Parashah Scavenger Hunt שְׁאֵלוֹת הַשָּׁבוּעַ
Welcome to Devash's Parashah Scavenger Hunt for Parashat Behukotai!
Aliyah 1 (Vayikra 26:3-5)
- How many verses are in this aliyah? (Hint: it’s the shortest an aliyah can be!)
Aliyah 2 (Vayikra 26:6-9)
- What’s weird about the math involving enemies in this aliyah?
Aliyah 3 (Vayikra 26:10-46)
- What two types of metal are mentioned as signs of punishment?
- What will God not smell?
Aliyah 4 (Vayikra 27:1-15)
- What happens if you dedicate an animal as a sacrifice and then try to switch it out with another one?
Aliyah 5 (Vayikra 27:16-21)
- When you dedicate your family field to the בֵּית הַמִּקְדָּשׁ (Beit Ha-Mikdash, Temple in Jerusalem), it has a fixed value in silver, for every חֹמֶר (homer, about 50 gallons) of barley seed you can plant in it. What is that amount of silver?
Aliyah 6 (Vayikra 27:22-28)
- What type of animal can’t be dedicated as money to God?
Aliyah 7 (Vayikra 27:29-34)
- What percentage of a person’s crops and animals are part of מַעֲשֵׂר (Hint: it’s in the name!)?
- What goes under a staff?
Look anywhere in the parashah to find the answer to these questions!
- How many times do words with the root ע.ר.כ. appear in our parashah?
- Someone’s name is spelled in an unusual way in our parashah. Whose name, and what is the spelling?
- Where does all of Sefer Vayikra take place?
From the Haftarah (Yirmeyahu 16:19-17:14)
- Which pasuk is familiar from the weekday עֲמִידָה (Amidah) prayer?
Scroll down to see the answers!
Answers:
Aliyah 1
- Three
Aliyah 2
- Five people chase 100 enemies (20 each), but 100 people chase 10,000 enemies (100 each)! (26:8)
Aliyah 3
- בַּרְזֶל (barzel, iron) and נְחֻשָׁה (nehushah, copper) (26:19)
- The pleasant smells of Benei Yisrael’s קָרְבָּנוֹת (korbanot, sacrifices) (26:31)
Aliyah 4
- They are both holy, and you must offer both of them! (27:10)
Aliyah 5
- 50 shekels (27:16)
Aliyah 6
- A firstborn—it already belongs to God! (27:26)
Aliyah 7
- 10% (27:30,32)
- All the cattle as it's being counted for מַעֲשֵׂר (ma’aser, one tenth being donated to God) (27:32)
From Anywhere in the parashah
- 26! Wow, that’s a lot! The whole section is known as פָּרָשַׁת עֲרָכִין
- יַעֲקוֹב—Normally it’s spelled יַעֲקֹב, without a vav (26:42)
- הַר סִינַי (Har Sinai, Mount Sinai) (27:34, and check back to 7:38)
Haftarah
- Yirmeyahu 17:14 is almost the same as the opening line of the רְפָאֵנוּ (refa’einu) section in the Amidah, which is about healing. In Yirmeyahu the language is singular (“I” and “me”), but in the Amidah it’s plural (“us” and “we”).
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