just completed the book Rebbe, which was fantastic and gave me a swelled level of respect for him. I was thrilled he mentioned that it is Jewish value that we treat our animals humanely. I have performed an extensive amount of research about the sources of kosher meat, chicken and fish. While they may be killed in accordance w kashrut, most are treated beforehand barbarically and often tortured. We are a people of love and spreading light! Why are we permitting this? Reply

Thank you for my quizzes! Reply

Thanks, Menachem! That was fun Reply

Good🌻Morning,

Fish are delicious, great for the brain, and an excellent test!

Baruch HaShem,
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I got 8 out of 10 right. I would have done better if I had looked up the answer on the Chumash, but I never do because I want to test my memory. Reply

I scored a 9 out of 10. I was going to go into a whole shpiel about how I managed to have that score, but honestly even I wasnt interested in hearing it, so surely other people who are not even me would be even less interested, and so i refrained Reply

7 out of 10 ain’t bad :-) Reply

other associations: (1) ohr ve shemesh brings down the gemara from bavli that righteous feasting on fresh and salted fish known as feast of leviathan in gan eden, (2) fish analogous to not drawing ayn ha-rah because difficult to see them under water, as fish swimming out of view opposite of conspicuous consumption of neveau riche in poor taste (3) hasidic vort has it that when it rains the fish come up to surface and appear to be drinking extra rain water droplets analogous to the fact that although one may be surrounded by water a metaphor for torah one can never get enough and one yearns for extra drops of torah even surrounded by torah, (4) the tanaim are likened to big fish in the kineret (sea of galilee) and navigating bavli is like sailing the "sea", (5) fish survived the mabul of noah generation, (6) yonah swallowed by dag gadol metaphor according to rabbi Shimshon raphael hirsch of being surrounded by philistine culture for philistines worshiped fish and grain. (7) etc etc Reply

B"H. Even though I get 9/10 I know little about fish in Judaism. Reply